[Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions]
[Subject Index to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations]
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Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 80 / Monday, April 27, 1998 / Subject
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Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 80 / Monday, April 27, 1998 / Subject
Index
SUBJECT INDEX TO THE UNIFIED AGENDA
Seq. No._______________________________________________________________
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A
Accidents:
See Safety
Accountants:
Debarment and suspension...................................2636, 4225
Accounting:
Audits of state and local governments and non-profit
institutions........133, 341, 412, 697, 833, 907, 909, 934, 1276,
1281, 1382, 1884, 1981, 1985, 2051, 2077, 3124, 3129, 3146,
3164, 3627, 3642, 3686, 3710, 3715, 3722, 3729, 3736, 3763,
3996, 4045
Change in method.....................................2791, 2979, 2990
Corporate acquisitions...........................................2928
Cost accounting standards..................................1861, 3765
Cost allowability criteria........................................912
Research and development.......................................4031
Travel and per diem costs......................................3671
Cost principles.............................................721, 3759
Litigation costs...............................................4003
Customs Service fees and interest................................2654
DFARS contract administration and audit services..................763
Disaster assistance allowable costs..............................3620
DOD contracts................................................722, 788
DOI cost recovery....................................1654, 1655, 1657
Drug Enforcement Administration..................................1744
Educational institutions.........................................3759
FDIC annual independent audits...................................4229
FMS claims.................................................2582, 2591
Foreign exchange operations......................................2590
Funds transfers to State governments.............................2580
Ginnie Mae financial reporting...................................1342
Government payments:
Taxpayer identification numbers................................2596
INS examinations fee account schedule............................1809
MarAd rate determinations........................................2560
Mark-to-market method......................................2781, 2877
Medicare program.................................................1077
NASA contracts...................................................3693
NRC decommissioning costs..................................4372, 4401
OASDI calculations of the contribution and benefit base and
earnings test exempt amounts.................................3978
Overhead settlement..............................................4027
PBGC calculation and payment of benefits.........................3877
Profit-and-loss method...........................................2792
Retirement obligations...........................................1938
Revision of OMB Circular A-127...................................3756
Sales of partnerships............................................2713
Securities.......................................................4418
SSI computation of benefits......................................3941
Veterans Administration..........................................3083
Acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
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
Advisory committees..............................................1641
Arbitrators......................................................3643
BATF procedures............................................2622, 2623
BLM procedures.................................1642, 1644, 1672, 1692
Board of Veterans' Appeals:
Clear and unmistakable error...................................3032
Code of Conduct..................................................3958
Communications...................................................4148
Department of the Interior...........................1377, 1378, 1569
DOJ:
Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database........................1878
National Instant Criminal Background Check System..............1866
DOJ bankruptcy and trustee oversight.............................1872
Economic Development Administration...............................408
EEOC coordination of issuances...................................3615
EPA........................................................3419, 3424
EPA State operating permits......................................3205
Equal Access to Justice Act.......................................937
FDA..............................................................1015
FDA advisory opinions and guidelines.............................1017
FDIC.............................................................4220
Federal Advisory Committee Act...................................3674
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.......................3643
FERC.............................................................4241
FTC regulatory review............................................4309
FWS seizure and forfeiture procedures............................1452
General Education Provisions Act..................................829
General Services Administration............................3673, 3679
Hearing and appeal procedures:
Administrative law judges......................................1755
Adverse actions against Head Start agencies....................1237
Agriculture Department......................................38, 330
Army Corps of Engineers.........................................800
Aviation economic proceedings............................2055, 2074
Board of Immigration appeals...................................1761
Bureau of Indian Affairs.......................................1576
Bureau of Land Management......................................1643
Cuban Democracy Act............................................2568
Death of veteran during appeal...........................3075, 3120
Disaster assistance............................................3636
Environmental Protection Agency..........................3380, 3559
FCIC procedures.................................................158
General rules..................................................1380
Health and Human Services Department...........................1169
Immigration proceedings..................................1755, 1836
Labor Department...............................................1903
Medicaid State Plan amendments.................................1074
Medicare claims appeal.........................................1094
Medicare enrollment............................................1184
Minerals Management Service..............................1600, 1606
National Forest System..........................................334
National Indian Gaming Commission........................4339, 4340
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...........3737, 3738
Office of Government Ethics....................................3745
Office of Personnel Management...........................3794, 3841
Office of the Special Trustee..................................1384
Office of Thrift Supervision...................................3002
Office of Trust Funds Management...............................1384
Peace Corps....................................................3871
Public lands cases.............................................1375
Railroad Retirement Board................................3884, 3899
Reclamation Bureau.............................................1633
Social Security Administration.....................3933, 3947, 3971
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board................................673
Transportation proceedings.....................................2278
Treasury Department............................................2636
Veterans Affairs.............................3022, 3089, 3092, 3119
INS..............................................................1841
INS decisions....................................................1771
Internal Revenue Service...................................2771, 2818
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MARAD......................................................2557, 2563
National Credit Union Administration.......................4324, 4327
NIGC:
Compulsory process and testimony of employees..................4348
NOAA civil procedure regulations..................................578
NRC..............................................................4358
Office of Personnel Management...................................3797
Panama Canal Commission reorganization...........................3868
Peace Corps volunteer discrimination complaints..................3872
PHS Mammography Quality Standards Act............................1020
Registration of drug producers...................................1009
Rulemaking:
DOT............................................................2072
Social Security Administration...................................3951
Subpoena issuance and service....................................1835
Surface Transportation Board.....................................4497
Telephone service observation....................................3951
Transportation documentation.....................................3666
USIA.............................................................3993
Adoption and foster care:
Adoption and Safe Families Act...................................1240
Intercountry adoption............................................2045
Social security status determination.............................3943
State performance requirements...................................1228
Adult education:
Indian programs..................................................1585
Ineligibility of F-1 foreign students............................1778
Advertising:
Air carriers, prices.............................................2066
Beer.............................................................2630
Direct-to-consumer promotion......................................953
Home insulation..................................................4298
Investment companies.......................................4444, 4453
Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4296
Television.......................................................4176
Unfair or deceptive practices........................4304, 4307, 4313
Affirmative action plans:
See Equal employment opportunity
Aged:
See also Medicaid
Medicare
Public assistance programs
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
AOA rules revisions..............................................1260
Food assistance programs................................228, 234, 241
Housing..........................................................1261
Nondiscrimination:
Air travel.....................................................2061
DOL programs...................................................1984
Employment.........................................3607, 3610, 3612
NEA-assisted activities........................................3721
Supplemental food program....................................240, 247
Agricultural commodities:
See also specific commodities
Commodity futures
Crop insurance
Fruits
Grains
Marketing quotas
Oilseeds
Price support programs
Vegetables
CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program...............................301
Electronic data transmission.......................................10
Exports......................................................306, 307
Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions..............................1896
Inspection.......................................................3128
Inspection service contractors....................................175
Kiwifruit...........................................................8
Maritime Security Program..........................................93
Overseas market development.......................................304
Popcorn.............................................................9
Purchase and shipment.............................................308
Shipping regulations.............................................2559
Sugarcane..........................................................21
Trade options....................................................4056
Warehouses for CCC storage contracts...............................43
Agricultural research:
Administrative provisions.........................................122
Animal embryos and semen..........................................109
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program
administrative provisions.....................................126
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.........................................1846, 1848
Aquaculture......................................................1525
ASCS program ineligibility.........................................20
Certified Lender Program...........................................26
CFSA state and county committees...................................39
Conservation Farm Option..........................................384
Cooperative marketing associations.................................14
Disaster assistance........................................34, 73, 77
Farm ownership loans...................................27, 30, 35, 36
Farm reconstitution................................................95
Farm reconstitution regulations....................................16
Farm Service Agency:
Direct line of credit program....................................46
Income taxes.....................................................2775
Indian farmlands.................................................1572
Labor certification for temporary workers........................1924
Nondiscrimination in USDA-conducted programs and activities.......345
Ozone depletion..................................................3278
Seasonal farmworkers.............................................1914
Socially disadvantaged outreach program........................35, 36
Soil and Water Loans Program.......................................30
State mediation programs...........................................37
Technical assistance and training.......................353, 354, 379
Tree assistance program............................................96
USDA lobbying restrictions........................................389
Water bank........................................................387
Worker protection standards..............1889, 3414, 3423, 3427, 3428
Aid to Families with Dependent Children:
See also Public assistance programs
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
1258
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families........1131, 1234, 1250, 1258
Unemployed parent................................................1131
AIDS:
NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1046
Veterans.........................................................3097
Air carriers:
See also Air rates and fares
Charter flights
Airline deregulation benefit provisions..........................1918
Anti-drug and alcohol misuse prevention programs.................2248
Aviation data requirements.......................................2052
Aviation exemption procedures....................................2064
Baggage liability..........................................2054, 2079
Cargo limit......................................................2529
Code-sharing arrangement disclosure..............................2084
Commuter airlines:
Seat restraint systems.........................................2211
Competitiveness......................................2057, 2069, 2078
Computer Assisted Passenger Screening (CAPS) system..............2193
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Computer reservations system.........................2057, 2093, 2094
Direct flight, definition........................................2062
Fees charged by airports.........................................2198
Flight diversions within metropolitan areas......................2063
INS fines..................................................1801, 1838
Interstate authority.............................................2078
Nondiscrimination:
Age............................................................2061
Individuals with disabilities..................................2092
On-time flight reports...........................................2566
Overbooking of flights...........................................2073
Passengers:
Airline counter notices........................................2065
Aliens with fraudulent documents...............................1774
Change-of-gauge services notification..........................2085
Facility charges...............................................2171
Ground travel expense when diverted............................2063
Manifest information...............................1769, 2087, 2089
Notification of aircraft disinsection..........................2090
Oxygen use.....................................................2086
Passenger Origin-Destination Survey............................2564
Pilots:
National Driver Register records...............................2415
Price advertising................................................2066
Repair station requirements................................2156, 2172
Safety and security-related information..........................2188
Seats, crashworthiness standards.................................2209
Security measures................................................2182
Smoking ban......................................................2081
Tariff filing requirements.......................................2076
Air fares:
See Air rates and fares
Air pollution control..............................................4297
See also Motor vehicle pollution
Acid rain..........................3196, 3211, 3266, 3380, 3381, 3382
Allowance allocations..........................................3263
Acid Rain Program................................................3280
Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing...........................3235
Aerosol can production...........................................3394
Aerospace industry.........................................3299, 3307
Aerospace manufacturing and rework facilities....................3299
Agricultural chemicals...........................................3295
Air quality modeling.............................................3228
Air quality resources:
Class I area designations......................................3253
Air quality standards......................................3287, 3384
Air storage tanks................................................3331
Aircraft and aircraft engines....................................3383
Aluminum industry..........................................3232, 3393
Appeals regulations..............................................3380
Asphalt roofing and processing...................................3243
Awards...........................................................3369
Baker's yeast manufacturing industry.............................3238
Boat manufacturing industry......................................3349
Boilers..........................................................3323
Caprolactam......................................................3529
Carbon monoxide............................................3309, 3383
Chemicals............................................3195, 3346, 3347
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)..................................956, 3260
Chromium emissions.........................................3248, 3353
Citizen suit regulation..........................................3166
Clean Air Act...1286, 3166, 3220, 3240, 3258, 3273, 3288, 3315, 3370,
3382, 3401, 3402, 3504
Clean fuel fleet vehicles........................................3175
Consumer products................................................3306
Copper smelters..................................................3231
Cyanide chemical manufacturing...................................3321
Diesel refineries................................................3381
Dioxin emission measurement......................................3183
District of Columbia VOC control measures........................3179
Dry cleaners.....................................................3351
Electric arc furnaces............................................3285
Electric utility steam generating facilities.....................3314
Emission control diagnostic systems........................3300, 3326
Emission standards....3200, 3204, 3250, 3275, 3276, 3329, 3330, 3363,
3364, 3365
Coke ovens.....................................................3333
Halogenated solvents...........................................3227
Hydrogen fluoride production...................................3245
Non-road spark-ignition engines................................3226
Potential to emit..............................................3252
Semiconductor facilities.......................................3357
Emissions monitoring.................................3203, 3256, 3283
Emissions monitoring program.......3194, 3196, 3249, 3269, 3277, 3366
Emissions reporting..............................................3169
Emissions trades...........................................3308, 3332
Essential uses....................................................956
Ethylene processing..............................................3241
Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry.....................3360
Ferroalloy industry..............................................3185
Fuel and fuel additives..........................................3396
Fugitive emissions...............................................3208
Gas turbines.....................................................3344
General provisions amendments....................................3239
Halons...........................................................3281
Hazardous air pollutants....3201, 3229, 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3236,
3240, 3241, 3243, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3281, 3292, 3293, 3294,
3295, 3296, 3297, 3299, 3307, 3313, 3317, 3319, 3323, 3324,
3328, 3329, 3330, 3343, 3344, 3345, 3346, 3347, 3348, 3349,
3350, 3351, 3352, 3353, 3354, 3355, 3363, 3364, 3365, 3366,
3367, 3368, 3372, 3373, 3374, 3375, 3378, 3387, 3393, 3394,
3452
Hazardous air pollutants source categories.....3240, 3244, 3300, 3367
Hazardous waste combustion facilities............................3504
Hazardous waste TDSF and generator sites.........................3317
HCFC allowance distribution system...............................3171
Hydrogen fueled flares...........................................3221
Indian reservations..............................................3190
Indian tribes treatment..........................................3402
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking.....................3355
Inspection/maintenance programs................3181, 3192, 3283, 3391
Internal combustion engines......................................3343
Iron and steel industry....................................3320, 3322
Large appliance coating industry.................................3352
Lead.............................................................3384
Lead smelters..............................................3234, 3395
Lime manufacturing industry......................................3354
Locomotive emissions.............................................3264
MACT standards........3244, 3245, 3250, 3324, 3329, 3330, 3357, 3363,
3364, 3368, 3378
Measurement regulation...........................................3183
Metal parts and products coating industry......3358, 3359, 3372, 3373
Mineral wool production industry standards.......................3288
Monitoring.......................................................3379
Municipal landfills..............................................3330
National Strategy for Urban Area Sources of Toxic Air Emissions
3249
Navajo nation lands..............................................3188
NESHAP:
Alumina processing.............................................3176
Ammonium sulphate production...................................3337
Asphalt/coal tar application...................................3338
Carbon black.............................................3318, 3324
Cellulose production.....................................3329, 3378
Chromium electroplating........................................3262
Chromium emissions.............................................3248
Clay products manufacturing....................................3339
Elastomers.....................................................3251
Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry...................3360
Fumed silica production........................................3334
Hydrochloric acid production...................................3336
Hydrogen chloride production...................................3340
Iron and steel industry........................................3335
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Lead smelters..................................................3395
Leather tanning................................................3365
Magnetic tape manufacturing....................................3213
Metal parts and products coating industry................3358, 3359
Metal pipes....................................................3338
Non-metallic minerals processing...............................3362
Off-site waste and recovery operations.........................3222
Organic liquids................................................3368
Petroleum refineries...........................................3286
Polyurethane foam production...................................3250
Polyvinyl chloride production..................................3341
Predictive emission monitoring.................................3215
Pulp and paper production......................................3284
Site remediation...............................................3363
Spandex........................................................3364
Synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry..............3214
Thermoplastics.................................................3251
Uranium hexafluoride production................................3342
Vegetable oil production.......................................3366
Wet-formed fiberglass mat production...........................3173
Wood furniture industry..................................3212, 3246
New source performance standards...........................3355, 3371
New source review................................................3265
New stationary sources.....................................3194, 3204
Nitrogen oxides..................................................3383
Non-metallic minerals processing.................................3362
Non-road compression ignition engines............................3202
Non-road spark-ignition engines..................................2681
Nonhandheld engines..............................................3309
Opacity measurement of emissions...........................3267, 3277
Operating permits..........................................3199, 3325
Indian reservations............................................3274
Operating permits programs.......................................3224
Outer continental shelf....................................3399, 3400
Ozone.....3186, 3197, 3258, 3259, 3306, 3307, 3308, 3311, 3315, 3316,
3352, 3372, 3373, 3374, 3375, 3385, 3387, 3388, 3398, 3401
Ozone and ozone precursors:
Attainment and nonattainment areas.............................3201
National ambient air quality standards...................3206, 3209
National ambient air quality surveillance (NAAQS)..............3392
Pollutant standards index......................................3219
Significant harm level programs................................3219
Transport....................................3172, 3201, 3216, 3218
Paint stripper users.............................................3348
Paper, film and foil coating industry............................3375
Particulate matter standards.....................................3387
PCB manufacturing................................................3467
Penalties for violations.........................................3301
Petroleum refineries.......................................3184, 3319
Pharmaceuticals industry.........................................3294
Phosphate fertilizer production..................................3291
Phosphogypsum stacks.............................................3298
Phosphoric acid manufacturing....................................3289
Plastic composites manufacturing.................................3345
Plastic parts industry...........................................3374
Plywood and particle board manufacturing.........................3328
Polycarbonates...................................................3236
Polyether polyol production......................................3293
Polymers and resins..............................................3230
Polyurethane foam production.....................................3296
Portland cement manufacturing....................................3233
Power plants.....................................................3223
Process heaters..................................................3323
Publically owned treatment works study...........................3237
Pulp and paper mills.............................................3229
Radionuclides....................................................3386
Radon......................................................3271, 3298
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................3197, 3270
Residential wood heaters.........................................3174
Sewage sludge incinerators.......................................3327
Shipbuilding industry............................................3307
Solid waste incinerators.........................................3371
State implementation plans........3186, 3188, 3242, 3265, 3303, 3308,
3385, 3388, 3399
Steel pickling processes.........................................3290
Stratospheric ozone protection.......................3171, 3207, 3225
Sulfur dioxide...................................................3210
Sulfur oxides..............................................3266, 3287
Synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing........................3182
Test rules.......................................................3223
Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde manufacturing.............................3297
Tire manufacturing...............................................3350
Transportation conformity for transitional ozone areas...........3209
Transportation Conformity Pilot Program..........................3377
Urban Bus Retrofit/Rebuild Program...............................3178
Volatile organic compounds........3179, 3182, 3247, 3279, 3304, 3305,
3307, 3308, 3352, 3361, 3372, 3373, 3374, 3375, 3376, 3388,
3389
Waste incinerators performance standards.........................3370
Wood furniture industry..............................3246, 3307, 3376
Wool fiberglass manufacturing industry...........................3292
Air rates and fares:
Aviation data requirements.......................................2052
Rebating international fares.....................................2080
Air safety:
See Aviation safety
Air tariffs:
See Air rates and fares
Air traffic control:
Non-Federal facilities...........................................2176
Air transportation:
See also Air carriers
Air rates and fares
Air traffic control
Aircraft
Airmen
Airports
Airspace
Aviation safety
Charter flights
Navigation (air)
Aviation economics.........................................2055, 2074
Aviation insurance...............................................2226
Hazardous substances.............................................2507
Prohibition against certain flights to Korea.....................2262
Aircraft:
Aircraft parts.............................................2181, 3675
Airworthiness directives and standards........2154, 2200, 2201, 2202,
2203, 2204, 2207, 2231, 2247
Altitude separation..............................................2253
Bird ingestion standards.........................................2174
Bird strike requirements.........................................2250
Cargo restrictions:
Oxidizers and organic peroxides................................2549
Certification services:
Cost recovery..................................................2257
Child restraint systems....................................2153, 2443
Computer Reservations System.....................................2097
Corrosion control program........................................2163
Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2218
Dispatcher certification.........................................2178
Emergency exits..................................................2222
Emission standards and test procedures...........................3383
Energy management regulations.....................................904
Enhanced ground proximity warning system.........................2190
FAA registration fees............................................2159
Fire safety standards for cargo/baggage compartments.............2243
Garbage inspection................................................120
Gate requirements for high-lift device controls..................2233
Government employee use..........................................3667
Improved seats retrofit..........................................2209
Insecticide spraying requirements notification...................2090
Maintenance:
Aging aircraft...........................................2161, 2172
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Certification of mechanics and repairmen.......................2167
Repair assessments.............................................2173
Manifests public disclosure......................................2691
Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities..................804
Parachutes.......................................................2194
Pilot and flight instructor certification........................2254
Registration.....................................................2155
Rocket Engines...................................................3367
Rotorcraft:
Flight plan requirements.......................................2195
Maximum gross weight limitation................................2168
Rating and certification.......................................2241
Robinson helicopter operation..................................2261
Seaplanes........................................................2260
Single-engine aircraft:
Instrument flight rules........................................2246
Snowplanes.......................................................1542
Surplus military.................................................2217
Titles and security documents....................................2155
Transponders...............................................2219, 2227
Transport category:
Airworthiness directives and standards.........................2232
Braked roll conditions.........................................2234
Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures..................2225
Engine cowling retention devices...............................2212
Low speed stall................................................2213
Repair assessments.............................................2173
Turbine-powered and turboprop:
Bird ingestion standards.......................................2174
Water and hail ingestion standards.............................2230
Type certification procedures....................................2229
Voyageurs National Park operations...............................1543
Water landing survival equipment.................................2208
Aircraft pilots:
See Airmen
Airlines:
See Air carriers
Airmen:
Aeromedical education training services..........................2180
Approach chart availability......................................2175
Civil penalty assessment procedures..............................2220
Controlled rest on the flight deck...............................2249
Drug abuse.......................................................2158
Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2170
FAA certification fees...........................................2159
Flight attendants:
English language proficiency...................................2221
Flight operational quality assurance program participation.......2165
Ground deicing/anti-icing procedures.............................2223
Medical examinations.............................................2179
National Driver Register records.................................2415
National Security Areas..........................................2177
Rest and duty requirements.......................................2228
Simulator instructors............................................2255
Training and certification...............2197, 2223, 2254, 2255, 2261
Airplanes:
See Aircraft
Airports:
Allocation of slots..............................................2192
Anchorage, Alaska, terminal area.................................2245
Elimination of overbooking signs.................................2073
Fees charged to air carriers.....................................2198
Island airports..................................................2185
Land use compatibility planning..................................2162
Landing systems..................................................2239
Peak period landing fees.........................................2088
Revenue policy...................................................2238
Security...................................................2186, 2216
Takeoffs on wet or contaminated runways..........................2206
Transponder requirement suspension...............................2227
Airspace:
Afghanistan......................................................2196
Air traffic services and aeronautical studies:
Fees.....................................................2240, 2259
Cincinnati TCA...................................................2164
Landing systems..................................................2239
Los Angeles, CA..................................................2224
National Park Service overflights:
Grand Canyon National Park...................2169, 2251, 2252, 2263
NOAA overflight regulation........................................535
Objects affecting navigable airspace.......................2199, 2259
Regulations, routine issue of....................................2205
Airways:
See Airspace
Airworthiness directives and standards:
See Aircraft
Alaska Natives:
See Indians
Alcohol abuse:
See also Alcoholism
Air carrier employees............................................2248
Alcohol-free workplace............................................879
Drug-free workplace..............................................3707
SSA representative payee reforms.................................3966
Substance abuse block grants......................................935
Substance abuse programs, DOE sites...............................911
Transit operations...............................................2502
Transportation industry........................2056, 2075, 2170, 2536
Alcohol and alcoholic beverages:
See also Beer
Gasohol
Liquors
Wine
Denatured alcohol and rum:
Distribution and use...........................................2626
Formulas and technical amendments..............................2613
Distilled spirits plants regulatory streamlining.................2607
Flavored malt beverages..........................................2631
Margaritas.......................................................2631
Tax-free alcohol.................................................2625
Wine.............................................................2614
Alcoholism:
Medicaid program.................................................1126
Aliens:
See also Citizenship and naturalization
Immigration
Migrant labor
Refugees
Adjustment of status...............1760, 1792, 1799, 1825, 1829, 1852
Age requirements for fingerprinting..............................1842
Alien registration card name change..............................1827
Alien registration card replacement..............................1786
Arrival/departure management system..............................1784
Arriving aliens definition.......................................1823
Asylum...........................................................1785
Battered and abused spouses and children...................1802, 1819
Bonding pilot program............................................1820
Cancellation of removal..........................................1759
Criminal and terrorist...........................................1824
Criminal convictions.......................................1810, 1841
Cuban............................................................1829
Cuban nationals............................................1768, 1840
Deportation proceedings....................................1811, 1841
Entrepreneurs..................................................1757
Executing a final exclusion order..............................1836
Suspension.....................................................1759
Withholding of deportation.....................................1768
Emergency medical services.......................................1200
Employment...............................1765, 1767, 1789, 1790, 1805
Use on government contract projects.............................773
Expedited exclusion procedures...................................1810
F-1 foreign students.............................................1778
Family Unity Program.......................................1816, 1854
Farm labor.......................................................1846
Farm workers.....................................................1848
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Fingerprinting...................................................1828
Foreign group health plans.......................................1170
Habitual residence...............................................1776
Haitian nationals................................................1840
Health care workers..............................................1817
Hungarian parolees...............................................1818
Immigrant investors..............................................1773
Inadmissability..........................1763, 2038, 2048, 2049, 2050
Income taxes.....................................................2839
Juveniles..................................................1830, 1832
Labor certification process..........................1923, 1925, 1927
Mail order brides................................................1819
Mariel Cubans....................................................1768
Mexican border crossing cards..............................1851, 1857
Nicaraguan.......................................................1829
Nonimmigrant classes:
Admission into the U.S...................................1772, 1789
Classification.................................................1846
Corporate reorganizations......................................1762
Diplomats and government representatives.......................1765
Disclosure of information......................................1804
Documentation............................................2040, 2041
Entertainers...................................................1856
Exchange visitors..............................................3994
Law enforcement initiatives....................................1766
Overstay of nonimmigrant status................................1777
Temporary workers..............................................1905
Visa Waiver Pilot Program......................................2033
Visitors for business..........................................1793
Orphan petitions.................................................1808
Parent-child relationships.......................................1808
Permanent residence..............................................1760
Permanent resident card name change..............................1827
Permanent resident status......................1818, 1825, 1829, 1849
Polish parolees..................................................1818
Prostitution.....................................................1775
Public assistance programs............................203, 1277, 1826
Food stamp program..............................................234
Medicaid.......................................................1126
Sponsor reimbursement..........................................1814
Refugee status...................................................1768
Religious workers................................................1845
Removal orders...................................................1783
Resettlement assistance..........................................1840
Southern border crossing cards.............................1851, 1857
SSA regulations............................................1812, 3945
Student employment...............................................1764
Temporary protected status.......................................1806
Temporary workers..............................1797, 1846, 1850, 1909
Termination of temporary resident status.........................1848
Transit without visa.......................................1770, 2032
USIA:
Au pair regulations............................................3995
Withholding of removal...........................................1785
Amateur radio service:
See Radio
American Indians:
See Indians
Ammunition:
See Arms and munitions
Animal biologics:
Direct-to-consumer promotion......................................953
Animal diseases:
Bovine tuberculosis...............................................105
Garbage inspection at airports....................................120
Importation.......................................................115
Scrapie...........................................................112
Animal drugs:
See also Animal biologics
Animal Drug Availability Act...............................1015, 1029
Approval process.............................................938, 980
Direct-to-consumer promotion......................................953
Feed directives..............................................959, 993
Investigational use..............................................1015
Registration of foreign establishments and product listing........964
Substantial evidence definition...................................992
Supplemental manufacturing changes................................941
Animal welfare:
Animal auction standards..........................................100
Dogs and cats...........................................116, 117, 118
Import requirements:
Humane and healthful transport.................................1475
Licensing and consignment requirements............................118
Marine mammals.....................................................98
Pocket pets.......................................................121
Tethering and temperature requirements............................116
Wire flooring.....................................................117
Animals:
See also specific animals
Animal diseases
Animal drugs
Animal welfare
Livestock
Wildlife
Imports..................................................99, 109, 110
Annuities:
See Pensions
Antidumping:
Duties............................................................414
Protective order violations.......................................413
Reformulated gasoline program requirements.......................3302
Sunset reviews....................................................415
Antiquities:
See Historic preservation
Appeal procedures:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Appliances:
See Household appliances
Apprenticeship programs:
See Manpower training programs
Arbitration:
Federal Mediation Conciliation Service...........................3643
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
Facilities.......................................................3696
Federal records centers..........................................3697
Researcher registration..........................................3701
Transfer of records..............................................3712
Armed forces:
See also Armed forces reserves
Federal buildings and facilities
Military personnel
Selective Service System
Air force:
Academy nominations and appointments............................808
Environmental impact analysis process...........................807
Professional conduct and standards for criminal justice.........806
VA benefits....................................................3115
Army Corps of Engineers:
Administrative appeals process..................................800
Environmental quality requirements..............................799
Permit regulations..............................................801
Wetland Delineator Certification Program........................802
CHAMPUS..................................810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 822
Civilian employment...............................................719
Coast Guard:
Access to National Driver Register.............................2425
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Advance notice of arrivals.....................................2138
Child development services.....................................2137
Deep water ports...............................................2115
Escort requirements for vessels in U.S. waters.................2145
Facility response plans for hazardous substances...............2146
Fees for undocumented vessel numbering.........................2114
Hazardous conditions notification..............................2127
Lighting provisions amendments.................................2149
Marine casualty reporting......................................2129
Marine Safety and Environmental Protection........2109, 2110, 2111,
2112, 2113, 2138, 2139
Marine Safety Information System.........................2095, 2098
Merchant mariners..................................2112, 2113, 2147
Numbering of undocumented barges...............................2099
Propeller injury prevention....................................2148
Regatta and parade permits.....................................2130
Regulated navigation areas.....................................2128
Tank vessel response plans for hazardous substances............2104
Towing vessel operators........................................2131
Vessel design, inspection, and classification requirements....2132,
2133, 2150
Educational assistance...........................................3114
Health care services..............................................822
Navy:
Incidental taking of marine mammals.............................581
Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities................804
Privately owned vehicles shipping................................3684
Reemployment......................................................719
Selective service regulation.....................................3904
Surplus aircraft.................................................2217
Armed forces reserves:
DOD military officer educational requirements.....................714
Education benefits...............................................3103
Educational assistance.....................................3111, 3113
Ready Reserve.....................................................692
Arms and munitions:
Arms Export Control Act..........................................2635
Brady Bill regulations...........................................2610
Dual-use items...............................................432, 438
Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative.........................434
Excise taxes.........................................2617, 2618, 2634
Explosives safety.................................................696
Export controls...................................420, 433, 438, 2047
Firearms:
Brady Bill regulations.........................................2620
Curio and relic................................................2610
Handguns.......................................................2621
National Instant Criminal Background Check System..............1866
Residency requirements for purchasers..........................2619
Handguns...................................................2610, 2633
Persons prohibited from receiving firearms.......................2610
Semiautomatic assault weapons....................................2633
Shotshell length restrictions....................................1513
Asbestos:
Model accreditation plan.........................................3434
Asylum:
See Immigration
Atomic energy:
See Nuclear energy
Attorneys:
See Lawyers
Auditing:
See Accounting
Authority delegations:
Banks............................................................2577
Bureau of Indian Affairs.........................................1576
Civil penalty issuance...........................................1756
Commerce Department...............................................469
EPA revisions....................................................3242
FDIC.............................................................4220
FEMA.............................................................3623
FWS enforcement..................................................1434
HHS:
OIG........................................................924, 925
HUD..............................................................1306
Immigration judges...............................................1756
INS..............................................................1782
Internal Revenue Service.............................2741, 2742, 2914
Justice Department...............................................1862
Labor Department.................................................1895
Office of the Inspector General...................................921
Personnel and general claims settlement...........................689
Rural Utilities Service...........................................382
Surface Transportation Board.........................4496, 4502, 4503
Veterans Administration........................3045, 3081, 3101, 3123
Automatic data processing:
See Computer technology
Automobiles:
See Motor vehicles
Aviation safety:
Aging aircraft...................................................2161
Air tour and sightseeing operations..............................2244
Aircraft improved seats retrofit.................................2209
Airplane operator security.......................................2215
Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2201
Airworthiness directives and standards...............2203, 2231, 2232
Alcohol misuse prevention program................................2248
Altitude separation of aircraft..................................2253
Anti-drug programs...............................................2248
Bird ingestion standards.........................................2174
Bird strike requirements.........................................2250
Braked roll conditions...........................................2234
Civil penalty assessment procedures..............................2220
Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.................2087, 2186
Corrosion control program........................................2163
Crash-resistant fuel systems.....................................2154
Crashworthy fuel tanks and lines.................................2157
Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2218
Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures....................2225
Engine fuel and induction systems................................2247
Enhanced ground proximity warning system.........................2190
Explosive Detection System.......................................2235
FAA security activities:
Fees...........................................................2258
Fatigue evaluation and testing...................................2214
Flight operational quality assurance program information.........2165
Flight rules.........................................2185, 2202, 2204
Foreign air carriers:
Security programs..............................................2182
Freight:
Passenger aircraft cargo.......................................2187
Fuel tank vent protection........................................2200
Gate requirements for high-lift device controls..................2233
Hazards to air navigation........................................2199
Information and records disclosed by industry....................2188
Low-fuel-quantity alerting system................................2207
Maintenance personnel certification..............................2167
Mountain flying..................................................2256
Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2086
Parachute operations.............................................2194
Pilot rest and duty requirements...........................2228, 2249
Repair assessments...............................................2173
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............2172, 2188, 3672
Rotorcraft.......................................................2241
Rotorcraft weight limitation.....................................2168
Seat restraint systems...........................................2211
Security personnel...............................................2242
Security screening...............................................2186
Transponder requirement..........................................2219
Turboprop and turbine-powered aircraft...........................2230
Type certification procedures....................................2229
Visual descent points............................................2160
Water landing survival equipment.................................2208
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Wet and contaminated runways.....................................2206
B
Baggage:
See Freight
Balloons:
See Aircraft
Bank deposit insurance:
Assessments......................................................4226
Capital maintenance........................................4210, 4222
DIMIA compliance.................................................4211
Disclosure of information........................................4230
Economically depressed regions designation.......................4227
FDIC:
Advertisement of membership....................................4218
Audits and reporting requirements..............................4229
FDIC contractors:
Women- and minority-owned businesses...........................4217
Foreign banks....................................................4228
Interest on deposits.............................................4231
Investment rules.................................................4224
Nonmember banks............................................4221, 4308
Notice of insured status.........................................4216
Program fraud civil remedies.....................................4208
Receivership rules...............................................4209
Risk-based capital standards.........................4212, 4223, 4232
Simplification of regulations....................................4213
Bankruptcy:
Group health plans...............................................1170
Post-bankruptcy notices............................................48
RCRA financial responsibility....................................3508
Trustee oversight................................................1872
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...................................2576
Automated Clearing House Method..................................2579
Bank holding companies.........................4262, 4279, 4289, 4292
Bank Secrecy Act.......2569, 2571, 2572, 2573, 2574, 2575, 2577, 2578
Capital distributions regulations................................2997
Card clubs.......................................................2578
Casino reporting.................................................2570
Checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury................................2581
Community Development Financial Institution Fund.................2567
Consumer regulations review......................................4261
Cross-border transportation of negotiable instruments............2573
Currency transaction reporting...................................2572
Deposit accounts.................................................4264
Deposits and electronic banking..................................2998
Derivative instruments...........................................2995
DIMIA compliance.................................................2993
Electronic benefit transfer systems..............................2595
Examination cycles...............................................3003
Farm credit:
Agricultural secondary market regulations......................4087
Borrower rights................................................4088
CAMEL term replacement with FCARS..............................4083
Capital regulations revisions..................................4084
Election of directors..........................................4080
Farm Credit System Reform Act..................................4097
FCB assistance to associations.................................4089
FCS board compensation limits..................................4082
FCSIC nondiscrimination enforcement............................4095
FCSIC referral of criminal violations..........................4096
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital
regulation.................................................4079
Funding relationship with other institutions...................4086
Guidelines for financing agreements............................4091
Leasing regulation.............................................4085
Loan discounting policies......................................4094
Loans..........................................................4093
Financial institutions:
Examination cycle for small financial institutions.............2641
Foreign investments..............................................4278
Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4442
information disclosure...........................................2639
International banks..............................................4278
Interstate deposit production....................................4288
Investment management............................................4081
Lending limit regulation.........................................2648
Leveraged capital................................................4275
Loans to protect collateral......................................2648
Management interlocks............................................2637
Minimum capital ratios...........................................2640
Non-bank financial institutions..................................2571
Non-deposit investment products..................................2644
Non-sufficient funds (NSF).......................................2638
Recourse arrangements and direct credit substitutes..............4274
Regulation B.....................................................4284
Regulation D.....................................................4417
Regulation DD....................................................4264
Regulation G.....................................................4287
Regulation H...............................................4275, 4288
Regulation K.....................................................4288
Regulation T.....................................................4287
Regulation U.........................................4263, 4287, 4291
Regulation Y...............................................4275, 4292
Regulation Z.....................................................4293
Reporting requirements for BE-605.................................398
Reserve requirements.............................................4268
Restrictions on sale of assets...................................4207
Risk-based capital requirements............................3740, 4274
Risk-based capital standards.............4214, 4223, 4232, 4272, 4275
Securities brokers and dealers...................................4287
Qualifications for banks and securities representatives........4215
Securities of nonmember banks....................................4221
State banks:
Permitted activities and investments...........................4224
Time accounts....................................................4264
Underwriting of mortgage-backed securities.......................4279
Barges:
See Cargo vessels
Barrels:
See Packaging and containers
Beef:
See Livestock
Meat and meat products
Beer:
Advertising......................................................2630
Brewery regulations..............................................2606
Exports..........................................................2605
Labeling.........................................................2630
Malt beverage labeling...........................................2624
Registration requirements for producers..........................2629
Bicycles:
Bicycle helmet safety standards..................................4076
Use in Delaware Water Gap NRA....................................1544
Biologics:
See also Animal biologics
Blood
Adverse experience reporting................................955, 1027
Cellular therapy products.........................................978
Direct-to-consumer promotion......................................953
Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1021
General safety test exceptions....................................978
Informed consent regulations......................................952
Labeling...............................................976, 984, 1018
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Licensing.........................................................971
Registration of foreign establishments and product listing........964
Unapproved new uses information...................................966
Vaccine information.........................................944, 1040
Vaccines for Children Program....................................1138
Birds:
See Wildlife
Birth control:
See Family planning
Black lung benefits:
Offset of Federal benefits payments..............................2583
Blind:
See also Medicaid
Public assistance programs
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Aids to blind veterans...........................................3011
Blood:
Errors and accidents reporting....................................982
Safety standards.............................................968, 982
Boats and boating safety:
See Marine safety
Navigation (water)
Bonding:
See Surety bonds
Bonds:
Premium amortization.............................................2968
Private activity.........................2835, 2836, 2921, 2922, 2951
Qualified..................................................2963, 2964
Qualified zone academy.....................................2880, 2945
Stripped.........................................................2929
Borders:
See International boundaries
Boycotts:
Foreign boycott provisions........................................431
Bridges:
Drawbridge operation.............................................2126
Railroad safety regulations......................................2483
Broadcasting:
See Radio
Television
Brokers:
Credit extensions................................................4286
Large trader records.............................................4490
Net capital requirements...................................4479, 4484
Quotation requirements...........................................4487
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................4485, 4488
Buildings:
See also Federal buildings and facilities
Access for individuals with disabilities......1734, 1736, 1737, 3133,
3136, 3138
Asbestos.........................................................3434
CDBF funds documentation.........................................1332
Indoor air quality...............................................2014
Slum/blight prevention and elimination...........................1331
Buses:
See also Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Accessibility of over-the-road buses.......................2053, 3137
Antilock brakes..................................................2381
Brake systems....................................................2379
EPA Urban Bus Retrofit/Rebuild Program...........................3178
Obsolete regulations.............................................4501
School:
Body joint strength............................................2389
Flammability of interior materials.............................2433
Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2317
Testing guidelines...............................................2501
Wheelchair restraints............................................2373
Business and industry..............................................3572
See also specific industries
Accounting
Advertising
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
Warranties
Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3235
Aerospace industry:
Air pollution control....................................3299, 3307
Alcohol:
Wine...........................................................2614
Aluminum industry:
Air pollution control....................................3232, 3393
Asphalt roofing and processing industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3243
Baker's yeast manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3238
Boat manufacturing industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3349
Cellulose manufacturing....................................3329, 3378
Cement manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3233
Chemicals:
Air pollution control........................3182, 3295, 3346, 3347
Control of PMNs................................................3458
Hazardous wastes listing.....................3499, 3500, 3501, 3517
Manufacture................3195, 3355, 3439, 3448, 3457, 3459, 3460
Pollution standards............................................3467
Construction.....................................................2000
DOT disadvantaged business enterprise program....................2070
Dry cleaning.....................................................4297
Air pollution control..........................................3351
Effluent guidelines............................................3573
Economic development..............................................409
Effluent guidelines......................3541, 3543, 3572, 3573, 3574
EPA operating permits............................................3325
Equipment standards..............................................4147
Ethylene processing:
Air pollution control..........................................3241
Explosives.......................................................2609
Ferroalloy industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3185
Financing cooperative stock.......................................348
Foreign investments in the U.S...............................393, 394
Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4299
Friction products................................................3356
Health products:
Human cellular and tissue-based product manufacturers......969, 970
Housing..........................................................1345
Industrial disposal wells........................................3590
Industrial laundries:
Effluent guidelines............................................3573
Industrial technology partnerships................................686
Iron manufacturing:
Effluent guidelines............................................3543
Large appliance coating industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3352
Leather tanning and finishing....................................3365
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Lime manufacturing industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3354
Manufacturing....................................................3355
Mergers..........................................................4460
Metal parts and products coating industry:
Air pollution control....................................3372, 3373
Metal products and machinery:
Effluent guidelines............................................3572
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Air bags.....................................2357, 2462, 2463, 2464
Air pollution control....................................3326, 3361
Clean fuel fleet vehicles......................................3175
Consumer information...............................2354, 2356, 3177
Emission standards.....................3200, 3275, 3276, 3313, 3397
Fuel economy...................................................2414
Fuel economy credits...........................................2369
Reporting and recordkeeping procedures.........................2458
Sales volume limit provisions..................................3268
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits..........3549
National Type Evaluation Program..................................443
Paint manufacturing:
Hazardous waste management.....................................3515
Paper, film and foil coating industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3375
Pharmaceuticals:
Air pollution control..........................................3294
Pollution standards............................................3557
Plastic parts industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3374
Plywood and particle board manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3328
Polyether polyol production:
Air pollution control..........................................3293
Polyurethane foam production.....................................3250
Air pollution control..........................................3296
Preventing suffocation/explosions in confined spaces.............2008
Printing/publishing..............................................3247
Pulp, paper and paperboard.......................................3229
Spandex..........................................................3364
Steel manufacturing:
Effluent guidelines............................................3543
Tax credit for increasing research activities....................2747
Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3297
Tires............................................................3324
Manufacture....................................................3350
Transportation equipment cleaning:
Effluent guidelines............................................3541
Travel expenses for brand participants............................303
Vegetable oil production.........................................3366
Wood furniture industry:
Air pollution control..........................................3307
Wool fiberglass manufacturing:
Air pollution control..........................................3292
C
Cable television:
Cable Act reform.................................................4107
Cost of service..................................................4101
Customer service standards.......................................4102
Digital must carry...............................................4098
Home wiring rights...............................................4104
Pole attachments.................................................4109
Rates......................................................4100, 4103
Small systems....................................................4103
TV and VCR compatibility.........................................4150
Cancer:
See also specific hazardous substances
Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3160
Mammography Quality Standards Act................................1020
NCI Clinical Cancer Education Program............................1051
Cargo:
See Freight
Cargo vessels:
See also Maritime carriers
Barges...........................................................2105
Numbering of undocumented barges...............................2099
Cargo preference.................................................2559
Carriage of bulk solid materials requiring special handling......2136
Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2102
Overfill and tank monitoring devices.............................2141
Rate determinations..............................................2560
Tank vessels:
Escorts........................................................2143
Foreign........................................................2101
Oil pollution prevention.......................................2143
Qualifications of personnel....................................2116
Response plans.................................................2104
Towing vessel safety measures..................................2109
Cemeteries:
National Cemetery System:
Disinterments..................................................3121
VA burial benefits.........................................3033, 3034
Census data:
Census 2000 address list.........................................3761
Census 2000 boundary changes......................................406
Correction........................................................403
Release authorizations............................................404
Special services and studies.................................402, 405
Cereals (commodity):
See Grains
Cereals (food):
WIC sugar limits..................................................235
CHAMPUS:
Active Duty Dependents Dental Plan in overseas areas..............816
Dual compensation/conflict of interest program....................818
Preventative services.............................................822
State Victims of Crime Compensation Programs......................819
TRICARE Program:
Eligibility requirements revisions..............................809
Nonavailability statement.......................................815
Prime balance billing...........................................821
Reimbursement...................................................817
Retiree Dental Program.....................................823, 825
Selected Reserve Dental Program.................................824
Voice prostheses..................................................819
Waiver of collection of payments..................................820
Charter buses:
See Buses
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Charter flights:
Charter operators................................................2069
Passengers stranded by...........................................2060
Checks:
See Banks, banking
Chemicals:
See also specific chemicals
Drugs
Hazardous substances
Pesticides and pests
Acrylamide.......................................................3455
Air pollution control......................................3182, 3195
Arsenic in drinking water........................................3600
Assessment information rule......................................3459
Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3471
Controlled chemicals exports......................................429
Domestic Chemical Diversion Act..................................1743
Drinking water regulations.......................................3602
Exports...........................................................429
Formaldehyde.....................................................3463
Health and safety reporting rule.................................3460
High-production-volume (HPV) chemicals...........................3443
New use rules for PMNs...........................................3458
Ozone depleting..................................................3278
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Aerosol products or other pressurized dispensers................960
Refrigerant recycling........................3258, 3260, 3315, 3401
Sales restrictions.............................................3259
Substitutes....................................................3316
Polychlorinated biphenyls........................................3467
Polymers and resins..............................................3251
Screening Information Data Set (SIDS)............................3443
Test rules...............................3444, 3447, 3451, 3462, 3465
Toxic substances.....................................3448, 3476, 3485
Toxic substances in new chemicals................................3457
Toxicity profiles................................................3446
Toxics Release Inventory.........................................3473
Traceable Reference Materials Program.............................444
Use inventory rule...............................................3439
Child abuse:
See Child welfare
Child care:
See Day care
Child labor:
Hazardous occupations............................................1891
Schooling, health, and well-being................................1891
Violation penalties..............................................1898
Child support:
Automated data processing funding limitation.....................1247
Automated data processing requirements...........................1246
Case closure.....................................................1253
Debt collection by tax refund offset.............................2598
Eligibility for food stamp program................................196
Garnishment orders...............................................3857
Medicaid referrals...............................................1158
Non-performance TANF penalty.....................................1235
Passport denial for nonpayment...................................2044
Paternity establishment services:
Requirements for voluntary entities............................1245
Payments to Indian tribes........................................1232
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
1252
State Case Registry:
Minimum data set...............................................1257
State Directory of New Hires.....................................1244
Child welfare:
See also Adoption and foster care
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Child labor
Child support
Day care
Absent parent access and visitation..............................1248
Adverse actions against Head Start agencies......................1237
Child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment.................1236
Child poverty rate:
State determination methodology................................1230
Databases of convicted offenders.................................1865
Head Start Services for Indian tribal children.............1243, 1255
Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus for grants.....................1251
Indian child protection programs.................................1045
Medical child support............................................1177
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
1249
SSA benefits...............................................3962, 3964
State performance requirements...................................1228
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..........................1926
High performance bonus.........................................1231
Work requirements..............................................1250
Title IV-B planning requirements for tribes......................1259
Title IV-E training..............................................1238
Children:
See Infants and children
Cigars and cigarettes:
See also Smoking
Cigarette lighter safety standards...............................4070
Sale and distribution requirements................................962
State and local requirement exemptions............................963
Citizens band radio service:
See Radio
Citizenship and naturalization:
See also Aliens
Immigration
Adjustment of status and removal of eligibility restrictions.....1799
Age requirements for fingerprinting..............................1842
Religious records................................................3988
Standardized testing.............................................1853
Civil defense:
See also Disaster assistance
Military assistance to civil agencies.............................707
Civil rights:
See also Equal educational opportunity
Equal employment opportunity
Fair housing
Commission on Civil Rights regulations update....................3143
Education........................................................3724
Equal Access to Justice Act......................................3754
Equal Credit Opportunity Act.....................................1347
Housing..........................................................1347
Individuals with mental illness...................................936
Language minority groups.........................................1740
Nondiscrimination...............................370, 1984, 2061, 3872
Activities assisted by the NEA...........................3718, 3721
Activities assisted by the NEH...........................3718, 3723
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.......................4095
Federally assisted programs......1262, 1731, 1738, 1739, 3094, 3985
HIPPA rules....................................................2764
Housing..................................................1265, 1279
Individuals with disabilities...1734, 1736, 1737, 2092, 3663, 3869,
3985
USDA-conducted programs and activities..........................345
Older individuals................................................1260
Peace Corps Volunteer Discrimination Complaint Procedure.........3872
Persons with life-threatening illnesses...........................989
Civil service system:
See Government employees
Claims:
Collection by HUD................................................1267
Collection by the NEA............................................3716
Collection by the OPM............................................3837
Collection by the VA:
Cross-reference to GAO/DOJ regulations.........................3122
Customs regulations..............................................2695
Debt Collection Improvement Act............................2593, 2594
EEOC.............................................................3614
False Claims Amendments Act of 1986..............................1862
False drawback...................................................2659
Federal Claims Collection Standards........................1869, 2593
Federal Employees' Compensation Act........................1904, 1906
FMS payments...............................................2582, 2591
Food Stamp Program................................................182
Government employees.......................................3818, 3847
HUD..............................................................1348
Medical care benefits............................................1932
Medicare suppliers...............................................1167
Public land rights-of-way........................................1381
Third-party......................................................2236
Veterans.........................................................3081
Attorney fees..................................................3076
Classified information:
Access.......................................................699, 877
DOE Atomic Energy Act regulation..................................880
DOE contractors...................................................913
Military acquisitions.............................................702
NARA records declassification....................................3700
NRC compliance with NISPOM.......................................4356
Nuclear material..................................................877
OMB policies.....................................................3757
Storage...........................................................700
Uniform system for national security information..................903
Clean Air Act:
See Air pollution control
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Clean Water Act:
See Water pollution control
Coal:
Abandoned refuse sites...........................................1624
Coal management............................................1661, 1662
Coalbed methane development......................................1679
Federal coal leases..............................................1697
Moisture.........................................................1632
Regulation streamlining..........................................1661
Coal mines:
See Mine safety and health
Mines
Surface mining
Underground mining
Coastal Zone:
See also Continental shelf
Flood plains
Administrative appeals process....................................800
Biological test methods for pollutants...........................3577
Coastal Zone Pollution Control Program............................536
Development and production plans.................................1596
Exploration plans................................................1596
Fees for appeals..................................................534
Shore protection.................................................2121
TVA shoreline management.........................................3992
Waste deposit prevention.........................................3605
Wetlands:
Conservation program.............................................44
Privately owned................................................2301
Coffee:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................169
Coins:
See Currency
Collective bargaining:
See Labor management relations
Colleges and universities:
See also Medical and dental schools
Community college Hispanic enrollment............................1352
DOD military officer educational requirements.....................714
DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and
institutions..................................................703
DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................709
DOT grants.......................................................2071
Grants administration.............................................411
Grants to Indian colleges........................................1562
Military recruiting access........................................711
Multicultural Scholars Program....................................127
ROTC program access...............................................711
Color additives:
Certification program fees........................................943
Commercial fisheries:
See Fisheries
Commodities:
See Agricultural commodities
Commodity futures:
Account identification for eligible bunched orders...............4058
Bulk transfers or liquidations...................................4053
Commodity option premium payments................................4057
Consolidated orders..............................................4055
Exemptive, no-action, and interpretive letters...................4060
Minimum financial requirements...................................4059
Risk disclosure statements.......................................4061
Voting prohibitions..............................................4054
Common carriers:
See also Air carriers
Communications common carriers
Maritime carriers
Motor carriers
Railroads
Coloading practices by NVOCCs....................................4259
DOT registration system..........................................2326
Freight forwarders:
FHWA general jurisdiction......................................2325
Communicable diseases:
Correctional management..........................................1707
Medicaid coverage of tuberculosis-related services...............1068
Communications:
See also Communications common carriers
News media
Telecommunications
Attribution of broadcast interests...............................4177
Broadcast station construction permits...........................4179
Channelization of 37.0-38.6 GHz band.............................4197
Competitive bidding for broadband PCS............................4198
Competitive bidding for IVDS.....................................4196
Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4195
Competitive bidding process......................................4205
Digital audio broadcasting.................................4162, 4201
Digital equipment deregulation...................................4153
Emergency Broadcast System.......................................4142
Equal employment opportunity...............................4178, 4187
Equipment authorization process..................................4148
Forfeitures for violations.......................................4143
Intelligent networks.............................................4141
International common carriers....................................4163
Maritime.........................................................4190
North American Numbering Plan administration.....................4111
Private Land Mobile Services.....................................4192
Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4191
Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4169
Relocation of base stations for 200 MHz licenses.................4199
Satellite:
Digital audio radio service....................................4168
Earth stations.................................................4167
MSS spectrum allocation..................................4154, 4166
Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4169
Spacing and applications.......................................4164
Tracking and data relay........................................3688
Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4165
Spread spectrum rules............................................4156
Tax liability of communications services.........................2891
Transfer of control of non-stock entities........................4173
TV:
Advanced systems...............................................4172
Advertising practices..........................................4176
Cable Act................................................4101, 4107
Cable television rates.........................................4100
Competitive availability of navigation devices.................4108
Filing of network affiliation contracts........................4175
Medical care telemetry devices.................................4157
Over-the-air reception devices.................................4105
Station ownership........................................4174, 4181
Video programming accessibility................................4106
Wide area SMR licensing..........................................4193
Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4151
Communications common carriers:
Application of subscriber line charges to ISDN service...........4115
Toll free service access codes...................................4116
Communist countries:
Export controls..................................................1482
Community action programs:
Community transition program................................886, 1289
Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities..........343, 1334, 1340
Community antenna television systems:
See Cable television
Community colleges:
See Colleges and universities
Community development:
See also Community action programs
Grant programs-housing and community development
CDBF funds documentation.........................................1332
Combining other government assistance with CPD assistance........1335
Community Development Financial Institution Fund.................2567
Community Reinvestment Act.......................................3002
Environmental regulations.........................................140
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Financial assistance..............................................407
Fisheries.........................................................470
Hispanic-serving educational institutions........................1352
Military base closures:
Local Redevelopment Authorities.................................716
Rural venture capital demonstration...............................352
Slum/blight prevention and elimination...........................1331
Small financial institutions:
Examination cycle..............................................2641
Compensation:
See Unemployment compensation
Wages
Workers' compensation
Competitiveness:
Agricultural commodities competitive markets......................306
Air carriers.........................................2069, 2078, 2093
American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2445
Cable television companies.......................................4104
Communications Act...................................4195, 4196, 4198
Government research...............................................634
GSA regulations..................................................3653
Medical plans...............................................928, 1214
North American Free Trade Agreement..............................2034
Sugar imports.....................................................302
Telecommunications marketplace.............................4140, 4152
Television marketplace...............................4100, 4108, 4172
Trade adjustment assistance................................1919, 1920
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act:
See Manpower training programs
Computer technology:
Automated surety interface.......................................2685
Computer reservations system.....................................2093
Cytology specimens...............................................1119
De Minimis exclusion for technology and software..................427
Digital equipment deregulation...................................4153
Electronic filing..........................................2660, 4449
Electronic filing of bonds, agreements, certificates and
cancellations................................................2283
Electronic filing of tax returns.................................2814
Electronic records...................................2469, 3698, 3712
Electronic requests for confidential treatment of export
manifest data................................................2670
Electronic submission of adverse drug reaction reports............940
Electronic submission of documents...............................4358
Electronic submission of fisheries reports........................458
Electronic ticketing of passengers...............................1770
Electronic transactions standards for health plans...............1098
Encryption software...............................................423
Evidence of shipments in EDI procurement transactions............4018
Exports...........................................................442
Income taxes.....................................................2784
Internet.........................................................4218
Domain Name System..............................................671
Magnetic computer tape maintenance...............................3711
MMS electronic reporting.........................................1593
NOAA's GOES Data Collection System................................596
Sale, exchange or disposal of excess equipment...................3669
Software classification..........................................1008
Stored-value cards...............................................4269
Condominiums:
Mortgages........................................................1300
Conduct standards:
See Conflict of interests
Confidential business information:
Customs regulations..............................................2670
EPA regulations..................................................3162
FDA communications with State and foreign government officials
965
PTO regulations...................................................678
Conflict of interests:
See also Political activities (Government employees)
CFTC voting prohibition..........................................4054
CHAMPUS requirements..............................................818
Ethical conduct...........................917, 3725, 3727, 3750, 3754
DOL employees..................................................1887
Ethics programs..................................................3752
Exemptions.......................................................3742
Financial disclosure.............................................3749
Investment companies.............................................4455
Judges...........................................................3958
OGE Privacy Act rules............................................3745
Physician referrals..............................................1069
Post-government employment.......................................3748
Regional Fishery Management Councils..............................539
Salary supplementation...........................................3753
Standards of conduct...........391, 695, 1379, 3747, 3870, 3873, 3987
Congressional elections:
See Elections
Conservation:
See Energy conservation
Natural resources
Construction industry..............................................1304
Confined spaces for construction.................................2017
Hazardous energy control.........................................2025
Safety and health programs.......................................2023
Safety standards.................................................1993
Scaffold safety standards........................................2022
Consumer protection:
See also Labeling
Trade practices
Air transportation...............................................2069
Baby walkers.....................................................4074
Back yard play sets standard.....................................4062
Bicycle helmets..................................................4076
Bunk bed requirements............................................4067
Cable home wiring rights.........................................4104
Child-resistant packaging............................4069, 4072, 4077
Cigarette lighters...............................................4070
Consumer credit transactions.....................................4293
Crib safety standards............................................4063
Disclosures..........................................4303, 4304, 4307
Flammability standards...........................................4073
Children's sleepwear...........................................4066
Clothing textiles..............................................4064
Upholstered furniture..........................................4068
Household goods transportation...................................2292
Infant formula quality control...................................1004
Informal Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (IDSM)....................4302
Lead-based paint...........................................1280, 3440
Meat and meat products............................................269
Medical devices............................................1012, 1019
Notices to passengers............................................2065
Over-the-counter drugs..................................942, 983, 988
Premerger notification...........................................4295
Product warranties.........................................4300, 4301
RESPA amendments.....................................1313, 1314, 1325
Truth-in-Lending...........................................1325, 4293
Truth-in-Savings.................................................4280
Water supply.....................................................3597
Contagious diseases:
See Communicable diseases
Containers:
See Packaging and containers
Continental shelf:
Air pollution control......................................3399, 3400
Filing fees for required records.................................1599
Geological and geophysical exploration of........................1618
Leasing:
Royalty relief...........................................1614, 1619
Memorandum of understanding between DOT and DOI..................1610
Offshore structures..............................................2538
Oil spill prevention and response..............................3524
Seismic reassessment of California platforms...................1607
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Oil and gas worker training......................................1595
Oil, gas and sulphur operations............................1598, 1608
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.......................................3594
Corn:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................161
Corporations:
See Business and industry
Cotton:
Crop insurance....................................................149
Production flexibility contract....................................82
Upland Cotton User Marketing Certificate Program...................88
Countervailing duties:
Administrative procedures.........................................414
Protective order violations.......................................413
Sunset reviews....................................................415
Courts:
Damage awards....................................................2816
Immigration proceedings..........................................1758
Crafts:
See Indians-arts and crafts
Credit:
See also Banks, banking
Credit unions
Mortgages
Capital treatment of recourse arrangements and direct credit
substitutes..................................................4212
Debt collection..........................2599, 3631, 3716, 3837, 3899
Administrative offsets.............................1267, 2584, 2585
Administrative offsets by EEOC.................................3608
Administrative offsets by the SBA..............................3908
Debt Collection Improvement Act................................3708
Matching of Federal employee records for salary offset.........2602
OASDI overpayment..............................................3989
Tax refund offsets............................187, 1267, 2597, 2735
Transfer of referral of delinquent nontax debts................2600
Debt instruments...........................................2962, 2967
Debt sales.......................................................2603
Debt writedown:
Shared appreciation agreements...................................91
Delinquent debtors...............................................2586
Public dissemination of identity...............................2587
Direct line of credit..............................................69
Disaster Set-Aside program.........................................73
Disclosure requirements..........................................4293
DOD acquisition regulations.......................................720
Equal credit opportunity...................................4266, 4284
Lending limit regulation.........................................2648
Partners and partnership.........................................2865
Qualified nonrecourse financing..................................2824
Rating organizations.............................................4482
Recourse debt....................................................2824
Regulation U.....................................................4291
Self-tests conducted by creditors................................4284
Credit unions:
Business loans:
Streamlining...................................................4324
Bylaws revisions.................................................4317
Central liquidity facility.......................................4330
Change in official or senior executive officer...................4319
Chartering and field of membership policies......................4318
Creditor claims..................................................4322
DIMIA compliance.................................................4316
E-FOIA...........................................................4333
Fidelity bond requirements.......................................4320
FOIA.............................................................4333
Golden parachute payments........................................4314
Indemnification..................................................4314
Information disclosure requirements..............................4333
Insurance and group purchasing activities........................4323
Insurance coverage...............................................4320
Investment and deposit activities................................4325
Liquidations.....................................................4322
Loan purchase, sale, and pledge..................................4321
Mergers or conversions:
Insured status.................................................4329
Non-credit union status........................................4331
NCUA Interpretive Rulings and Policy Statements..................4328
Newly chartered..................................................4319
Organization and operations......................................4332
Ownership of fixed assets........................................4315
Service contracts................................................4326
Troubled condition...............................................4319
Crime:
See also Drug abuse
Fraud
Juvenile delinquency
Aliens:
In-transit passengers..........................................1769
Confidentiality of DOJ information...............................1881
Criminal and terrorist aliens....................................1824
Criminal fine collection.........................................1876
Criminal justice block grants....................................1882
Databases of convicted offenders.....................1865, 1866, 1878
Denial of SSI benefits to felons and probation and parole
violators....................................................3937
Domestic violence................................................2610
FCSIC referral of criminal violations............................4096
Financial institution reporting requirements.....................2576
Forest System lands...............................................333
Motor vehicle theft..............................................2340
Prostitution.....................................................1775
Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................1834
Sex offender registration programs...............................1867
Stolen pet dogs and cats..........................................118
Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................1877
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act....................2633
Violent crimes against nonprofit organizations...................1339
Critical habitat:
See Endangered and threatened species
Crop insurance:
Administrative regulations.........................152, 157, 158, 159
Application for...................................................148
Catastrophic risk protection.................................169, 170
Conservation program appeals procedures............................38
Cotton............................................................149
Grains.......................................................150, 151
Group Risk Plan...................................................155
High risk land....................................................147
Highly erodible land and wetlands............................162, 163
Insurance by written agreement....................................156
Nonstandard classification system.................................152
Nursery crop......................................................165
Peanuts...........................................................154
Popcorn corn......................................................161
Potatoes..........................................................167
Rice..............................................................166
Sunflowers........................................................171
Tobacco......................................................153, 160
Tomatoes..........................................................168
Wheat.............................................................150
Crops:
See Agricultural commodities
Crude oil:
See Petroleum
Crystalline fructose:
Marketing allotment program........................................21
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Crystalline silica:
Occupational exposure......................................1962, 2024
Cultural exchange programs.........................................1482
Exchange Visitor Program.........................................3994
Currency:
See also Foreign currencies
Reporting exemptions.............................................2572
Customs duties and inspection:
See also Antidumping
Countervailing duties
Imports
Accreditation of commercial testing laboratories.................2651
Aircraft manifests...............................................2691
Andean trade preference..........................................2664
Automated Clearinghouse credit...................................2662
Centralized Examination Stations.................................2698
Commercial gaugers approval......................................2651
Counterfeited trademarks...................................2658, 2676
Country of origin determinations.................................2684
Country of origin marking............................2665, 2687, 2689
Cultural property regulations....................................2654
Detention of merchandise.........................................2667
Drawback claims..................................................2695
Duty-free insular watches.........................................418
Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2688
Electronic filing of entries of merchandise......................2660
Excluded goods:
Disposition....................................................2676
Export manifest data.............................................2670
Fee and interest.................................................2654
Fees assessed for defaulted payments.............................2686
Foreign-based commercial motor vehicles..........................2656
General enforcement..............................................2696
Harbor maintenance fees....................................2682, 2683
Illegal entry:
Penalties......................................................2657
Informal entry...................................................2699
Inventory accounts...............................................2763
Land Border Carrier Initiative Program...........................2678
Merchandise definition...........................................2763
North American Free Trade Agreement..................2661, 2668, 2669
Ports of entry...................................................2677
Prior disclosure of violations...................................2672
Publication of filer codes.......................................2693
Reconciliation regulation........................................2655
Recordkeeping requirements.................................2666, 2668
Seizures, penalties and liquidated damages.......................2674
Shooks and staves................................................2679
Tariffs:
Filing requirements............................................2076
Liquidation of entries.........................................2652
Temporary admission agreements:
Taiwan and Taipei..............................................2697
Tonnage tax exemption............................................2701
Toxic substances.................................................2675
Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2653
Unentered merchandise............................................2673
D
Dairy products:
See also specific dairy products
Dairy Options Pilot Program.......................................164
Grading and inspection..........................................7, 11
Quotas............................................................299
Transportation and storage........................................286
User fees..........................................................11
Dangerous cargo:
See Hazardous materials transportation
Data processing:
See Computer technology
Day care:
Food program.................................................209, 244
VA facilities....................................................3095
Deaf:
See Individuals with disabilities
Debarment and suspension:
Accountants......................................................2636
EPA changes......................................................3158
Social Security Administration...................................3975
Transportation Department........................................2091
Debts:
See Credit
Declassification:
See Classified information
Deepwater ports:
See Harbors
Defense:
See National defense
Defense acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
Defense contracts:
See Government contracts
Government procurement
Delinquency:
See Juvenile delinquency
Dental health:
Active Duty Dependents Dental Plan................................816
Amalgam ingredient labeling......................................1007
TRICARE Program for reserves......................................824
TRICARE Program for retirees.................................823, 825
Veterans' disability rating......................................3052
Dental schools:
See Medical and dental schools
Deportation:
See Aliens
Deposit insurance:
See Bank deposit insurance
Desegregation in education:
See Equal educational opportunity
Diabetes:
Medicare coverage for blood glucose monitors and test strips.....1206
Qualification of diabetic truck drivers..........................2306
Disability benefits:
See also Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
Railroad retirement
Workers' compensation
Reduction of Social Security benefits based on workers'
compensation.................................................3944
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
Allowable costs............................................3620, 3638
American Indian livestock feed assistance..........................86
Appeals procedures.........................................3624, 3636
Cost-share adjustments...........................................3616
Declaration process..............................................3616
Eligible forage crops..............................................80
Farmers.....................34, 77, 156, 159, 160, 161, 169, 170, 171
Fire suppression assistance......................................3625
Floods...............................................1272, 3617, 3618
National Flood Insurance Program fee schedule..................3634
Food stamps and food distribution.................................238
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program......................3624, 3626, 3633
Housing Resources Program:
Dissolution of program.........................................3635
Individual assistance programs:
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act..................................................3619, 3621
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NEPA emergency actions............................................340
Public lands damage repairs......................................1670
Restoration of damaged facilities................................3638
Snow removal.....................................................3637
Tax relief.......................................................2762
Tree assistance program............................................96
Unemployment assistance..........................................1916
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
Drug Elimination Program.........................................1287
Drug-free workplace.............................879, 2091, 3707, 3975
Felony offense restrictions......................................1750
Medicaid program.................................................1126
Narcotic addict treatment.........................................948
Railroad operations..............................................2497
SSA representative payee reforms.................................3966
Substance abuse block grants......................................935
Transit operations...............................................2502
Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................1877
Drug testing:
NRC rule.........................................................4399
Transportation personnel.....2056, 2068, 2170, 2248, 2500, 2535, 2536
Drug traffic control:
Controlled substances:
Disposer definition and registration...........................1742
Ephedrine/guaifenesin..........................................1753
Freight forwarding facilities..................................1745
Habit-forming drugs............................................1022
Psychotropic substances........................................1749
Distributor registration.........................................1753
Diversion control fee account....................................1744
Domestic Chemical Diversion Act..................................1743
FAA regulations..................................................2158
Hydrochloric gas thresholds......................................1746
Iodine thresholds................................................1746
Land Border Carrier Initiative Program...........................2678
Drugs:
See also specific drugs
Animal drugs
Biologics
Over-the-counter drugs
Prescription drugs
Adverse drug experiences..........................................990
Adverse experience reporting................................955, 1027
Adverse reaction reports..........................................940
Aluminum containing...............................................986
Bioavailability and bioequivalence requirements...................947
Clinical holds...................................................1024
Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act........................1747
Contraceptive drugs..............................................1012
Current good manufacturing practice..........................985, 991
Debarment certification regulations..............................1013
Dispute resolution...............................................1003
Drug manufacturer safety and effectiveness assessment.............994
Drug Master File..................................................987
Drug Pricing Program.............................................1041
Drugs for life-threatening illnesses..............................989
Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1021
Habit-forming drugs.........................................999, 1022
Informed consent regulations......................................952
Inhalation solution products......................................990
Insulin certification..................................943, 998, 1025
Insulin-containing products.......................................975
Investigational new drugs.............950, 974, 989, 1014, 1026, 1031
Labeling.....................................................954, 991
Medicaid drug rebate program.....................................1107
Minoxidil........................................................4071
Narcotic addict treatment.........................................948
New drug applications......................973, 987, 1024, 1026, 1028
Patent holder notification for new drugs.........................1016
Pediatric.........................................................994
Personal medical use.............................................1752
PET radiopharmaceuticals.........................................1033
Pharmacy compounding.............................................1000
Phenylpropanolamine..............................................1748
Progestational....................................................976
Providing controlled substances to ocean vessels.................1741
Pseudoephedrine..................................................1748
Radiopharmaceuticals...................................957, 979, 4410
Registration for distributors....................................1748
Registration of foreign establishments and product listing........964
Registration of producers........................................1009
Unapproved new uses information...................................966
Withdrawn or removed from the market.............................1000
E
Earthquakes:
See Disaster assistance
Ecology:
See Environmental protection
Economic statistics:
Bureau of Economic Analysis benchmark survey.................395, 397
Foreign Trade Statistical Regulations changes...........399, 400, 401
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
Elementary and secondary education
Equal educational opportunity
Indians-education
Libraries
School breakfast and lunch programs
Schools
Students
Teachers
Acquisition and transfer of excess personal property..............344
Administrative regulations........................................832
Aeromedical education............................................2180
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Direct grant programs.............................................832
ED general administrative regulations.............................831
Federal work-study programs.......................................843
General Education Provisions Act..................................829
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program.........................128
Magnet schools assistance program.................................837
National Security Education Program...............................693
National Service Trust...........................................3145
NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1057
NIH scholarships.................................................1047
NIH service payback obligation...................................1050
Nondiscrimination................................................3093
Prison postsecondary education programs..........................1702
Qualified state tuition programs.................................2711
Records exempted from the Privacy Act.............................828
Removal of regulations............................................848
Training programs................................................3628
USDA program......................................................122
Veterans.........................................................3023
Advanced and lump sum payments.................................3019
Election of benefits...........................................3053
Flight training..........................................3025, 3059
Independent study approval.....................................3105
Montgomery G.I. Bill.........................3018, 3021, 3066, 3107
Payment suspension and discontinuation.........................3049
Regulations revision...........................................3108
Reservists...............................................3024, 3103
Survivors and dependents.................................3068, 3106
Education of disadvantaged:
Disadvantaged children............................................836
Head Start Program:
Facilities construction and renovation.........................1229
Indian tribal children...................................1243, 1255
Safe transportation of children................................1241
Standards for purchase of facilities...........................1242
Head Start Programs:
Family care as an option.......................................1239
Education of individuals with disabilities:
Children..........................................................847
Rehabilitation services...........................................845
Educational facilities:
Authorization to enroll F-1 students.............................1778
DOE contractors...................................................887
FmHA programs......................................................33
Grants administration............................................3127
Educational research:
Human subjects protection...................................826, 1055
OERI conduct standards............................................834
OERI exemplary and promising programs.............................835
Protection of human subjects......................................830
Eggs and egg products:
HACCP programs....................................................248
Inspection...................................................251, 294
Labeling..........................................................294
Performance standards:
Foodborne pathogens.............................................248
Refrigeration and labeling...................................285, 939
Safe handling labeling statements.................................939
Salmonella enteritidis..................................248, 250, 939
Transportation and storage........................................286
Elderly:
See Aged
Elections:
See also Political activities (Government employees)
Voting rights
Indian tribal governments..................................1564, 1565
Electric power:
See also Electric power plants
Electric utilities
Alternative power pooling institutions...........................4238
Export authorization..............................................893
Rural electrification....358, 359, 363, 364, 369, 370, 372, 373, 374,
375, 381
Worker safety....................................................2021
Electric power plants:
Additions and extensions..........................................362
Emissions........................................................3223
Hydropower facility licensing....................................4241
Electric utilities:
Additions and extensions..........................................362
FERC Form No. 1 changes..........................................4234
Indian electric power utilities..................................1575
National Forest System............................................323
Private activity bond rules..........................2836, 2921, 2922
Purchases and sales..............................................4233
Standards and specifications................................368, 1956
Steam generating facilities......................................3314
Electronic data processing:
See Computer technology
Electronic funds transfers:
Electronic benefit transfer systems.........................199, 2595
Federal agency disbursements.....................................2592
Federal Supply Service contracts.................................3657
Federal tax payments.......................................2589, 2734
FRS Regulation E revision........................................4269
Regulatory streamlining..........................................2998
Elementary and secondary education:
Ineligibility of F-1 foreign students............................1778
Emblems:
See Signs and symbols
Emergency medical services:
Medicare requirements......................................1102, 1117
Undocumented aliens..............................................1200
Emergency mobilization:
See Civil defense
Employee benefit plans:
See also Pensions
Cafeteria plans............................................2903, 2920
Claims...........................................................1932
Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................1929
Defined contribution plans.......................................1946
Family and medical leave.........................................2903
Increase in exemptive dollar amounts.............................4429
Nondiscrimination................................................2983
Participant contributions to plan assets.........................1947
Plan documents filing penalties..................................1936
Plan documents filing requirements...............................1934
Plan documents requested by Secretary of Labor...................1935
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............1930, 1933, 1946
Savings Incentive Match Plans for Employees (SIMPLE).............1947
Taxation...................................................2800, 2849
Employee management relations:
See Labor management relations
Employee Retirement Income Security Act:
See Pensions
Employment:
See also Equal employment opportunity
Government employees
Aliens.....1767, 1780, 1789, 1790, 1805, 1815, 1846, 1905, 1923, 1927
Au pairs.........................................................3995
BIA regulations elimination......................................1550
Community service programs information disclosure................3147
Community transition program......................................886
Definitions for salary basis.....................................1908
Domestic services................................................1901
Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities.....................1340
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................1893
Lower income persons.............................................1345
Removal of restrictions on employing certain individuals.........1750
Student-learners, apprentices, messengers, and student workers
1912
Verification of employment.................................1780, 1815
Employment taxes:
Real estate agents...............................................2887
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Unemployment repayment...........................................2897
Endangered and threatened species:
See also Marine mammals
Addresses for submissions of permit applications.................1396
Alameda whipsnake................................................1515
Aquatic snails...................................................1435
Arkansas River shiner............................................1449
Atlantic salmon..................................................1521
Behren's silverspot butterfly....................................1515
Black legless lizard.............................................1457
Blackburn's sphinx moth..........................................1485
Bog turtles......................................................1518
Brother's Island tuatara.........................................1519
Bull trout.......................................................1492
California plants................................................1466
Callippe silverspot butterfly....................................1515
Captive breeding.................................................1440
Cheetah..........................................................1414
CITES decisions..................................................1389
CITES meetings...................................................1433
Coho salmon.......................................................554
Conservation activities...........................................589
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Flora and Fauna........................................1468, 1469
Cowhead Lake tui chub............................................1423
Critical habitat.......526, 582, 587, 665, 667, 668, 669, 1443, 1453,
1458, 1463, 1481
Eagles...........................................................1429
Ferrets..........................................................1476
Florida panther..................................................1448
Freshwater mussels.........................................1428, 1516
Freshwater snails................................................1428
Gray wolf........................................................1500
Grizzly bears....................................................1477
Illinois cave amphipod...........................................1494
Incidental take regulations.......................................589
Intercross progeny policy and definitions........................1448
Johnson's seagrass................................................665
Kauai Cave amphipod..............................................1497
Kauai Cave wolf spider...........................................1497
Koala............................................................1394
Least chub.......................................................1454
List, reclassify, or delist.......1441, 1443, 1444, 1445, 1446, 1462,
1470, 1471, 1523
Loch Lomond coyote thistle.......................................1445
Lost River suckers...............................................1453
Manatees.........................................................1501
Mariana fruit bat................................................1509
Mexican wolves...................................................1520
Mussels..........................................................1478
Newcomb's snail..................................................1491
NOAA incidental take regulations..................................624
Northern Idaho ground squirrel...................................1510
Northern spotted owl.............................................1461
Oahu elepaio.....................................................1398
Pallid manzanita.................................................1465
Parish's alkali grass............................................1446
Pecos pupfish..............................................1505, 1514
Peregrine falcon.................................................1426
Permit requirements and exemptions...............................1474
Pesticide labeling program.......................................3425
Plants:
Blumer's dock..................................................1425
California plants..........1451, 1455, 1457, 1464, 1467, 1522, 1524
Camatta Canyon amole...........................................1416
Catesbaea melanocarpa..........................................1502
Colorado butterfly plant.......................................1512
Desert milk vetch..............................................1506
Devil's River minnow...........................................1511
Fender's blue butterfly........................................1399
Gaviota tarplant...............................................1419
Gentner's fritilaria...........................................1508
Hawaii.........................................................1486
Howell's spectacular thelypody.................................1503
Ione buckwheat.................................................1489
Ione manzanita.................................................1489
Keck's sidalcea................................................1493
Kincaid's lupine...............................................1399
Kneeland prairie penny cress...................................1400
LaGraciosa thistle.............................................1417
Larkspurs......................................................1487
Lloyd's hedgehog cactus, removal...............................1473
Lompoc yerba santa.............................................1418
Mexican plants.................................................1467
Nipomo Mesa lupine.............................................1421
Puzzle sunflower...............................................1424
Rough popcornflower............................................1499
San Francisco plants...........................................1522
Santa Cruz tarplant............................................1420
Virginia sneezeweed............................................1436
Wenatchee Mountains checker-mallow.............................1495
Wilamette daisy................................................1399
Yreka phlox....................................................1422
Zapata bladderpod..............................................1504
Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse....................................1481
Regulations consolidation....................................531, 562
Riparian brush rabbit............................................1498
Riparian woodrat.................................................1498
Sacramento splittail.............................................1447
Safe harbors.....................................................1474
San Bernadino kangaroo rat.......................................1401
San Xavier talussnail............................................1444
Sea turtles.............................................587, 619, 666
Short-tailed albatross...........................................1427
Shortnose suckers................................................1453
Snake River chinook salmon........................................623
St. Andrew beach mouse...........................................1437
Texas aquatic invertebrates......................................1523
Topeka shiner....................................................1438
Tropical birds...................................................1450
Vicuna...........................................................1391
Virgin River fishes........................................1462, 1463
Western snowy plover.............................................1458
Yacare caiman....................................................1471
Energy:
See also Coal
Electric power
Energy conservation
Fuel economy
Geothermal energy
Natural gas
Nuclear energy
Petroleum
Pipelines
Alternative fuels......................................851, 860, 3282
Capacity reservations............................................4240
Conduct of DOE employees..........................................919
DEAR amendments...................................................900
Acquisitions....................................................915
Rights in data..................................................905
DOD fuel allocation procedures....................................706
DOE certification requirements....................................914
DOE Privacy Act regulations.......................................898
Extension of coverage of energy statistical programs.............3764
FERC fuel cost adjustment clause.................................4237
FERC reporting requirements......................................4236
Fluorescent lamps exemption from Hazardous Waste Management......3503
Fuel excise taxes................................................2890
Privacy Act regulations...........................................884
Research grants...................................................895
Transmission tariff filings......................................4240
Uranium mill sites................................................890
Wastes from fossil fuel combustion...............................3520
Energy conservation:
See also Fuel economy
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Appliance efficiency standards................850, 853, 854, 867, 874
Efficiency standards:
Clothes dryers..................................................870
Clothes washers.................................................849
Direct heating equipment........................................871
Dishwashers.....................................................870
Electric motors, 200 hp.........................................872
Fluorescent and incandescent lamps..............................873
High intensity discharge lamps..................................868
Major residential appliances....................................863
Pool heaters....................................................871
Electric motor vehicles...........................................865
Electric motors...................................................862
Federal buildings............................................859, 861
Model Energy Code update.........................................1292
Plumbing products.................................................875
Residential energy-efficiency rating guidelines...................866
Test procedures.........................................852, 874, 875
Testing requirements:
Commercial air conditioning equipment...........................858
Commercial heating equipment....................................857
Commercial water heaters........................................856
Electric motors, small..........................................869
Electronic distribution transformers............................855
High intensity discharge lamps..................................868
Refrigerators...................................................876
Water heaters...................................................864
Environmental impact statements:
Antarctic impact assessment......................................3163
Department of Transportation regulations.......2130, 2301, 2319, 2473
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
Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act......3732, 3733, 3734
Antarctic Treaty.................................................3163
Chemicals......................................3439, 3443, 3447, 3465
Class deviations incorporation into EPAAR........................3152
Coastal waste deposit prevention.................................3605
Content requirements for state operating permits.................3205
Ecological risk assessment.......................................3165
Environmental impact analysis process.............................807
Environmentally preferable products..............................4034
EPA acquisition regulations................................3158, 3168
Farm Service Agency............................................63, 64
Federal water resource development................................799
Grants administration.............................................896
HUD........................................................1273, 1286
Locatable mineral mining.........................................1667
Monitoring.......................................................3379
National Environmental Policy Act...........................317, 3717
National Forest System.......................................316, 325
National Science Foundation......................................3733
NEPA emergency actions............................................340
NOAA Climate and Global Change Program............................633
Pesticides.......................................................3411
Protocol on Environmental Protection.............................3163
Radon............................................................4368
Restoration of DOD facilities................................710, 712
Rural areas.......................................................365
Rural economic development........................................140
Transit projects.................................................2504
Equal access to justice:
Department of Health and Human Services...........................937
Department of Labor..............................................1886
Equal credit opportunity:
See Credit
Equal educational opportunity:
DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and
institutions..................................................703
Education Act Amendments of 1972.................................3724
Federally assisted education programs....390, 1376, 1731, 3148, 3644,
3720
Equal employment opportunity:
Aged.......................................................3607, 3610
Broadcast industry...............................................4187
Complaint processing.............................................3611
Discrimination complaint procedures........................3606, 3610
Disparate impact theory..........................................3612
Government contractors...........................................1890
Government employees.................................3606, 3611, 4178
Indians..........................................................1586
Individuals with disabilities....................................3611
Interagency coordination of issuances............................3615
Waiver of rights and claims......................................3614
Eskimos:
See Indians
Estate taxes:
Charitable transfers.............................................2949
Farms............................................................2885
Reformable interest..............................................2949
Taxation of property distributed in kind.........................2965
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:
Alcohol..........................................................2614
Arms and munitions...................................2617, 2618, 2634
Deposits...................................................2820, 2977
Diesel fuel................................................2890, 2954
Excess benefits transactions.....................................2730
Filing requirements..............................................2956
Fuels............................................................2955
Kerosene.........................................................2757
Luxury items...............................................2888, 2952
Prepaid telephone cards....................................2729, 2802
Vehicles.........................................................2738
Explosives:
See also Hazardous materials transportation
Hazardous substances
Deletion from regulated substance list...........................3481
Explosive Detection System.......................................2235
Fireworks..................................................2609, 2615
Handling at waterfront facilities................................2102
Manufacturer licensing...........................................2615
Military munitions................................................696
Plastic explosives...............................................2616
Storage sites....................................................2615
Table of distances...............................................2615
Exports:
Administration regulations...................................426, 439
Agricultural commodities.......................92, 300, 306, 307, 308
Alligator skins..................................................1483
American ginseng.................................................1430
Antiterrorism controls............................................428
Arms and munitions:
ITAR controls..................................................2047
Automated Export System...........................................399
Bluefin tuna re-export certificates...............................447
CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program...............................301
Chemical Weapons Convention..................................430, 433
Chemicals........................................................3462
Commerce Control List.........................420, 422, 426, 438, 439
Communication intercepting devices................................422
Computer technology...............................................426
Controlled chemicals..............................................429
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De Minimis exclusion for technology and software..................427
Distilled spirits, wine, and beer................................2605
Duty to inquire...................................................441
Encryption software...............................................423
Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative.........................434
Exporter definition...............................................400
Fastener Quality Act..............................................445
Foreign boycott provisions........................................431
Foreign military sales designator.................................401
Ginseng..........................................................1480
High performance computers........................................442
Humanitarian donations............................................424
Investigational new drugs.........................................950
Libya.............................................................435
License exceptions................................................424
Licensing.........................................................437
Manifest data....................................................2670
Marine mammal products.....................................1392, 1482
North Korea......................................................2059
Nuclear equipment and materials...................................425
Nuclear weapons...................................................440
OETCA regulations update..........................................416
Oscilloscopes.....................................................440
Pesticides.......................................................3430
Prohibited to domestic markets...................................1030
Reexports.........................................................435
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.....................300, 961
River otters.....................................................1468
Satellites........................................................420
Shooks and staves................................................2679
Sugar.............................................................302
Technology........................................................430
Timber from western states........................................421
Tobacco..........................................................2628
Used motor vehicles..............................................2680
Veterinary user fees..............................................103
Weapons proliferation controls....................................438
Wildlife...................................................1412, 1469
Extension and continuing education:
See Adult education
F
Fabrics:
See Textiles
Fair housing:
Civil penalties for violations...................................1346
Compliance requirements......................................130, 351
Performance standards..........................................1343
Home Loan Data System............................................2647
Housing for Older Persons Act....................................1344
Nondiscrimination requirements....................................145
Occupancy standards........................................1288, 1362
Family planning:
Abortion-related services compliance standards...................1059
Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus................................1251
FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation):
See Government procurement
Farmers:
See Agriculture
Federal acquisition regulations:
See Government procurement
Federal aid programs:
See Grant programs
Loan programs
Price support programs
Technical assistance
Federal buildings and facilities:
Access for individuals with disabilities......1734, 1736, 1737, 3134,
3140
Outdoor developed areas........................................3139
Play areas.....................................................3135
Base closure community assistance.................................716
Conduct on the Pentagon reservation...............................695
Distribution of printed matter...................................1549
DOD technical assistance for environmental restoration............712
Energy performance standards.................................859, 861
GSA regulations................................3648, 3649, 3650, 3659
Kennedy Center...................................................1549
Military range assessment.........................................696
Presidential library facilities..................................3709
Private organizations on DoD installations........................691
Property management..............................................3677
Smoking policy...................................................3662
Uniform identification information...............................3431
Federal employees:
See Government employees
Federal home loan banks:
Appointment and election of Directors............................4244
Authority to approve bylaws......................................4251
Definitions:
State..........................................................4257
Disclosure requirements..........................................4253
Employee selection and compensation..............................4246
Financial management policy......................................4243
Freedom of Information Act.......................................4252
Letters of credit................................................4245
Membership regulation technical amendments.......................4249
Mission fulfillment..............................................4255
President base salary caps.......................................4248
Rural banks......................................................4250
Securities.......................................................4219
Book-entry procedures..........................................4256
Federal property management regulations:
See Government property management
Federal Reserve System:
Availability of information rules................................4294
Bank holding companies.....................................4273, 4276
Section 20 subsidiaries........................................4292
Capital:
Leveraged......................................................4275
Risk-based.....................................................4275
Capital stock....................................................4277
Check collection.................................................4290
Consumer regulations review......................................4261
Electronic funds transfers.................................4269, 4290
Equal credit opportunity.........................................4266
Examination cycles...............................................3003
Fedwire operations...............................................4290
Margin regulations...............................................4286
Margin regulations review........................................4263
Membership.....................................4271, 4273, 4276, 4288
Privately operated multilateral settlement systems...............4281
Public availability of information...............................4282
Reserve requirements:
Depository institutions........................................4267
Depository requirements..................................4268, 4285
Securities brokers and dealers:
Qualifications for banks and securities representatives........4270
State banks..........................................4262, 4272, 4289
Streamlining regulations.........................................4265
Transaction between a member bank and its subsidiaries...........4283
Truth-in-savings.................................................4280
Federal-State relations:
See Intergovernmental relations
Federally affected areas:
Immigration boundaries...........................................1859
Feed grains.........................................................177
Production flexibility contract....................................82
Fellowships:
See Scholarships and fellowships
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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:
Cargo/baggage compartments.....................................2243
Crash-resistant fuel systems...................................2154
Fuel tank vent protection......................................2200
Fuel tanks and lines...........................................2157
Nuclear power plants.............................................4400
Occupational safety regulation...................................1997
Underground coal mines...........................................1966
Firearms:
See Arms and munitions
Fish:
See also Fisheries
Seafood
Catch limits......................................................506
Definition of harm................................................590
Endangered and threatened....554, 566, 567, 568, 590, 621, 628, 1423,
1438, 1449, 1453, 1454, 1462, 1463, 1492, 1505, 1511, 1516,
1521
Halibut Donation Program..........................................480
Restoration programs........................................601, 1484
Size limits........................................496, 506, 515, 646
Fisheries:
Alaska........................................458, 461, 500, 635, 638
Amberjack.........................................................575
American lobster..................................................600
American Samoa....................................................662
Anchovy...........................................................560
Atlantic billfish............................................450, 515
Atlantic bluefish.................................................455
Atlantic Coast:
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)...................................464
Atlantic herring..................................................460
Atlantic highly migratory species.................................545
Atlantic mackerel.......................................508, 656, 660
Atlantic Ocean....................................................449
Atlantic sea scallop..............................................466
Atlantic sharks..............................................472, 544
Atlantic surf clams...............................................448
Atlantic swordfish................................................642
Atlantic tuna................................................473, 474
Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands.............................543, 614, 637
Black grouper.....................................................575
Black sea bass...............................................506, 658
Bottomfish........................................................510
Butterfish...................................................656, 660
Capacity reduction program........................................505
Catch sharing plan...........................................663, 664
Classification and listing........................................533
Corals and coral reefs..................................453, 490, 501
Critical habitat.........................526, 582, 587, 667, 668, 669
Dolphin encirclement prohibition..................................583
Dolphin mortality limit......................................525, 580
Eastern Tropical Pacific..........................................530
Flounder...........................................506, 619, 658, 670
Gag...............................................................575
Golden crab.......................................................497
Groundfish.....454, 458, 461, 465, 480, 504, 510, 513, 543, 548, 569,
614, 615, 635, 636, 637, 640, 641, 643
Gulf of Alaska..........................................454, 614, 637
Gulf of Mexico.....................................457, 540, 542, 591
Halibut............................................558, 610, 652, 653
Hawaiian Islands..................................................502
Herring...........................................................644
Incidental take regulations....524, 525, 583, 584, 588, 622, 624, 666
King crabs........................................................543
King mackerel.....................................................546
Lobster..................................477, 502, 549, 572, 605, 606
Mackerel..........................................................644
Mahogany clams....................................................448
Marine mammal deterrence..........................................584
Marine mammal programs...................523, 527, 528, 553, 586, 645
Marine Mammal Protection Act.................................530, 588
Migratory species.................................................475
Monkfish..........................................................468
National Undersea Research Program................................634
No surprises policy..............................................1488
North Pacific.....................................................459
Ocean quahogs.....................................................448
Pacific Coast................................................599, 636
Pacific halibut..............................................663, 664
Pelagic........................451, 463, 486, 540, 546, 644, 659, 661
Pollock...........................................................503
Puerto Rico..................................................452, 453
Red porgy.........................................................575
Red snapper........................................519, 573, 576, 639
Reef fish...........................452, 494, 519, 520, 547, 573, 639
Regional Fishery Management Council disclosures...................539
Regulation consolidation..........................................545
Research reserves.................................................513
Rockfish................................................481, 599, 649
Sablefish....................................................485, 491
Salmon..............................511, 561, 566, 567, 568, 628, 669
Scallops.....................................................469, 647
Scientific research...............................................585
Scup.........................................................506, 658
Sea turtle conservation...........................................591
Seabird avoidance measures........................................657
Shrimp...................................457, 493, 495, 542, 591, 626
Snapper-grouper...............................521, 541, 574, 575, 646
Snow crab.........................................................641
South Atlantic...............................................540, 541
Spanish mackerel..................................................546
Squid........................................................656, 660
Stone crab...................................................498, 549
Swordfish...............................................496, 517, 538
Tanner crabs.................................................465, 543
Tilefish..........................................................449
Tuna.....................................447, 514, 524, 525, 570, 583
U.S. Virgin Islands..........................................452, 453
Western Pacific region............................................451
Yellowfin tuna....................................................530
Fishery management plans:
Administrative:
Bycatch percentage revision.....................................648
Bycatch reduction measures.................................495, 602
Compliance......................................................483
Essential fish habitats.........................................550
Fishery Management Councils......................471, 479, 551, 556
Gulf of Mexico..................................................494
List of gear and fisheries......................................499
National standards..............................................551
Redefinition of terms......................................550, 604
Alaska............................................................469
Atlantic................................................466, 508, 577
Atlantic Coast........................................475, 605, 606
North Atlantic..................................................659
South Atlantic..................................................549
Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands...481, 487, 504, 603, 640, 641, 650, 652,
653
Bycatch reduction measures........................................493
Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ)...............................471, 477
Gulf of Alaska...........................487, 504, 603, 615, 616, 643
Gulf of Mexico......492, 495, 498, 516, 519, 520, 546, 547, 549, 573,
576, 639
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Hawaiian Islands........................................510, 559, 572
Highly migratory species................................499, 518, 565
North Pacific.....................................................465
North right whales................................................627
Northeast multispecies...................468, 557, 563, 571, 607, 644
Northeast Region..................................................509
Northern anchovy..................................................661
Pacific Coast................................................511, 561
Pacific Insular Area Fishing Agreements...........................471
Sea scallop.......................................................577
South Atlantic................................484, 493, 497, 516, 546
Spiny dogfish.....................................................507
Western Pacific.....................463, 486, 489, 490, 501, 569, 572
Fishing:
Bycatch reduction measures........................................602
Catch limits............................................520, 575, 576
Coastal Zone Management Act..................................534, 536
Compensatory fishing.........................................512, 522
Conservation programs....447, 471, 472, 476, 501, 505, 510, 511, 518,
550, 569, 573, 574, 616
Data collection program...........................................597
Gillnets..........................................................464
Glacier Bay National Park........................................1537
North Pacific Loan Program........................................608
Permit requirements and exemptions.................471, 476, 478, 589
Quotas.......................................................514, 614
Anchovy.........................................................560
Clarification...................................................638
Halibut.........................................................500
Individual fishing quota definition.............................617
Sablefish.......................................................500
Quotas and harvest guidelines......................470, 642, 644, 670
Landing notices.................................................467
Shenandoah National Park.........................................1547
Snake River chinook salmon........................................623
Sport fishing:
Catch sharing plan.........................................663, 664
Sport Fish Restoration Program.................................1388
Tournaments.....................................................515
Subsistence management regulations.........................1411, 1432
Fishing vessels:
Charter boats.....................................................611
Compensatory fishing.........................................512, 522
Days at sea.......................................................466
Foreign vessels...................................................471
Framework adjustment..............................................557
Gear preemption issues.......................................481, 650
High Seas Fishing Compliance Act..................................462
Inshore/offshore reallocation.....................................609
Licenses..........................................................613
Limited entry permits...................................471, 478, 548
Longline vessels........................................451, 456, 662
Observer policy................456, 459, 524, 552, 612, 618, 651, 654
Ownership requirements............................................488
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements..........................564
Safety equipment and operating procedures...................552, 2120
Scallop vessels...................................................577
Shrimp vessel registration........................................626
Standard definitions..............................................598
Transfer, replacement, and upgrade................................509
Trawl mesh size..............................................563, 607
Trawlers..........................................................542
Tuna vessels......................................................579
Vessel monitoring system pilot program............................517
Flammable materials:
Combustible and flammable liquids................................1997
Exemption from regulated substance list..........................3481
Flammability standards.....................................4064, 4073
Pesticide foggers................................................3413
Upholstered furniture............................................4068
Flaxseeds:
See Oilseeds
Flood control:
Flood Risk Reduction Program.......................................81
Impoundment regulations..........................................1952
Flood insurance:
Assistance to private sector property insurers...................3639
Contracts........................................................3618
Deductible.......................................................3641
Flood plain certificate..........................................1323
Group Flood Insurance Policy.....................................3617
HUD programs...............................................1272, 1294
National Flood Insurance Act of 1994..............................141
Waiting period...................................................3640
Zone AR designation..............................................3632
Flood plains:
Administrative appeals process....................................800
Conservation program...............................................41
Management.......................................................3632
Wetlands.........................................................1271
Conservation program.............................................41
Privately owned................................................2301
Wetlands Reserve Program.........................................44
Floods:
See Disaster assistance
Follow Through Program:
See Education of disadvantaged
Food additives:
See also Color additives
Cured pork products..........................................284, 295
Flavoring agents:
Volatile fruit flavored concentrates...........................2627
Regulatory reinvention...........................................1010
Sorbitol in cooked roast beef products............................290
Food assistance programs:
See also Food stamps
School breakfast and lunch programs
Child and adult care..........................181, 190, 209, 228, 241
Day care home reimbursement.....................................244
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act....................................................219, 244
Commodity Supplemental Food Program..........................240, 247
DOD surplus food distribution....................................3039
Emergency disaster assistance.....................................238
Farm Bill implementation..........................................179
Food delivery systems.............................................178
Fraud deterrence..................................................229
Funding formula...................................................207
Halibut Donation Program..........................................480
Indian reservations.....................................208, 212, 215
National School Lunch Program...........................193, 210, 233
Older individuals................................................1260
Paperwork reduction..........................................206, 239
State Technical Committees........................................386
Summer Food Service Program..................................185, 217
TEFAP.............................................................203
Vegetable protein products........................................227
Women, infants, and children.......................221, 222, 223, 225
Cultural food preferences.......................................232
Disqualification of vendors.....................................204
Eligibility.....................................................231
Food delivery systems...........................................178
Food packaging..................................................230
Infant formula..................................................242
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act.........................................................218
Food ingredients:
See Food additives
Food labeling:
Eggs..............................................................285
Fruit and vegetable juices........................................946
Health claims................................................272, 298
Meat and poultry...................................271, 272, 282, 283
Medical foods....................................................1006
Ovine carcasses...................................................261
Poultry...........................................................297
Review of regulations............................................1005
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Food stamps:
Balanced Budget Act provisions....................................220
Claims establishment and collection...............................182
Computer matching.................................................180
Disqualifiers and noncompliance penalties.........................196
Electronic benefit transfer systems..........................194, 199
Electronic benefits transfer system...............................236
Eligibility provisions............................................197
Alignment with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..........198
Income standards................................................234
Emergency disaster assistance.....................................238
Employment and training programs..................................220
Employment and training requirements..............................200
Failure to comply with Federal, State, or local work program......196
Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act.........................216
Minimum and maximum allotments..........................197, 245, 246
Monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting.....................213
Noncitizen eligibility............................................234
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
196, 197, 198, 200, 234, 1926
Program revisions and eliminations................................202
Quality control..............................................211, 216
Regulatory review............................................189, 192
Reporting provisions..............................................213
Retail food stores................................................183
Retailer application processing...................................184
Retailer delinquent debt collection...............................187
Retailer integrity, fraud reduction, and penalties................201
State agencies administrative and management requirements...189, 192,
194, 234
State agencies reimbursement......................................214
Wholesale food concerns...........................................183
Foods:
See also specific foods
Cereals (food)
Dairy products
Fish
Food additives
Food assistance programs
Food labeling
Frozen foods
Fruits
Meat and meat products
Nutrition
Poultry and poultry products
Seafood
Sugar
Vegetables
Fruit and vegetable juices........................................946
HACCP programs....................................................946
Infant formula quality control...................................1004
Organic.............................................................1
Pesticide residues.........................................3415, 3420
Regulatory reinvention...........................................1010
Transportation in vehicles used for nonfood products.............2544
Foreign air carriers:
See Air carriers
Foreign banking:
FDIC rules and regulations.......................................4228
Income taxation..................................................2879
Foreign currencies:
Acquisition regulations..........................................2590
Foreign exchange:
See Currency
Foreign currencies
Foreign investments in U.S.:
Bureau of Economic Analysis benchmark survey......................396
Income taxation............................................2722, 2898
Reporting requirements for BE-13/BE-14............................394
Reporting requirements for BE-15..................................393
Reporting requirements for BE-605.................................398
Foreign officials:
Employment.......................................................1765
Foreign persons:
See Aliens
Foreign relations:
See also specific countries
Citizenship and naturalization
Cultural exchange programs
Foreign trade
Immigration
International boundaries
Passports and visas
Treaties
BXA policy controls...............................................438
Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2688
Fishery regulations..........................................471, 523
Foreign-based commercial vehicles................................2656
International wills registry.....................................2042
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).....3443
Streamlining legislation implementation..........................2037
USML revisions...................................................2036
Foreign trade:
See also Competitiveness
Customs duties and inspection
Exports
Imports
Maritime carriers
Trade adjustment assistance
Trade agreements
Antidumping duties................................................414
Boycott provisions................................................431
Business and professional services survey.........................397
Canada:
Softwood lumber................................................2671
Countervailing duties.............................................414
Earnings and profits.............................................2875
Entry procedures.................................................2690
Federal employee foreign rights in inventions.....................685
Filing of informational materials................................1864
Foreign Trade Statistical Regulations changes...........399, 400, 401
Foreign trade zones...............................................417
Maritime Security Program..........................................93
Motor vehicles...................................................3255
Payments for intangible rights....................................395
Port restrictions:
Japanese vessels...............................................4260
Textile labeling.................................................4297
Trade zones......................................................2690
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement.................................1847
Forests and forest products:
See also National forests
Assistance to timber-dependent communities........................376
Environmental analysis policy and procedure revisions.............317
Indian allotments.................................................324
Management planning...............................................310
Mineral fractions, sale...........................................309
Softwood lumber from Canada......................................2671
Stewardship Incentive Program.....................................326
Sustained yield forest units:
Removal of regulations.........................................1687
Timber sales......................................................330
Cancellation....................................................325
Contracts.............................................315, 316, 336
Export controls.................................................421
Noncompetitive sale.............................................322
Substitution of sales area......................................337
Surety bond form revision.......................................335
Surplus species.................................................311
Forfeitures:
See Seizures and forfeitures
Foster care:
See Adoption and foster care
Fraud:
Civil remedies...................................................4208
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Debarment of health care providers...............................3846
Fraudulent commercial driver's licenses..........................2307
Government procurement employment prohibitions....................760
Health care fraud and abuse......................................1037
Microcap securities market.......................................4487
OASDI............................................................3936
Odometer fraud...................................................2440
OIG...............................................................924
Payments for information.........................................1088
Title I property insurance.......................................1295
Toll fraud.......................................................4139
Freedom of information:
See also Confidential business information
Amendments.......................................................4349
Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3471
Corporation for National and Community Service...................3144
Credit union disclosure requirements.............................4333
Department of Energy..............................................881
Department of Justice............................................1868
Department of Labor..............................................1885
Department of the Army............................................798
Department of the Interior.......................................1374
DOD...............................................................718
EEOC records.....................................................3609
Electronic communication..................718, 1885, 3952, 4230, 4242
Electronic Freedom of Information Act...1266, 2058, 3609, 3629, 3730,
3762, 3863, 3912
FDIC rules.......................................................4294
Federal home loan banks..........................................4252
FEMA.............................................................3629
General Services Administration..................................3685
Internal Revenue Service.........................................2771
Mineral resources................................................1678
NARA organizational and procedural changes.................3699, 3702
NCUA.............................................................4327
NRC electronic reporting.........................................4411
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...................3738
Office of Personnel Management...................................3767
OGE electronic amendments........................................3744
OPIC electronic amendments.......................................3863
Public information...............................................4388
Railroad Retirement Board........................................3893
Regulations revision.............................................1374
Sex offender registration programs...............................1867
Social Security Administration...................................3983
Subpoenas and other litigation material..........................3685
Tax-exempt organization information..............................2805
Veterans Affairs.................................................3037
Freight:
See also Hazardous materials transportation
Air carrier baggage liability limit..............................2054
Ocean............................................................3130
Passenger aircraft cargo:
Oxygen generators..............................................2187
Protection against shifting and falling cargo....................2265
Frozen foods:
Country of origin marking........................................2665
Fruits:
See also specific fruits
Common Crop Insurance.............................................170
Electronic data transmission.......................................10
Grain-fruit products..............................................226
Import restrictions.....................................104, 108, 114
Inspection fees.................................................3, 12
Fuel:
See Energy
Fuel additives:
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................3390
Fuel economy:
Calculations.....................................................2427
Corporate Average Fuel Economy credits...........................2414
Fuel economy credits.............................................2369
Light trucks.....................................................2416
Light trucks and light duty vehicles.............................3256
Reporting requirements...........................................2442
Standards for model years........................................2416
Furs:
Labeling.........................................................4311
G
Gambling:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.....................................4334
NIGC definitions.................................................4342
NIGC hearings and appeals..................................4339, 4340
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......................................1679
Gasohol:
Motor vehicle use.................................................860
Gasoline:
See also Fuel economy
Gasohol
Additives........................................................3390
Diesel fuel tax..................................................2953
Diesel refineries................................................3381
Reformulated.....................................................3396
Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) food ingredients:
See Food additives
Geothermal energy:
Leasing requirements.............................................1680
Regulation simplification........................................1660
Gifts to Government:
See Government property
Goats:
Interstate movement...............................................112
Government buildings:
See Federal buildings and facilities
Government contracts:
See also Government procurement
Affirmative action.........................................1890, 1907
Agency for International Development.............................3126
Alternate dispute resolution.....................................4017
Audits...........................................................1982
Bid protest regulations..........................................4044
Bundled contracts................................................3913
Buy American Act.................................................1377
Civil defense costs..............................................4026
Clauses and solicitation provisions...............................916
Commercial bills of lading.......................................4041
Commercial contract quality requirements.........................4012
Commodity Credit Corporation storage contracts.....................43
Competition exception for international agreements................781
Construction.....................................739, 768, 1890, 1892
Construction contracts...........................................3694
Contract financing payments.......................................755
Contract reform...................................................901
Contracting action reporting......................................793
Contractors:
Applicants and employees with disabilities.....................1907
Compensation costs for senior executives.......................4024
Compensation for certain personnel..............................783
Contractor insurance/pension review.............................758
DOD placement assistance program................................704
DOE contract security personnel.................................878
DOE employee protection program.................................892
DOE employee security clearance.................................913
DOE nuclear activities..........................................887
Employee Reprisal Complaint and Investigation Files.............899
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Government property management and disposition.................4011
Legal services.................................................1348
Performance.....................................................789
Project management..............................................902
Qualifications.................................................3029
Quality assurance..............................................4039
Restructuring costs reimbursement..........................782, 784
Sale of surplus inventory.......................................766
Training........................................................750
Travel reimbursement...........................................4019
Use of nonimmigrant aliens......................................773
Veterans employment report......................................742
Waivers........................................................1902
Cost accounting changes....................................4048, 4049
Cost allowability criteria........................................912
Cost or pricing data.............................................3168
Cost principles...................................................788
Cost reimbursement rules..........................................722
DD Form 2631 Performance Evaluation revision......................770
DEAR amendments...................................................900
Debarment and suspension.........................................3158
Defense contracts:
Firms not eligible..............................................743
Defense Special Weapons Agency...................................4042
Deliberate misconduct actions....................................4406
Demilitarization requirements.....................................748
Dispute resolution................................................753
FAA procedures.................................................2184
Distribution to DFAS Accounting offices...........................778
DOD certificate of request for equitable adjustment...............728
DOD certification requirements....................................729
DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and
institutions..................................................703
DOE nuclear weapons facilities worker training....................894
Economically distressed communities...............................392
Electronic signature on receiving reports.........................785
Empowerment contracting..........................................4009
EPA acquisition regulations................................3158, 3168
EPA Mentor-Protege Program.......................................3153
Equitable adjustments............................................3694
Farm Service Agency................................................45
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act........................723, 1893
Fees and incentives...............................................901
Finance rules.....................................................720
Fixed price.......................................................747
Fixed-price contracts............................................4021
Fraud.............................................................760
Indians.........................................744, 1557, 1603, 1620
Inspection service contractors....................................175
ITMRA implementations............................................4040
Labor standards..................................................1892
Lobbying restrictions............................389, 788, 2067, 3690
Military construction contracts:
Foreign countries...............................................739
Modular contracting..............................................4036
Multiyear contracting........................................723, 779
NAFTA threshold...................................................738
NARA supplements.................................................3707
NASA policies....................................................3693
NATO entities.....................................................765
Nondiscrimination................................................1890
Nondisplacement of qualified workers.............................4013
Nuclear safety management.........................................889
Overseas architect-engineer services..............................737
Penalty payments.................................................3157
Petroleum sales...................................................888
Pilot Mentor-Protege Program......................................746
Price adjustments to shipbuilding contracts.......................803
Profit/fee determinations........................................3167
Progress payments................................................4015
Quality assurance requirements elimination.......................4025
Research and development..............................725, 1054, 4031
Rights to inventions..............................................684
Shipbuilding capability preservation agreements...................805
Short form research contracts.....................................772
Site of work wages...............................................1899
Small businesses.................................................4047
Small package shipments..........................................4041
Spain.............................................................768
Subcontracting...............................................720, 775
Nonprofit agencies for the blind or severely disabled...........745
Outside the United States.......................................736
Subcontractors.............................................4008, 4014
Substance abuse...................................................911
Taxes associated with divested segments..........................4016
Taxpayer identification numbers............................2601, 3630
Technical amendments..............................................908
Ten-year-term contracts reporting requirements....................735
Test contract format..............................................794
Uncompensated overtime............................................741
Very small business program......................................3925
Weapons systems...................................................796
Government employees:
See also Conflict of interests
Military personnel
Political activities (Government employees)
Absence and leave:
Annual leave.............................................3810, 3825
Administrative law judges........................................3836
Appeals..........................................................3842
Availability of official information.............................3767
Benefits for DC employees........................................3830
Career and career conditional employment.........................3771
Child care at VA facilities......................................3095
Claims settlement................................................3847
Clarification of staffing provisions.............................3774
Classification appeals...........................................3841
Compensatory time off............................................3817
Contractors:
Fees for background investigations.............................4385
Corporation for National Service:
Noncompetitive appointments....................................3838
Cost-of-living allowances........................................3826
Extension of eligibility.......................................3858
Criminal investigators...........................................3824
Debt collection..................................................3837
Defense personnel...........................................704, 3807
Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program.....................3787
Dual appointments................................................3862
Emergency leave transfer program.................................3827
Employment discrimination............................3606, 3611, 4178
Excepted service:
Appointment of noncitizens.....................................3768
Operational procedures.........................................3770
Excepted service authorities.....................................3848
Expense reimbursement............................................3681
Federal Competitive Service appointments of volunteers...........3772
Federal Employees' Compensation Act........................1904, 1906
Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program....................3786
FEHBP contract performance.......................................3800
Fellowships and similar appointments.............................3848
Financial disclosure requirements................................3749
Foreign rights in inventions......................................685
Gift acceptance authority of OGE.................................3743
Health and counseling program....................................3788
Health and counseling programs...................................3860
Health benefits............................................3800, 3810
Debarment of health care providers.............................3846
Enrollment.....................................................3834
FEHBP changes..................................................3833
Hospital insurance benefits....................................1111
Holiday and premium pay..........................................3817
Insurance:
Dual appointments..............................................3862
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Interagency placement program....................................3839
Intermittent.....................................................3775
Investigations...................................................3845
Job grading reviews..............................................3842
Life insurance...................................................3799
Merit promotion and internal placement.....................3773, 3808
Mileage allowance................................................3680
Minimum salary requirements......................................3835
NARA recordkeeping requirements..................................3698
Nondiscrimination in USDA-conducted programs and activities.......345
NSF lobbying restrictions........................................3735
Occupational radiation protection.................................891
Organizations representing employees.............................3849
Part-time........................................................3775
Pay administration...................................3780, 3824, 3856
Pay rates........................................................3852
Administration.................................................3784
Appropriated fund wage areas.......................3819, 3822, 3855
Federal Wage System (FWS) survey jobs..........................3781
Non-appropriated fund wage areas...................3815, 3816, 3853
Nonappropriated fund wage area changes.........................3818
Nonappropriated fund wage areas..........................3820, 3854
Official duty station determinations...........................3814
Printing positions.............................................3821
Superior qualifications appointments...........................3779
Performance appraisal..........................3613, 3778, 3851, 3860
Performance Management and Recognition System....................3840
Personnel records................................................3769
Promotion and internal placement.................................3805
Re-employment....................................................3802
Reduction in force.............................3809, 3810, 3811, 3851
Reduction in force service credit................................3776
Relocation costs.....................................3682, 3785, 3814
Restoration to duty..............................................3812
Retention records................................................3776
Retention service credit.........................................3851
Retirement.................................................3777, 3810
Bar of benefits after conviction...............................3794
Court orders awarding survivor annuities.......................3797
Coverage for non-appropriated fund instrumentalities...........3828
Credit for military service..............................3790, 3793
D.C. Financial Control Board employees.........................3831
Debt collection................................................3796
Dependants.....................................................3861
Determinations of marital status for survivor annuities........3791
Disability.....................................................3829
Divorced spouses...............................................3793
Dual appointments..............................................3862
FERS basic annuity.............................................3832
FERS coverage elections........................................3798
Health care professionals......................................3789
Service credit.................................................3792
State income tax withholding...................................3795
Salary offset for claims collection........................3704, 3783
Child support, alimony, commercial garnishments................3857
Salary offset for debt collection................................2602
Salary supplementation...........................................3753
Seasonal.........................................................3775
Security standards...............................................3844
Selective Service registration...................................3850
Senior Executive Service:
Last move home benefit.........................................3668
Moratorium on involuntary reassignments........................3806
Severance pay....................................................3782
Standards of conduct......346, 391, 695, 919, 1379, 3719, 3725, 3727,
3728, 3747, 3751, 3752, 3870, 3873, 3921, 3932
Student Educational Employment Program...........................3801
Subpoenas........................................................3746
Substance abuse..............................................715, 879
Suitability standards............................................3843
Temporary change of station......................................3814
Temporary employees..............................................3804
Testimony..................................................3703, 3746
Time-in-grade restrictions.......................................3803
Training.........................................................3813
Training programs................................................3628
Travel regulations.................3665, 3667, 3668, 3671, 3679, 3680
Vacant positions.................................................3811
Voluntary separation incentive repayment waivers.................3823
Government procurement:
See also Government contracts
Acquisition regulations...............392, 723, 750, 2030, 3645, 4357
AID amendments.................................................3131
Commercial items...............................................3070
Commercially available off-the-shelf items.....................4004
Data Universal Numbering System................................4033
Defense Department................724, 725, 726, 727, 752, 790, 791
Department of Energy............................................906
Earned Value Management Systems.................................724
Foreign acquisitions...........................................4005
HUD............................................................1349
Justice Department.............................................1873
NASA...........................................................3695
Panama Canal Commission........................................3864
Purchase cards and electronic data interchange.................3026
Quality of environmental data..................................3155
Real property policies.........................................3654
Simplification.................................................4030
USAID..........................................................3126
Value engineering..............................................3156
Veterans Affairs.....3027, 3028, 3030, 3031, 3072, 3073, 3074, 3118
Affirmative action...................................4010, 4022, 4046
Affirmative action reform.........................................786
Architect-engineer services.......................................731
Ball and roller bearings..........................................769
Bid protest regulations..........................................4044
Brand name purchase descriptions.................................4023
Buy American Act............................................730, 1377
Buy Indian Act...................................................1044
Caribbean Basin country end products.............................4052
Central Contractor Registration...................................752
Certificate of Competency........................................4038
Civil defense costs..............................................4026
Commercial bills of lading.......................................4041
Commercial items acquisition.................................749, 751
Concepts and processes:
Substantive revisions..........................................4029
Contingent fees...................................................727
Contractors:
Compensation for certain personnel..............................910
Data Universal Numbering System................................4033
Liquidated damages payments..............................3998, 4007
Overhead settlement............................................4027
Quality assurance..............................................4039
Travel reimbursement...........................................4019
Women- and minority-owned businesses...........................4217
Contracts:
Administration and audit cognizance............................4032
Clauses and solicitation provisions.............................916
Final indirect cost rates......................................4032
Forward pricing and billing rates..............................4032
Incrementally funding fixed price contracts....................3154
Modification of existing contracts.............................4006
NASA contracts.................................................3692
NFS contracts.........................................315, 316, 325
Novation and change-of-name agreements.........................4028
Payments.................................................3645, 4002
Cooperative purchasing...........................................3678
Cost accounting changes....................................4048, 4049
Cost comparison guidance..........................................688
Costs:
Cost principles.................................................721
Employee compensation costs....................................4035
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Pension costs..................................................3997
Travel.........................................................4001
Data universal numbering system numbers...........................795
DD Form 1155 modifications........................................754
Deliberate misconduct actions....................................4406
Demilitarization requirements.....................................748
Department of Labor..............................................1983
DOE certification requirements....................................914
DOI foreign acquisitions.........................................1383
Domestic source restrictions......................................767
Electronic commerce facilitation.................................4030
Electronic funds transfers.......................................4002
Environmentally preferable products........................3466, 4034
Fixed-price contracts............................................4021
Foreign currency use.............................................2590
Foreign source restrictions.......................................790
Fuel..............................................................706
GSA regulations................................3645, 3653, 3654, 3666
Helium contracts.................................................1683
Industrial plant equipment........................................771
Information technology products...................................730
Integrity requirements...........................................4051
ITMRA implementations............................................4040
Limitations on service contracts that cross fiscal years..........774
Lobbying restrictions............................................3999
Mapping services..................................................797
Micro-purchase procedures.........................................776
Military acquisitions.............................................702
NAFTA threshold...................................................738
NASA award fee coverage..........................................3691
Office copying machines..........................................3664
Part 15 rewrite...................................................756
Part 213 rewrite..................................................762
Part 30 deviations..........................................757, 4020
Prompt payment...................................................3755
Protests.........................................................3647
Quality assurance requirements elimination.......................4025
Recovered material certification..................................740
Recycled products................................................3494
Research and development.....................................734, 761
Shipments in electronic data interchange transactions............4018
Single process initiative.........................................759
Small business subcontracting....................................4000
Small businesses......................................705, 3692, 4010
Small package shipments..........................................4041
Small, minority, and women's business utilization................3149
Specialty metals..................................................732
State Department regulations.....................................2030
Streamlining legislation implementation....................3678, 4001
Subcontracting...................................................3758
Synthetic fabrics.................................................791
Taxpayer identification numbers............................2601, 3630
Telecommunications................................................733
Television-audio support activity.................................787
Ten-day payment clause...........................................3657
Test contract format..............................................794
Transfer of assets following business combination................4037
Uniform Procurement Instrument Identification numbers.............777
Voluntary standards..............................................3766
Waiver authority to humanitarian or peacekeeping operations.......780
Weighted guidelines...............................................761
Government property:
See also Federal buildings and facilities
Government property management
Computer technology equipment:
Exchange/sale and disposal of excess...........................3669
Disposal condition codes.........................................3658
Disposals of surplus real property for public safety purposes
3652
DoD contractors in possession of..................................764
Donation of surplus personal property............................3676
Motor vehicles...................................................3656
Office copying machines..........................................3664
Telephone systems................................................3655
Government property management:
Federal facilities in urban areas................................3677
ITMRA telecommunications services.................................733
Real property........................................3646, 3660, 3661
Space and related services:
Alterations..............................................3648, 3659
Assignment.....................................................3648
Rents and leases.........................................3649, 3650
Utilization....................................................3648
Utilization and disposal of personal property..............3675, 3683
Government publications:
Nonprofit organizations..........................................3760
Prohibitions against reproduction.................................923
Grains:
See also specific grains
Feed grains
Crop insurance...............................................150, 151
Divider tolerances................................................176
Grain-fruit products..............................................226
Reinspection or appeal inspection for grade.......................174
Weighing services.................................................173
Grant programs:
Absent parent access and visitation..............................1248
Block grants:
Child care and development.....................................1249
Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages......................1370
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families............1231, 1250, 1926
Community Food Project............................................124
Department of the Interior.......................................1378
Energy research...................................................895
Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus requirements...................1251
Library services.................................................3714
Microloans for Welfare-to-Work participants......................3910
National Dam Safety Program......................................3622
Performance Partnership Grants.............................3150, 3151
Research grants..................................................1054
Rights to inventions..............................................684
Single Audit Act Amendments........133, 341, 412, 697, 833, 907, 934,
1281, 1382, 1884, 1985, 2051, 2077, 3129, 3146, 3164, 3627,
3686, 3710, 3715, 3722, 3729, 3736, 3763, 3996
Small Business Innovation Research Program administrative
provisions....................................................125
State cemetery grants............................................3034
Welfare-to-Work Grants Program...................................1926
1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program.................129
Grant programs-agriculture:
Administrative provisions and requirements.........122, 124, 342, 347
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program
administrative provisions.....................................126
Community facility grants.........................................376
Lobbying restrictions.............................................389
Rural economic development........................................349
Technical assistance and training...................33, 353, 354, 379
Water and waste disposal programs.................................380
Grant programs-economic development:
Excess capacity...................................................407
Grant programs-education:
Acquisition and transfer of excess personal property..............344
Administrative regulations........................................831
Community Development Work-Study Program.........................1353
DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................709
Evaluation of recipients, grantees and contractors................834
FmHA programs......................................................33
Grants for Residency Training and Advanced Education in the
General Practice of Dentistry program........................1043
Head Start Program funding.......................................1229
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program.........................128
Hispanic programs.................................................123
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Indian colleges..................................................1562
Indian grant policies and procedures.............................1561
Multicultural Scholars Program....................................127
National Leadership Demonstration Grants.........................3714
National Security Education Program...............................693
Projects with industry............................................846
Student Assistance General Provisions technical changes...........840
Grant programs-environmental protection:
Environmental management program..................................896
EPA technical assistance grants..................................3528
Flood mitigation assistance programs.............................3618
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program..................................3633
Solid waste management grants.....................................378
Grant programs-health:
AOA rules revisions..............................................1260
Substance abuse block grants......................................935
Grant programs-housing and community development:
Community development block grants...............................1337
CDBG sanctions.................................................1328
Community revitalization strategy..............................1327
Program income.................................................1330
Streamlining...................................................1326
Community Development Work-Study Program.........................1353
Consolidated Plan................................................1283
Emergency Shelter Grants Program.................................1333
Homeless Assistance Fund.........................................1336
HUD-owned multifamily properties.................................1301
State homes for veterans.........................................3099
Grant programs-Indians:
BIA regulations revision.........................................1550
Construction of jails............................................1880
Education grant policies and procedures..........................1561
Grant programs-law:
Confidentiality of information...................................1881
Criminal justice block grants....................................1882
Grant programs-national defense:
Administrative provisions and requirements........................694
Grant programs-natural resources:
Carey Act grants.................................................1676
Marine mammal protection:
Rescission of administrative procedures........................1390
National Undersea Research Program................................634
Railroad grants..................................................1651
State grants.....................................................1695
Wildlife Restoration Programs....................................1484
Grant programs-science and technology:
NCI construction grants..........................................1056
Grant programs-transportation:
Approval process.................................................2321
Buy American Act.................................................2370
Debarment and suspension requirements for drug-free workplace
grants.......................................................2091
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2318
Uniform administrative requirements..............................2071
Grants administration:
Audit requirements...............................................1982
Lobbying restrictions......................................2067, 3690
Social Security Administration.................3931, 3975, 3976, 3977
Uniform administrative requirements.......411, 2071, 3127, 3689, 3976
Grants programs:
Block grants:
Community development..........................................1337
Grazing lands:
Alaska grazing administration....................................1684
Alaska reindeer..................................................1685
Classifications..................................................1648
Indian land......................................................1571
National Forest System............................................324
Guaranteed loans:
See Loan programs
Guarantees:
See Warranties
Guns:
See Arms and munitions
H
Handicapped:
See Individuals with disabilities
Harbors:
Handling and transfer of oil or hazardous liquids................2116
Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2102
Maintenance fees.................................................2682
Hatch Act:
See Political activities (Government employees)
Hawaiian Natives:
Grants for services provided to older individuals................1260
Hazardous materials transportation:
See also Pipeline safety
Aircraft carriage................................................2507
Cargo tank requirements....................................2521, 2522
Coast Guard regulations....................................2104, 2146
Driving/parking rules............................................2333
Editorial correction and clarification...........................2556
Hazardous Waste Manifest rule....................................3493
Home heating oil delivery........................................2335
Intergovernmental relations......................................2547
Liquefied compressed gas.........................................2522
Liquified compressed gas.........................................2554
Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries....................3496
Miscellaneous amendments...................................2526, 2534
Motor carrier safety ratings.....................................2329
Motor carriers.................................2277, 2278, 2313, 2528
Oxidizers and organic peroxides..................................2549
Pipeline safety standards........................................2520
Poisonous materials labeling.....................................2517
Preemption determination.........................................2314
Rail transport...................................................2528
Registration and fee assessment program..........................2527
Shipping papers retention........................................2546
Stationary source definition.....................................3481
Tank cars........................................................2532
Tankerman requirements and qualifications........................2116
Train responders.................................................2527
Hazardous substances:
See also Explosives
Flammable materials
Hazardous materials transportation
Hazardous waste
Poison prevention
Radioactive materials
Air pollutants........1996, 3184, 3185, 3201, 3229, 3230, 3231, 3232,
3233, 3234, 3235, 3236, 3237, 3238, 3240, 3241, 3243, 3244,
3248, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3263, 3281, 3288, 3289, 3290, 3291,
3292, 3293, 3294, 3295, 3296, 3297, 3299, 3300, 3307, 3313,
3317, 3319, 3320, 3321, 3322, 3323, 3324, 3327, 3328, 3329,
3330, 3343, 3344, 3345, 3346, 3348, 3349, 3350, 3351, 3352,
3353, 3354, 3355, 3356, 3358, 3359, 3360, 3361, 3362, 3363,
3364, 3365, 3366, 3368, 3371, 3372, 3373, 3374, 3375, 3376,
3378, 3387, 3393, 3394, 3395, 3452, 4297
Aluminum cylinders safety problems...............................2511
Asbestos.............................................3434, 3435, 3436
Beryllium.........................................................885
Caprolactam......................................................3529
Carbon monoxide............................................3309, 3383
Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3160
Chemical test rules..................................3451, 3452, 3462
Chemicals....................1988, 3446, 3470, 3474, 3475, 3476, 3480
Import of toxic chemicals......................................2675
Child-resistant packaging........................................4072
Chromium...................................................2015, 3353
Crystalline silica.........................................1962, 2024
Drinking water regulations.......................................3592
Editorial correction and clarification...........................2556
Energy sources...................................................1986
Environmentally preferable products guidelines...................3466
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Ethylene oxide...................................................1987
Exposure limits for air contaminants.............................1996
Extremely Hazardous Substances List............3472, 3478, 3479, 3510
Federally permitted releases.....................................3530
Flammable and combustible liquids................................1999
Formaldehyde.....................................................3463
High-pressure seamless cylinders.................................2508
International standards..........................................2525
Isocyanates..........................................3273, 3472, 3479
Lead.............1280, 3234, 3432, 3438, 3440, 3442, 3450, 3456, 3594
Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries....................3496
Metals...........................................................3433
Metalworking fluids..............................................2019
Method 24 amendment..............................................3189
Microorganisms...................................................3449
MSHA protection standards........................................1964
Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3161
Nitrogen oxides............................................3254, 3383
Occupational safety and health programs..........................1994
Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2086
Ozone and ozone precursors.................................3201, 3308
Ozone depleting substances.......................................3278
Pesticides...............................3406, 3408, 3412, 3417, 3445
Aircraft disinsection notification.............................2090
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations..........................3159
Exportation....................................................3430
Field testing..................................................3407
Labeling program.........................................3421, 3425
Produced by transgenic plants..................................3416
Self-certification.............................................3426
Worker protection standards........................3414, 3427, 3428
Pipeline safety operations.......................................2535
Pipeline safety standards...2515, 2516, 2518, 2519, 2530, 2543, 2545,
2552, 2553
Polychlorinated biphenyls............................3453, 3454, 3469
Propane and other liquified compressed gases.....................2554
Propane cylinders:
Requirements for filing equipment operators....................2548
Radionuclides........................................3386, 3533, 3587
Radon................................................3271, 3298, 3531
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................3461
Saccharin........................................................3512
Sulfur oxides....................................................3287
Surface coatings.................................................3189
Toxic Release Inventory:
Chemicals..............................3470, 3473, 3474, 3475, 3480
Toxicological profiles:
Metals.........................................................3433
Underground storage tanks..................................3487, 3521
Water pollution control..............................3545, 3546, 3560
Hazardous waste:
Carbamates.......................................................3526
Cathode ray tubes................................................3489
Cement kiln dust.................................................3495
Cleanups...................................................3506, 3528
Dioxin/furan contaminated sludge.................................3464
Disposal facilities:
Combustion facilities..........................................3504
Radioactive waste..................................3272, 3403, 4384
Effluent limitation guidelines...................................3540
Geologic repositories............................................4387
Groundwater contamination..................................3363, 3590
Identification and listing...............3506, 3511, 3514, 3515, 3518
Land disposal:
Post-closure requirements......................................3498
Restrictions.................................3484, 3486, 3505, 3513
Lead.............................................................3441
Manifest regulation..............................................3493
Medical waste....................................................2524
Mercury..........................................................3484
Mineral processing wastes........................................3505
Organobromines...................................................3499
Paint manufacturing..............................................3515
Permit program...................................................3491
Petroleum refining process.......................................3502
Polychlorinated biphenyls............................3454, 3469, 3497
Radioactive waste................................................4396
Dose methodology...............................................3217
Material dose limits and dose calculation methods..............4382
Recycling of scrap metals......................................3198
Site recommendation.............................................897
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant....................................3272
Waste management rules.........................................3187
Yucca Mountain, NV.............................................3193
Recycled used oil..........................................3497, 3514
Recycling..................................................3489, 3492
Saccharin........................................................3512
Silver-bearing waste.............................................3516
Solid waste......................................................3492
Solvents...................................................3488, 3500
Spent solvents...................................................3514
Technical standards for corrective action for cleanup............3507
Toxic waste site.................................................3446
Toxicity characteristic metals...................................3505
Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3519
Training programs accreditation..................................2012
Treatment and disposal:
Fluorescent lamps..............................................3503
Treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and generators.......3317
Triarylmethane dye and pigments..................................3501
Uncontrolled sites on the NPL....................................3527
Wood preserving wastes...........................................3505
Head Start Program:
See Education of disadvantaged
Health care:
See also Emergency medical services
Medicaid
Medicare
Advisory opinions of the OIG on State programs....................927
Anti-kickback provisions..........................................926
Cancer patients..................................................1051
CLIA fee schedules...............................................1165
Clinical laboratories regulation...........................1127, 1151
Fraud and abuse..................................................1037
Home and community-based services.................................930
Home health agencies........................................930, 1115
Medicare conditions of participation...........................1218
Human cellular and tissue-based products................958, 969, 970
Lather brushes....................................................995
National Practitioner Data Bank..................................1038
New and pending demonstration project proposals..................1194
Patient radiation exposures......................................4404
Patient rights...................................................3042
Prepayment plans.................................................1064
Reporting health care professionals to state licensing boards
3043
Revised OIG sanction authorities..................................921
Risk-sharing arrangements.........................................926
Rural services...................................................1065
Underserved areas................................................1036
Veterans.................................3028, 3040, 3082, 3097, 3100
Health facilities:
See also Hospitals
Nursing homes
Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).........................1085, 1086
Community mental health centers..................................1171
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)........................1091
Long-term care...................................................1155
Mammography Quality Standards Act................................1020
Physician referrals for health services..........................1069
Renal dialysis facilities........................................1066
Schedule of per-beneficiary limitations..........................1205
Skilled nursing facilities.......................................1202
Surety bond requirements.............................1183, 1203, 1207
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Health insurance:
See also Black lung benefits
Medicare
Access:
Employees of firms with less than 51 employees.................1125
Individual coverage after loss of group coverage...............1125
Pre-existing condition exclusions..............................1125
Accessibility....................................................2991
CHAMPUS:
Coverage of transplants.........................................813
Payment for ambulatory care.....................................811
Preventative services...........................................822
Programs........................................................814
State Victims of Crime Compensation Programs....................819
TRICARE Prime balance billing...................................821
TRICARE Retiree Dental Program..................................825
Voice prostheses................................................819
Waiver of collection of payments................................820
Child health insurance.....................................1188, 1189
COBRA continuation coverage......................................1120
Continuing coverage notice.......................................1931
Electronic signatures............................................1186
Electronic transactions standards for health plans...............1098
Employer based group health plans..........................1120, 1931
Employer identification number...................................1099
Exemption from State regulation..................................1929
Government employees.............................................3833
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.......1089, 1093,
1175, 1937, 1944
Administrative simplification..................................1223
Minimum requirements for group health plans....................1133
OIG penalties...................................................925
Health plan identifiers..........................................1089
HIPPA nondiscrimination rules....................................2764
Mental health benefits.....................................1132, 1190
Multiple employer welfare arrangements...........................1933
Nondiscrimination................................................2983
Portability..........................................1125, 1136, 2991
Provider identifiers.............................................1093
Renewability.....................................................2991
Retiree benefits.................................................1938
Retroactive enrollment...........................................1109
Security of individual health information........................1186
Small Business Job Protection Act:
Limitation of liability........................................1939
State Children's Health Insurance Program........................1097
Summary plan description regulations.............................1928
Third Party Collection Program...............................690, 698
Health insurance for aged:
See Medicare
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs):
Health care prepayment plans.....................................1064
Medicaid requirements............................................1156
Medicare contract eligibility....................................1142
Medicare penalties and sanctions.................................1214
Physician incentive plans.........................................928
Summary plan description regulations.............................1928
Third party liability............................................1071
Health professions:
Alien health care workers........................................1817
Audiologists.....................................................1076
CHAMPUS provider certification requirements.......................812
Cytology proficiency testing.....................................1119
Education:
Nursing and allied health science programs.....................1153
Grants for Residency Training and Advanced Education in the
General Practice of Dentistry program........................1043
National Practitioner Data Bank................1034, 1035, 1038, 1042
NIH traineeships.................................................1048
Nurse-midwives...................................................1092
Nurses:
Anesthetists...................................................1153
Nonimmigrant aliens............................................1797
Optometrists and ophthalmologists................................4306
Pathologists.....................................................1076
Penalties, sanctions and exclusions...............................924
Physician assistants.............................................1147
Physician ownership and referral arrangements.....................933
Physicians:
Civil money penalties...........................................933
Health services referrals......................................1069
Hearing evaluation performance..................................945
Home health certifications.....................................1216
Incentive plans.................................................928
Limits on charges of nonparticipating physicians...............1078
Medicare reimbursement.........................................1219
State registrations............................................1751
VA medical opinions rules......................................3091
Professional shortage areas......................................1036
Provider identifiers.............................................1093
Psychologists....................................................1154
Retirement provisions............................................3789
Health records:
Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1161
Health and Safety Data Model Reporting...........................3437
OPM recordkeeping requirements...................................3769
Prescription Release Rule........................................4306
Hearing and appeal procedures:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Heart disease:
CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................813
Congestive heart failure care management.........................1140
Helicopters:
See Aircraft
Heliports:
See Airports
Herbicides:
See Pesticides and pests
Higher education:
See Colleges and universities
Highway safety:
Accident reporting requirements..................................2279
Diabetic interstate truck drivers................................2306
Highway-rail grade crossings...............................2280, 2327
Motor carrier regulations...2264, 2276, 2278, 2281, 2296, 2299, 2323,
2330, 2331, 2446
Powered industrial truck operator training.......................2007
State programs.................................2321, 2371, 2372, 2465
Traffic control devices:
Pedestrian, bicycle and school warning signs...................2303
School areas...................................................2289
Work zone safety.................................................2291
Highways and roads:
See also Bridges
Highway safety
Motor carriers
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Alaskan transportation and utility systems.......................1701
Beautification costs.............................................2316
Construction on Indian lands.....................................1573
Emergency relief program disaster eligibility threshold..........2267
Environmental impact and related procedures....2301, 2319, 2434, 2504
Federal aid projects.................................2288, 2300, 2320
Funding..........................................................2298
Intelligent Transportation System................................2288
National Highway System..........................................2300
Railroad highway projects........................................2302
Right-of-way regulations.........................................2268
Snowmobile and snowplane routes..................................1542
Traffic surveillance and control...........................2297, 2332
Transborder traffic controls and fees............................1798
Historic preservation:
National parks...................................................1539
Paleontological resources........................................1664
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Regulatory revisions.............................................3125
Historical records:
See Archives and records
Holding companies:
Exemption for certain acquisitions...............................4458
Exemption for subsidiary companies.........................4459, 4467
Intermediate stock holding companies.............................3004
Mutual savings and loan holding companies........................3004
Homeless:
Food stamp program................................................197
Homeless Assistance Fund.........................................1336
Housing..........................................................1336
Single-Family Property Disposition Homeless Program..............1302
Women, infants, and children......................................218
Homesteads:
Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1668
Hospice care:
Medicare conditions of participation.............................1075
Medicare payments................................................1199
Wage index notice................................................1208
Hospitals:
See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
CHAMPUS payment for ambulatory care...............................811
Clinical diagnostic laboratory services..........................1101
Diagnostic procedures............................................1122
DOT grants.......................................................2071
Emergency medical care...........................................1102
Grants administration.......................................411, 3127
Length of hospital stay after birth of child...............1940, 2751
Medicaid payment.................................................1130
Medicare conditions of participation.............................1163
Medicare payment.................................................1123
Mortgages........................................................1312
Organ procurement and transplantation rules......................1039
Outpatient services........................................1122, 1212
Physician incentive plans prohibition.............................928
Preadmission services............................................1110
Psychiatric......................................................1157
Voluntary reduction in number of residents.......................1141
Hours of work:
See Wages
Household appliances:
Amplifiers.......................................................4307
Energy efficiency........................849, 850, 853, 854, 867, 875
Surface coating of large appliance products and parts............3352
Housing:
See also Condominiums
Fair housing
Homeless
Housing standards
Low and moderate income housing
Manufactured homes
Mortgage insurance
Mortgages
Public housing
Relocation assistance
CDBF funds documentation.........................................1332
Drug Elimination Program.........................................1287
Employment opportunities.........................................1345
Energy-efficiency rating guidelines...............................866
Environmental review procedures..................................1282
FEMA Disaster Housing Resources Program:
Dissolution of program.........................................3635
HOME Investment Partnerships Program.......................1275, 1326
Streamlining...................................................1284
Indians................................28, 32, 1341, 1361, 1367, 1582
Lead-based paint.....................................1280, 3441, 3456
Limited denial of participation in HUD programs..................1268
Loan Guarantee Program...........................................1329
Model Energy Code update.........................................1292
Multifamily......................................................1316
Multifamily Housing Reform Act program violations..............1269
Nondiscrimination based on disability..........................1279
Nondiscrimination................................................1265
OFHEO information regulation...............................3737, 3738
Rent regulations.................................................1261
Rental agreements................................................2780
Replacement housing:
Modernization factor...........................................1363
Rulemaking policies and procedures...............................1285
Rural:
Farm labor housing..............................................132
Lease write-offs................................................144
Loan policies..........................................23, 135, 143
Loans and grants.................................132, 134, 138, 140
Multiple-family housing.........................................132
Rental housing........................................132, 138, 146
Single-family....................................................1318
Property disposition...........................................1296
Site and neighborhood standards..................................1261
Streamlining regulations....................................132, 1369
Title I property insurance.................................1295, 1308
Turnkey III program..............................................1369
Housing assistance payments:
See Housing
Rent subsidies
Housing standards:
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards program.....1291,
1303
Material bulletins...............................................1307
Metal roofing interpretative bulletin............................1290
Occupancy........................................................1288
Physical inspection requirements.................................1263
Uniform physical condition standards.............................1263
Use of Materials Bulletins.......................................1315
Human research subjects:
In vitro fertilization...........................................1049
Protection of human subjects.....................826, 830, 1055, 3077
Student rights....................................................827
Veterans.........................................................3096
Humane treatment of animals:
See Animal welfare
Hunting:
Migratory birds................................1456, 1472, 1513, 1517
Pig frogs........................................................1545
Subsistence management regulations...............................1432
Hydroelectric power:
See Electric power
I
Immigration:
See also Aliens
Citizenship and naturalization
Adjudication processing..........................................1807
Administrative finality of decisions.............................1771
Application for benefits submitted with incorrect fees...........1787
Asylum procedures................................................1779
Carrier fines..............................................1801, 1838
Check points within the U.S......................................1822
Debt collection..................................................1831
Direct mail program..............................................1796
Discipline of attorneys in immigration proceedings...............1758
Examination fees schedule............................1788, 1809, 1860
External boundaries..............................................1859
Fee payment methods..............................................1844
Immigration and Nationality Technical Amendments Act of 1994
provisions...................................................1803
In-transit passengers............................................1769
INA revisions....................................................2046
Inadmissability..................................................1763
INS reorganization...............................................1833
Master Exhibits availability.....................................1839
Orders to show cause.............................................1858
Overtime liability for inspection services.......................1794
Petitions for employment based immigrants........................1795
Preinspected automated lanes (PAL)...............................1822
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Promises of benefits.............................................1811
Regulation changes regarding Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia,
Germany, and Vietnam.........................................1837
Requests for additional evidence.................................1855
Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................1834
Southern border crossing cards...................................1851
Sponsor obligations and penalties..........................1814, 2039
Subpoena service authority.......................................1835
Territorial waters...............................................1859
Transfers of transit without visa aliens.........................1770
Warrants of arrest...............................................1858
Immunization:
Vaccine information...............................................944
Impacted areas programs:
See Federally affected areas
Imports:
See also Antidumping
Countervailing duties
Customs duties and inspection
Trade adjustment assistance
Animal embryos and semen..........................................109
Animals and poultry...............................................115
Animals for slaughter.............................................269
APHIS user fees...............................................99, 110
Archaeological and ethnological material.........................2700
Arms and munitions...............................................2635
Blood products....................................................967
Chemicals............................................3448, 3459, 3460
Advance notice requirements....................................1754
Blanket certifications.........................................2675
Control of PMN chemicals.........................................3458
Controlled substances:
Personal medical use...........................................1752
Dairy product quotas.........................................299, 305
Duty-free entry...................................................726
Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2688
Export Reform and Enhancement Act.................................967
Film.............................................................2692
Fish..............................................................621
Forests and forest products.......................................102
Fruits and vegetables...................................104, 108, 114
Imitation goods:
Labeling.......................................................4305
Information disclosure to intellectual property rights owners
2694
Marine mammal products............................................529
Mexican pork......................................................113
Mexican poultry products..........................................277
Motor vehicles.............................................2467, 3310
Compliance with Federal safety standards.......................2466
Nonroad engines..................................................2681
Obscene or immoral matter........................................2692
Ozone-depleting substances.......................................3197
Parallel imports and other trademarked goods.....................2663
Plants and plant parts............................................119
Polar bear trophies..............................................1490
Recycled halons..................................................2980
Registration and product listing..................................964
Softwood lumber from Canada......................................2671
Sugar.............................................................302
Textiles.........................................................2650
Unapproved articles for processing and export....................1030
Veterinary user fees..............................................103
Wildlife.........................................................1412
Income taxes:
Accelerated death benefits.......................................2833
Accounting:
Change in method.........................................2791, 2792
Hybrid instruments.............................................2929
Mark-to-market method..........................................2877
Partnerships...................................................2713
Accuracy related penalty.........................................2807
Acquisitions.....................................................2705
Affiliated groups................................................2788
Alternative minimum tax..........................................2881
Annuities..................................................2886, 2962
Arbitrage restrictions...........................................2773
Asset ownership..................................................2889
Available unit rule..............................................2917
Backup withholding...............................................2731
Below-market loans...............................................2915
Bonds:
Accrued market discount........................................2942
Inflation-indexed..............................................2793
Premium amortization...........................................2968
Private activity.........................................2835, 2951
Qualified................................................2963, 2964
Stripped.......................................................2929
Tax-exempt.....................................................2773
Branch remittances...............................................2876
Business expenses..........................................2760, 2761
Cafeteria plans............................................2920, 2973
Capitalization.......................................2775, 2838, 2839
Caribbean Basin countries........................................2872
Cash advances to service providers...............................2748
Charitable contributions.........................................2861
Closing costs....................................................2931
Collections......................................................2816
Installment agreements.........................................2818
Levied property................................................2746
Liens..........................................................2745
Communications services..........................................2891
Computer technology..............................................2784
Consolidated returns.....................2727, 2728, 2798, 2883, 2948
Losses and deductions....................................2882, 2947
Controlled groups................................................2844
Corporate acquisitions:
Carryovers of methods of accounting............................2928
Corporate income tax.............................................2881
Corporate inversion transactions.................................2704
Corporations...............................................2843, 2851
C corporations.................................................2725
Continuity of interest requirement.......................2913, 2989
Reorganizations....................................2927, 2974, 2975
S corporations...............................2724, 2725, 2944, 2957
Stock ownership after a merger.................................2844
Cost recovery system.............................................2924
Cost sharing regulations.........................................2834
Creative property................................................2838
Debt:
Collateralized debt obligations................................2744
Debt instruments.....................................2743, 2962, 2967
Deemed paid taxes................................................2722
Deferred compensation............................................2800
Deferred compensation and salary reduction.......................2799
Demolition of structures.........................................2925
Diesel fuel tax..................................................2953
Disabled access credit...........................................2918
Disaster relief..................................................2762
Disclaimer of joint property.....................................2961
Disclosure of return information...........................2741, 2742
Due diligence requirements for EIC...............................2736
Earned income credit.............................................2736
Earned income tax credit recertification requirements......2753, 2827
Elective entity classification changes...........................2823
Electronic funds transfers.......................................2734
Electronic tip reporting.........................................2911
Electronic transmissions.........................................2796
Employee benefits:
Cafeteria plans................................................2903
Funded welfare benefit plans...................................2850
Loans treated as distributions.................................2772
Valuation of plan distribution.................................2849
Employee stock ownership plans.............................2769, 2770
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Employment credits...............................................2971
Empowerment zones................................................2971
Equity options without standard terms............................2723
Errors or delays by IRS officers or employees....................2806
Escrow funds.....................................................2708
Estates..........................................................2815
Expenditures documentation.......................................2840
Extensions of time for certain elections.........................2972
Farming businesses...............................................2982
Foreign corporations...............2706, 2722, 2778, 2863, 2868, 2874
Earnings and profits...........................................2875
Stock transfers................................................2779
Foreign deferred compensation plans..............................2845
Foreign governments..............................................2866
Foreign grantor trusts.....................................2712, 2855
Foreign insurance companies................................2857, 2873
Foreign investment companies.........................2794, 2879, 2943
Foreign Investment in Real Property Act..........................2867
Foreign partnerships.................................2755, 2756, 2894
Foreign sales corporation transfer pricing.................2719, 2720
Foreign tax credit.......................2717, 2788, 2789, 2870, 2937
Form 945.........................................................2959
Fringe benefit income allocation.................................2860
Functional currency..............................................2874
FUTA tax.........................................................2800
General utilities repeal.........................................2842
Golden parachute payments........................................2841
Grantor trust rules..............................................2889
Group health plans, continuation coverage........................2803
Highly compensated employee......................................2848
Income:
Gross income.............................................2817, 2832
Source of income...............................................2785
Information disclosure.....................................2758, 2759
Information reporting............................................2946
Installment obligations..........................................2930
Insurance income.................................................2790
Intangible amortization....................................2811, 2904
Intercompany transfer pricing....................................2853
Interest:
Contingent interest............................................2815
Interest abatement...............................................2806
Interest charges.................................................2878
Interest deductions........................................2837, 2942
Interest expense.................................................2786
Interest-free adjustments........................................2896
Interests in passive activities..................................2985
International organizations......................................2866
International tax................................................2777
Inventory item definitions.......................................2934
Investment income................................................2944
Issuing guidance on elections..............................2986, 2987
Lease write-offs..................................................144
LIFO definitions.................................................2934
Long-term contracts..................................2707, 2828, 2988
Losses:
Separate limitation............................................2869
Stocks.........................................................2787
Magnetic media filing requirements...............................2814
Mileage rates..............................................2760, 2761
Modified guaranteed contracts....................................2936
Multiple parity financing........................................2809
Notice and consent requirements..................................2905
Offset programs..........................2584, 2585, 2597, 2598, 2735
Partnerships...................................2721, 2732, 2733, 2819
Depreciation recapture.........................................2941
Foreign investments............................................2821
Limited partner definition.....................................2969
Sales of interests.......................................2713, 2754
Section 1503(d) applications...................................2884
Withholding....................................................2726
Payments:
Source of payments.............................................2714
Pensions:
Minimum funding................................................2847
Personal property sales..........................................2715
Petroleum and chemicals..........................................2955
Preferred stock............................................2801, 2926
Premiums.........................................................2783
Presidential election campaign fund:
Payments to candidates.........................................2740
Procedure and administration...............................2771, 2774
Property:
Basis..........................................................2817
Public assistance payments.......................................2976
Purchase price allocation........................................2705
Purchasing reporting requirements................................2731
Qualified costs..................................................2919
Qualified long-term care services and insurance proceeds.........2826
Qualified plans..................................................2907
Qualifying income................................................2822
Real estate mortgage investment conduits.........................2744
Reasonable basis.................................................2807
Receipts for expenditures........................................2840
Reclamation costs................................................2931
Reconsideration of Rev. Rule 69-302..............................2908
Refund offsets....................................................187
Relocation allowance payments for government employees...........3682
Remedial amendment period........................................2910
Removal of temporary regulations.................................2718
Rental agreements................................................2780
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2892, 2958
Research credit..................................................2702
Residence interest...............................................2923
Residence trust..................................................2950
Resident status..................................................2893
Retirement plans.....................................2813, 2829, 2846
Rewards for information....................................2808, 2960
Rollover contributions...........................................2907
Ruling amounts schedules.........................................2970
S corporations.......................................2737, 2898, 2906
Sale of debt obligations.........................................2797
Section 1.471-5..................................................2933
Section 1041 regulations.........................................2938
Section 1361(a)(1)...............................................2898
Section 141 regulations..........................................2951
Section 1441.....................................................2946
Section 1502.....................................................2882
Section 179A deduction...........................................2703
Section 197 regulations..........................................2811
Section 2056(b)(7)...............................................2815
Section 30 credit................................................2703
Section 355 distributions........................................2843
Section 382......................................................2844
Section 42.......................................................2749
Section 468A.....................................................2970
Section 501(c)(4) changes........................................2854
Section 58(e)....................................................2919
Section 6048 regulations.........................................2895
Section 6159.....................................................2818
Section 6323.....................................................2745
Section 6343.....................................................2746
Section 736 regulations..........................................2856
Section 7805(b)..................................................2912
Section 882......................................................2865
Section 884......................................................2865
Securities...........................................2781, 2864, 2933
Shareholder election, QEF........................................2795
Shareholders...............................................2704, 2898
Short taxable years..............................................2844
Start-up expenditures............................................2812
Stocks.....................................................2906, 2938
Continuity of interest...................................2927, 2975
Qualified small business stock.................................2940
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Stock rights and stock warrants................................2974
Straddles:
Miscellaneous issues...........................................2902
Stripping transactions...........................................2809
Substantial new line of business...........................2765, 2831
Supplemental tax exemptions......................................2886
Swap transactions................................................2714
Tax credits......................................................2948
Puerto Rico....................................................2871
Tax treaties.....................................................2716
Tax-exempt organization information..............................2805
Taxpayer assistance..............................................2914
Taxpayer Bill of Rights..............................2745, 2746, 2818
Taxpayer identification numbers......................2601, 2909, 2978
Technical corrections............................................2901
Transportation income............................................2862
Travel expenses for members of Congress..........................2752
Trusts...........................................................2829
Charitable remainder trusts....................................2782
Financial asset securitization investment trust (FASIT)........2859
Financial asset securitization investment trusts (FASIT).......2830
Foreign trusts...........................................2855, 2916
Grantor trusts.................................................2855
Non-exempt employees...........................................2889
Trusts and estates.................2724, 2739, 2810, 2935, 2949, 2965
US possessions:
Production and sale of property................................2785
User fees........................................................2992
Utilities repeal.................................................2776
Valuation of property passing to surviving spouse................2750
Violations of IRS law......................................2808, 2960
Voice signatures.................................................2804
Withdrawal of proposed regulations...............................2767
Withholding......................................................2966
Withholding certificates.........................................2796
Indians:
See also Indians-arts and crafts
Indians-business and finance
Indians-education
Indians-lands
Indians-law
Indians-tribal government
Appealing administrative actions of the Office of the Special
Trustee......................................................1384
Certificates of degree of Indian blood...........................1563
Child support enforcement........................................1232
Cultural exchange of marine mammal products between Natives......1392
Eagle permits....................................................1429
Electric power utilities.........................................1575
Fishing management...........................................556, 623
Food assistance programs...........................203, 208, 212, 215
Head Start Services for children...........................1243, 1255
Housing....................28, 32, 1297, 1354, 1361, 1367, 1371, 1582
Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act.......1045
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.....................................4334
Individual Indian money accounts.................................1386
IRS Form 945.....................................................2959
Job training programs............................................1914
National Indian Gaming Commission.......4335, 4336, 4343, 4344, 4345,
4346, 4347, 4348, 4349, 4350, 4351
Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act
1341, 1370
NIGC definitions.................................................4342
Preference in employment.........................................1586
Social welfare and relief of distress............................1577
Title IV-B planning requirements for tribes......................1259
Treaty fishing rights:
Columbia River access sites....................................1580
Welfare reform:
Tribal program requirements....................................1233
Welfare-to-Work Program........................................1921
Indians-arts and crafts:
Importation of marine mammal products.............................529
Indians-business and finance:
Buy Indian Act...................................................1044
Definitions of electronic aid and electronic facsimile...........4351
Gaming annual fees...............................................4350
Gaming authorizations......................................4336, 4344
Gaming operations..............................1584, 4335, 4337, 4338
GSA acquisition regulations......................................3678
Indian Business Development Program discontinuation..............1583
Indian incentive payments.........................................744
Indian monies and BIA special deposits...........................1385
Loans, grants, and employment assistance.............1550, 1551, 1555
Management of assets of the Ute Indian Tribe.....................1589
Tribal revenue allocation........................................1566
Indians-education:
Academic and dormitory standards.................................1559
Adult education programs.........................................1585
Adult vocational training........................................1556
Contracts under the Johnson-O'Malley Act.........................1557
Grant policies and procedures....................................1561
Grants to colleges...............................................1562
School construction contracts....................................1558
School improvement program.......................................1560
Indians-grants:
Indian Highway Safety Program....................................1588
Indians-lands:
Acquisitions.......................................................32
Air pollution control implementation...........3188, 3190, 3253, 3274
Alaska Native selections.........................................1652
Allotments.......................................................1675
American Indian agricultural rangeland management................1572
EPA new source reviews...........................................3204
Fishing sites on Columbia River..................................1581
Grazing permits............................................1570, 1571
Indian Land Acquisition loans......................................28
Indian Trust Land interests......................................1256
Irrigation projects..............................................1574
Lead and zinc mining operations, Oklahoma........................1579
Migratory bird hunting...........................................1439
Mining leases..................................1553, 1578, 1613, 1615
Mining regulations...............................................1620
Mortgages and deeds of trust.....................................1552
Municipal solid waste landfills..................................3509
National Forest System lands......................................324
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.....1528, 1536
Oil and gas leasing..............................................1603
Road construction on.............................................1573
Surface exploration, mining, and reclamation of lands............1554
Water pollution control requirements.............................3603
Indians-law:
Construction of jails............................................1880
Courts of Indian Offenses........................................1568
Hearings and appeals.................................1576, 4339, 4340
Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1587
NIGC enforcement regulations.....................................4341
Indians-tribal government............................................70
Adoptions........................................................1240
Air quality planning and management..............................3402
Election procedures........................................1564, 1565
EPA emergency response reimbursement.............................3532
Grants for services provided to older individuals................1260
Historic preservation programs...................................1539
Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1587
Operating permits programs.......................................3224
Performance Partnership Grants...................................3151
Self-determination...............................................1557
Self-governance program procedures...............................1567
Tribal background investigations.................................4345
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Individuals with disabilities:
See also Blind
Disability benefits
Education of individuals with disabilities
Medicaid
Medicare
Public assistance programs
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Vocational rehabilitation
Access guidelines for buildings and facilities:
Detectable warnings............................................3136
Accessibility guidelines for air carriers........................2092
Accessibility guidelines for buildings and facilities.....1734, 1736,
1737, 3133, 3134, 3138, 3140
Detectable warnings............................................1733
Outdoor developed areas........................................3139
Play areas.....................................................3135
Public accommodations and commercial facilities..........1732, 1733
Accessibility guidelines for children's environments.......1737, 3141
Accessibility guidelines for telecommunications equipment and
customer premises equipment............................3142, 4202
Contractor and subcontractor affirmative action obligations.....1900,
1907
Early intervention program for infants and toddlers with
disabilities..................................................844
Employment discrimination complaints.............................3611
Housing..............................................1261, 1279, 1366
Luxury tax exemption.............................................2952
Motor vehicle modifications......................................2351
Motor vehicle wheelchair lifts and ramps...................2345, 2444
Nondiscrimination....................................3663, 3869, 3985
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.......................4095
Public accommodations and commercial facilities..........1732, 1733
Passenger vessel access....................................2082, 3132
Schedule for rating disabilities.....................3013, 3014, 3048
Telecommunications relay services..........................4137, 4138
Transportation.......................................1560, 2053, 2083
Video programming accessibility..................................4106
Widow's benefits.................................................3959
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
Adopted children...........................................2909, 2978
Air bag warning labels for child seating.........................2421
Air bags.......................................2357, 2462, 2463, 2464
Aircraft child restraints..................................2153, 2443
Baby walker safety requirements..................................4074
Back yard play sets standard.....................................4062
Bicycle helmet safety standard...................................4076
Bunk bed requirements............................................4067
Child Nutrition Programs..........................................224
Cigarette lighter safety standards...............................4070
Crib safety standards............................................4063
Early intervention program for infants and toddlers with
disabilities..................................................844
Flammability of children's sleepwear.............................4066
Food assistance programs......178, 181, 190, 205, 210, 225, 227, 228,
241
Food stamp program...........................................189, 216
Household chemicals, child-resistant packaging.............4069, 4077
Individuals with disabilities.........................847, 1737, 3141
Infant formula..............................................242, 1004
Lead poisoning.................................1280, 3438, 3440, 3442
Length of hospital stay after birth of child...1095, 1136, 1940, 2751
Medicaid program...........................................1126, 1152
Nutrition education participant contacts..........................221
Pediatric drug assessment.........................................994
Protection for children as research subjects......................830
School breakfast and lunch programs...............................188
SSA disability determinations....................................3970
Sulfate in drinking water........................................3601
Summer Food Service Program.......................................185
Supplemental food program...............................222, 240, 247
Taxpayer identification numbers............................2909, 2978
VA pensions for veteran or surviving spouse......................3084
Vaccines for Children Program....................................1138
Welfare services.................................................1228
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
Insurance:
See also Bank deposit insurance
Crop insurance
Flood insurance
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Life insurance
Mortgage insurance
Surety bonds
Unemployment compensation
Aviation insurance...............................................2226
Commercial space transportation..................................2236
Equity index insurance products..................................4463
Exchange visitors................................................3994
FCSIC regulation.................................................4097
Motor vehicle verification procedures............................1863
Passenger vessel operators.......................................4258
Insurance companies:
Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4442
Insured loans:
See Loan programs
Intelligence:
See Classified information
Intergovernmental relations:
See also Grant programs
Administration of grants and cooperative agreements..........320, 832
Advisory opinions of the OIG regarding health care programs.......927
Air carrier regulation...........................................2078
Air pollution control implementation....3186, 3188, 3242, 3265, 3303,
3308, 3325, 3384, 3385, 3388, 3397, 3399
Alternative fuels incentives program..............................860
BIA arrangement for social welfare and relief of distress........1577
BIA schools......................................................1559
Census 2000 boundary changes......................................406
Child support non-performance TANF penalty.......................1235
Community development............................................1337
Databases of convicted offenders.................................1865
Education programs................................................123
Employee benefit plan exemption from State regulation............1929
Employer-based group health plans................................1120
EPA effluent guidelines and standards............................3542
EPA emergency response reimbursement.............................3532
EPA Hazardous Waste Manifest rule................................3493
EPA permit regulations...........................................3559
EPA State implementation plans (SIPs)..........3201, 3205, 3277, 3377
EPA State sewage sludge management...............................3567
EPA water monitoring requirements................................3591
EPA water quality standards................................3545, 3568
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EPA water regulations streamlining...............................3551
EPA-California water quality standards...........................3560
Federal Assistance Funds transfers to State governments..........2580
Federal funding of emergency health services for undocumented
aliens.......................................................1200
Federal payments to State veterans homes.........................3006
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Program..................1917
Flood assistance program.........................................3618
Food assistance programs.................178, 190, 217, 224, 228, 241
Sharing information with INS....................................218
Food Security Act.................................................386
Food stamps.............................................182, 189, 234
GSA acquisition regulations......................................3678
Hazardous materials transportation...............................2547
HCFA State Plan Amendment reconsideration process................1074
Highway management...............................................2316
Highway projects.....................................2298, 2300, 2320
Highway safety programs........................2321, 2371, 2372, 2465
INS programs.....................................................1782
Local rail freight assistance....................................2477
Local Redevelopment Authorities...................................716
Medicaid.......................................1193, 1195, 1196, 1201
Administrative costs...........................................1128
Eligibility....................................................1129
National Dam Safety Program......................................3622
National Instant Criminal Background Check System................1866
National Park System exchanges...................................1674
National Practitioner Data Bank..................................1035
Nuclear accident protection......................................3404
Oil spill response...............................................2144
Payments to State and local governments..........................1645
Performance Partnership Grants.............................3150, 3151
Prison made goods................................................1879
Railroad highway projects........................................2302
Reporting health care professionals to state licensing boards
3043
Social Security payments.........................................3954
State and local historic preservation programs...................1539
State Children's Health Insurance Program............1097, 1188, 1189
State habitat conservation strategies.......................589, 1474
State irrigation districts regulation............................1677
State issued identification documents............................2366
USDA:
Entitlement programs.......................................342, 347
State mediation programs.........................................37
Water supply.........................................3597, 3599, 3603
Wildlife refuge exchanges........................................1674
Intermodal transportation:
Charter services.................................................2503
Environmental impact and related procedures......................2319
International agreements:
See Treaties
International boundaries:
Border boat landing program:
Landing cards..................................................1813
Border crossing card fees........................................1857
Dedicated commuter lanes...................................1781, 1798
Ports of entry...................................................1781
International trade:
See Foreign trade
Inventions and patents:
BLM deregulation.................................................1693
Continued prosecution application practice changes................676
Fees..............................................................675
Foreign rights in inventions......................................685
Licensing government-owned inventions.............................687
Mineral patent applications......................................1666
New drug patent holder notification..............................1016
Nonprofit organizations...........................................684
Patent applications.....................................677, 678, 680
Patent practitioners..............................................681
Patent process reengineering......................................672
PTO rule simplification and elimination...........................683
Nucleotide and amino acid sequence listing......................674
Small businesses..................................................684
Third-party participation.........................................679
Investigations:
Civil investigative demands......................................1862
Coast Guard......................................................2095
Customs:
Illegal importation of merchandise.............................2672
Government personnel.............................................3845
Investigating and remediating releases at RCRA facilities........3507
Investment advisers:
See Securities
Investment companies:
Advertising by unit investment trusts............................4453
Advertising rules................................................4444
Bonding of officers and employees................................4462
Codes of ethics..................................................4455
Deregistration form..............................................4447
Disclosure requirements....................................4441, 4466
Exemption of certain transactions................................4461
Form N-SAR.......................................................4446
Limited liability companies......................................3928
Mergers..........................................................4460
Multi-state investment advisers exemption........................4450
Names............................................................4454
Private investment companies.....................................4421
Registration form..........................................4446, 4464
Securities depositories as custodians of assets..................4443
Small entity definition..........................................4452
Taxation.........................................................2879
Investments:
See also Brokers
Commodity futures
Foreign investments in U.S.
Investment companies
Securities
United States investments abroad
Advertising rules................................................4440
Canadian.........................................................4445
Cash solicitation rule...........................................4448
Economic development..............................................409
Investment advisers..............................................4439
Money market funds...............................................4465
Non-deposit investment products..................................2644
Non-mortgage investments by GSEs.................................1274
Registration.....................................................4440
Registration forms...............................................4434
Taxation.........................................................2704
Irrigation:
Project operation and maintenance................................1574
J
Job Training Partnership Act:
See Manpower training programs
Juices:
Food safety assessment programs...................................946
Juvenile delinquency:
Family Unity Program.............................................1816
K
Kidney diseases:
CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................813
Dialysis services................................................1066
Medicare eligibility.......................................1070, 1117
L
Labeling:
See also Food labeling
Packaging and containers
Air bag warning labels for child seating...................2421, 2428
Amalgam ingredients..............................................1007
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American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2445
Animal drugs......................................................992
Batteries........................................................4313
Beer.............................................................2630
Building materials...............................................1307
Contraceptive drugs..............................................1012
Dietary supplements...............................................949
Distilled spirits................................................2611
Dolphin-safe tuna.................................................620
Drugs...................................................954, 984, 994
Electric motors...................................................862
Furs.............................................................4311
HCFCs............................................................3261
Hearing aids......................................................945
Home insulation..................................................4298
Insulin certification............................................1025
Insulin-containing products.......................................975
Malt beverages...................................................2624
Methyl bromide...................................................3207
Over-the-counter drugs............................................988
Parenteral drug products containing aluminum......................986
Pesticides.....................................3412, 3413, 3421, 3425
Poisonous materials..............................................2517
Pregnancy labeling category for prescription drugs..........976, 1018
Prescription drugs................................................999
Textiles.............................................4297, 4310, 4312
Travel expenses for brand participants............................303
Unaged grape brandy..............................................2612
Wine.............................................................2608
Wool products....................................................4310
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
Certification for temporary agricultural employment..............1924
Davis-Bacon helper regulations...................................1892
DOL user fees....................................................1895
Fair Labor Standards Act:
Exemptions.....................................................1896
Single location bargaining units.................................4354
Small Business Job Protection Act................................1897
Trade adjustment assistance................................1919, 1920
Labor management relations:
See also Labor unions
Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................1929
Reporting by labor relations consultants and others..............1910
Labor unions:
Remedial provisions..............................................4353
Representation case procedures.............................4352, 4354
Laboratories:
Accreditation............................................2, 106, 2651
CLIA fee schedules...............................................1165
Clinical laboratories regulation.........1101, 1116, 1127, 1151, 1166
Cytology proficiency testing.....................................1119
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations............................3159
Testing of mining equipment......................................1967
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.....................................2042
Judges, Code of Conduct..........................................3958
Suits against Federal agencies.............................3166, 3598
Third party suits:
Underground storage of hazardous materials.....................3521
Law enforcement:
See also Drug traffic control
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act..........1861, 4136
Criminal fine collection.........................................1876
Fish and Wildlife Service........................................1452
Forest Service....................................................319
Immigration......................................................1782
Motor vehicle theft..............................................1863
National Indian Gaming Commission................................4341
National Instant Criminal Background Check System................1866
Police Recruitment Program guidelines............................1874
Response to arson or terrorism...................................1339
Seat belt exemption for law enforcement vehicles.................2396
Sex offender registration programs...............................1867
Use of aliens in critical initiatives............................1766
Lawyers:
See also Legal services
Debarment........................................................1013
Disciplinary procedures..........................................1758
Practice before the National Indian Gaming Commission............4339
Lead poisoning:
Hazard abatement.................................................3442
Paint..................1280, 3432, 3438, 3440, 3441, 3442, 3450, 3456
Reducing lead consumption and use................................3468
Legal services:
Individuals with mental illness...................................936
Libraries:
Presidential library facilities..................................3709
Life insurance:
Accelerated death benefits.......................................2833
Government employees.............................................3799
Variable life insurance contracts................................4457
Veterans.........................................................3109
Linseeds:
See Oilseeds
Liquors:
Exports..........................................................2605
Labeling.........................................................2611
Registration requirements for producers..........................2629
Unaged grape brandy..............................................2612
Livestock:
See also specific animals
Grazing lands
Meat and meat products
Meat inspection
Poultry and poultry products
Emergency assistance...............................................65
Free choice medicated feed........................................977
Liquid medicated feed.............................................977
Livestock feed assistance..........................................86
Loan programs:
Delinquent debtors...............................................2586
Loan Guarantee Recovery Fund.....................................1339
Lobbying restrictions............................................2067
Treasury taxes and loans.........................................2589
Loan programs-agriculture:
Account service and loan making....................................24
Account servicing..................................................42
Application processing timeframe...................................31
Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program...........348, 350, 356
Buyback of repurchased guaranteed loans............................13
Certified Lender Program...........................................26
Civil rights of borrowers.........................................370
Community facility loans..........................................376
Community programs......................................137, 139, 142
Debt settlement....................................................79
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Depreciation rates and procedures.................................372
Disaster assistance................................................34
Farm Credit Administration:
Agriculture secondary market regulations.......................4087
Book-entry regulations.........................................4092
Borrower rights................................................4088
Capital regulations revisions..................................4084
Election of directors..........................................4080
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital
regulation.................................................4079
Financing agreement guidelines.................................4091
Funding relationship with other institutions...................4086
Leasing regulations............................................4085
Loan policies and operations...................................4093
Farm Credit Program:
Delinquent accounts......................................51, 55, 68
Inventory property management....................................67
Loanmaking...........................57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 66, 71
Management and disposal of acquired property.................50, 54
Regulatory consolidation and deletion............49, 52, 53, 56, 63
Farm loan mortgages and notes......................................40
Farm Loan Program:
Collection activities............................................15
Farm ownership loans.......................................27, 35, 36
Farmer Program.....................................................89
Farmers Home Administration:
Decision to liquidate............................................90
Intermediary Relending Program..................................357
FCSIC regulation.................................................4097
FSA five-year direct line of credit program........................46
Housing...........................................................351
Interest subsidy for guaranteed borrowers..........................19
Loan assessment and market placement...............................29
Loan changes......................................................134
Loan liquidation..................................................377
Lobbying restrictions.............................................389
Monitoring liquid accounts.........................................25
Regulation streamlining...........................................365
Rural areas.......................................................365
Rural economic development...................................140, 349
Rural electrification.....358, 359, 363, 364, 367, 369, 373, 374, 375
Rural housing......................................135, 138, 143, 146
Rural telephone system..................................358, 366, 371
Rural water and waste disposal....................................142
Security property.................................................377
Soil and Water Loans Program.......................................30
State mediation programs...........................................37
Water and waste disposal programs.................................380
Loan programs-business:
Fishermen.........................................................608
Loan programs-education:
Federal Family Education Loan Program........................838, 842
Federal Perkins Loan Program......................................838
Financial responsibility of institutions..........................841
Interest.........................................................2768
Medical research...........................................1052, 1053
Repayment arrangements............................................838
Student Assistance General Provisions technical changes...........840
William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.............838, 839, 842
Loan programs-health:
NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1046
NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1057
Loan programs-housing and community development:
Approval of lenders and mortgagees...............................1317
Equal Credit Opportunity Act.....................................1347
Fair Housing Act.................................................1347
Fair Housing Home Loan Data System...............................2647
Indians..........................................................1297
Loan Guarantee Program.....................................1329, 1338
Loan policy changes................................................23
Modernization funding............................................1363
Title I property insurance programs........................1295, 1308
Loan programs-Indians:
BIA program elimination..........................................1550
Housing loan guarantees..........................................1361
Indian Land Acquisition loans......................................28
Mortgage loans.............................................1297, 1341
Loan programs-veterans:
Acceptance of partial payments...................................3079
Automatic authority program......................................3101
Electronic payment of funding fee................................3102
Home loan program................................................3104
Loan refinancing.................................................3088
Property improvements definition.................................3080
Title evidence requirements......................................3078
Lobbying:
Filing of informational materials................................1864
Foreign Agents Registration Act..................................1864
Nonprofit organizations..........................................3760
Restrictions...................389, 788, 1377, 2067, 3690, 3735, 3977
Longshore and harbor workers:
Foreign prohibitions.............................................2031
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act...................1913
Safety and health regulations....................................1992
Low and moderate income housing:
See also Public housing
Rent subsidies
Affordable Housing Program amendments............................4254
Disposals of surplus real property for housing assistance........3651
Section 8............................................1338, 1358, 1366
Rents..........................................................1365
Special housing types..........................................1365
Lumber:
See Forests and forest products
Lung diseases:
See also Black lung benefits
Tuberculosis
Black lung.......................................................1948
CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................813
Diesel particulate...............................................1950
Silicosis........................................................1948
M
Manpower training programs:
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers.................................1915
Nondiscrimination................................................1984
Manufactured homes:
Construction and safety...............................131, 1304, 1322
Metal roofing....................................................1290
Transportation of................................................2331
Marine engineering:
See Vessels
Marine mammals:
See also Endangered and threatened species
Animal welfare standards...........................................98
Captive holding and transport.....................................527
Dolphins...........................................525, 580, 583, 620
Exports of products for cultural exchange........................1392
Foreign nationals' marine mammal programs.........................523
Incidental taking...482, 524, 525, 532, 581, 583, 584, 588, 622, 624,
625, 655, 1459
Marine mammal products created by Alaskan natives.................529
Marine Mammal Protection Act......530, 553, 580, 588, 645, 1459, 1460
North right whales......................................586, 627, 659
Permits for activities otherwise prohibited......................1413
Photography permits...............................................528
Research authorization............................................585
Marine pollution:
See Water pollution control
Marine resources:
See also Fisheries
Conservation and management measures..............................555
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Criteria for water quality.......................................3571
Critical habitat.............................................566, 567
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary............................594
Florida offshore SMZ..............................................521
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary..................629
Marine Mammal Protection Act:
Rescission of administrative procedures........................1390
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.......................593, 630
National Marine Sanctuaries Act...................................537
NOAA overflight regulation........................................535
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary...........................631
Regulations consolidation.........................................531
Research program..................................................632
South Carolina coast..............................................521
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.............................592
Marine safety:
See also Vessels
Casualty reporting...............................................2101
Coast Guard regulations....................................2127, 2150
FCC inspection of radio installations on ships...................4144
Federal pilotage.................................................2139
Houseboats.......................................................2148
Lifesaving equipment regulations.................................2119
Maritime training course approval procedures.....................2112
Pilot registration...............................................2505
Review of boating safety regulations.............................2152
Safety/security zone regulations.................................2117
Salvage and firefighting equipment...............................2140
Towing vessels.............................................2109, 2131
Maritime carriers:
See also Cargo vessels
Passenger vessels
Seamen
Vessels
Communications...................................................4190
Foreign transfer of vessels......................................2558
Great Lakes load line certificate................................2105
Japanese vessels.................................................4260
Merchant mariners................................................2147
Mortgagees and trustees..........................................2561
Non-vessel-operating common carriers.............................4259
Rate determinations..............................................2560
U.S. citizenship requirements....................................2562
USCG user fees...................................................2107
Marketing quotas:
Crystalline fructose...............................................21
Peanuts........................................................84, 92
Sugar..............................................................21
Tobacco............................................17, 18, 22, 83, 94
Mass transportation:
Bus testing guidelines...........................................2501
Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2502
Measurement standards:
See also Metric system
Gaseous fuels:
Propane cylinders..............................................2548
Meat and meat products:
See also Meat inspection
Advanced meat/bone separation machinery...........................268
Cured pork products.....................................284, 287, 295
Disposition and disposal requirements.............................263
Export sales reporting............................................300
Irradiation.......................................................267
Labeling......................................261, 272, 275, 282, 283
Meat recovery systems.............................................268
Performance standards.............................................279
Prior approval requirements.......................................260
Sanitation requirements...........................................280
Transportation and storage........................................286
Meat inspection:
Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection............................262
E. coli testing...................................................296
Food additives....................................................270
Foreign country import certification..............................269
GRAS substances...................................................270
HACCP programs...............................................252, 258
Labeling.....................................................257, 276
Partial quality control programs..................................259
Performance standards.............................................257
Bacon...........................................................266
Contamination...................................................256
Foodborne pathogens.............................................293
Processing procedures.................................253, 258, 273
Ready-to-eat products......................................264, 265
Suspension of inspection service................................291
Thermal processing..............................................254
Residue chemistry analyses........................................249
Rules of practice.................................................278
Sorbitol in cooked roast beef products............................290
Standards of identity and composition........................271, 289
User fees...........................................................5
Medicaid:
See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
Public assistance programs
Ambulatory surgical center accreditation.........................1210
Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs)...............................1085
Case management services.........................................1106
Clinical laboratories regulation.................................1127
Contract With America Advancement Act............................1126
Disproportionate share hospitals.................................1130
Drug rebate program.........................................931, 1107
Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment
services.....................................................1152
Eligibility......................................................1100
AFDC children..................................................1131
Children.......................................................1201
Medically needy................................................1129
Non-U.S. citizens........................................1196, 1201
Redeterminations...............................................1126
Employer-based group health plans................................1120
Estate recoveries................................................1080
Federal financial participation income limits....................1195
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)........................1091
Health insuring organizations....................................1156
Health maintenance organizations.................................1156
Home and community-based services................................1191
Hospice care.....................................................1172
Low-income pregnant women........................................1108
Managed care.....................................................1193
Medicaid Management Information System...........................1112
Medical child support............................................1177
Nursing facilities:
Substandard care...............................................1084
Nursing home benefits............................................1104
Organ procurement and transplantation rules......................1039
Outstation intake locations......................................1108
Penalties, sanctions and exclusions..........................924, 925
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
1126, 1128
Provider agreement and supplier participation....................1211
Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1157
Referral to child support enforcement agencies...................1158
Skilled nursing facilities.......................................1155
Spenddown........................................................1100
State allotments.................................................1180
State Children's Health Insurance Program........................1097
State plan requirements:
Plans of care..................................................1124
Surety bond requirements.........................................1203
Third party liability............................................1071
Tuberculosis-related services....................................1068
Vaccines for Children Program....................................1138
Medical and dental schools:
Grants for Residency Training and Advanced Education in the
General Practice of Dentistry program........................1043
NIH scholarships.................................................1047
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Medical assistance program:
See Medicaid
Medical care:
See Health care
Medical devices:
Computer software programs.......................................1008
Dispute resolution...............................................1003
Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1021
Hearing aids......................................................945
Intermittent positive pressure machine...........................1162
Intraocular lenses...............................................1118
Investigational device exemptions................................1002
Liability limitations............................................1121
Long-term........................................................1012
Medical care telemetry devices...................................4157
Medicare coverage..........................................1072, 1168
Restricted devices promotion......................................953
Standards........................................................4147
Surety bond requirements...................................1183, 1187
Tracking.........................................................1019
Unapproved new uses information...................................966
Medical facilities:
See Health facilities
Medical personnel:
See Health professions
Medical records:
See Health records
Medical research:
Clinical research streamlining...................................1001
Contraception and infertility..............................1052, 1053
Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1161
FDA standards and evaluations....................................1029
Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1021
National Research Service Awards.................................1050
NCI construction grants..........................................1056
Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3161
NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1057
NIH service payback obligation...................................1050
Peer review......................................................1054
Radiopharmaceuticals..............................................957
Senior Biomedical Research Service................................932
Medicare:
See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
Additional supplier standards....................................1167
Advanced refunding of debt.......................................1197
Advertising costs................................................1198
Advisory opinions of the OIG......................................927
Allowable costs:
FICA and other payroll taxes...................................1079
Ambulance services...............................................1117
Ambulatory surgical center accreditation.........................1210
Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs)...................1085, 1086, 1137
Anti-kickback safe harbor provisions..............................922
Appeals:
Coverage.......................................................1094
Payment determinations.........................................1114
Audiologists.....................................................1076
Blood glucose monitors and test strips...........................1206
Bone mass measurements...........................................1209
Catastrophic Coverage Act........................................1149
CHAMPUS benefits..................................................810
Clinical laboratories regulation.................................1127
Community mental health centers:
Conditions of participation....................................1171
Competitive medical plans:
Appeal protections.......................................1094, 1217
Contract termination...........................................1214
Computer errors, recovery of overpayments........................1062
Congestive heart failure care management.........................1140
Consolidated billing.............................................1143
Contract eligibility.............................................1142
Contract performance evaluation..................................1160
Contractors......................................................1178
Integrity Program..............................................1175
Cost reports.....................................................1077
Deductibles:
Part A.........................................................1135
Depreciable assets...............................................1225
Dialysis services..........................................1066, 1070
Disabled active individuals................................1103, 1134
Durable medical equipment:
Fee schedules..................................................1082
Electrostimulation of salivary glands for xerostomia.............1113
End-stage renal disease:
Demonstration waivers..........................................1173
Fee schedules:
Ambulance services.............................................1061
Durable medical equipment......................................1082
Physicians.........................................1192, 1219, 1224
Fraud and abuse..................................................1088
Health care prepayment plans.....................................1064
Appeal protections.......................................1094, 1217
Health maintenance organizations:
Appeal protections.......................................1094, 1217
Contract termination...........................................1214
Home health agencies:
Capitalization requirements....................................1222
Conditions of participation....................................1218
Costs..........................................................1205
Costs per visit................................................1221
Definition.....................................................1072
Participation requirements.....................................1115
Physician certifications.......................................1216
Surety bonds...................................................1222
Survey and sanctions...........................................1150
Hospice care...............................................1075, 1199
Hospital conditions of participation.............................1163
Hospital emergency care..........................................1102
Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System....................1096
Hospital outpatient services.....................................1212
Hospital patient services:
Prospective Payment System.....................................1185
Income protection for community spouse...........................1149
Inherent reasonableness..........................................1226
Integrity Program................................................1175
Liability insurance..............................................1081
Limits on charges of nonparticipating physicians.................1078
Loan repayments..................................................1197
Medical devices..................................................1168
Medical equipment................................................1162
Medical services coverage decisions..............................1146
Medicare+Choice plan contractors.................................1227
Medicare+Choice plans................................1145, 1178, 1204
Medigap policies..................................................929
Mentally ill or retarded persons.................................1090
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee formation........................1139
Nurse-midwives...................................................1092
Occupational therapy.............................................1147
Organ procurement and transplantation rules................1039, 1073
Ownership changes................................................1067
Patient outcome measurement......................................1218
Payment policy revisions.........................................1144
Penalties and sanctions...........................................929
Penalties, sanctions and exclusions..........................924, 925
Penalties, sanctions and overpayments............................1067
Physical therapy services........................................1215
Physician assistant services.....................................1147
Physicians.......................................................1147
Fee schedules............................................1176, 1219
Home health certifications.....................................1216
Volume performance standard rates of increase..................1176
Physicians' referrals......................................1069, 1179
Premiums:
Part A.........................................................1134
Part B.........................................................1220
Prospective Payment System.....................1111, 1123, 1143, 1185
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Provider agreement and supplier participation....................1211
Billing numbers................................................1174
Provider reimbursement disbursement and appeals..................1063
Provider-sponsored organization definition.......................1145
Provider-sponsored organizations solvency standards..............1204
Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1157
Psychologist services............................................1154
Resident assessment screening....................................1213
Resource based practice expense payments.........................1144
Respiratory therapy services.....................................1215
Rural health clinics.............................................1065
Rural health professional shortage areas.........................1181
Screening Pap smears.............................................1105
Secondary payer................................1081, 1103, 1159, 1170
Skilled nursing facilities...............1072, 1090, 1155, 1164, 1213
Cost limits....................................................1202
Prospective Payment System.....................................1143
Substandard care...............................................1084
Social workers...................................................1154
Solvency standards...............................................1139
Speech-language pathologists.....................................1076
State allotments.................................................1180
Surety bond requirements.......................1183, 1187, 1203, 1207
Teleconsultations................................................1181
Telephone request for payment determinations review..............1114
Uninsured aged...................................................1134
User fees..................................................1178, 1182
Vision care................................................1118, 1147
Mental health programs:
DSH payments.....................................................1190
Group health plan benefit parity.....................1095, 1945, 2984
Group health plan limits.........................................1132
Medicaid and Medicare sanctions for psychiatric hospitals........1157
Protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness.......936
Merchant marine:
See Maritime carriers
Seamen
Metals:
See also specific metals
Ambient lead levels..............................................3384
Emission standards for ferroalloy industry.......................3185
EPA trace metal analysis.........................................3545
High temperature metal recovery residues.........................3513
Lead and zinc mining, Oklahoma...................................1579
Radiation protection standards for scrap metals..................3198
Metric system:
Conversion.......................................................2297
Motor vehicle safety standards.................................2411
Pipeline safety standards......................................2537
Migrant labor:
Aliens.....................................................1846, 1848
Job service complaint system.....................................1922
Job training programs......................................1914, 1915
Labor standards..................................................1909
Transportation of workers........................................2322
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
Appointment of non-status employees..............................3802
Claims settlement.................................................689
Former spouse payments from retired pay...........................708
Informed consent for human drugs and biologics....................952
Reemployment......................................................719
Restoration to duty..............................................3812
Retirement regulations...........................................3790
Milk:
See also Milk marketing orders
Child and adult care food program.................................181
Dairy Indemnity Payment Program....................................97
Import quotas.....................................................305
Minimum basic formula price.........................................4
Milk marketing orders:
Consolidation and reform............................................6
Mine safety and health:
See also Black lung benefits
Air quality standards............................................1964
Belt entry.......................................................1951
Coal Mine Workers' Compensation regulations......................1903
Confined-space hazards...........................................1974
Crystalline silica...............................................1962
Decertification of individuals...................................1978
Experienced miner definitions....................................1973
Hazard communication.............................................1963
Metal and nonmetal mines:
Electrical standards...........................................1956
Metal/nonmetal impoundments......................................1952
Methane safety standards.........................................1976
Mine Health and Safety Academy...................................1980
Noise control standard...........................................1965
Noise monitoring.................................................1972
Regulation elimination and improvement...........................1969
Respirable coal dust.................................1948, 1958, 1979
Roof and rock bolts and accessories..............................1970
Single-shift sampling notice.....................................1979
Surface haulage equipment........................................1953
Testing of equipment by independent laboratories.................1967
Training of miners.........................................1949, 1973
Underground coal mines:
Carbon monoxide monitoring.....................................1975
Diesel particulate.............................................1950
Dust control plan verification.................................1977
Flame-resistant conveyor belts.................................1968
High-voltage longwall equipment................................1966
Roof-bolting machines..........................................1954
Safety standard revisions......................................1955
Ventilation....................................................1960
Underground mines:
Diesel particulate.............................................1961
Self-contained self-rescue devices.............................1957
X-ray surveillance program.......................................1959
Mineral resources:
See also Coal
Metals
Oil and gas reserves
Public lands-mineral resources
Coal:
Coal management................................................1661
Logical Mining Units...........................................1697
Fractions sale....................................................309
Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1681
Mineral materials disposal.......................................1663
Mineral patent applications......................................1666
Mining leases on Indian lands..............................1553, 1613
Public information...............................................1678
Smith River National Recreation Area mining regulations...........339
Surface exploration, mining, and reclamation of Indian lands.....1554
Mineral royalties:
Credit adjustments...............................................1613
Indian lands, Osage Reservation..................................1578
Interest and late payments.......................................1604
Offsets, recoupments, and refunds..........................1604, 1605
Reporting standards..............................................1601
Royalty relief.............................................1614, 1619
Valuation of gas production......................................1615
Miners:
See Mine safety and health
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Mines:
See also Mine safety and health
Reclamation
Surface mining
Underground mining
Abandoned........................................................1624
Backfilling and grading..........................................1626
Indian lands...............................................1553, 1578
Lead and zinc mining, Oklahoma...................................1579
Locatable minerals...............................................1667
Mining claims:
Removal of regulations.........................................1698
Recordation and annual fee collection procedures.................1665
Water pollution control..........................................3583
Minimum wages......................................................1897
Records to be kept by employers..................................1894
Violation penalties..............................................1898
Minority businesses:
Reorganization of rules..........................................3922
Minority groups:
See Civil rights
Minority businesses
Mobile homes:
See Manufactured homes
Mobile offshore drilling units:
See Vessels
Money:
See Currency
Mortgage insurance:
Electronic payments..............................................1320
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program....................1300, 1311
Indian housing...................................................1297
Mortgage Insurance Certificates..................................1306
Multifamily housing........................................1316, 1320
Premium reduction................................................1298
Single-family....................................................1306
Direct endorsement and automated underwriting..................1310
Floodplains....................................................1294
Risk-sharing agreements........................................1321
Streamlining...................................................1319
Mortgages:
See also Mortgage insurance
Broker disclosure requirements.............................1313, 1325
Builder warranty for high ratio mortgages........................1299
Escrow accounting procedures.....................................1324
Farm loan mortgages and notes......................................40
Foreclosure......................................................1318
GNMA.............................................................1341
Home mortgage disclosure.........................................3000
Hospitals........................................................1312
Indian lands.....................................................1552
Loss mitigation..................................................1318
Model Energy Code update.........................................1292
Multifamily housing..................................1293, 1305, 1316
Real estate mortgage investment conduits.........................2858
RESPA amendments.................................................1313
Payments for referrals.........................................1314
Risk-based capital regulation....................................3740
Single-family lenders............................................1318
Single-family mortgagee's origination approval agreements........1309
Motor carriers:
See also Buses
Brake systems............................2379, 2397, 2400, 2456, 2457
Commercial vehicles:
Antilock brake systems...................................2296, 2381
Definition.....................................................2266
Duty status records............................................2277
Marking requirements...........................................2276
Data display units...............................................2281
Drivers:
Diabetic.......................................................2306
Disqualification...............................................2290
Home heating oil delivery......................................2335
Hours of service regulations.............................2282, 2285
Licensing..........................................2270, 2285, 2307
Qualification requirements.............2271, 2272, 2274, 2311, 2315
Safety preformance history.....................................2279
Training.......................................................2273
Electronic filing of bonds, agreements, certificates and
cancellations................................................2283
English language requirement.....................................2328
Excise taxes.....................................................2738
FAA compliance activities:
Fees...........................................................2284
Federal safety regulations:
Administrative actions.........................................2278
General amendments.............................................2330
Recordkeeping requirements.....................................2264
Regulations review.............................................2299
Safety ratings.................................................2329
Finance applications.............................................4493
Financial data collections.......................................2565
Hazardous materials transportation.............2278, 2313, 2333, 2528
Heavy truck conspicuity..........................................2446
Household goods transportation...................................2292
Information, licensing and registration systems:
Development of a single, on-line Federal system................2324
Inspection, repair, and maintenance..............................2323
Insurance........................................................2284
Intermodal cargo containers......................................2312
Leased and interchanged vehicles.................................2305
Licensing and insurance fees.....................................2304
Malfunction lamp.................................................2457
Manufactured home tires....................................1322, 2331
Marking of vehicles..............................................2308
Medical examinations.............................................2271
Mexican........................................2293, 2294, 2295, 2427
Migrant workers transportation...................................2322
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2318
Obsolete regulations.......................................4501, 4504
Periodic inspections.............................................2269
Powered industrial truck operator training.......................2007
Railroad grade crossing safety...................................2280
Rear underride protection..................................2287, 2450
Retarders and stop lights operation..............................2365
Tank cars:
Manufacturing, maintenance and use requirements................2521
Technical amendments.............................................2337
Television receivers.............................................2281
Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2544
Truck length and width...........................................2309
Truck size and weight......................................2310, 2336
Motor vehicle pollution:
Alternative fuels.................................................860
Emissions control................................................3254
Emissions from refinishing coatings..............................3304
Emissions standards........................................3257, 3313
Emissions testing................................................3255
Gasoline:
Reformulated.................................3302, 3311, 3385, 3398
Imported vehicles emissions standards............................3310
Inspection/maintenance programs..................................3180
Low emission vehicles program..............................3282, 3397
Nitrogen oxides..................................................3254
Non-road diesel engines..........................................3170
On-highway heavy-duty certified engines in nonroad heavy-duty
vehicles and equipment.......................................3312
Particulate matter standards.....................................3254
Motor vehicle safety:
See also Highway safety
Add-on devices.............................................2341, 2410
Brake systems:
Air brakes...............................................2379, 2397
Antilock brakes..........................................2296, 2400
Electric vehicles..............................................2456
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Light vehicles.................................................2460
Linings........................................................2390
Motorcycles....................................................2380
Certifications:
New vehicles...................................................2354
Child restraint systems..................2344, 2410, 2421, 2428, 2449
Community transportation vehicles................................2388
Conversion of standards to metric measurements...................2411
Crashworthiness ratings..........................................2432
Electric vehicles................................................2348
Financial responsibility.........................................2286
Fire performance requirements....................................2347
Foreign vehicles.................................................2286
Foreign vehicles and standards:
Compliance with Federal safety standards.................2413, 2466
Fuel system integrity............................................2452
Glazing materials:
Film transmittance.............................................2391
Lamps and reflective devices:
Center high-mounted stop lamps.................................2338
Daytime running lamps..........................................2362
European regulations...........................................2383
Geometric visibility requirements for lamps....................2349
Large trailers.................................................2275
Motor-driven cycles............................................2382
Motorcycles..............................................2367, 2423
Performance and test requirement modifications.................2363
Retarders and stop lights operation............................2365
School bus stop signal arms....................................2420
Sealed beam headlamps..........................................2350
Signal lamp inventions.........................................2407
Signal lamps...................................................2364
Stop lamps.....................................................2384
Low speed vehicles...............................................2412
Mining industry..................................................1953
Mirrors:
Convex cross view mirrors......................................2352
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2318
National Highway System Designation Act..........................2285
Occupant crash protection:
Air bags......2342, 2343, 2357, 2358, 2359, 2360, 2361, 2401, 2419,
2424, 2426, 2431, 2458, 2462, 2463, 2464
Dummy containment area.........................................2403
Head/neck protection...............................2377, 2426, 2451
Injury criteria................................................2451
Interior impact tests..........................................2402
Removal of regulations.........................................2447
Side impact protection.........................................2441
Pelvic restraints................................................2409
Power window switches............................................2405
Power-operated windows compliance testing........................2398
Radiator safety cap..............................................2438
Reflecting surfaces requirements.................................2455
Rear reflex reflectors for truck tractors......................2461
Rollover protection..............................................2435
Roof crashworthiness.............................................2448
Roof crush compliance testing....................................2394
Safety glazing...................................................2376
School buses:
Body joint strength............................................2389
Flammability of interior materials.............................2433
Stop signal arms...............................................2420
Seat belts.......................................................2341
Colorfastness requirements.....................................2454
Exemption for law enforcement vehicles.........................2396
Rear seats.....................................................2339
Seat adjustment position.......................................2346
Voluntarily-installed shoulder belts...........................2399
Seating systems:
Performance....................................................2436
Shifting and falling cargo.......................................2265
Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2317
Speed limits.....................................................2334
Test dummies.....................................................2417
Child dummies......................................2358, 2359, 2360
CRABI 12-month size............................................2360
Hybrid III.......................2355, 2358, 2359, 2361, 2418, 2453
Improvements.............................................2406, 2408
Use of unbelted and belted.....................................2424
Tires:
Identification symbols.........................................2378
Manufactured home tires........................................2331
Metric conversion..............................................2430
Retreads.......................................................2392
Test procedures................................................2368
Traffic control for school areas.................................2289
Trailer conspicuity..............................................2275
Transmission control levers......................................2386
Transporting Head Start participants.............................1241
Truck rear underride protection..................................2450
Wheelchair lifts.................................................2345
Windshield defrosting and defogging systems:
European regulations...........................................2387
Windshield wiping and washing systems:
European regulations...........................................2385
Motor vehicles:
See also Buses
Fuel economy
Motor carriers
Motor vehicle safety
Air conditioning system....................................3260, 3401
Alternatively fueled vehicles..............................2414, 3282
American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2445
Cape Cod National Seashore regulation............................1548
Cargo tank motor vehicles..................................2532, 2554
Certification requirements of multistage vehicles................2437
Clean fuel fleet vehicles........................................3175
Community transportation vehicles................................2388
Compressed natural gas use.......................................2439
Cylinder material requirements...................................2395
Dealer notification by manufacturer..............................2404
Defects..........................................................2404
Domestic origin of parts.........................................2445
Driver training..................................................2272
Dual energy......................................................2393
Electric..............................................865, 2393, 2456
Energy management regulations.....................................904
Export of used vehicles..........................................2680
Foreign-based commercial vehicles................................2656
Imports....................................................2467, 3310
Insurance:
Insurer's reporting requirements...............................2375
Leasing..........................................................3667
Light trucks.....................................................3203
Low speed vehicles...............................................2412
Manufacturers....................................................2458
Modifications for individuals with disabilities..................2351
National Driver Register...................................2425, 2459
National Stolen Passenger Motor Vehicle Information System.......1863
Odometer disclosure requirement exemptions.......................2422
Odometer fraud...................................................2440
Recalls..........................................................2458
Sales volume limit provisions....................................3268
Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................1834
Snowmobiles......................................................1542
State issued identification documents............................2366
Theft data.................................................2374, 2375
Theft prevention...........................................2340, 2354
Theft protection.................................................2429
Utility vehicles:
Label requirements.............................................2353
Wheelchair lifts and ramps.......................................2444
Motorcycles:
See Motor vehicles
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Munitions:
See Arms and munitions
Musculoskeletal disorders:
Ergonomic protection standards...................................2013
Music:
Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2653
N
Narcotics:
See Drug traffic control
National banks:
Assessment of fees...............................................2646
Capital regulations..............................................2640
Fiduciary powers.................................................2649
International lending supervision................................2642
Treatment of financial contracts by receivers....................2645
Uniform rules of practice and procedure..........................2636
National cemeteries:
See Cemeteries
National defense:
See also Armed forces
Arms and munitions
Civil defense
Classified information
Foreign military sales............................................401
Key Assets Protection Program.....................................713
Technical surveillance countermeasures............................701
Weapons systems contractors.......................................796
National defense contracts:
See Government contracts
Government procurement
National forests:
Crime prevention..................................................333
Damaged timber removal............................................328
Employee appeals..................................................334
Fire prevention...................................................333
Forest plan implementation........................................312
Grazing permits...................................................318
Hydroelectric uses................................................323
Land exchanges:
Removal of regulations.........................................1673
Mexican wolves reintroduction....................................1520
Ski area permit actions...........................................331
Small business land use...........................................314
Smith River National Recreation Area mining regulations...........339
Special use authorizations...................................313, 327
User fees.......................................................338
Transportation system........................................321, 332
Visitor services..................................................329
National guard:
See Armed forces reserves
National parks:
Aircraft overflights.................................2169, 2252, 2263
Alaska:
Glacier Bay National Park......................................1537
Appalachian National Scenic Trail................................1541
Big Cypress National Preserve:
Frogging.......................................................1545
Cape Cod National Seashore:
Off-road operation of motor vehicles...........................1548
Delaware Water Gap NRA Bicycle Trail.............................1544
Denali National Park.............................................1530
Distribution of printed matter...................................1549
Grand Teton National Park:
Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1542
Historic preservation programs...................................1539
Hydroelectric power projects.....................................1531
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway:
Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1542
Kaloko-Honokohou National Historic Park..........................1534
Kennedy Center...................................................1549
National Natural Landmarks Program...............................1540
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act...........1536
Park police insignia.............................................1529
Personal watercraft use..........................................1533
Public nudity....................................................1534
Resource protection........................................1532, 1535
Rights-of-way....................................................1538
Safety belt use..................................................1546
Shenandoah National Park:
Backcountry and fishing regulations............................1547
Snowmobile use...................................................1541
State exchanges..................................................1674
Visitor use......................................................1532
Voyageurs National Park:
Aircraft operations............................................1543
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.............................3920
Liquefied natural gas:
Safety standards...............................................2523
Motor vehicle fuel....................................860, 2439, 3254
Private activity bond rules..........................2836, 2921, 2922
Reformulated gasoline....................3302, 3309, 3311, 3385, 3398
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
Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act............3732, 3734
Conservation Farm Option..........................................384
Damage assessments...............................................1373
National Natural Landmarks Program...............................1540
Water bank........................................................387
Wetlands.........................................................1271
Naturalization:
See Citizenship and naturalization
Naval stores:
See Forests and forest products
Navigable waters:
See Waterways
Navigation (air):
Airspace regulations............................535, 2205, 2224, 2253
Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2201
Cincinnati TCA...................................................2164
Instrument flight rules....................................2175, 2202
Mountain flying..................................................2256
Objects affecting navigable airspace.............................2199
Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2210
Standard instrument approach procedures..........................2204
Transponder requirement....................................2219, 2227
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Navigation (water):
Conformance of the USWMS with the USATONS (CGD 97-018)...........2135
Delaware Bay.....................................................2134
Lighting provisions..............................................2149
North Carolina rivers............................................2139
Offshore pipeline hazards........................................2518
Prince William Sound.............................................2143
Private aids to navigation.......................................2108
Puget Sound......................................................2143
Regulated navigation areas.......................................2128
News media:
See also Radio
Television
Newspapers:
Radio cross-ownership..........................................4180
Noise control:
Airports.........................................................2162
Mining industry..................................................1965
Overflights of national parks..................2169, 2251, 2252, 2263
Nondiscrimination:
See Civil rights
Nonprofit organizations:
Cultural property regulations....................................2654
DOT grants.......................................................2071
Food assistance programs..........................................217
Grants administration.......................................411, 3127
Lobbying.........................................................3760
Rights to inventions..............................................684
Nuclear energy:
See also Nuclear materials
Nuclear power plants and reactors
DOE information classification policy.............................880
DOE nuclear activities............................................887
Fees for background investigations of licensees..................4385
NRC compliance with NISPOM.......................................4356
NRC correcting amendments........................................4412
NRC document control and distribution............................4358
NRC fee schedule.................................................4381
NRC organization and information.................................4414
NRC policy for access to secret restricted data..................4363
NRC regulation amendments..................................4373, 4409
Payments for special burdens and in lieu of taxes.................883
Prior approval procedures........................................4402
Requirements for certificate holders, applicants, contractors,
and subcontractors...........................................4366
Nuclear materials:
Emergency response worker training................................894
Export controls...................................................425
Industrial device user report....................................4390
Licensing..................................................4355, 4408
Medical license terms............................................4379
Nuclear fuel.....................................................4368
Source material licensing........................................4394
Spent fuel........................................................897
Timepieces with tritium..........................................4378
Vitrified waste containing plutonium.............................4374
Nuclear power plants and reactors:
ASME codes and standards.........................................4393
Criticality accident requirements................................4413
Decommissioning:
Cost requirements..............................................4401
Financial assurance requirements.........................4372, 4380
Design and site suitability.................................882, 4392
Emergency planning requirements for shutdown sites...............4365
Emergency preparedness......................................882, 4376
Emissions........................................................3223
Gaseous diffusion plants.........................................4383
IEEE National Consensus Standard.................................4359
Licensing......................................4358, 4377, 4395, 4405
Low-power operations.............................................4397
Maintenance activities...........................................4367
Nuclear occurrence...............................................4386
Operator examinations............................................4375
Personnel:
Deliberate misconduct of NRC applicants........................4406
Fitness-for-Duty Program.................................4369, 4399
Whistleblower provisions.................................1911, 2029
Physical security................................................4407
Possession only licenses.........................................4405
Radiation safety requirements....................................4391
Reporting requirements...........................................4371
Safety assessments...............................................4367
Safety regulations..........................882, 889, 891, 4400, 4403
Shutdown.........................................................4397
Spent fuel storage...............................................4370
Steam generator tube integrity...................................4398
Three Mile Island................................................4386
Waste disposal...................................................4396
Nuclear safety:
See Radiation protection
Nursing homes:
See also Health facilities
Medicare and Medicaid benefits.............................1104, 1164
Mentally ill or retarded residents...............................1090
Skilled nursing facility definition..............................1072
Veterans.........................................................3098
Nursing schools:
See Medical and dental schools
Nutrition:
See also Food assistance programs
Foods
Dietary supplement labeling.......................................949
Education....................................................233, 240
Food labeling................................271, 272, 282, 283, 1005
Medical food labeling............................................1006
Parenteral drug products containing aluminum......................986
School meals......................................................224
O
Occupational safety and health:
See also Mine safety and health
Workers' compensation
Agricultural pesticides..........................................3423
Air quality................................................1996, 2014
Beryllium exposure..........................................885, 2026
Cargo handling...................................................1992
Chemicals........................................................1988
Child labor regulations..........................................1891
Construction industry............................................2017
Consultation agreements..........................................2003
Cotton dust......................................................1991
Crystalline silica exposure......................................2024
Electric power...................................................2021
Energy sources...................................................1986
Ergonomic standards..............................................2013
Ethylene oxide...................................................1987
Fall protection......................................1993, 2000, 2028
Fire brigades....................................................1989
Flammable and combustible liquids..........................1997, 1999
Formaldehyde exposure............................................3463
Glycol ethers....................................................2005
Grain handling facilities........................................1990
Hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout)........................2025
Hazardous waste handling...................................1989, 2012
Hexavalent chromium exposure.....................................2015
Metalworking fluids..............................................2019
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories Program:
Fees...........................................................1998
Personal protective equipment....................................2002
Power tool standards.............................................2020
Preventing suffocation/explosions in confined spaces.............2008
Radiation exposure..........................................891, 4149
Regulation elimination and improvement...........................2009
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............2001, 2006, 2027
Respiration protection...........................................2004
Safety and health management program.............................1994
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Scaffolds........................................................2010
Shipyard standards.............................1995, 2010, 2011, 2018
Steel erection activities........................................1993
Tuberculosis exposure............................................2016
Walking and work surfaces........................................2028
Occupational training:
See Manpower training programs
Ocean dumping:
See Water pollution control
Ocean resources:
See Marine resources
Offshore structures:
See Continental shelf
Oil and gas exploration:
Addition to Toxic Release Inventory..............................3475
Drilling operations..............................................1597
Gas measurement and commingling..................................1616
Incidental taking of marine mammals...............................655
Leasing........................................1592, 1615, 1659, 1689
Leasing and operations regulations.............................1658
Operations within national parks...............................1535
Offshore facilities:
Oil spill financial responsibility.............................1611
Outer Continental Shelf........................1595, 1607, 1618, 2106
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................1591, 1594
Royalty relief.......................................1612, 1614, 1619
Royalty reporting standards....................1590, 1601, 1606, 1612
Testing requirements.............................................1609
Worker training..................................................1595
Oil and gas reserves:
Alaska petroleum reserve.........................................1659
Regulation clarification.........................................1608
Regulation streamlining..........................................1617
Oil pollution:
Discharge-removal equipment......................................2123
Oil spill financial liability....................................1611
Oil spill response.......................2142, 2144, 2146, 2533, 3524
Prevention...........................................2111, 2151, 3523
Tank vessels.....................................................2143
Oils and fats:
See Oilseeds
Oilseeds:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................171
Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance:
Acceptable medical sources.......................................3929
Calculation of the contribution and benefit base and earnings
test exempt amounts..........................................3978
Disability determinations........................................3950
Adjudication officers..........................................3933
Cardiovascular body system.....................................3991
Childhood disability...........................................3949
Residual functional capacity...................................3946
Single decisionmaker...........................................3935
Drug addiction or alcoholism.....................................3965
Fees for representation of claimants.............................3957
Fraud............................................................3936
Hemic and lymphatic system, disability criteria..................3960
Incarcerated individuals and individuals confined in criminal
cases........................................................3973
Malignant neoplastic diseases, disability criteria...............3960
Mental disorders, evaluation criteria............................3955
Musculoskeletal system, disability criteria......................3938
Overpayment debt collection......................................3989
Program administration...........................................3953
Replacing social security number cards...........................3974
Representative payee reforms...............................3956, 3966
Speech and language impairments..................................3929
Substantial gainful activity...............................3939, 3979
Vocational rehabilitation........................................3990
Organization and functions:
Advisory committees..............................................1641
Consolidated Farm Service Agency...................................39
Farm Credit Administration.......................................4090
Federal Advisory Committee Act...................................3674
Federal Housing Finance Board....................................4247
FEMA.............................................................3623
INS..............................................................1833
Interstate Commerce Commission.............................4499, 4500
Nuclear Regulatory Commission....................................4414
OCC..............................................................2639
OIG system of records............................................1350
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network....................1039
Panama Canal Commission reorganization...........................3868
Public housing agencies..........................................1359
Railroad Retirement Board........................................3886
Surface Transportation Board...............................4499, 4500
Outer continental shelf:
See Continental shelf
Over-the-counter drugs:
Adverse experience reporting......................................951
Child-resistant packaging........................................4071
Ephedrine drug products..........................................1747
Labeling requirements.............................................988
Safety............................................................942
Tamper-resistant packaging........................................983
Overseas private investment:
See United States investments abroad
Overtime pay:
See Wages
P
Packaging and containers:
See also Labeling
Child-resistant................................3429, 4069, 4071, 4077
Country of origin marking..................................2665, 2687
Hazardous materials..............................................4374
Ozone-depleting aerosol products or other pressurized
dispensers....................................................960
Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4296
Sucraid..........................................................4075
Tamper-resistant..................................................983
Travel expenses for brand participants............................303
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...................2082, 3132
Emergency response plans.........................................2100
Financial responsibility requirements............................4258
INS fines..................................................1801, 1838
Inspection of alien crew members...........................1800, 1843
Security standards...............................................2124
Passports and visas:
B visas..........................................................2035
Denial for nonpayment of child support...........................2044
F-1 foreign students.............................................1778
Immigrant visas:
Requests for additional evidence...............................1855
NAFTA professionals..............................................2034
Nonimmigrant visas:
Part 41 regulations of INA.....................................2046
Voiding and cancellation.......................................1777
Transit without visa.............................................2032
Visa Waiver Pilot Program..................................1791, 2033
Countries eligible.............................................2043
Patents:
See Inventions and patents
Pay:
See Wages
Peanuts:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................154
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Contracting additional peanuts by type and segregation.............85
Marketing quotas...............................................84, 92
Poundage quota and price support...................................92
Price support......................................................92
Regulation clarification...........................................76
Peer Review Organizations (PROs):
Beneficiary complaints...........................................1087
Medicare regulations changes...................1083, 1148, 1160, 1161
Penalties:
See also Seizures and forfeitures
Air pollution control............................................3301
Civil.....578, 928, 929, 930, 931, 933, 1169, 1212, 1536, 1942, 2220,
2488, 2577, 3621
Inflation adjustment...................1631, 1821, 1870, 1971, 2096
Test and evaluation program....................................2191
Criminal fine collection.........................................1876
Customs duties and inspection..............................2657, 2676
EPA..............................................................3598
Fair Housing Act violations......................................1346
False drawback claims............................................2659
FHA program violations...........................................1269
Food stamp program...........................................196, 201
Immigration......................................................1756
Inflation adjustment.......................................1898, 3741
Labor Department...........................................1898, 1936
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act...................1913
Marketing quotas...............................................83, 84
Nuclear weapons contractors.......................................894
OIG...............................................................925
Pensions:
See also Railroad retirement
Social security
Adequate consideration definition................................1941
Civil penalties for breach of fiduciary duties...................1942
Defined benefit pension plans....................................3883
Disclosure requirements..........................................1943
Elimination of pre-retirement optional forms...............2825, 2981
Employer liability...............................................3877
ERISA:
Cessation of operations........................................3875
Employee benefit plans.........................................1939
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act......1937, 1944
GATT provisions affecting accrued benefits.......................2846
Lump sum benefits................................................3874
Medication copayments............................................3007
Multiemployer plans:
Mergers and transfers..........................................3879
Overpayments.....................................................3880
Premium payments.................................................3881
Reduction in future accrual rates................................2813
Reporting and notification requirements....................1930, 3882
Retirement benefits..............................................1938
Retirement obligations...........................................1938
Single-employer plans:
Premium payments...............................................3882
Standard terminations............................................3883
Trusteed plans, payment of benefits..............................3876
Valuation of plan benefits.......................................3878
Veterans...................................................3065, 3083
Pesticides and pests:
See also Plant diseases and pests
Aircraft disinsection............................................2090
Antimicrobial pesticides...................................3406, 3408
Boll Weevil Eradication Program................................20, 74
Canceled or suspended......................................3419, 3424
Child-resistant packaging........................................3429
Data requirements................................................3411
Disposal and storage guidelines..................................3412
Effluent guidelines and standards................................3558
Exportation......................................................3430
Field testing....................................................3407
FIFRA exemptions.................................................3409
Forests and forest products.......................................102
Groundwater protection.....................................3417, 3418
Importation of non-indigenous organisms...........................101
Labeling requirements:
Endangered species protection..................................3425
Flammability...................................................3413
Permitted statements...........................................3421
National Laboratory Accreditation Program...........................2
Negotiated consent/procedural test rule..........................3445
Production and distribution records..............................3422
Residue in agricultural products...........................3415, 3420
Emergency exemptions...........................................3406
Scientific research..............................................3159
Self-certification...............................................3426
Storage and disposal.......................................3419, 3424
Tolerance fees...................................................3410
Transgenic plants................................................3416
Worker protection standards....................3414, 3423, 3427, 3428
Petroleum:
See also Fuel additives
Gasoline
Oil and gas exploration
Oil and gas reserves
Oil pollution
Pipelines
Air pollution from petroleum solvent dry cleaners................3351
Air pollution from production facilities.........................3319
DOD contracting...................................................705
Gas valuation....................................................1602
Onshore oil pipelines............................................2533
Refineries.......................................................3184
Refining process wastes..........................................3502
Reserves sales....................................................888
Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3519
Underground storage tanks........................................3487
Physically handicapped:
See Individuals with disabilities
Physicians:
See Health professions
Pilots:
See Airmen
Pipeline safety:
Aluminum cylinders...............................................2511
Breakout tanks...................................................2512
Corrosion determinations.........................................2530
Damage prevention systems........................................2552
Drug testing of pipeline safety operations personnel.............2535
Emergency flow restricting devices...............................2516
Environmentally-sensitive and high-density population areas......2514
Excess flow valves...............................................2551
Gas gathering lines........................................2509, 2545
Hazardous liquid pipelines.......................................2506
Hazardous liquids gathering lines................................2545
Increased inspection requirements................................2515
Inspection devices...............................................2531
Leak detection...................................................2540
Liquefied natural gas............................................2523
Maps and records of location.....................................2543
Metric measurements..............................................2537
Operator qualifications..........................................2510
Periodic updates to regulations..................................2539
Permanent underwater inspections.................................2518
Pressure testing rule......................................2519, 2555
Regulatory review................................................2550
Response plan review cycle.......................................2541
Transportation of hazardous liquids..............................2520
User fees........................................................2553
Pipelines:
See also Natural gas
Pipeline safety
Customs regulations..............................................2666
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Natural Gas Transportation System.................................920
Onshore oil pipelines............................................2533
Outer continental shelf....................................1610, 2538
Secondary market transactions....................................4239
Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2513
Plant diseases and pests............................................107
Accreditation of private seed laboratories........................106
Domestic quarantine notice........................................119
Garbage inspection at airports....................................120
Wheat.............................................................111
Plants:
See also Plant diseases and pests
Seeds
Endangered and threatened....665, 1399, 1400, 1416, 1417, 1418, 1419,
1420, 1421, 1422, 1424, 1425, 1436, 1451, 1455, 1457, 1464,
1465, 1466, 1467, 1470, 1486, 1487, 1489, 1493, 1495, 1499,
1502, 1503, 1504, 1506, 1508, 1512, 1522, 1524
Exports..........................................................1430
Plastics materials and synthetics:
Air pollution control regulations................................3345
Pneumoconiosis:
See Black lung benefits
Poison prevention:
See also Lead poisoning
Child-resistant packaging..................................4069, 4077
Labeling regulations.............................................2517
Political activities (Government employees):
Federal employees residing in designated localities..............3859
Honoraria donated to charities...................................3751
Pollution:
See Environmental protection
Population census:
See Census data
Population control:
See Family planning
Ports:
See Harbors
Posters:
See Signs and symbols
Potatoes:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................167
Poultry and poultry products:
Continuous chilling of split turkey portions......................274
Disposition and disposal requirements.............................263
Food additives....................................................270
Inspection........................................................289
Labeling.....................................................272, 283
Mexican imports...................................................277
Performance standards.............................................279
Prior approval requirements.......................................260
Sanitation requirements...........................................280
Standards of identity and composition.............................271
Transportation and storage........................................286
Trisodium phosphate...............................................288
Poultry inspection:
Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection............................262
E. coli testing..............................................281, 296
HACCP programs....................................................252
Labeling...........................................257, 276, 292, 297
Partial quality control programs..................................259
Performance standards...................................177, 254, 257
Contamination...................................................256
Foodborne pathogens.............................................293
Processing procedures.................................253, 255, 273
Ready-to-eat products......................................264, 265
Suspension of inspection service................................291
Regulation clarification..........................................172
Residue chemistry analyses........................................249
Rules of practice.................................................278
User fees.........................................................172
Poverty:
See Community action programs
Food assistance programs
Public assistance programs
Power resources:
See Energy
Practice and procedure:
See Administrative practice and procedure
Prescription drugs:
Antibiotics........................................972, 973, 996, 997
Certification program fees........................................943
Child-resistant packaging........................................4072
Compounding practices............................................1032
Direct-to-consumer promotion......................................953
Drug rebate program...............................................931
Labeling...............................................976, 984, 1018
Labeling statements...............................................999
PDMA policy information, guidance, and clarifications.............981
Prescribed for veterans by non-VA physicians.....................3046
Sucraid..........................................................4075
Presidential elections:
See Elections
Presidential records:
See Archives and records
Price controls:
Federal Communications Commission................................4100
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.............................4237
Price support programs:
Peanuts............................................................92
Tobacco........................................................17, 18
Prisoners:
Administrative remedy program....................................1720
Contraband.......................................................1728
Drug abuse treatment.............................................1716
Early release considerations.....................................1716
Eligibility for FPI work program.................................1713
Fine and cost processing.........................................1725
Good conduct time................................................1714
Intensive confinement center programs............................1716
Legal activities.................................................1706
Literacy program.................................................1709
Nondiscrimination................................................1721
Nudity and sexually explicit material or information.............1724
OASDI benefits...................................................3973
Personal property of inmates.....................................1711
Program review participation.....................................1715
Progress reports.................................................1729
Restraint systems in law enforcement vehicles....................2396
Special mail procedures..............................1703, 1718, 1726
Telephone regulations and financial responsibility...............1710
Visitors...................................................1717, 1728
Volunteer community service projects.............................1704
Prisons:
Acceptance of donations..........................................1719
Commissary privileges............................................1712
Correspondence from pretrial inmates.............................1727
Federal Prison Industries work program...........................1713
Funding of elective abortions....................................1708
Incoming publications............................................1706
Infectious disease management..............................1707, 1730
Inmate recreation programs and manuscripts.......................1723
Inmate work and performance pay..................................1722
Institutional management.........................................1730
Intensive confinement centers....................................1705
Nondiscrimination toward inmates.................................1721
Postsecondary education programs.................................1702
Prison made goods................................................1879
Telephone privileges.............................................1712
Privacy:
See also Confidential business information
Coast Guard's Marine Safety Information System...................2098
Databases of convicted offenders.....................1865, 1866, 1878
Education Department records exclusions...........................828
Food Stamp Program................................................180
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Income tax returns.........................................2741, 2742
Justice Department research and statistical information..........1881
NCUA.............................................................4327
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...................3739
OIG systems of records...........................................1351
Peer Review Organizations (PROs).................................1087
Privacy Act......................................................3731
Crop insurance..................................................148
DOE records.....................................................884
DOE records exemptions.....................................898, 899
DOJ implementation.............................................1868
Inspector General investigative files..........................3726
NARA procedures................................................3699
OGE procedures.................................................3745
Review of regulations............................................1888
School breakfast and lunch programs...............................188
Self-tests conducted by creditors................................4284
USIA.............................................................3993
Procurement:
See Government procurement
Prosthetic devices:
See Medical devices
Public assistance programs:
See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Child welfare
Food assistance programs
Medicaid
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Aliens...........................................................1826
BIA arrangement for social welfare and relief of distress........1577
Eligibility of immigrants........................................1814
Federal means-tests public benefit definition.....................237
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
196, 197, 203, 234, 1926
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..........................1250
Welfare reform:
Tribal program requirements....................................1233
Welfare reform initiatives.......................................1340
Welfare-to-Work microloans.......................................3910
Welfare-to-Work Program....................................1254, 1921
Public buildings:
See Federal buildings and facilities
Public health:
See also Immunization
Meat inspection
Waste treatment and disposal
Air pollution effects............................................3452
Blood and blood products..........................................982
Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3160
E. coli testing...................................................296
Mammography Quality Standards Act................................1020
Parenteral drug products containing aluminum......................986
Radiation protection.............................................3405
Regulation reinvention...........................................1011
Regulation revocation............................................1023
Safeguarding food during transport...............................2544
Toxic Substances Control Act.....................................3437
Water contamination effects......................................3588
Public housing:
See also Low and moderate income housing
Rent subsidies
Admission and occupancy....................................1358, 1362
Community transition program.....................................1289
Designated housing regulations...................................1356
Development regulations revisions................................1359
Eligibility......................................................1358
Noncitizens....................................................1277
Indians..............................................1354, 1370, 1371
Management assessment program....................................1367
Mixed finance partnership development:
Streamlining...................................................1360
Performance Funding System.......................................1368
PHMAP assessment consolidation...................................1355
Rents............................................................1357
Revitalization potential.........................................1364
Section 8 program rent limits....................................1372
Tenant income reporting..........................................1264
Uniform financial reporting standards............................1278
Public lands:
See also Grazing lands
Homesteads
National forests
National parks
Public lands-classification
Public lands-grants
Public lands-mineral resources
Public lands-rights-of-way
Public lands-sales
Public lands-withdrawal
Reclamation
Acquisition by gift, purchase or condemnation:
Removal of regulations.........................................1694
Alaska...............................................1387, 1652, 1701
BLM application procedures.......................................1672
BLM authorities..................................................1642
BLM resource planning............................................1640
Color of title and omitted lands:
Regulatory simplification......................................1650
Conveyances, disclaimers, and correction documents...............1644
Damage repairs...................................................1670
Definitions......................................................1671
Desert land entries..............................................1649
Highway discretionary funds......................................2298
Indian allotments................................................1675
Land and Water Conservation Fund.................................1527
Leases...............................................1656, 1690, 1691
Management framework plans.......................................1640
Mineral materials disposal.......................................1663
Payments to State and local governments..........................1645
Permit and easements.................................1656, 1690, 1691
Policy and management................................1387, 1653, 1656
Recreational use permits.........................................1669
Revenues management..............................................1636
Ski area permit actions...........................................331
State irrigation districts.......................................1677
Subsistence hunting and fishing..................................1411
Subsistence management regulations...............................1432
Wilderness area management.......................................1688
Public lands-classification:
Regulations removal and updating.................................1648
Public lands-grants:
Carey Act grants.................................................1676
Railroad grants..................................................1651
Reclamation projects:
Removal of regulations.........................................1696
State grants.....................................................1695
Public lands-mineral resources:
Coalbed methane development......................................1679
Disposal of mineral materials....................................1682
Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1668
Gas measurement and commingling..................................1616
Geological and geophysical exploration...........................1618
Leasing........................................1592, 1613, 1614, 1619
Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1681
Mining claims:
Removal of regulations.........................................1698
Mining operations................................................1667
Oil and gas leasing..............................................1689
Performance standards..........................................1658
Valuation of oil...............................................1603
Public information...............................................1678
Seismic reassessment of California platforms.....................1607
Transportation and processing allowances.........................1615
User fees........................................................1657
Public lands-rights-of-way:
Administrative process and standards.............................1381
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Regulations removal........................................1654, 1655
Public lands-sales:
Segregation and opening of lands.................................1647
Public lands-withdrawal:
Streamlining of operations.......................................1646
Public utilities:
See Electric utilities
Natural gas
Utilities
Water supply
Publications:
See Government publications
R
Radiation protection:
See also Radioactive materials
Contractors and subcontractors....................................889
Dose limits and dose calculation methods.........................4382
Dose methodology.................................................3217
Drinking water.............................................3386, 3404
General public...................................................3405
Industrial device user report....................................4390
Medical byproduct use............................................4360
Medical license terms............................................4379
Occupational radiation protection...........................891, 4362
Radiation Protection Program.....................................2542
Radiation safety programs........................................4408
Radiological Emergency Response Plan.............................3191
Reactor siting criteria:
Assessment requirements clarification..........................4395
Source term and dose calculations..............................4403
Scrap metal standards............................................3198
Spent fuel storage...............................................4370
Steam generator tube integrity...................................4398
Visitors of hospitalized radiation patients......................4364
Yucca Mountain, NV...............................................3193
Radio:
See also Communications
Allocation of 455-456 MHz and 459-460 MHz........................4146
Arecibo radio astronomy coordination zone........................4155
Broadcast ownership..............................................4184
Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4195
Competitive bidding process................................4183, 4205
Digital audio radio service in the 2310-2360 MH band.............4168
Equipment authorization process..................................4161
Experimental radio service.......................................4159
FM radio.........................................................4186
Inspection of radio installations on ships.......................4144
Interconnection obligations of CMRS..............................4194
Main Studio/Public File Requirements for Broadcasters............4182
Mass media applications, rules, processes........................4185
Millimeter wave technology.......................................4152
Multiple access systems..........................................4204
Newspaper cross-ownership........................................4180
Personal Communications Services payments........................4206
Public safety communications requirements........................4203
Railroad standards and procedures..........................2468, 2491
Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4191
Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4169
Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2210
Specialized Mobile Radio Systems.................................4193
Station ownership................................................4174
Wireless information networks..............................4158, 4201
Radioactive materials:
See also Nuclear materials
Radiation protection
Medical byproduct use......................................4389, 4404
Medical use.................................................957, 4364
Radiation exposure...............................................4149
Entitlement to compensation payments...........................1871
Waste storage....................................................4370
Radioactive waste:
See Hazardous waste
Railroad employees:
See also Railroad retirement
Railroad unemployment insurance
Alcohol/drug regulations.........................................2497
Locomotive engineers.............................................2471
Safety regulations...............................................2495
Railroad retirement:
Annuity:
Children's annuities...........................................3892
Deductions by reason of work...................................3897
Exemption from supplemental tax................................2886
Creditability of pay.............................................3891
Disability determination.......................3884, 3888, 3889, 3900
Eligibility:
Children and stepchildren......................................3892
Employee status..................................................3896
Employer status..................................................3895
Employers' reports...............................................3890
Erroneous payments.........................................3899, 3903
Information disclosure...........................................3902
National emergency plan..........................................3887
Offset of Federal benefits payments..............................2583
Overpayment recovery.............................................3894
Payments pursuant to divorce.....................................3901
RRB general administration.......................................3886
Trial work period, redefined.....................................3889
Railroad safety:
Advanced civil speed enforcement system..........................2492
Brakes...........................................................2475
Bridge maintenance guidelines....................................2483
Emergency preparedness...........................................2481
Equipment standards:
Freight cars...................................................2475
Freight cars.....................................................2478
Grade crossing and signal systems....................2280, 2327, 2482
High speed rail..................................................2487
Hours of service recordkeeping...................................2469
Locomotive crashworthiness and working conditions................2472
Locomotives:
Crashworthiness................................................2476
Remotely controlled............................................2489
Passenger equipment standards....................................2480
Pilot programs:
One-person crews...............................................2490
Remotely controlled locomotives................................2489
Radio communications and train control...........................2468
Signal systems.............................................2484, 2485
Steam locomotives................................................2474
Track standards............................................2479, 4498
Two-way end-of-train telemetry devices...........................2493
Utility employee protection......................................2495
Whistle bans at grade crossings..................................2470
Railroad unemployment insurance:
Employee status..................................................3896
Employer status..................................................3895
Finality of decisions............................................3885
Repayment tax....................................................2897
Voluntary quit...................................................3898
Railroads:
See also Railroad employees
Railroad retirement
Railroad safety
Railroad unemployment insurance
Accident reporting...............................................2498
Alcohol/drug use control.........................................2497
Assistance to States.............................................2477
BLM railroad grants..............................................1651
Commuter rail service continuation subsidies and
discontinuances..............................................4495
Consolidation procedures.........................................4491
Environmental impact and related procedures................2319, 2473
Exemption from regulation:
Non-ferrous recyclables........................................4494
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Paints, enamels, lacquers, shellacs, and other commodities
transportation.............................................4492
Finance applications.............................................4493
Hazardous materials transportation...............................2528
Locomotive emissions.............................................3264
Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1794
Radio communications.............................................2491
Railroad highway projects........................................2302
Rates and fares..................................................4497
Small businesses or entities.....................................2488
STB authority....................................................4496
STB obsolete regulations.........................................4504
Tank cars........................................................2532
Tourist and historic railroads:
Regulatory review..............................................2496
Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2544
User fees........................................................2486
Waste disposal on AMTRAK.........................................2494
Range management:
Indian rangelands................................................1572
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............................2885
Farm real estate...................................................27
Highway construction.............................................2268
Reclamation:
See also Mines
Surface mining
Acreage limitation...............................................1634
Backfilling and grading..........................................1626
Financing........................................................1622
Income tax rules.................................................2931
Indian lands.....................................................1554
Management of Lake Berryessa, California.........................1639
Newlands Irrigation Project, Nevada..............................1638
Permits..........................................................1621
Townsites:
Removal of regulations.........................................1696
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
Access for individuals with disabilities.........................3138
Stamp collecting.................................................4305
Wildlife refuges.................................................1479
Recreational fishing:
See Fishing
Recycling:
Cathode ray tubes................................................3489
Government purchase of recovered materials.......................3494
Hazardous waste..................................................3492
Refrigerant....................................3258, 3260, 3315, 3401
Scrap metal......................................................3198
Refugees:
See also Aliens
Admission procedures.......................................1779, 1854
Family unity.....................................................1854
Refugee Resettlement Program.....................................1234
Relocation assistance:
Streamlining.....................................................1270
Renal diseases:
See Kidney diseases
Rent subsidies.....................................................1357
Tax treatment....................................................2976
Tenant income reporting..........................................1264
Repatriation:
See Citizenship and naturalization
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements:
Adverse experience reporting......................................955
Air carriers...................................2087, 2161, 2172, 2566
Alcohol and alcoholic beverages..................................2629
Automotive fuel economy reports..................................2442
Balance of Payments Program--Reporting of U.S. Expenditures.......792
Bank Secrecy Act implementation....2569, 2571, 2573, 2574, 2575, 2576
Blood and blood products..........................................982
Broker-dealers...................................................4485
Carbamates.......................................................3526
Casinos..........................................................2570
CDBF funds documentation.........................................1332
Chemical imports.................................................1754
Chemical inventory reporting.............3439, 3470, 3471, 3475, 3480
Criminal databases:
Criminal offenses against minors...............................1865
Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database........................1878
National Instant Criminal Background Check System..............1866
Sex offender registration systems..............................1865
Currency transactions............................................2572
Customs regulations........................................2666, 2668
Debt Collection Improvement Act..................................2596
Defense contractors, controlled materials program.................419
Defined contribution plans.......................................1946
DOD research and development......................................735
Drug Enforcement Administration......................1742, 1743, 1749
Electronic signatures.............................................785
Employee benefit plan administrators.............................1943
Environmental monitoring.........................................3379
Environmental Protection Agency............................3152, 3270
EPA emissions reporting requirements.............................3169
EPA key identifiers reporting....................................3431
Excess government property.......................................3658
Export information...........................................400, 401
Export Reform and Enhancement Act.................................967
Exports...........................................................961
FDA.........................................................958, 1030
FDA adverse drug experiences................................951, 1027
FDIC.............................................................4229
Federal aircraft accidents.......................................3672
Federal Aviation Administration..................................2181
Federal Communications Commission................................4175
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.............................4236
Firearms loss or theft...........................................2633
Fisheries...............................................458, 564, 603
Fishing......................................................467, 606
Food assistance programs..........................................217
Food Stamp Program...........................................184, 213
Fuels and fuel additives.........................................3390
GSA's role in records management.................................3670
Hazardous material releases......................................3530
Hazardous materials transportation...............................2546
Hazardous substances.............................................3461
Health care fraud and abuse......................................1037
Helium contracts.................................................1683
Honoraria donated to charities...................................3751
HUD housing programs.............................................1278
HUD multifamily mortgages........................................1293
Human cellular and tissue-based product manufacturers.............970
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Human cellular and tissue-based products..........................958
Infant formula testing...........................................1004
Information collection requests..................................3482
Interior Department..................................1591, 1594, 1612
Internal Revenue Service.........................................2840
Investigational new drugs........................................1026
Investment advisers..............................................4436
Investment companies.................................4441, 4447, 4455
Labor Department...........................................1894, 1910
Lease write-offs..................................................144
Magnetic computer tape maintenance...............................3711
Marine casualty reporting........................................2129
MMS electronic reporting.........................................1593
Mortgage broker fees.............................................1313
Motor carriers.......................................2264, 2277, 2279
Motor vehicle manufacturers......................................2458
Multiple employer welfare arrangements...........................1933
NARA Evaluation Program..........................................3713
NARA facility standards for records centers......................3706
NARA non-paper records and artifacts.............................3705
National Driver Register.........................................2459
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...................527
National Practitioner Data Bank......................1034, 1035, 1042
New drug applications............................................1028
NPDES permittee reporting........................................3565
NRC electronic reporting.........................................4411
Nuclear power plants.............................................4371
Occupational injuries and illnesses..............................2006
Occupational safety and health...................................2027
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...................3739
Office of the Inspector General records consolidation............1350
OSHA:
Employer certifications........................................2001
Ozone-depleting substances importation...........................3197
Paperwork reduction.....................................24, 206, 4409
Pension plans..............................................1930, 3882
Personnel records................................................3769
Pesticides.....................................3159, 3422, 3424, 3426
Pollution prevention actions in Toxic Release Inventory..........3477
Purchases made with purchasing card..............................2731
Radionuclides....................................................3533
Radon............................................................3531
Railroad employees.........................................2469, 2485
Railroad Retirement Board........................................3890
RCRA.............................................................3482
Real estate mortgage investment conduits.........................2858
Records, nonrecord materials, and personal papers................3698
RRB information available to public..............................3893
Rural electrification loans.......................................373
Securities.......................................................4415
Broker-dealers.....................................4469, 4471, 4488
Large trader reporting system..................................4490
Life insurance contracts.......................................4457
Regulation S amendments........................................4432
Transfer agent services........................................4481
Subcontracts performed outside the United States..................736
Sugar..............................................................87
Sugar and crystalline fructose marketing allotment.................21
Tenant income reporting..........................................1264
Tobacco exports..................................................2628
Toxic chemical test rules........................................3462
Toxic Substances Control Act.....................................3437
Toxics Release Inventory reporting...............................3473
Trade sanction exemptions........................................4043
Transportation Department........................................2323
U.S. partners of controlled foreign partnerships.................2755
Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2513
Uranium mill sites................................................890
Vessel numbering system..........................................2099
Veterans Administration..............................3024, 3025, 3107
Vocational rehabilitation providers..............................3990
Water systems....................................................3597
Welfare-to-Work Program..........................................1254
Research:
See also Agricultural research
Educational research
Human research subjects
Medical research
Biotechnology....................................................3449
Credit for increasing research activities........................2747
DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................709
Dogs and cats.....................................................118
EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations............................3159
Field investigations.............................................1029
Geological and geophysical exploration...........................1618
Incidental taking of marine mammals...............................622
Labor certification process for researchers......................1927
Marine mammals....................................................585
Marine resources..................................................632
Misconduct.......................................................1060
NARA registration requirement....................................3701
National Undersea Research Program................................634
NOAA Climate and Global Change Program............................633
North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan.............................459
Short form research contracts.....................................772
Reserve forces:
See Armed forces reserves
Respiratory and pulmonary diseases:
See Lung diseases
Retirement:
See also Pensions
Railroad retirement
Social security
Canadian.........................................................4445
Government employees...............3789, 3790, 3791, 3797, 3798, 3831
Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act.................708
Rice:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................166
Production flexibility contract....................................82
Rights-of-way:
See also Public lands-rights-of-way
Acquisition of real property for.................................2268
Regulation revision..............................................1538
Rivers:
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program......................44
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...........................1700
Tennessee River System...........................................3992
Roads:
See Highways and roads
Rockets:
See Aircraft
Rodenticides:
See Pesticides and pests
Rotorcraft:
See Aircraft
Royalties:
See Mineral royalties
Rubber and rubber products:
See Tires
Rural areas:
Business and industrial loan programs.............................349
Business enterprise grants........................................354
Community development:
Rural venture capital demonstration.............................352
Community facility loans.....................................136, 376
Economic development loans and grants.............................140
Electric borrowers......................................362, 374, 375
Electric loans.................358, 359, 364, 367, 369, 370, 372, 373
Electrification..............................................363, 381
Empowerment zones.................................................343
Health care services.............................................1065
Housing:
Manufactured housing............................................131
Housing loans, grants and programs.................132, 135, 143, 146
Housing rehabilitation............................................145
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Lease write-offs..................................................144
Loan and grant programs..................................90, 357, 377
Pipeline safety standards........................................2545
Regulation streamlining...........................................132
Small farmer outreach training.....................................33
Special equipment contract........................................361
Technical assistance grants and programs......................33, 353
Telecommunications system construction policies...................360
Telephones...................................................358, 366
Television demonstration grants...................................354
Water and waste disposal loans and grants....................142, 380
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..............................2166
Escalator safety standard........................................4065
Medical devices..................................................1019
Outer continental shelf platforms..........................1607, 2106
Over-the-counter drugs.......................................942, 983
Shopping cart safety standard....................................4078
Space launch activities..........................................2237
Salaries:
See Wages
Sanitation:
See Public health
Waste treatment and disposal
Satellites:
See also Space transportation and exploration
Communications:
Allocation of 455-456 MHz and 459-460 MHz......................4146
Digital audio radio service....................................4168
Earth stations.................................................4167
MSS spectrum allocation..................................4154, 4166
Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4169
Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4165
Export controls...................................................420
Licensing.........................................................595
Savings associations:
Agency disapproval of directors and senior officers..............2994
Application processing...........................................2996
Capital standards................................................2999
Community Reinvestment Act.......................................3002
Fiduciary powers.................................................3005
Liquidity regulation.............................................3001
Permitted activities.............................................4224
Savings bonds:
See Bonds
Scholarships and fellowships:
National Institutes of Health....................................1047
Service fellowships..............................................1058
School breakfast and lunch programs:
Amendments to promote Healthy Meals for Healthy Children in
Schools.......................................................224
Consolidation of..................................................186
Eligibility..................................................191, 243
Formulated grain-fruit products...................................226
Menu planning.....................................................195
Release of eligibility information................................188
School integration:
See Equal educational opportunity
Schools:
See also Colleges and universities
Educational facilities
Asbestos...................................................3435, 3436
Asbestos model accreditation plan................................3434
Indian School Equalization Program...............................1560
Science and technology:
Advanced Technology Program amendments............................446
Arecibo radio astronomy coordination zone........................4155
De Minimis exclusion for technology and software..................427
Deemed export rule................................................436
DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and
institutions..................................................703
DOT monitoring of motor carriers.................................2264
Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3161
Private sector industrial technology partnerships.................686
Rights to inventions..............................................684
Service fellowships..............................................1058
Technology exports................................................430
Scientific equipment:
See also Medical devices
Standards........................................................4147
Seafood:
See also Fish
Fisheries
Import regulations................................................621
Transportation and storage........................................286
Seals:
See Marine mammals
Seamen:
Merchant marine training, certification, and watchkeeping........2147
Pilots:
Great Lakes Pilotage Point System..............................2505
Seaplanes:
See Aircraft
Secondary education:
See Elementary and secondary education
Securities:
See also Bonds
Alternative trading systems......................................4476
Beneficial owners................................................4433
Broker-dealers.......................................4469, 4472, 4480
Foreign........................................................4472
Quotation requirements.........................................4487
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.......................4485
Capital formation requirements...................................4427
Company registration and regulation of capital formation.........4416
Conduit financing transactions...................................2766
Conforming segment reporting with generally accepted accounting
principles...................................................4418
Credit...............................................4287, 4291, 4482
Custody or possession of funds or securities.....................4437
Customer Protection Rule.........................................4470
Delayed offerings:
S-1 and SB-2 companies.........................................4428
Depositories.....................................................4443
Deregistration form amendments...................................4447
Direct participation program interests...........................4473
Disclosure requirements..............................4415, 4432, 4441
Extraordinary corporate transactions...........................4419
Electronic filing:
Institutional investment manager reports.......................4449
Equity securities................................................4475
Foreign markets..................................................4476
Form S-8.........................................................4427
Form 13F.........................................................4449
Haircuts on......................................................4468
Holding companies....................................4458, 4459, 4467
Income taxation............................................2781, 2938
Ineligible securities............................................4292
Insurance products...............................................4457
Integrated financial transactions................................2864
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International transactions.......................................2939
Investment advisers................4435, 4436, 4438, 4439, 4450, 4451
Investment companies........4441, 4443, 4447, 4452, 4454, 4455, 4460,
4461, 4462, 4466
Large trader reporting system....................................4490
Loss determination...............................................2787
Margin regulations review........................................4263
Mark-to-market for dealers.......................................2709
Mortgage-backed securities.......................................4279
Multijurisdictional tender offers................................4423
Municipal securities.............................................2643
National securities exchanges....................................4476
Nationally recognized statistical rating organizations...........4482
Net capital requirements.............................4477, 4479, 4484
Options disclosure document................................4422, 4478
OTC products.....................................................4480
Preferred stock......................................2766, 2801, 2926
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act:
Definition of terms............................................4420
Proxies..........................................................4424
Qualified purchaser..............................................4421
Registration.....................................................4457
Registration form amendments.....................................4488
Registration statements..........................................4431
Regulation S amendments..........................................4432
Regulation T.....................................................4470
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............4469, 4471, 4481
Annual reports and prospectuses................................4456
Rule 0-10........................................................4483
Rule 11Ac1-1.....................................................4489
Rule 15a-4.......................................................4435
Rule 15c2-5, 15c3-1, 15c3-3......................................4470
Rule 17a-3 and 17a-4.............................................4469
Rule 2a-7........................................................4465
Rule 3a12-11.....................................................4470
Rule 430A........................................................4428
Rules 30d-1 and 30d-2............................................4456
Safe harbors:
Offshore press conferences.....................................4430
Schedules 13D and 13G............................................4433
Section 8........................................................4470
Shareholder proposal rule amendments.............................4426
Small business or organization:
Definitions....................................................4483
Sourcing in international short sales............................2939
SRO matters that do not constitute rule changes..................4474
Stock rights and stock warrants..................................2974
Streamlining.....................................................4425
Taxation.........................................................2933
Transfer agent services..........................................4481
Transfer to foreign corporations.................................2779
Two-sided quotations.............................................4489
Utilities........................................................4467
Year 2000 readiness reports......................................4486
Security information:
See Classified information
Security measures:
See also Classified information
Aviation...................................................2089, 2177
Classified national security information..........................903
Conduct on the Pentagon reservation...............................695
DOE contractors..............................................878, 913
Explosive Detection System.......................................2235
Passenger vessels and terminals..................................2124
Private Remote Sensing Space Systems..............................595
Technical surveillance countermeasures............................701
Terrorist activity:
Airplanes......................................................2215
Airports.......................................................2216
Seeds:
Accreditation of private seed laboratories........................106
Segregation in education:
See Equal educational opportunity
Seizures and forfeitures:
Customs regulations........................................2653, 2674
FCC regulations..................................................4143
Selective Service System.....................................3850, 3904
Senior citizens:
See Aged
Serums:
See Biologics
Sewage disposal:
Incinerator emissions monitoring.................................3580
Incinerator emissions standards..................................3327
Sewer collection systems.........................................3552
Sludge use and disposal..............................3553, 3566, 3581
Vessels..........................................................3582
Sex discrimination:
Federally assisted programs........390, 1262, 1376, 1731, 3093, 3094,
3148, 3644, 3720
Sheep:
Interstate movement...............................................112
Sheep Industry Improvement Center.................................355
Shipbuilding industry:
Air pollution control............................................3307
Safety and health regulations..............................1995, 2018
Shipping:
See Air carriers
Maritime carriers
Motor carriers
Railroads
Ships:
See Vessels
Signs and symbols:
See also Trademarks
BLM insignia.....................................................1692
Sirup:
See Sugar
Small businesses:
See also Minority businesses
Administrative offset by SBA.....................................3908
Bundled contracts................................................3913
Certificate of Competency........................................4038
Competitiveness Demonstration Program............................4050
Construction businesses..........................................3915
DOD contracting...................................................705
Economic development..............................................409
Government contracts.............................745, 775, 3692, 4047
Government procurement:
Affirmative action reform......................................4022
Government subcontracting........................................4000
Guaranteed loans servicing.......................................3919
Health care industries...........................................3915
HUBZone program..................................................3911
Investment companies.......................................3926, 3928
Liquidation plans................................................3918
Loans......................................................3906, 3927
Disaster Loan Program....................................3923, 3924
SBA guaranty...................................................3905
National forest land use..........................................314
North American Industry Classification System....................3916
Penalties........................................................2488
Privacy regulations..............................................3912
Record disclosure................................................3912
Revisions to 504 program regulations.............................3909
Rights to inventions..............................................684
SBA standards of conduct.........................................3921
SBIC Program reform..............................................3917
Size standards.............................................3915, 3916
Architecture and engineering...................................3907
Construction...................................................3907
Natural gas distribution.......................................3920
Protest and appeal.............................................4047
Refuse systems.................................................3907
Small Business Development Center Program revisions..............3914
Small Business Innovation Research Program administrative
provisions....................................................125
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Timber sales......................................................330
Trusts...........................................................2724
Very small business program......................................3925
Smoking:
Air carrier prohibition..........................................2081
Federal buildings and facilities.................................3662
Workplace air quality............................................2014
Social security:
See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Child welfare
Medicaid
Medicare
Public assistance programs
Unemployment compensation
Administration...................................................3954
Adopted child's status...........................................3943
Alien applicants...........................................1812, 3945
Canadian citizens' obtaining of social security numbers..........3890
Citizenship evidence.............................................3988
Contributions for support........................................3962
Coverage:
Employees of State and local governments.......................3984
Debarment and suspension.........................................3975
Disability determinations:
Endocrine system and obesity...................................3950
Medical consultants' opinions..................................3948
Drug-free workplace requirements.................................3975
Earnings records determinations..................................3964
Facility of payment provision....................................3968
Freedom of information regulations.........................3952, 3983
Grants administration..........................3931, 3975, 3976, 3977
HHS regulation migration to SSA..........3931, 3975, 3976, 3977, 3982
Maximum family benefit.....................................3968, 3969
Medical equipment liability......................................1121
Misuse of symbols, emblems, or names.............................3972
Offset of Federal benefits payments..............................2583
Publications:
Prohibitions against reproduction...............................923
Reduction of disability benefits.................................3944
Regulations corrections..........................................3942
Replacing social security number cards...........................3974
Representative payees............................................3940
Review process...................................................3971
SSA employees:
Ethical conduct................................................3932
State supplementary payments.....................................3954
Third Party Collection Program...............................690, 698
Widow's benefits.................................................3959
Soil conservation:
Conservation Reserve Program.......................................45
Highly erodible land and wetlands.............................41, 385
Solid waste disposal:
See Waste treatment and disposal
Soybeans:
Vegetable protein products........................................227
Space transportation and exploration:
Acquisition regulations..........................................3691
Commercial launch activities.....................................2237
DOT licenses.............................................2183, 2189
Contracts..................................................3692, 3693
Cross-waiver of liability........................................3687
Insurance for commercial launches................................2236
Licenses.........................................................2237
Non-U.S. licensed space stations.................................4170
Tracking and data relay satellite system:
Non-government users...........................................3688
Sport fishing:
See Fishing
Stamp taxes:
See Excise taxes
State-Federal relations:
See Intergovernmental relations
Sterilization:
See Family planning
Stocks:
See Securities
Strip mining:
See Surface mining
Students:
SSI eligibility while temporarily abroad.........................3967
Student rights in research, experimental programs, and testing
827
Subsidies:
See Grant programs
Rent subsidies
Sugar:
Import licensing programs.........................................302
Marketing allotment program........................................21
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...........................87
Sunflowers:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................171
Superfund:
Claims application streamlining..................................3525
Grants for technical assistance..................................3528
Reportable quantity adjustments for carbamates...................3526
Supplemental Security Income (SSI):
Acceptable medical sources.......................................3929
Computation of benefits....................................3941, 3963
Denial of benefits...............................................3937
Disability determinations:
Childhood disability...........................................3949
Drug abuse or alcoholism.......................................3965
Endocrine system and obesity.............................3950, 3961
Medical consultants' opinions..................................3948
Effective date of application for benefits.......................3934
Eligibility:
Children.......................................................1201
Non-U.S. citizens........................................1196, 1201
Fees for representation of claimants.............................3957
Income:
Children of Vietnam veterans...................................3986
Deeming from ineligible parents................................3980
Deeming of parental income when children are hospitalized......3970
Payment of past-due benefits.....................................3981
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
3934
Plans to achieve self-support....................................3930
Regulations corrections..........................................3942
Representative payee reforms...............................3956, 3966
Speech and language impairments..................................3929
Students temporarily abroad......................................3967
Substantial gainful activity.....................................3939
Vocational rehabilitation........................................3990
Surety bonds:
Automated surety interface.......................................2685
BLM bonding requirements.........................................1682
Form revision.....................................................335
Health facilities....................................1183, 1203, 1207
Medical device suppliers...................................1183, 1187
Security on penal bonds..........................................2588
Surface mining:
See also Mine safety and health
Coal:
Abandoned coal refuse sites....................................1624
Alluvial valley floors.........................................1625
Audits.........................................................1628
Backfilling and grading........................................1626
Dam safety rules...............................................1627
Rights.........................................................1629
Subsidence resulting from underground mining...................1630
X-ray surveillance program.....................................1959
Farmland..........................................................383
Indian lands...............................................1554, 1620
NRCS specifications...............................................383
Ownership and control............................................1623
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Penalties........................................................1631
Permit rights....................................................1621
Reclamation......................................................1622
Symbols:
See Signs and symbols
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
Income taxes
Breweries........................................................2606
DOE policy on making payments in lieu of taxes....................883
Environmental....................................................2955
Escrow funds.....................................................2708
Foreign trade....................................................2710
Imported recycled halons.........................................2980
New Mexico gross receipts and compensating tax...................4042
Passive activity losses and credits........................2852, 2932
Procedure and administration:
John Doe summons disputes......................................2899
Statement......................................................2771
Statute of limitations...................................2899, 2900
Treasury taxes and loans.........................................2589
Teachers:
DOD placement assistance program..................................704
Technical assistance:
Community Development Financial Institution Fund.................2567
Environmental Protection Agency grants...........................3528
Environmental restoration of DOD facilities.......................712
Technology:
See Science and technology
Telecommunications:
See also Radio
Satellites
Telephone
Television
Accessibility guidelines.........................................3142
Application of subscriber line charges to ISDN service...........4115
Bell Operating Companies and affiliates:
Enhanced services..............................................4134
Equipment manufacture..........................................4117
Telemessaging, electronic publishing and alarm.................4121
Carrier identification codes.....................................4129
Communication intercepting devices................................422
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act..........1861, 4136
Complaint procedures.............................................4133
Detariffing of interstate exchange access services...............4135
Equipment manufacture............................................4117
Fee assessment and collection....................................4188
Foreign participation in U.S. telecommunications market..........4171
North American Numbering Plan....................................4129
Out-of-region interstate, interexchange services:
Tariff filing requirements.....................................4122
Pole attachments.................................................4109
Relay services.............................................4137, 4138
Special equipment contract........................................361
Telecommunications Act:
Access charge reform...........................................4126
Customer proprietary network information (CPNI)................4120
Individuals with disabilities..................................4202
Interstate pay-per-call and other information services.........4119
LEC provision of interexchange services........................4125
Local competition provisions...................................4127
Non-accounting safeguards......................................4118
Parental choice................................................4099
Regulatory fee assessment and collection for 1997..............4189
Review of policies and rules...................................4122
Streamlining requirements......................................4124
Telemessaging, electronic publishing and alarm monitoring......4121
Unauthorized changes of long distance carriers...................4123
USDA program......................................................122
Wireless information networks....................................4158
Telephone:
Advertising......................................................4304
Billed party preference..........................................4113
Caller ID standards..............................................4110
Dial Equipment Minutes Weighting Program.........................4114
Enhanced 911 emergency calling systems.....................4128, 4200
Equipment authorization process..................................4161
Expanded interconnection with local company facilities...........4140
Inside wiring....................................................4131
LEC definition and exemptions from Section 214...................4130
Pay telephones...................................................4132
Rural.............................................................366
Rural Telephone Bank..............................................371
Telecommunications system construction policies...................360
Toll free service access codes...................................4116
Universal Service Fund...........................................4114
900-number service...............................................4304
911 codes and other abbreviated dialing arrangements.............4112
Television:
See also Cable television
Advanced systems.................................................4172
Advertising......................................................4176
Broadcast ownership..............................................4184
Competitive availability of navigation devices...................4108
Digital audio broadcasting.......................................4162
Equipment authorization process..................................4161
Filing of network affiliation contracts..........................4175
Main Studio/Public File Requirements for Broadcasters............4182
Mass media applications, rules, processes........................4185
Medical care telemetry devices...................................4157
Over-the-air reception devices...................................4105
Reallocation of channels 60-69...................................4160
Station ownership..........................................4174, 4181
V-chip technical requirements....................................4145
Video programming:
Accessibility..................................................4106
Parental blocks................................................4145
Rating.........................................................4099
Terrorism:
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act....................2616
Contractor training...............................................750
Textiles:
Customs regulations........................................2650, 2689
Flammability standards.....................................4064, 4073
Government procurement restrictions...............................791
Labeling.............................................4297, 4310, 4312
Wool products....................................................4310
Timber:
See Forests and forest products
Tires:
Retreads.........................................................2392
Uniform tire quality grading.....................................2356
Tobacco:
See also Cigars and cigarettes
Common Crop Insurance........................................153, 160
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Exports..........................................................2628
Marketing quotas...................................................72
Regulation clarification...........................................75
Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4296
Smokeless tobacco sale and distribution requirements..............962
Smokeless tobacco state and local requirement exemptions..........963
Warehouse regulations..............................................22
Tomatoes:
Common Crop Insurance.............................................168
Tort claims:
See Claims
Tourist trade:
See Travel
Toxic substances:
See Hazardous substances
Poison prevention
Toxins:
See Biologics
Trade adjustment assistance:
Communities.......................................................410
TAA program amendments...........................................1919
Workers transitional adjustment assistance.......................1920
Trade agreements:
Caribbean Basin country end products.............................4052
Endangered species.........................................1468, 1469
Hong Kong........................................................2701
Independent States of the former Soviet Union....................2635
Independent States of the former Yugoslavia......................2635
Market development................................................304
North American Free Trade Agreement......738, 1920, 2034, 2661, 2668,
2669
Reporting requirements for trade sanction exemptions.............4043
Telecommunications...............................................4171
Textile trade agreements.........................................2650
Trade practices:
Consumer product warranties................................4300, 4301
Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4299
Negative option plans............................................4303
Telephone service................................................4304
Trade unions:
See Labor unions
Trademarks:
Fees..............................................................675
Parallel imports and other trademarked goods.....................2663
PTO rule simplification and elimination...........................683
Registration to practice before the PTO in patent cases...........682
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board..................................673
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.................................3303
Conformity for transitional ozone areas..........................3209
Disadvantaged business enterprise program........................2070
DOT grants administration........................................2091
DOT rulemaking procedure.........................................2072
Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2502
Drug testing of transportation personnel......2056, 2068, 2500, 2535,
2536
Environmental review.......................................2504, 3332
Head Start participants..........................................1241
Individuals with disabilities........................2053, 2083, 3132
Minerals industry transportation and processing allowances.......1615
National Transit Database........................................2499
Pre-employment alcohol testing...................................2075
Traffic management...............................................3673
Transfers of transit without visa aliens.........................1770
Transportation Conformity Pilot Program..........................3377
Wildlife.........................................................1412
Travel:
See also Passports and visas
Travel and transportation expenses
Air tour and sightseeing operations..............................2166
Travel and transportation expenses:
Deductions for members of Congress...............................2752
Government employees.................................3667, 3668, 4001
Non-government employees..........................................918
Treaties:
See also Trade agreements
Antarctic Treaty.................................................3163
Chemical Weapons Convention.......................................433
Compacts of Free Association.....................................1776
Montreal Protocol................................................3197
Trucks:
See Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Trusts and trustees:
Residence trust..................................................2950
Taxation.........................................................2965
Unit investment trusts...........................................4453
Tuberculosis:
Correctional management....................................1068, 1707
Occupational exposure............................................2016
Tung nuts:
See Oilseeds
Turpentine:
See Forests and forest products
U
Underground mining:
See also Mine safety and health
Subsidence resulting from........................................1630
Ventilation................................................1960, 1977
Unemployment:
See Community development
Manpower training programs
Unemployment compensation
Unemployment compensation:
See also Railroad unemployment insurance
Disaster unemployment assistance.................................1916
Performance system...............................................1917
Unions:
See Labor unions
United States investments abroad:
Foreign utilities..........................................4458, 4459
Universities:
See Colleges and universities
Upward Bound Program:
See Education of disadvantaged
Uranium:
Mill sites..................................................890, 4368
NRC regulations amendments.......................................4361
Utilities:
See also Electric utilities
Natural gas
Water supply
Alaskan transportation and utility systems.......................1701
Exemption for certain acquisitions...............................4458
Exemption for subsidiary companies.........................4459, 4467
Filing of responses to FERC Form No. 580 interrogatories.........4236
Unnecessary filing requirements, elimination.....................4235
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V
Vaccines:
See Biologics
Vegetables:
See also specific vegetables
Electronic data transmission.......................................10
Import restrictions...............................................108
Inspection fees.................................................3, 12
Vegetable protein products........................................227
Venereal diseases:
Correctional management..........................................1707
Vessels:
See also Cargo vessels
Fishing vessels
Marine safety
Maritime carriers
Navigation (water)
Passenger vessels
Anchorage and moorage.............................................594
Anchorage area regulations.......................................2118
Armed forces vessels:
Uniform national discharge standards...........................3537
Ballast water exchange guidelines................................2110
Certificates of origin...........................................2103
Classification society rules.....................................2150
Coast Guard escort requirements..................................2145
Controlled substances............................................1741
Discharge-removal equipment......................................2123
Energy management regulations.....................................904
Government contracting...........................................1893
Inspection requirements....................................2132, 2133
Measurement rules................................................3866
Outer continental shelf..........................................2106
Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1794
Panama Canal.....................................................3867
Dangerous cargo................................................3865
Tolls..........................................................3866
Port restrictions and fees:
Japanese vessels...............................................4260
Regatta and parade permits.......................................2130
Regattas and marine parades......................................2125
Safety/security zone regulations.................................2117
Salvage and firefighting equipment...............................2140
Sewage discharge.................................................3582
Ship financing guarantees........................................2557
SOLAS compliance.................................................2151
Towing vessel operators..........................................2131
Vessel identification system...............................2103, 2122
Veterans:
Acquisition regulations........................3027, 3028, 3072, 3073
Affirmative action for employment..............................4046
Delete duplication.............................................3118
Miscellaneous changes..........................................3117
Purchase cards and electronic data interchange.................3026
Additional disability or death benefits..........................3064
AIDS.............................................................3097
Appeals regulations............................3022, 3076, 3089, 3090
Blind............................................................3011
Burial benefits......................................3033, 3034, 3035
Checks:
Tracing fees...................................................3036
Child care centers...............................................3095
Children's benefits........................................3069, 3986
Claims based on aggravation of nonservice-connected disability
3085
Claims based on ionizing radiation...............................3054
Clothing allowance...............................................3010
Contractor and subcontractor obligations.........................1900
Custody of school age or adult disabled children.................3084
Death of appelate during appeal............................3075, 3120
Denial of claims.................................................3081
Reconsiderations...............................................3044
Disability rating:
Cardiovascular system..........................................3100
Dental disabilities............................................3052
Digestive system...............................................3014
Eye, ear, and other sense organs.........................3017, 3048
Fibromyalgia...................................................3051
Individual unemployability.....................................3015
Medical evidence of improvement................................3082
Neurological conditions and convulsive disorders...............3013
Orthopedic system..............................................3012
Skin conditions................................................3047
Systemic conditions............................................3052
Total disability...............................................3050
Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program.....................3787
Discrimination decisionmaking....................................3123
Diseases subject to presumptive service connection...............3086
Education:
Advanced and lump sum payments.................................3019
Course approval requirements.......................3021, 3023, 3059
Election of education benefit..................................3053
Flight training..........................................3025, 3059
Independent study approval.....................................3105
Montgomery G.I. Bill.........................3018, 3021, 3066, 3107
Payment suspension and discontinuation.........................3049
Regulations revision...........................................3108
Reservists...............................................3024, 3103
Survivors and dependents.................................3068, 3106
Education entitlement repayment to VA............................3061
Educational assistance...............................3111, 3114, 3116
Eligibility for benefits.........................................3115
Emergency medical care...........................................1102
Evidence requirements............................................3016
Fiduciary activities.............................................3055
Food assistance programs.........................................3039
Freedom of Information Act.......................................3037
Hearings and appeals.......................................3092, 3119
Home loans.......................................................3104
Informed consent for patient care................................3042
Insurance........................................................3109
Loan guaranty:
Acceptance of partial payments.................................3079
Automatic authority program....................................3101
Conveyance of property to the VA...............................3078
Electronic payment of funding fee..............................3102
Interest rate reduction refinancing loans......................3087
Property improvements definition...............................3080
Loan refinancing.................................................3088
Medical benefits:
Adjunct conditions definition..................................3009
Drugs and medicines............................................3046
Enrollment and provisions of hospital care and medical
services...................................................3008
Hearing aids and sensori neural services.......................3097
Medical benefits for dependents and survivors....................3040
Medical evaluations:
Ankylosis......................................................3020
Cold injuries..................................................3057
Intervertebral disc syndrome...................................3056
Limitation in hand movement....................................3020
Medical opinions rules...........................................3091
Medical services.................................................3098
Medication copayments............................................3007
Medication prescribing authority.................................3045
Minimum income annuity...........................................3067
Miscellaneous changes............................................3071
Outpatient medical services......................................3041
Pensions.............................................3065, 3083, 3084
Persian Gulf.....................................................3110
Post-traumatic stress disorder...................................3062
Prosthetic services..............................................3011
Radiation exposure...............................................3054
Recognition of organizations and accreditation of
representatives for claimants................................3038
Rehabilitation programs..........................................3050
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Research-related injuries........................................3096
Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act.........3060
State homes................................................3006, 3099
Survivor benefits................................................3112
Training.........................................................3060
Undiagnosed illness compensation.................................3110
Veterans employment report........................................742
Vietnam POW compensation..........................................717
Vocational training programs...............................3058, 3063
Viruses:
See Biologics
Visas:
See Passports and visas
Vocational rehabilitation:
Providers:
Reports to SSA.................................................3990
State programs....................................................845
Veterans.........................................................3063
Volunteers:
DOL regulation...................................................1893
National Service Trust...........................................3145
Peace Corps....................................3772, 3871, 3872, 3873
Prison inmate community service projects.........................1704
Vista............................................................3772
Voting rights:
Minority language guidelines.....................................1740
Procedural changes for Section 5.................................1735
W
Wages:
See also Employee benefit plans
Minimum wages
Appropriated fund wage areas.........................3819, 3822, 3855
Cost-of-living allowances........................................3826
Domestic services................................................1901
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................1893
Federal construction contracts...................................1892
Garnishments.....................................................2599
Government printing positions....................................3821
Hospice wage index notice........................................1208
Hourly compensation:
Computer-related occupations...................................1897
Nonappropriated fund wage areas............................3820, 3854
Overtime.........................................................1894
Pay and leave administration.........................3780, 3824, 3856
Remedial measures for unfair labor practices.....................4353
Salary basis.....................................................1908
Severance pay....................................................3782
Site of work.....................................................1899
Student-learners, apprentices, messengers, and student workers
1912
Tipped employees.................................................1897
Warehouses:
Auction tobacco warehouses.........................................22
Commodity Credit Corporation storage...............................43
Cotton.........................................................47, 78
Customs regulation...............................................2666
Tobacco auction warehouses.........................................83
Warranties:
Disclosure of terms and conditions...............................4300
Informal Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (IDSM)....................4302
Pre-sale availability of written warranty terms..................4301
Waste treatment and disposal:
See also Hazardous waste
Recycling
Sewage disposal
Armed forces vessels.............................................3537
Effluent guidelines................3540, 3544, 3574, 3575, 3576, 3583
Financial test criteria..........................................3508
Fossil fuel combustion wastes....................................3520
Iron and steel manufacturing.....................................3543
Land disposal:
Financial responsibility.......................................3522
Restrictions.................................3483, 3486, 3505, 3513
Metal machinery and equipment wastewater.........................3572
Mineral processing wastes........................................3505
Nuclear waste disposal...........................................4396
Ocean dumping....................................................3604
Passenger vehicle waste discharge................................2494
Permit applications........................................3549, 3563
Radioactive waste................................................3193
Recoverable metals criteria......................................3555
Rural loans and grants.......................................142, 380
Sewer grouting...................................................3455
Shore Protection Act.............................................3605
Solid waste disposal:
Grant programs..................................................378
Hazardous waste recycling......................................3492
Landfills and incinerators...............................3371, 3574
Municipal landfills............................................3330
Physical/chemical evaluation methods...........................3490
Technical standards for corrective action......................3507
State programs...................................................3509
Toxic Release Inventory..........................................3474
Toxicity characteristic metals...................................3505
Underground storage tanks:
Toxicity characteristic rule...................................3519
Uniform national discharge standards.............................3537
Vessels transporting waste.......................................2121
Wood preserving wastes...........................................3505
Water carriers:
See Maritime carriers
Water pollution control:
See also Oil pollution
Waste treatment and disposal
Biological test methods..........................................3577
Clean Water Act.......3536, 3545, 3546, 3555, 3561, 3568, 3569, 3570,
3577
Test procedures..............................3556, 3562, 3578, 3579
Cyanide criteria.................................................3546
Effluent guidelines:
Effluent Guidelines Plan for 1998..............................3539
Industrial waste combustors....................................3575
Industrial wastewater....................................3572, 3573
Iron and steel manufacturing...................................3543
Landfills and incinerators.....................................3574
Mining.........................................................3534
Oil and gas extraction.........................................3538
Ore mining.....................................................3583
Pharmaceuticals................................................3557
Pulp, paper and paperboard.........................3229, 3544, 3576
Regulations reformatting.......................................3542
Transportation equipment cleaning..............................3541
Great Lakes......................................................3571
Marine pollution:
Discharge-removal equipment carriage and inspection............2123
Facility response plans for hazardous substances...............2146
Ocean dumping..................................................3604
Oil or hazardous substances..............................2142, 2144
Tank monitoring devices........................................2141
Tank vessels...................................................2104
NPDES permits..............................................3551, 3552
NPDES permittee reporting........................................3565
Oil and grease test procedures...................................3561
Permit applications..............................................3549
Permit regulations streamlining..................................3559
Pretreatment regulations...................................3550, 3558
Publicly owned treatment works renewal process...................3536
Radionuclides....................................................3587
Recoverable metals criteria......................................3555
Sewage sludge incinerator emissions..............................3580
Sewer collection systems.........................................3552
Sludge management programs.....................3517, 3566, 3567, 3581
Stormwater runoff................................................3564
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Test procedures for the analysis of pollutants.......3547, 3548, 3554
Total maximum daily loads........................................3568
Trace metals criteria............................................3545
Waste disposal permit applications...............................3563
Water quality standards............3535, 3560, 3562, 3568, 3578, 3579
Criteria for acute aquatic life................................3571
Water resources:
See also Water supply
Army Corps of Engineers environmental quality requirements........799
Colorado River Basin.........................................44, 1637
Land and Water Conservation Fund.................................1527
National Invasive Species Act....................................2110
Water Bank Program.................................................44
Water supply:
See also Irrigation
Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3160
Central Valley Project of California.............................1635
Colorado River Basin.............................................1637
Drinking water...................................................3598
Aldicarb and atrazine..........................................3602
Analyzing regulated drinking water contaminants................3592
Arsenic........................................................3600
Consumer Confidence Reports....................................3597
Contaminant level goals (MCLGs)................................3603
Contaminants...........................3404, 3586, 3587, 3593, 3596
Copper.........................................................3594
Disinfectants..................................................3588
Injection wells................................................3590
Intake zones...................................................3582
Lead...........................................................3594
Monitoring requirements........................................3591
Public notification requirements...............................3589
Radionuclides............................................3386, 3603
Regulations reformatting.......................................3595
Safe Drinking Water Act..................................3584, 3599
Sulfate........................................................3601
Surface water treatment rule...................................3596
Unregulated contaminant monitoring program.....................3585
Ecological risk assessment.......................................3165
Groundwater protection.....................................3417, 3418
Lake Berryessa, California.......................................1639
Newlands Irrigation Project, Nevada..............................1638
Storage and marketing............................................1637
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
Conformance of the USWMS with the USATONS (CGD 97-018)...........2135
Facility response plans for hazardous substances.................2146
Private aids to navigation.......................................2108
Weapons:
See Arms and munitions
Weather:
Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4151
Weights and measures:
See Measurement standards
Welfare programs:
See Public assistance programs
Wetlands:
See Coastal zone
Flood plains
Whales:
See Marine mammals
Wheat:
Crop insurance....................................................150
Diseases..........................................................107
Karnal bunt.......................................................111
Production flexibility contract....................................82
Whistleblowing:
DOE contract costs................................................906
FBI employees....................................................1875
Nuclear whistleblower protection...........................1911, 2029
Research misconduct..............................................1060
Wildlife:
See also Marine mammals
Wildlife refuges
Adoption of wild horses and burros by power of attorney..........1686
Albatross........................................................1427
Aviation bird encounter regulations........................2174, 2250
Brush-tailed possum..............................................1496
Captive bred.....................................................1440
Depredation orders...............................................1525
Eagles.....................................................1404, 1429
Endangered and threatened...1450, 1457, 1458, 1461, 1462, 1463, 1468,
1470, 1471, 1491, 1494, 1518, 1519, 1520, 1523
Falcons..............................................1404, 1407, 1426
Importation......................................................1490
Injurious........................................................1496
Management and protection............................1459, 1460, 1699
Marine sanctuary program....................................592, 1501
Migratory birds:
Canada goose permits...........................................1395
Hunting and permits............................................1517
Hunting regulations................................1439, 1456, 1472
Lesser snow goose..............................................1415
List revision..................................................1442
Molyshot.......................................................1409
Permits............................................1405, 1406, 1407
Tin shot.......................................................1403
Tungsten-iron shot.............................................1408
Tungsten-polymer shot....................................1393, 1408
No surprises policy..............................................1488
Permit procedures................................................1431
Restoration programs.............................................1484
Seabirds.....................................................631, 657
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program...............................388
Wildlife refuges:
Administrative and visitor facility sites........................1434
Alaska...........................................................1402
Disturbance regulations..........................................1397
Hunting and fishing regulations..................................1410
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge seasonal closure..................1507
Midway Atoll Wildlife Refuge.....................................1526
Public entry and use.......................................1479, 1688
Public use.......................................................1402
State exchange...................................................1674
Wine:
Exports..........................................................2605
Johannisburg Riesling grape variety..............................2632
Labeling.........................................................2608
Registration requirements for producers..........................2629
Viticultural areas...............................................2604
Women:
See also Minority businesses
Sex discrimination
In vitro fertilization...........................................1049
Length of hospital stay after birth of child...1095, 1136, 1940, 2751
Nutrition education participant contacts..........................221
Women-owned businesses:
Government subcontracting......................................4000
Women, infants, and children:
Funding formula...................................................207
Supplemental food program...............................222, 240, 247
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Administrative requirement changes..............................218
Cereals sugar limit.............................................235
Cultural food preferences.......................................232
Food delivery systems...........................................178
Food packaging..................................................230
Infant formula..................................................242
Infant formula rebate contracts.................................205
Wood:
See Forests and forest products
Workers' compensation:
Coal miners......................................................1903
Reduction of Social Security benefits............................3944
Third Party Collection Program....................................690
Y
Youth:
See also Infants and children
Juvenile delinquency
AmeriCorps information disclosure................................3147
AmeriCorps participants..........................................3145
Young American Medals Program....................................1883