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[Subject Index to the Unified Agenda]
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              E. SUBJECT INDEX TO THE UNIFIED AGENDA

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Accountants:
  Debarment and suspension...................................2824, 4430
Accounting:
  Audits of state and local governments and non-profit 
      institutions...................1407, 1411, 2129, 2246, 3190, 3874
  Cost accounting standards..................................2014, 3915
  Cost principles...................................................934
  Credit union audits and verifications............................4543
  Customs Service fees and interest................................2850
  DEA..............................................................1884
  DFARS contract administration and audit services..................904
  DFARS contract services...........................................952
  DOI cost recovery..........................................1795, 1796
  Food Stamp Program EBT system audit requirements..................373
  Foreign exchange operations......................................2763
  Funds transfers to State governments...............................99
  FCC cost allocation and accounting rules.........................4322
  FMS claims.................................................2759, 2769
  Ginnie Mae financial reporting...................................1472
  Government payments:
    DFARS modification..............................................953
    Performance-based payments................................924, 4438
    Taxpayer identification numbers.................................953
  International accounting standards...............................4620
  Mark-to-market.......................................2984, 3047, 3048
  Medicare program.................................................1304
  OASDI calculations of the contribution and benefit base and 
      earnings test exempt amounts.................................4154
  PBGC calculation and payment of benefits.........................4052
  PBGC premium self-audit..........................................4043
  Revision of OMB Circular A-127...................................3911
  Small business size standards:
    Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services..................4083
  Unified Partnership Audit Procedures.............................3096
Administrative practice and procedure:
  See also Claims
           Environmental impact statements
           Equal access to justice
           Freedom of information
           Privacy
           Sunshine Act
  Advisory committees........................................1826, 3799
  Aviation economic proceedings rules of practice..................2212
  ATF........................................................2818, 2821
  Block grants.....................................................1101
  Board of Veterans' Appeals:
    Case docketing.................................................3225
    Delegations of authority.......................................3224
    Notification of representatives in connection with clear and 
        unmistakable error motions.................................3226
    Simultaneously contested claims................................3183
  BATF procedures..................................................2812
  BLM procedures...................................................1825
  Code of Conduct..................................................4165
  DIO..............................................................2819
  DOE:
    Economic development transfers of real property................1070
  DOI........................................................1527, 1528
  DOJ:
    Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database........................2018
    National Instant Criminal Background Check System..............2017
  Equal Access to Justice Act................................1109, 3895
  EEOC.............................................................3761
  EPA........................................................3560, 3567
  Federal Advisory Committee Act...................................3799
  Federal Crop Insurance Corporation................................327
  FCC's ex parte rules in Joint Board proceedings..................4359
  FDA..............................................................1110
    Advisory opinions and guidelines...............................1122
    Citizen petitions..............................................1144
  FEMA.............................................................3790
  FERC.................................................4438, 4445, 4450
  FERC off-the-record communications...............................4452
  FHFB unpublished information.....................................4464
  FTC regulatory review............................................4511
  FWS seizure and forfeiture procedures............................1580
  Government in the Sunshine Act...................................3294
  Hazardous materials..............................................2711
  Hearing and appeal procedures:
    Administrative law judges......................................1894
    Adverse actions against Head Start agencies....................1383
    Army Corps of Engineers....................................969, 973
    Aviation economic proceedings............................2228, 2229
    Board of Immigration Appeals...................................1896
    Bureau of Indian Affairs.......................................1741
    Bureau of Land Management......................................1800
    DOL......................................................2035, 2040
    FCIC procedures.................................................317
    Immigration proceedings........................................1894
    Indian affairs.................................................1525
    Medicaid State Plan amendments.................................1300
    Medicare claims appeal.........................................1324
    Medicare enrollment............................................1238
    Minerals Management Service....................................1771
    Minority Enterprise Development Office.........................4106
    National Forest System..........................................459
    National Indian Gaming Commission........................4549, 4553
    NRC......................................................4618, 4619
    Office of the Special Trustee..................................1530
    Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.................3897
    Office of Government Ethics....................................3900
    Office of Personnel Management.....................3934, 3953, 3962
    Office of Trust Funds Management...............................1530
    Peace Corps....................................................4040
    Public lands cases.............................................1524
    PTO.............................................................865
    Reclamation Bureau.............................................1787
    RRB............................................................4070
    Social Security Administration...........................4148, 4168
    SBA............................................................4107
    Transportation proceedings.....................................2463
    Treasury Department............................................2824
    Veterans Affairs.........................................3238, 3242
  INS..............................................................1956
  IRS........................................................3031, 3083
  MARAD............................................................2743
  National Credit Union Administration.............................4536
  NHTSA global technical regulations statement of policy...........2581
  NIGC:
    Compulsory process and testimony of employees..................4552
  NRC..............................................................4584
  OMB..............................................................3918
  OPM..............................................................3955
  OTS..............................................................3136
  Panama Canal Commission:
    Removal of Secretary of the Army as prescribing authority......4036
  Peace Corps volunteer discrimination complaints..................4041
  Registration of drug producers...................................1189
  Research and Special Programs Administration.....................2726
  Rulemaking:
    DOT............................................................2226

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    EPA............................................................3544
    FCA............................................................4273
    FCC..........................................4295, 4329, 4386, 4409
    FERC...........................................................4455
    INS............................................................1904
    IRS......................................................3038, 3078
    NRC......................................................4566, 4588
    USDA............................................................253
  RRB..............................................................4061
  Social Security Administration.............................4136, 4176
    Testimony of employees and production of records in legal 
        proceedings................................................4121
  USAID commodities transactions...................................3282
  USDA..............................................................506
  VA.............................................3174, 3190, 3227, 3270
Adoption and foster care:
  Adoption and Safe Families Act...................................1391
  Intercountry adoption............................................2199
  State performance requirements...................................1375
Adult education:
  Ineligibility of F-1 foreign students............................1913
Advertising:
  Air carriers, prices.............................................2222
  Direct-to-consumer promotion.....................................1117
  Home insulation..................................................4508
  Investment companies.............................................4642
  Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4507
  Television.......................................................4377
  Unfair or deceptive practices..............................4514, 4516
Aged:
  See also Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  AOA rules revisions..............................................1392
  Food assistance programs.......................................5, 381
  Nondiscrimination:
    Air travel.....................................................2216
    DOL programs...................................................2126
    Employment...............................................3755, 3756
Agricultural commodities:
  See also Acreage allotments
           Commodity futures
           Crop insurance
           Fruits
           Grains
           Marketing agreements
           Marketing quotas
           Nuts
           Oilseeds
           Price support programs
           Surplus agricultural commodities
           Vegetables
           specific commodities
  Accelerated Production Flexibility Contract payments..............234
  Cargo preference regulations.....................................2741
  CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program..........................252, 432
  Exports......................................................433, 435
  Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions..............................2043
  Kiwifruit.........................................................176
  Mark-to-market accounting........................................3048
  Noninsured crop disaster assistance program.......................223
  Nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for crambe.................235
  Overseas market development.......................................434
  Speculative limits for futures contracts.........................4243
  Sugarcane.........................................................194
  Warehouses for CCC storage contracts..............................199
Agricultural research:
  Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act:
    Matching funds requirement......................................289
    Stakeholder input to formula funds..............................288
  Animal embryos and semen..........................................269
  Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program 
      administrative provisions.....................................286
  Donation of excess research equipment.............................506
Agriculture:
  See also Agricultural commodities
           Agricultural research
           Fertilizers
           Food assistance programs
           Foods
           Forests and forest products
           Irrigation
           Migrant labor
           Pesticides and pests
           Range management
           Rural areas
  Acquisition regulations.................................505, 507, 509
  ASCS program ineligibility........................................193
  Collateral requirements for emergency loans.......................239
  Cooperative marketing associations................................217
  CFSA state and county committees..................................196
  Disaster assistance..........................................207, 251
  Farm reconstitution regulations...................................219
  Farm Service Agency:
    Disaster set-aside program second installment...................231
    Low documentation loans.........................................238
    Real estate appraisals and chattel appraisals...................236
    Regulatory streamlining of direct farm loan programs............232
    Small Hog Operation Payment Program.............................237
  Hog imports from Europe...........................................276
  Horse protection requirements.....................................260
  Income taxes.....................................................2962
  Nondiscrimination in USDA-conducted programs and activities.......464
  Pseudorabies in swine.............................................279
  Quarantine and inspection service user fees.......................261
  State mediation programs..........................................181
  Technical assistance and training.......................294, 472, 491
  USDA lobbying restrictions........................................508
  Worker protection standards......................................3564
Aid to Families with Dependent Children:
  See also Public assistance programs
           Work Incentive Programs (WIN)
  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..............1321, 1381, 1389
  Unemployed parent................................................1321
Air carriers:
  See also Air rates and fares
           Air taxis
           Charter flights
  Airline deregulation benefit provisions..........................2073
  Anti-drug and alcohol misuse prevention programs.................2394
  Aviation data requirements.......................................2211
  Aviation exemption procedures....................................2219
  Baggage liability..........................................2220, 2225
  Cargo limit......................................................2692
  Competitiveness............................................2210, 2236
  Computer reservations system.....................................2210
  Computer Assisted Passenger Screening (CAPS) system..............2368
  Damage of expensive mobility aids................................2247
  Direct flight, definition........................................2217
  Fees charged by airports.........................................2371
  Flight diversions within metropolitan areas......................2218
  Hazardous materials transportation:
    Emergency telephone number requirements........................2689
  Interstate authority.............................................2236
  Landing gear shock absorption test requirements..................2334
  Non-age discrimination...........................................2216
  Overbooking of flights...........................................2227
  Passengers:
    Airline counter notices........................................2221
    Aliens with fraudulent documents...............................1948
    Facility charges...............................................2325

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    Ground travel expense when diverted............................2218
    Manifest information.....................................1909, 2242
    Oxygen use.....................................................2241
    Passenger Origin-Destination Survey............................2745
  Pilots:
    National Driver Register records.........................2570, 2628
    Night flying takeoff and landing training......................2416
  Price advertising................................................2222
  Repair station requirements................................2316, 2398
  Safety and security-related information..........................2364
  Seats, crashworthiness standards.................................2318
  Security measures................................................2360
  Smoking ban......................................................2238
  Tariff filing requirements.......................................2245
  Universal child seats............................................2519
Air pollution control:
  See also Motor vehicle pollution
  Acid rain:
    Allowance allocations....................................3525, 3541
  Acid Rain Program:
    Permits regulations............................................3541
  Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing...........................3521
  Aerospace industry.........................................3402, 3526
  Agricultural chemicals...........................................3519
  Air quality modeling.............................................3335
  Air quality resources:
    Class I area designations......................................3483
  Air quality standards.......................................103, 3385
  Air storage tanks................................................3532
  Aluminum industry................................................3420
  Asphalt roofing and processing...................................3350
  Baker's yeast manufacturing industry.............................3469
  Boat manufacturing industry......................................3342
  Boilers...........................................................106
  Carbon monoxide..................................................3385
  Chemicals.............................................128, 3332, 3333
  Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).................................1120, 3534
  Chromium emissions.........................................3324, 3475
  Clean fuels formula grant program................................2675
  Clean Air Act.....108, 3339, 3389, 3399, 3425, 3426, 3437, 3500, 3512
  Consumer products..........................................3380, 3543
  Copper smelters..................................................3419
  Cyanide chemical manufacturing...................................3329
  Dioxin emission measurement......................................3334
  Dry cleaners.....................................................3472
  Electric arc furnaces............................................3537
  Emergency episode requirements...................................3504
  Emission control diagnostic systems..............................3431
  Emission standards:
    Coke ovens....3356, 3357, 3358, 3364, 3368, 3460, 3485, 3488, 3531, 
                                                             3550, 3551
    Halogenated solvents...................3465, 3485, 3531, 3548, 3549
    Hydrogen fluoride production....3356, 3357, 3358, 3364, 3485, 3486, 
                                                       3488, 3530, 3531
    New marine engines........3356, 3357, 3358, 3364, 3381, 3449, 3485, 
                                                       3486, 3488, 3531
    Non-road spark-ignition engines..........................3378, 3531
    Permit requirements.......3356, 3357, 3358, 3364, 3452, 3485, 3486, 
                                                       3488, 3531, 3547
    Potential to emit..........3356, 3357, 3358, 3377, 3485, 3488, 3531
    Semiconductor facilities........3356, 3357, 3358, 3364, 3479, 3485, 
                                                       3486, 3488, 3531
  Emissions monitoring program......3360, 3363, 3365, 3432, 3433, 3438, 
                                                             3525, 3533
  Emissions reporting..............................................3361
  Emissions trades.................................................3362
  Essential uses...................................................1120
  Ethylene processing........................................3345, 3453
  Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry.....................3480
  Ferroalloy industry..............................................3523
  Fugitive emissions...............................................3489
  Gas turbines.....................................................3351
  General provisions amendments....................................3336
  Glycol ethers....................................................3446
  Halons...........................................................3382
  Hazardous air pollutants......106, 126, 3331, 3332, 3333, 3333, 3342, 
           3343, 3344, 3345, 3346, 3347, 3348, 3349, 3350, 3351, 3356, 
           3357, 3358, 3359, 3360, 3366, 3399, 3402, 3420, 3439, 3470, 
           3472, 3473, 3474, 3475, 3476, 3485, 3486, 3487, 3488, 3511, 
           3513, 3516, 3517, 3518, 3519, 3520, 3521, 3522, 3526, 3533, 
                                                                   3599
  Hazardous air pollutants source categories.................3487, 3529
  Hazardous waste combustion facilities............................3647
  Highway diesel fuel quality......................................3544
  Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators...................3451
  HCFC allowance distribution system...............................3369
  Indian reservations..............................................3429
  Inspection/maintenance programs................3327, 3407, 3412, 3458
  Internal combustion engines......................................3349
  Iron and steel industry....................................3328, 3330
  Large appliance coating industry.................................3346
  Lead smelters....................................................3520
  Lime manufacturing industry......................................3476
  Measurement regulation...........................................3334
  Metal parts and products coating industry......3347, 3353, 3354, 3473
  Methyl bromide.............................................3383, 3384
  Mineral wool production industry standards.......................3512
  Municipal landfills........................................3357, 3455
  Municipal waste combustion units.................................3388
  MACT standards........3356, 3357, 3359, 3366, 3452, 3479, 3485, 3486, 
                                                 3488, 3529, 3530, 3547
  National Strategy for Urban Area Sources of Toxic Air Emissions
                                                                   3533
  Navajo nation lands..............................................3427
  New source performance standards.................................3471
  New source review.................................................125
  New stationary sources.....................................3364, 3433
  No backsliding rule for nonattainment areas......................3545
  Non-metallic minerals processing.................................3355
  NESHAP:
    Alumina processing.............................................3490
    Asphalt/coal tar application...................................3495
    Carbon black.............................................3359, 3370
    Cellulose production...........................................3356
    Chemical recovery combustion sources...........................3501
    Chromium electroplating........................................3441
    Chromium emissions.............................................3324
    Clay products manufacturing..............................3496, 3506
    Elastomers.....................................................3439
    Ethylene oxide commercial sterilization and fumigation 
        operations...........................................3453, 3459
    Fabric printing, coating and dyeing industry...................3480
    Fumed silica production........................................3491
    Hydrochloric acid production...................................3493
    Hydrogen chloride production...................................3497
    Iron and steel industry........................................3492
    Leather tanning................................................3358
    Magnetic tape manufacturing....................................3535
    Metal parts and products coating industry................3353, 3354
    Metal pipes....................................................3495
    Natural gas production.........................................3447
    Non-metallic minerals processing...............................3355
    Off-site waste and recovery operations.........................3443
    Oil production.................................................3447
    Organic liquids................................................3366
    Polyurethane foam production...................................3488
    Polyvinyl chloride production..................................3373
    Predictive emission monitoring.................................3374
    Process heaters................................................3502
    Pulp and paper production................................3371, 3501
    Site remediation...............................................3485
    Spandex........................................................3486
    Synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry..............3372

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    Thermoplastics.................................................3439
    Uranium hexafluoride production................................3498
    Vegetable oil production.......................................3360
    Wet-formed fiberglass mat production...........................3375
  Opacity measurement of emissions...........................3428, 3438
  Operating permits:
    Indian reservations.................................104, 3478, 3528
  Ozone......127, 3341, 3346, 3347, 3348, 3425, 3426, 3430, 3473, 3474, 
                                                                   3526
  Ozone and ozone precursors:
    National ambient air quality standards.............3367, 3405, 3410
    Pollutant standards index......................................3536
    Significant harm level programs................................3536
    Transport..........................................3442, 3461, 3499
  Paint stripper users.............................................3470
  Paper, film and foil coating industry............................3348
  Particulate matter.....................................107, 127, 3546
  Penalties for violations.........................................3467
  Petroleum refineries.......................................3423, 3513
  Phosphate fertilizer production..................................3418
  Phosphoric acid manufacturing....................................3514
  Plastic composites manufacturing.................................3331
  Plastic parts industry...........................................3474
  Plywood and particle board manufacturing.........................3344
  Polycarbonates...................................................3522
  Polyether polyol production......................................3518
  Polymers and resins..............................................3417
  Portland cement manufacturing....................................3517
  Power plants.....................................................3538
  Process heaters.............................................106, 3502
  Publically owned treatment works study...........................3422
  Pulp and paper mills.............................................3511
  PCB manufacturing................................................3592
  Sewage sludge incinerators.......................................3435
  Shipbuilding industry............................................3526
  Solid waste incinerators.........................................3471
  State implementation plans.................125, 127, 3427, 3436, 3527
  Steel pickling processes.........................................3515
  Stratospheric ozone protection....3369, 3382, 3383, 3384, 3444, 3503, 
                                                                   3540
  Sulfur oxides.....................................................103
  Synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing........................3421
  Test rules.......................................................3538
  Tire manufacturing...............................................3343
  Transportation Conformity Pilot Program..........................3539
  Vapor control systems............................................2265
  Volatile organic compounds........3346, 3347, 3348, 3387, 3394, 3395, 
             3402, 3421, 3464, 3466, 3473, 3474, 3481, 3482, 3484, 3526
  Waste incinerators performance standards.........................3339
  Wood furniture industry....................................3484, 3526
  Wool fiberglass manufacturing industry...........................3516
Air rates and fares:
  Aviation data requirements.......................................2211
  Rebating international fares.....................................2237
Air transportation:
  See also Air carriers
           Air rates and fares
           Air taxis
           Air traffic control
           Aircraft
           Airmen
           Airports
           Airspace
           Aviation safety
           Charter flights
           Military air transportation
           Navigation (air)
  Aviation economics.........................................2228, 2229
  Excise taxes.....................................................2922
  Hazardous substances.............................................2688
  Inspection of stopover passengers................................1921
  Unfair exclusionary conduct......................................2243
Aircraft:
  Aircraft parts...................................................2328
  Airworthiness directives and standards........2344, 2356, 2377, 2378, 
                                           2379, 2380, 2381, 2383, 2384
  Bird ingestion standards.........................................2358
  Bird strike requirements.........................................2400
  Cargo restrictions:
    Oxidizers and organic peroxides................................2724
  Child restraint systems..........................................2329
  Corrosion control program........................................2319
  Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2348
  Dispatcher certification.........................................2359
  Emergency exits..................................................2351
  Enhanced ground proximity warning system...........................92
  Fire safety standards for cargo/baggage compartments.............2404
  FAA registration fees............................................2391
  Hazardous material recognition training..........................2335
  Improved seats retrofit..........................................2318
  Maintenance:
    Aging aircraft...........................................2347, 2398
    Certification of mechanics and repairmen.......................2408
    Repair assessments.............................................2357
  Manifests public disclosure......................................2876
  Noise control....................................................2415
  Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities..................975
  Parachutes.......................................................2369
  Registration.....................................................2385
  Rocket engines...................................................3487
  Rotorcraft:
    Airworthiness standards..................................2413, 2414
    Flight plan requirements.......................................2370
    Maximum gross weight limitation................................2409
  Snowplanes.......................................................1701
  Surplus military.................................................2392
  Titles and security documents....................................2385
  Transponders...............................................2354, 2395
  Transport category:
    Airworthiness directives and standards.............2337, 2399, 2420
    Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures..................2396
    Engine cowling retention devices...............................2389
    Fuel tank ignition source review...............................2332
    Low speed stall................................................2390
    Repair assessments.............................................2357
  Turbine-powered and turboprop:
    Bird ingestion standards.......................................2358
  Type certification procedures....................................2355
  Voyageurs National Park operations...............................1700
  Water landing survival equipment.................................2317
  Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act........................890
Airmen:
  Aeromedical education training services..........................2327
  Civil penalty assessment procedures..............................2349
  Controlled rest on the flight deck...............................2397
  Drug abuse.......................................................2387
  Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2324
  Flight attendants:
    English language proficiency...................................2350
  Flight operational quality assurance program participation.......2320
  FAA certification fees...........................................2391
  Ground deicing/anti-icing procedures.............................2352
  Medical examinations.............................................2326
  National Driver Register records...........................2570, 2628
  Night flying takeoff and landing training........................2416
  Rest and duty requirements.........................................91
  Training and certification...........................2331, 2352, 2372
Airports:
  Allocation of slots..............................................2367
  Anchorage, Alaska, terminal area.................................2412
  Concessions:
    Disadvantaged business enterprise participation................2232
  Elimination of overbooking signs.................................2227

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  Fees charged to air carriers.....................................2371
  Land use compatibility planning..................................2393
  Landing systems..................................................2361
  Security.........................................................2346
  Transponder requirement suspension...............................2354
Airspace:
  Air traffic services and aeronautical studies:
    Fees...........................................................2362
  Grand Canyon National Park:
    Air tour operations............................................2373
    Modifications..................................................2374
  Landing systems..................................................2361
  Los Angeles, CA..................................................2353
  National Park Service overflights:
    Grand Canyon National Park.....................................2402
  NOAA overflight regulation........................................705
  Objects affecting navigable airspace.............................2343
  Regulations, routine issue of....................................2382
Alcohol abuse:
  See also Alcoholism
  Air carrier employees............................................2394
  Railroad employee testing........................................2663
  Transportation industry........................2209, 2230, 2324, 2679
Alcohol and alcoholic beverages:
  See also Beer
           Gasohol
           Liquors
           Wine
  Country of origin statements.....................................2777
  Denatured alcohol and rum:
    Distribution and use...........................................2807
    Formulas and technical amendments..............................2809
  Distilled spirits plants regulatory streamlining.................2787
  Prohibition of containers........................................2790
  Tax-free alcohol.................................................2806
  Veterans Affairs acquisition regulations.........................3273
  Wine.............................................................2788
Aliens:
  See also Citizenship and naturalization
           Immigration
           Migrant labor
           Refugees
  Accompanying definition..........................................2207
  Adjustment of status.....................1895, 1938, 1959, 1962, 1987
  Age requirements for fingerprinting..............................1917
  American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act.....1872, 1926
  Arrival/departure management system..............................1918
  Arriving aliens definition.......................................1957
  Asylum.....................................................1920, 1958
    Failure to appear for interview with asylum officer............1924
  Battered and abused spouses and children...................1916, 1941
  Bonding pilot program............................................1994
  Border crossing card fees........................................2208
  Border crossing cards............................................2195
  Border crossing identification documents...................1922, 1970
  Criminal convictions.......................................1956, 1991
  Cuban......................................................1962, 1981
  Deportation proceedings:
    Entrepreneurs............................................1945, 1956
    Suspension...............................................1893, 1967
  Employment.......................................62, 1908, 1973, 1989
    Use on government contract projects.......................905, 1973
  Employment authorization fee.....................................1976
  Employment eligibility verification..............................1978
  Expedited exclusion procedures...................................1991
  F-1 foreign students.............................................1913
  Family Unity Program.............................................1951
  Fingerprinting...................................................1961
  Foreign group health plans.......................................1306
  Habitual residence...............................................1949
  Haitian nationals................................................1975
  Health care workers........................................1952, 2003
  Hungarian parolees...............................................1953
  Immigrant investors..............................................1992
  Inadmissability....................................................61
  IR status........................................................2193
  Juveniles............................................1904, 1963, 1965
  Labor certification process....................2062, 2067, 2069, 2071
  Mail order brides................................................1916
  Nicaraguan.......................................................1962
  Nonimmigrant classes:
    Admission into the U.S...................................1946, 1972
    American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act...1925, 1974
    Corporate reorganizations......................................1911
    Disclosure of information......................................1943
    Documentation..................................................2191
    Honoraria and incidental expenses..............................2205
    Law enforcement initiatives....................................1939
    Overstay of nonimmigrant status................................2000
    Temporary workers............................2053, 2062, 2067, 2074
    Visitors for business..........................................1934
    Waiver for firearm prohibition.................................2006
  Orphan petitions.................................................1944
  Parent-child relationships.......................................1944
  Permanent residence..............................................1895
  Permanent resident status............................1953, 1959, 1962
  Polish parolees..................................................1953
  Prostitution.....................................................1912
  Public assistance programs:
    Food Stamp Program...............................5, 369, 1414, 1960
    Medicaid.................................................1414, 1960
    Sponsor reimbursement..............................1414, 1947, 1960
  Religious workers................................................1966
  Removal orders...................................................1955
  Student employment...............................................1995
  SSA regulations..................................................1910
  Temporary protected status.................................1976, 1990
  Temporary workers..........................................1936, 2055
  Termination of DV registration at NVX............................2182
  Transit without visa.............................................2186
  Visa ineligibility...............................................2206
  Withholding of removal...........................................1958
Animal biologics:
  Direct-to-consumer promotion.....................................1117
Animal diseases:
  Pseudorabies in swine.............................................279
  Scrapie...........................................................257
Animal drugs:
  See also Animal biologics
  Animal Drug Availability Act.....................................1110
  Approval process.................................................1158
  Direct-to-consumer promotion.....................................1117
  Feed directives............................................1171, 1174
  Import tolerance levels..........................................1197
  Investigational use..............................................1110
  New drug applications............................................1182
  Presubmission conferences for applicants.........................1142
  Registration of foreign establishments and product listing.......1123
  Substantial evidence definition..................................1204
  Supplemental manufacturing changes...............................1134
Animal welfare:
  Dogs and cats.....................................................281
  Horse protection requirements.....................................260
  Inspection, licensing, and procurement............................272
  Interstate movement to slaughter..................................267
  Marine mammals...............................................262, 701

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Animals:
  See also Animal diseases
           Animal drugs
           Animal feeds
           Animal foods
           Animal welfare
           Livestock
           Pets
           Wildlife
           specific animals
  Imports...........................................................269
    Hogs from Europe................................................276
  Pet ownership in public housing..................................1495
Antidumping:
  Reformulated gasoline program requirements:
    Compliance baseline modification...............................3542
  Sunset reviews....................................................533
Archives and records:
  See also Classified information
           Freedom of information
           Health records
           Privacy
           Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
  Facilities.......................................................3857
  NARA:
    Storage standards..............................................3866
  Researcher registration..........................................3873
  Return of Nixon Presidential materials...........................3875
Armed forces:
  See also Armed forces reserves
           Conscientious objectors
           Federal buildings and facilities
           Military academies
           Military law
           Military personnel
           Selective Service System
  Air Force:
    Academy nominations and appointments............................982
  Army Corps of Engineers:
    Administrative appeals process.............................969, 973
    Environmental quality requirements..............................966
    ESA scope of analysis...........................................967
    Permit regulations..............................................971
    Wetland Delineator Certification Program........................972
  Coast Guard:
    Access to National Driver Register.......................2612, 2628
    ASTM standards.................................................2287
    Commercial diving operations...................................2258
    Deep water ports...............................................2257
    Drug testing reporting requirements............................2312
    Escort requirements for vessels in U.S. waters.................2298
    Facility response plans for hazardous substances.................88
    Facility response plans for non-petroleum oils.................2286
    Fees for undocumented vessel numbering.........................2311
    Marine Safety and Environmental Protection...2254, 2255, 2302, 2310
    Merchant mariners........................................2300, 2310
    Numbering of undocumented barges...............................2251
    Propeller injury prevention....................................2301
    Regatta and parade permits.....................................2280
    Regulated navigation areas.....................................2299
    Tank barge emergency control measures..........................2305
    Tank vessel response plans for hazardous substances..............89
    Tonnage regulations............................................2285
    Towing vessel fire protection measures.........................2284
    Towing vessel operators........................................2281
  CHAMPUS........................985, 986, 987, 989, 990, 991, 992, 996
  Military records correction.......................................965
  Navy:
    Freedom of Information Act program.........................977, 981
    National Environmental Policy Act implementation................976
    Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities................975
  Reemployment.....................................................3944
  Selective service regulation.....................................4074
  Surplus aircraft.................................................2392
Armed forces reserves:
  National Guard technicians:
    Retirement.....................................................4026
  Ready Reserve.....................................................888
Arms and munitions:
  Brady Bill regulations................................546, 2784, 2792
  Curio and relic.............................................546, 2792
  Dual-use items...............................................546, 564
  Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative....................546, 565
  Excise taxes......................................................546
  Explosives safety............................................546, 899
  Export controls..........................................18, 546, 546
  Federal surplus donation requirements............................3830
  Handguns....................................................546, 2792
  Identification markings..........................................2794
  International traffic............................................2204
  National Instant Criminal Background Check System...........546, 2017
  Persons prohibited from receiving firearms............546, 2785, 2792
  Residency requirements for purchasers.......................546, 2793
  Waiver for firearm prohibition on nonimmigrant visa holders......2006
Asbestos:
  Model accreditation plan.........................................3577
Authority delegations:
  Banks............................................................2756
  Bureau of Indian Affairs.........................................1741
  Civil penalty issuance...........................................1891
  DOA..............................................................2196
  DOJ..............................................................2013
  DOL........................................................2042, 2067
  EPA revisions....................................................3436
  FEMA.......................................................3779, 3781
  HHS:
    OIG......................................................1099, 1105
  HUD..............................................................1433
  Immigration judges...............................................1891
  INS..............................................................2194
  Panama Canal Commission:
    Removal of Secretary of the Army as prescribing authority......4036
  Personnel and general claims settlement...........................877
  Surface Transportation Board.....................................4701
  VA.........................................................3248, 3276
Aviation safety:
  Aging aircraft...................................................2347
  Air tour and sightseeing operations..............................2365
  Aircraft improved seats retrofit.................................2318
  Airplane operator security.......................................2345
  Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2344
  Airworthiness directives and standards...............2356, 2380, 2399
  Alcohol misuse prevention program................................2394
  Anti-drug programs...............................................2394
  Bird ingestion standards.........................................2358
  Bird strike requirements.........................................2400
  Civil penalty assessment procedures..............................2349
  Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.......................2242
  Corrosion control program........................................2319
  Crash-resistant fuel systems.....................................2378
  Crashworthy fuel tanks and lines.................................2386
  Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2348
  Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures....................2396
  Engine fuel and induction systems................................2384
  Enhanced ground proximity warning system...........................92
  Flight operational quality assurance program information.........2320
  Flight rules...............................................2379, 2381
  Foreign air carriers:
    Security programs..............................................2360
  Freight:
    Passenger aircraft cargo.......................................2363
  Fuel tank ignition source review.................................2332

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  Fuel tank vent protection........................................2377
  Hazards to air navigation........................................2343
  Information and records disclosed by industry....................2364
  Low-fuel-quantity alerting system................................2383
  Maintenance personnel certification..............................2408
  Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2241
  Parachute operations.............................................2369
  Pilot rest and duty requirements.............................91, 2397
  Repair assessments...............................................2357
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2364, 2398
  Rotorcraft.................................................2413, 2414
  Rotorcraft weight limitation.....................................2409
  Transponder requirement..........................................2395
  Type certification procedures....................................2355
  Water landing survival equipment.................................2317
AIDS:
  AIDS Healthcare Foundation START Program.........................1241
  NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1218


                                   B

Bank deposit insurance:
  Assessments................................................4419, 4431
  Credit unions:
    Requirements...................................................4547
    Share insurance................................................4533
  DIMIA compliance...........................................3145, 4433
  FDIC:
    Advertisement of membership....................................4423
  FDIC contractors:
    Women- and minority-owned businesses...........................4432
  Nonmember banks......................................4424, 4434, 4519
  Notice of insured status.........................................4415
  Program fraud civil remedies.....................................4414
  Receivership rules...............................................4416
  Risk-based capital standards...............................4420, 4425
  Year 2000 safety and soundness guidelines..................4435, 4437
Bankruptcy:
  Group health plans...............................................1306
  RCRA financial responsibility....................................3639
Banks, banking:
  See also Bank deposit insurance
           Credit
           Electronic funds transfers
           Federal Reserve System
           Federal home loan banks
           Foreign banking
           National banks
           Savings associations
  Anti-money laundering programs...................................2755
  Automated Clearing House Method..................................2762
  Bank holding companies...........................................4503
  Bank Secrecy Act...................2750, 2751, 2752, 2753, 2756, 2757
  Casino reporting.................................................2754
  Checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury................................2768
  Collateral eligibility and valuation...........2772, 2773, 2774, 2822
  Community development corporation and project investments........2828
  Consumer regulations review......................................4489
  Conversions......................................................3138
    Insured credit unions to mutual savings banks..................4546
  Cross-border transportation of negotiable instruments............2751
  Deposit accounts.................................................4498
  Due on sale......................................................3139
  DIMIA compliance...........................................3145, 4433
  EDGAR system modernization.................................4652, 4666
  Farm credit:
    Borrower rights................................................4266
    Charters.......................................................4267
    Farm Credit System Reform Act..................................4284
    Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital 
        regulation.................................................4265
    FCA rulemaking...........................................4273, 4277
    FCB assistance to associations.................................4280
    FCSIC nondiscrimination enforcement............................4282
    FCSIC referral of criminal violations..........................4283
    Leasing regulation.............................................4278
  Financial institutions:
    Payment service providers......................................2748
  Financial services transactions survey............................514
  Foreign investments..............................................4494
  Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4643
  Funds availability and collection of checks................4505, 4506
  Information disclosure...........................................2837
  International banking operations.................................4503
  International banks..............................................4494
  Investment management............................................4279
  Leveraged capital................................................4504
  Management interlocks......................................2835, 4495
  Membership of state banking institutions.........................4503
  Minimum capital ratios...........................................2823
  Minimum security devices and procedures..........................2825
  Non-bank financial institutions..................................2757
  Non-deposit investment products............................2830, 3137
  Non-sufficient funds (NSF).......................................2836
  Proxy and information statements.................................4625
  Recourse arrangements and direct credit substitutes..............4493
  Regulation CC........................................4497, 4505, 4506
  Regulation DD....................................................4498
  Regulation H...............................................4503, 4504
  Regulation K.....................................................4503
  Regulation U.....................................................4486
  Regulation Y...............................................4503, 4504
  Restrictions on sale of assets...................................4413
  Risk-based capital standards.............3894, 4421, 4492, 4493, 4504
  Securities brokers and dealers:
    Automated submission of trading data...........................4672
    Operational capability.........................................4695
    Qualifications for banks and securities representatives........4422
  Securities of nonmember banks....................................4424
  Time accounts....................................................4498
  Types of offices.................................................3135
  Usury preemption.................................................3139
  Year 2000 safety and soundness guidelines......2827, 2829, 3143, 4435
Barley:
  Official testing service for protein analysis.....................333
Beer:
  Brewery regulations...............................................100
  Exports..........................................................2804
  Imports..........................................................2778
  Labeling.........................................................2779
  Malt beverage labeling...........................................2805
Bicycles:
  Traffic control manual revision..................................2477
  Use in Delaware Water Gap NRA....................................1703
Biologics:
  See also Animal biologics
           Blood
  Adverse experience reporting.....................................1119
  Cellular therapy products........................................1179
  Direct-to-consumer promotion.....................................1117
  General safety test exceptions...................................1179
  Informed consent regulations.....................................1169
  Interstate shipment..............................................1108
  Labeling...................................................1133, 1178
  Licensing........................................................1205
  Postmarketing studies............................................1150
  Registration of foreign establishments and product listing.......1123
Blind:
  See also Medicaid
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  Aids to blind veterans.....................................3151, 3155

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Blood:
  Current good manufacturing practices.........................31, 1153
  Errors and accidents reporting...................................1160
  Hepatitis C virus..................................................31
  Hospital conditions of participation.............................1347
  Safety standards...........................................1124, 1160
Bonds:
  Private activity...............................2929, 2955, 3033, 3034
  Qualified zone academy...............................2905, 2992, 3130
  Secured by government obligations................................2774
Boycotts:
  Foreign boycott provisions........................................563
Bridges:
  Drawbridge operation.............................................2297
  Railroad safety regulations......................................2650
  Worker safety standards..........................................2659
Brokers:
  Automated submission of trading data.............................4672
  Large trader records.............................................4689
  Net capital requirements...................................4676, 4684
  Operational capability...........................................4695
  Proxy and information statements.................................4625
  Quotation requirements...........................................4686
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................4691, 4693
Buildings:
  See also Federal buildings and facilities
  Access for individuals with disabilities........59, 1871, 1875, 1876, 
                                                       3284, 3290, 3291
  Asbestos.........................................................3577
  Indoor air quality...............................................2162
  Slum/blight prevention and elimination...........................1458
Buses:
  See also Motor carriers
           Motor vehicles
  Antilock brakes..................................................2541
  Brake systems....................................................2579
  School:
    Flammability of interior materials.............................2600
    Parking brake warning system...................................2546
  Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2489
  Testing guidelines...............................................2680
  Wheelchair restraints............................................2578
Business and industry:
  See also Accounting
           Advertising
           Antitrust
           Bankruptcy
           Competitiveness
           Concessions
           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 names
           Trade practices
           Trademarks
           Warranties
           specific industries
  Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3521
  Aerospace industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3526
  Airport concessions:
    Disadvantaged business enterprise participation................2232
  Alcohol:
    Wine.....................................................2788, 3704
  Aluminum industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3420
  Asphalt roofing and processing industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3350
  Baker's yeast manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3469
  Boat manufacturing industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3342
  Cellulose manufacturing..........................................3356
  Cement manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3517
  Chemicals:
    Air pollution control........................3332, 3333, 3421, 3519
    Control of PMNs................................................3593
    Hazardous wastes listing.................................3640, 3641
    Manufacture........................110, 128, 3572, 3589, 3590, 3591
    Pollution standards............................................3592
    Polychlorinated biphenyls......................................3602
  Construction.....................................................2134
  Dry cleaning.....................................................4512
    Air pollution control..........................................3472
    Effluent guidelines............................................3720
  Economic development..............................................525
  Effluent guidelines................3666, 3683, 3685, 3704, 3710, 3720
  Ethylene processing:
    Air pollution control....................................3345, 3453
  Explosives........................................................101
  EPA operating permits.............................................104
  Fastener Quality Act..............................................586
  Ferroalloy industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3523
  Financial services transactions survey............................514
  Financing cooperative stock.......................................471
  Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4513
  Friction products................................................3477
  Health products:
    Human cellular and tissue-based products...........1125, 1126, 1137
  Housing..........................................................1475
  Industrial disposal wells..................................3704, 3733
  Industrial laundries:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3720
  Industrial technology partnerships................................872
  Iron manufacturing:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3710
  Large appliance coating industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3346
  Leather tanning and finishing....................................3358
  Lime manufacturing industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3476
  Manufacturing technology program..................................909
  Metal finishing industry:
    Water pollution control........................................3645
  Metal parts and products coating industry:
    Air pollution control....................................3347, 3473
  Motor vehicle manufacturing:
    Air bags.........................................................95
    Air pollution control....................................3431, 3481
    Consumer information...........................................2611
    Content labeling calculation...................................2619
    Emission standards........................................126, 3531
    Fuel economy credits...........................................2536
    Metric conversion..............................................2543
  National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits..........3705
  National Type Evaluation Program..................................588
  Paint manufacturing:
    Hazardous waste management.....................................3650
  Paper, film and foil coating industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3348
  Pharmaceuticals:
    Discontinuation of life-saving products........................1137
    Manufacturing changes..........................................1181
    Radiopharmaceuticals...........................................1139
  Plastic parts industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3474

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  Plywood and particle board manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3344
  Polyether polyol production:
    Air pollution control..........................................3518
  Polyurethane foam production:
    Air pollution control..........................................3488
  Printing/publishing........................................3396, 3482
  Pulp, paper and paperboard.................................3501, 3511
  Spandex..........................................................3486
  Steel manufacturing:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3710
  Tax credit for increasing research activities....................3019
  Tires:
    Manufacture..............................................3343, 3359
  Transportation equipment cleaning:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3683
  Vegetable oil production.........................................3360
  Wood furniture industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3526
  Wool fiberglass manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3516


                                   C

Cable television:
  Cable Act reform.................................................4291
  Cost of service..................................................4286
  Customer service standards.......................................4287
  Digital must carry...............................................4294
  EEO rules and policies...........................................4386
  Home wiring rights...............................................4288
  Horizontal ownership limits......................................4295
  Pole attachments.................................................4293
  Rates............................................................4285
  TV and VCR compatibility.........................................4340
Cancer:
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3314
  NCI Clinical Cancer Education Program............................1220
  Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act.......................1242, 2093
Cargo vessels:
  See also Maritime carriers
  Barges:
    Bulk liquid hazardous material.................................2248
    Numbering of undocumented barges.........................2251, 2282
    Vapor control systems..........................................2265
  Carriage of bulk solid materials requiring special handling......2253
  Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2277
  Overfill and tank monitoring devices.............................2308
  Tank vessels:
    Escorts........................................................2295
    Foreign........................................................2249
    Oil pollution prevention.......................................2295
    Response plans...................................................89
    Towing vessel safety measures..................................2254
Cemeteries:
  National Cemetery Administration title changes...................3275
  VA burial benefits.............................3184, 3185, 3187, 3188
    Provisions for capital crimes..................................3189
Census data:
  Census 2000 address list.........................................3919
  Correction........................................................517
  Release authorizations............................................518
  Special services and studies.................................516, 519
Charter flights:
  Passengers stranded by...........................................2215
Chemicals:
  See also Drugs
           Fertilizers
           Hazardous substances
           Pesticides and pests
           specific chemicals
  Acrylamide.......................................................3595
  Air pollution control.......................................128, 3421
  Arsenic in drinking water.........................................119
  Assessment information rule......................................3590
  Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3615
  Domestic Chemical Diversion Act..................................1883
  Drinking water regulations.......................................3743
  Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Program................3556
  Health and safety reporting rule.................................3591
  High-production-volume (HPV) chemicals...........................3585
  Hydrogen chloride................................................1889
  New use rules for PMNs...........................................3593
  Ozone depleting:
    Halons.........................................................3382
    Methyl bromide...........................................3383, 3384
    Refrigerant recycling..............................3425, 3426, 3534
    Sales restrictions.............................................3341
    Substitutes....................................................3430
    Transshipment provision........................................3503
  Polychlorinated biphenyls............................3592, 3602, 3699
  Polymers and resins..............................................3439
  Polyvinyl chloride in toys.......................................4259
  Potassium iodide use after a nuclear accident....................4588
  Right-to-Know initiative..........................................112
  Screening Information Data Set (SIDS)............................3585
  Special surveillance list of chemicals, products, materials, 
      and equipment................................................1890
  Test rules...............................3573, 3576, 3594, 3596, 3601
  Toxic substances.....................................3572, 3609, 3634
  Toxic substances in new chemicals................................3589
  Toxicity profiles................................................3575
  Toxics Release Inventory...................................3610, 3611
    Coal...........................................................3612
    Lead............................................................133
    Otherwise use activity exemptions..............................3612
  Traceable Reference Materials Program.............................589
  Use inventory rule................................................110
  Used in manufacture of controlled substances.....................1880
Child labor:
  Forced or indentured.............................................2844
  Hazardous occupations..............................................64
  Schooling, health, and well-being..................................64
  Violation penalties..............................................2054
Child support:
  Eligibility for Food Stamp Program..................................4
  Health care coverage...............................................70
  Medicaid referrals...............................................1282
  National medical support notice..................................1372
  Non-performance TANF penalty.....................................1382
  Payments to Indian tribes........................................1370
  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
                                                                   1380
  Safeguarding information.........................................1374
Child welfare:
  See also Adoption and foster care
           Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child labor
           Child support
           Day care
           Maternal and child health
  Adverse actions against Head Start agencies......................1383
  Child poverty rate:
    State determination methodology................................1378
  Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus for grants.....................1390
  Indian child protection programs.................................1216
  Medical child support............................................1326
  Protection of Children From Sexual Predators Act:
    Designation of agencies to receive and investigate reports.....2009

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  State performance requirements...................................1375
  SSA benefits...............................................4144, 4146
  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families:
    High performance bonus.....................................68, 1369
    Work requirements..........................................68, 1389
  Title IV-D compliance............................................1385
Cigars and cigarettes:
  See also Smoking
  Cigarette lighter safety standards................................159
  Permit requirements for roll-your-own tobacco....................2803
  Reimportation of products........................................2801
  Sale and distribution requirements...............................1194
  State and local requirement exemptions...........................1195
  Tax computation for cigarette papers.............................2803
  Tax increase.....................................................2802
Citizenship and naturalization:
  See also Aliens
           Immigration
  Adjustment of status and removal of eligibility restrictions.....1938
  Age requirements for fingerprinting..............................1917
Civil defense:
  See also Disaster assistance
  Military assistance to civil agencies.............................895
Civil rights:
  See also Equal educational opportunity
           Equal employment opportunity
           Fair housing
           Religious discrimination
  Commission on Civil Rights regulations update....................3292
  Common rule on title IX of the Civil Rights Act..................4086
  Economic Development Administration guidelines....................526
  Education........................................................3885
  Equal Credit Opportunity Act.....................................4488
  Food Stamp Program data collections...............................349
  Nondiscrimination:
    Activities assisted by the NEA..........494, 2126, 2216, 3880, 4041
    Activities assisted by the NEH....494, 2126, 2216, 3880, 3884, 4041
    Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation......494, 2126, 2216, 4282
    Federally assisted programs........60, 494, 1393, 1877, 1878, 2126, 
                                           2131, 2216, 3245, 3865, 4161
    Housing..................................................1404, 2216
    HIPAA rules..................................2095, 2126, 2216, 2920
    Individuals with disabilities......59, 494, 1875, 1876, 2126, 2216, 
                                                 3808, 4038, 4041, 4161
    USDA-conducted programs and activities..............464, 2126, 2216
  Older individuals................................................1392
  Peace Corps Volunteer Discrimination Complaint Procedure.........4041
  Persons with life-threatening illnesses..........................1167
Claims:
  Collection by the NEA............................................3879
  Collection by HUD................................................1395
  Corporation for National and Community Service debt collection 
                                                                   3293
  Debt Collection Improvement Act..................................2764
  EEOC..............................................................139
  False drawback...................................................2859
  False Claims Amendments Act of 1986..............................2013
  Federal claims collection standards..............................2764
  Federal tort claims........................................1858, 3276
  Federal Claims Collection Standards..............................2007
  Food Stamp Program..................................................8
  FMS payments...............................................2759, 2769
  Government employees.............................................4011
  HUD..............................................................1480
  Medical care benefits..............................................74
  Medicare suppliers...............................................1251
  Meritorious......................................................3850
  Public land rights-of-way........................................1526
  Veterans...................................................3165, 3276
    Attorney fees......................................3165, 3222, 3276
Classified information:
  Access......................................................885, 1059
  Conformance to national policies for access and protection.......4611
  Nuclear material.................................................1059
  NARA records declassification..............................3859, 3876
  OMB policies.....................................................3913
  Storage...........................................................886
  Uniform system for national security information.................1086
Coal:
  Abandoned refuse sites...........................................1777
  Coal management............................................1803, 1827
  Coalbed methane development......................................1818
  Regulation streamlining..........................................1803
  Toxics Release Inventory.........................................3612
Coastal zone:
  See also Continental shelf
           Flood plains
           Seashores
  Administrative appeals process....................................969
  Biological test methods for pollutants...........................3706
  Development and production plans.................................1763
  Exploration plans................................................1763
  Shore protection.................................................2274
  TVA shoreline management.........................................4177
  Waste deposit prevention.........................................3752
  Wetlands:
    Conservation program......................................200, 1540
    Minimal effects exemptions......................................503
Coastal Zone:
  Fees for appeals..................................................704
  Wetlands:
    Privately owned................................................2467
Colleges and universities:
  See also Medical and dental schools
           Military academies
           Student aid
  Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act:
    Matching funds requirement......................................289
    Stakeholder input to formula funds..............................288
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................882
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................897
  DOT grants.......................................................2224
  Grants administration.................................529, 1019, 3918
  Grants to Indian colleges........................................1734
  Institutional eligibility under the Higher Education Act.........1017
  Loan programs........................................1021, 1022, 1023
  Multicultural Scholars Program....................................282
Commodity futures:
  Bulk transfers or liquidations...................................4228
  Commodity trading advisors and pool operators:
    Performance disclosures........................................4233
  Commodity Pool Operator exclusions...............................4230
  Contract market designation................................4238, 4244
  Denomination of customer funds...................................4229
  Foreign boards of trade in the U.S...............................4242
  Insider trading regulations......................................4227
  Location of depositories.........................................4229
  Non-domestic persons disclosure requirements.....................4245
  Principal, definition............................................4231
  Qualified eligible participants and clients......................4232
  Speculative limits for contracts.................................4243
Common carriers:
  See also Air carriers
           Communications common carriers
           Freight forwarders
           Maritime carriers
           Motor carriers
           Railroads
  Coloading practices by NVOCCs....................................4478

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  DOT registration system..........................................2433
  Freight forwarders:
    FHWA general jurisdiction......................................2496
Communicable diseases:
  Correctional management..........................................1842
  Medicaid coverage of tuberculosis-related services...............1292
Communications:
  See also Communications common carriers
           Communications equipment
           Defense communications
           Motion pictures
           News media
           Recordings
           Telecommunications
  Attribution of broadcast interests...............................4378
  Authorized rate of return for interstate services of local 
      exchange carriers............................................4327
  Broadcast station construction permits...........................4379
  Certification of equipment in the 24.05-24.25 GHz band...........4355
  Channelization of 37.0-38.6 GHz band.............................4399
  Competitive bidding for broadband PCS............................4400
  Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4397
  Competitive bidding for IVDS.....................................4398
  Competitive bidding process......................................4407
  Depreciation requirements for incumbent local exchange carriers
                                                                   4329
  Digital audio broadcasting.......................................4403
  Digital equipment deregulation...................................4343
  Emergency Broadcast System.......................................4334
  Forfeitures for violations.......................................4335
  FCC cost allocation and accounting rules.........................4322
  Government transfer band.........................................4353
  Horizontal ownership limits......................................4295
  International common carriers....................................4367
  Low power FM Radio...............................................4387
  Maritime.........................................................4392
  Mutual recognition agreement for product approvals...............4350
  North American Numbering Plan administration.....................4297
  Private Land Mobile Services.....................................4394
  Radionavigation service at 31.8 - 32.2 GHz.......................4354
  Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4393
  Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4365
  Relocation of base stations for 200 MHz licenses.................4401
  Revision of 47.2-48.2 GHz band rules.............................4408
  RF lighting devices..............................................4349
  Satellite:
    Dedicated short range communications of intelligent 
        transportation systems.....................................4348
    Digital audio radio service....................................4364
    Earth stations.................................................4363
    Fixed satellite service in the ku-band.........................4356
    MSS spectrum allocation............................4344, 4362, 4370
    Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4365
    Spacing and applications.......................................4360
    Tracking and data relay........................................3852
    Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4361
  Spectrum allocation..............................................4348
  SBC Communications, Inc. petition for biennial review............4328
  Transfer of control of non-stock entities........................4374
  TV:
    Advanced systems...............................................4388
    Advertising practices..........................................4377
    Cable television rates.........................................4285
    Cable Act................................................4286, 4291
    Competitive availability of navigation devices.................4292
    Digital television service...............................4338, 4352
    EEO rules and policies.........................................4386
    Filing of network affiliation contracts........................4376
    Medical care telemetry devices.................................4345
    Over-the-air reception devices.................................4289
    Station ownership........................................4375, 4381
    Video programming accessibility................................4290
  Vehicle location and monitoring systems..........................4409
  Video teleconference technology...................................152
  Wide area SMR licensing..........................................4395
  Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4341
Communications common carriers:
  Application of subscriber line charges to ISDN service...........4330
  Toll free service access codes...................................4300
Communist countries:
  Export controls..................................................1598
Community action programs:
  Community transition program.....................................1075
  Empowerment zones and enterprise communities......................463
Community development:
  See also Community action programs
           Grant programs-housing and community development
           Urban renewal
  Banks' investment funds..........................................2828
  Combining other government assistance with CPD assistance........1463
  Environmental regulations.........................................297
  Fisheries....................................................602, 677
  Rural venture capital demonstration...............................473
Competitiveness:
  Agricultural commodities competitive markets......................433
  Air carriers.....................................................2236
  American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2514
  American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act:
    Amendments.....................................................1926
    Nonimmigrant aliens......................................1925, 1974
  Cable television companies.......................................4288
  Communications Act...................................4397, 4398, 4400
  Government research...............................................798
  GSA regulations..................................................3809
  Telecommunications marketplace...................................4342
  Television marketplace...............................4285, 4292, 4388
  Trade adjustment assistance................................2063, 2070
Computer technology:
  Accessible electronic and information technology standards.......3287
  Automated submission of trading data.............................4672
  Automated surety interface.......................................2870
  Cytology specimens...............................................1302
  De minimis exclusion for technology and software..................570
  Digital equipment deregulation...................................4343
  Electronic filing................................................2841
  Electronic filing of bonds, agreements, certificates and 
      cancellations................................................2495
  Electronic publication of DFARS...................................956
  Electronic records.............................2636, 3299, 3856, 3858
  Electronic requests for confidential treatment of export 
      manifest data................................................2852
  Electronic submission of adverse drug reaction reports...........1131
  Electronic submission of documents...............................4584
  Electronic submission of fisheries reports........................766
  Electronic transactions standards for health plans.................44
  Encryption software.....................................562, 574, 577
  Exports.......................................537, 553, 571, 573, 585
  EDGAR system modernization.................................4652, 4666
  Internet.........................................................4423
    Domain Name System........................................857, 3829
  MMS electronic reporting.........................................1772
  Software classification..........................................1188
  Stored-value cards...............................................4491
Condominiums:
  Mortgages........................................................1442
Confidential business information:
  Customs regulations..............................................2852
  EPA regulations..................................................3315
  FDA communications with State and foreign government officials 
                                                                   1175

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  PTO regulations...................................................869
  SEC regulations..................................................4699
Conflict of interests:
  See also Political activities (Government employees)
  CHAMPUS requirements..............................................988
  Ethical conduct......................................3886, 3888, 3908
    DOL employees..................................................2033
  Ethics programs..................................................3906
  Exemptions.......................................................3902
  Financial disclosure.............................................3904
  Investment companies.............................................4664
  Judges...........................................................4165
  OGE Privacy Act rules............................................3900
  Physician referrals..............................................1294
  Post-government employment.......................................3903
  Salary supplementation...........................................3901
  Standards of conduct......................511, 3905, 4039, 4042, 4172
Construction industry:
  Confined spaces for construction...........................1432, 2164
  Hazardous energy control...................................1432, 2171
  Material bulletins...............................................1422
  Noise abatement..................................................2445
  RUS construction work plan loan eligibility.......................498
  Safety and health programs.................................1432, 2170
  Safety standards.............................................84, 1432
  Scaffold safety standards..................................1432, 2136
  Seismic safety requirements.......................................479
Consumer protection:
  See also Labeling
           Trade practices
           Truth in lending
  Baby walkers.....................................................4251
  Backyard play sets standard......................................4258
  Bunk bed requirements.............................................160
  Cable home wiring rights.........................................4288
  Child-resistant packaging..................................4252, 4261
  Cigarette lighters................................................159
  Crib safety standards............................................4253
  Disclosures................................................4514, 4516
  Flammability standards:
    Children's sleepwear...........................................4262
    Clothing textiles........................................4246, 4256
    Upholstered furniture...............................158, 4256, 4260
  Household goods transportation...................................2473
  Infant formula quality control...................................1185
  Informal Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (IDSM)....................4522
  Lead-based paint.................................111, 131, 1416, 3588
  Notices to passengers............................................2221
  Over-the-counter drugs...........................................1203
  Polyvinyl chloride in toys.......................................4259
  Premerger notification...........................................4510
  Product warranties.........................................4520, 4521
  RESPA amendments...........................................1450, 1451
Continental shelf:
  Exploration or development and production plans..................1755
  Leasing..........................................................1773
  Minerals prospecting.............................................1756
  Offshore transportation..........................................4446
  Oil and gas worker training......................................1762
  Oil, gas and sulphur operations............................1761, 1773
Copper:
  Drinking water regulations.......................................3734
Cost principles:
  DEAR amendments..................................................1078
Cotton:
  Classification services user fees.................................178
  Upland Cotton User Marketing Certificate Program..................216
Countervailing duties:
  Sunset reviews....................................................533
Courts:
  Civil contempt of court commitments..............................1856
  Damage awards....................................................2915
  Immigration proceedings..........................................1892
Credit:
  See also Banks, banking
           Credit unions
           Mortgages
           Truth in lending
  Capital treatment of recourse arrangements and direct credit 
      substitutes..................................................4420
  Debt collection............................................3769, 3879
    Administrative offsets.......................1395, 2760, 2770, 3769
    Administrative offsets by the OFHEO............................3898
    Administrative offsets by the SBA........................3769, 4096
    Administrative offsets by EEOC...........................3758, 3769
    Debt Collection Improvement Act..........................3769, 3869
    FEMA...........................................................3771
    Matching of Federal employee records for salary offset...2765, 3769
    Salary offsets.................................................3898
    Tax refund offsets.................................1395, 3769, 3898
    Transfer of referral of delinquent nontax debts..........2775, 3769
  Delinquent debtors:
    Public dissemination of identity...............................2771
  Direct line of credit.............................................203
  Equal credit opportunity.........................................4488
  Farm Credit System charter termination...........................4267
  Partners and partnership...................................2935, 2977
Credit unions:
  Audits and verifications.........................................4543
  Business loans:
    Streamlining...................................................4536
  Bylaws revisions.................................................4537
  Change in official or senior executive officer...................4538
  Charitable contributions.........................................4540
  Conversion to mutual savings banks...............................4546
  DIMIA compliance.................................................4531
  Fidelity bond requirements.......................................4539
  Insurance and group purchasing activities........................4523
  Insurance coverage...............................................4539
  Insurance requirements...........................................4547
  Leasing..........................................................4525
  Loan interest rates..............................................4548
  Newly chartered..................................................4538
  Ownership of fixed assets........................................4524
  Prompt corrective action...................................4529, 4532
  Safe deposit box service.........................................4544
  Service organizations......................................4534, 4541
  Share insurance..................................................4533
  Statutory lien...................................................4542
  Troubled condition...............................................4538
  Truth in Savings Act amendments..................................4545
Crime:
  See also Counterfeiting
           Drug abuse
           Forgery
           Fraud
           Juvenile delinquency
  Aliens:
    In-transit passengers..........................................1909
  Arson reporting..................................................2783
  Civil contempt of court commitments..............................1856
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2011
  Criminal history record information..............................2022
  Databases of convicted offenders...........................2017, 2018
  Denial of SSI benefits to felons and probation and parole 
      violators....................................................4134
  Domestic violence................................................2792
  Financial institution reporting requirements.....................2755
  Forest System lands...............................................439
  FCSIC referral of criminal violations............................4283
  Prostitution.....................................................1912
  Protection of Children From Sexual Predators Act:
    Designation of agencies to receive and investigate reports.....2009
  Sex offender registration programs.........................1900, 2019
  Sex offender release notification................................1854

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  United Nations Convention Against Torture........................1977
  Violence against women on campuses...............................2029
  Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................2012
Crop insurance:
  Administrative regulations..........317, 318, 321, 324, 325, 326, 327
  Application for...................................................305
  Civil penalties...................................................310
  Florida fruit tree provisions.....................................311
  Grains.......................................................306, 307
  Group Risk Plan...................................................323
  High risk land....................................................304
  Highly erodible land and wetlands............................319, 320
  Insurance by written agreement....................................316
  Movement or assumption of policies................................308
  Nonstandard classification system.................................321
  Premiums..........................................................322
  Reinsurance agreements............................................309
  Wheat.............................................................306
Crystalline fructose:
  Marketing allotment program.......................................194
Crystalline silica:
  Occupational exposure......................................2120, 2147
Cultural exchange programs:
  Au pair regulation...............................................2200
  Short-term scholars..............................................2201
  Summer work/travel...............................................2202
Customs duties and inspection:
  See also Antidumping
           Countervailing duties
           Imports
  Accreditation of commercial testing laboratories.................2877
  Agricultural quarantine and inspection service user fees..........261
  Aircraft manifests...............................................2876
  Bond procedures for articles subject to exclusion orders.........2846
  Bonded warehouses................................................2879
  Commercial gaugers approval......................................2877
  Counterfeited trademarks.........................................2858
  Country of origin determinations.................................2869
  Country of origin marking......................2843, 2849, 2873, 2875
  Cultural property regulations....................................2850
  Customs brokers..................................................2862
  Detention of merchandise.........................................2878
  Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2874
  Electronic filing of entries of merchandise......................2841
  Evaluation of duty................................................948
  Export manifest data.............................................2852
  Fee and interest.................................................2850
    Payment methods................................................2864
  Fees assessed for defaulted payments.............................2871
  Harbor maintenance fees....................................2867, 2868
  Illegal entry:
    Penalties......................................................2856
  Importation and entry bond conditions............................2865
  Inventory accounts...............................................2919
  Low-value duty-free merchandise..................................2845
  Merchandise definition...........................................2919
  North American Free Trade Agreement........................2842, 2851
  Ports of entry...................................................2857
  Products of forced or indentured child labor.....................2844
  Reconciliation regulation........................................2840
  Seizures, penalties and liquidated damages.......................2854
  Tariffs:
    Filing requirements............................................2245
    Liquidation of entries.........................................2838
  Toxic substances.................................................2855
  Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2839
CHAMPUS:
  Active Duty Dependents Dental Plan in overseas areas..............993
  Dual compensation/conflict of interest program....................988
  TRICARE program:
    Prime enrollment................................................995
  TRICARE Program:
    Eligibility requirements revisions..............................994


                                   D

Dairy products:
  Dairy Indemnity Payment Program...................................249
  Dairy Market Loss Assistance Program..............................250
  Quotas............................................................436
  Recourse loans....................................................222
  Transportation and storage........................................414
Day care:
  Food program......................................................354
  VA facilities....................................................3246
Debarment and suspension:
  Accountants......................................................2824
  EPA changes......................................................3303
  Social Security Administration...................................4151
Dental health:
  Active Duty Dependents Dental Plan................................993
  Veterans' disability rating......................................3254
Diabetes:
  Qualification of diabetic truck drivers..........................2482
Disaster assistance:
  See also Civil defense
           Emergency medical services
  American Indian livestock feed assistance.........................214
  Cost-share adjustments...........................................3783
  Declaration process..............................................3783
  Eligible forage crops.............................................210
  Farmers.................................................207, 316, 318
    Set-aside program second installment............................231
  Fire suppression assistance......................................3765
  Fisheries.........................................................814
  Floods...............................................1418, 3762, 3780
    Disaster Reserve Flood Compensation Program...............187, 1418
  Governor's request for a major disaster declaration..............3792
  Hazard Mitigation Grant Program..................................3766
  Individual assistance programs:
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
        Act........................................................3763
  Map change procedures and fee....................................3788
  Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center........................3786
  National Emergency Training Center...............................3786
  National Flood Insurance Program:
    Inspections....................................................3770
    Write-Your-Own expense allowance...................3787, 3791, 3793
  National Urban Search and Rescue Response System.................3774
  Noninsured crop disaster assistance program.......................223
  Public lands damage repairs......................................1828
  Public Assistance Disaster Grant Program:
    Insurance requirements.........................................3773
    Redesign.......................................................3789
  Removal of parts of 44 CFR.......................................3790
  Tax relief.......................................................2913
  Temporary housing assistance.....................................3785
  Unemployment assistance..........................................2059
Drug abuse:
  See also Alcohol abuse
  Disincentives for inmates........................................1832
  Drug-free workplace..............................................4151
  Narcotic addict treatment........................................1164
  Treatment programs...............................................1832
  Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................2012
Drug testing:
  Coast Guard requirements.........................................2312
  Railroad employees...............................................2663
  Transportation personnel.......................2209, 2223, 2324, 2394
Drug traffic control:
  Controlled substances:
    Disposer definition and registration...........................1882
    Freight forwarding facilities..................................1885

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  Diversion control fee account....................................1884
  Domestic Chemical Diversion Act..................................1883
  FAA regulations..................................................2387
  Hydrochloric gas thresholds......................................1886
  Iodine thresholds................................................1886
Drugs:
  See also Animal drugs
           Antibiotics
           Biologics
           Over-the-counter drugs
           Prescription drugs
           specific drugs
  Adverse drug experiences.........................................1168
  Adverse drug reaction reports..............................1119, 1131
  Aluminum containing..............................................1165
  Bioavailability and bioequivalence requirements..................1163
  Bulk drug substances.............................................1180
  Chemicals used in manufacture of controlled substances...........1880
  Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act........................1887
  Current good manufacturing practice........................1162, 1170
  Debarment certification regulations..............................1191
  Drug Master File.................................................1166
  Drugs for life-threatening illnesses.............................1167
  Habit-forming drugs..............................................1130
  Informed consent regulations.....................................1169
  Inhalation solution products.....................................1168
  Insulin-containing products......................................1132
  Investigational new drugs......................1115, 1129, 1167, 1192
  Labeling...................................................1111, 1170
  Life-saving products.............................................1137
  Manufacturing changes............................................1181
  Medicaid drug rebate program.....................................1281
  Narcotic addict treatment........................................1164
  New drug applications................................1128, 1141, 1166
  Patent holder notification for new drugs.........................1172
  Pediatric studies................................................1138
  Pharmacy compounding...................................30, 1136, 1180
  Phenylpropanolamine..............................................1888
  Postmarketing studies for human drugs............................1150
  Progestational...................................................1178
  Providing controlled substances to ocean vessels.................1879
  Pseudoephedrine..................................................1888
  Public Housing Drug Elimination Program..........................1507
  Radiopharmaceuticals.................................1121, 1139, 1206
  Registration for distributors....................................1888
  Registration of foreign establishments and product listing.......1123
  Registration of producers........................................1189
  Repackaging approval requirements................................1148
  Rubber-containing................................................1111
  Stability testing................................................1149


                                   E

Economic statistics:
  Foreign Trade Statistical Regulations changes.....515, 520, 521, 522, 
                                                                    523
Education:
  See also Adult education
           Bilingual education
           Colleges and universities
           Education of disadvantaged
           Education of individuals with disabilities
           Educational facilities
           Educational research
           Educational study programs
           Elementary and secondary education
           Equal educational opportunity
           Indians-education
           Libraries
           School breakfast and lunch programs
           School construction
           Schools
           Student aid
           Students
           Teachers
           Vocational education
  Acquisition and transfer of excess personal property..............466
  Administrative regulations.......................................1001
  Aeromedical education............................................2327
  Direct grant programs............................................1001
  Direct loan programs...............1011, 1013, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1024
  Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.........497
  Donation of excess USDA research equipment........................506
  ED general administrative regulations............................1000
  Grant programs.............................................1006, 1019
  Inmate occupational educational programs.........................1833
  National Security Education Program...............................883
  National Service Trust...........................................3295
  Nondiscrimination in programs receiving Federal assistance.......3865
  NIH scholarships.................................................1219
  NIH service payback obligation...................................1226
  Police Corps reimbursements of educational expenses..............2027
  Prison postsecondary education programs..........................1830
  Public Safety Officers' Educational Assistance Program...........2030
  Qualified state tuition programs.................................2970
  Records exempted from the Privacy Act.............................999
  Teacher quality enhancement grant programs.................1014, 1018
  Training programs................................................3782
  Veterans:
    Advanced and lump sum payments...........................3162, 3256
    Election of benefits...........................................3162
    Flight training..........................................3163, 3202
    Montgomery G.I. Bill.............3162, 3199, 3214, 3215, 3255, 3260
    Montgomery G.I. Bill administrative errors.....................3269
    Montgomery G.I. Bill eligibility criteria................3211, 3216
    Payment suspension and discontinuation.........................3262
    Reservists.........................................3200, 3261, 3263
    Survivors and dependents.................................3164, 3205
    Veterans Programs Enhancement Act..............................3170
Education of disadvantaged:
  Head Start program:
    Facilities construction and renovation.........................1377
    Family care as an option.......................................1371
    Performance standards..........................................1373
    Regulation revision............................................1387
    Safe transportation of children................................1376
  Head Start Program:
    Regulations....................................................1386
Education of individuals with disabilities:
  Children.........................................................1026
  Rehabilitation services..........................................1027

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Educational facilities:
  Authorization to enroll F-1 students.............................1913
  FmHA programs.....................................................195
  Grants administration............................................3279
Educational research:
  Human subjects protection...................................998, 1227
Eggs and egg products:
  Refrigeration and labeling.........................................34
  Safe handling labeling statements..................................34
  Salmonella enteritidis........................................34, 428
  Transportation and storage........................................414
  Voluntary shell-egg grading program...............................174
Elections:
  See also Campaign funds
           Political activities (Government employees)
           Political candidates
           Political committees and parties
           Voting rights
  Indian tribal governments..................................1716, 1717
Electric power:
  See also Electric power plants
           Electric power rates
           Electric utilities
  Rural electrification...............476, 481, 484, 486, 487, 488, 494
  Worker safety....................................................2169
Electric power plants:
  Additions and extensions..........................................492
  Emissions........................................................3538
Electric utilities:
  Additions and extensions..........................................492
  Indian electric power utilities..................................1740
  National Forest System............................................438
  Private activity bond rules......................................3034
  Small business size standards....................................4085
  Standards and specifications................................483, 2119
Electronic funds transfers:
  Defense contract payments.........................................946
  Electronic benefit transfer systems...............................368
    Food Stamp Program audit requirements...........................373
  Federal agency disbursements.....................................3312
  Federal tax payments.............................................3121
  FRS Regulation E revision........................................4491
Elementary and secondary education:
  Ineligibility of F-1 foreign students............................1913
Emergency medical services:
  Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act........................1351
Employee benefit plans:
  See also Pensions
  Cafeteria plans......................................2957, 3030, 3081
  Claims.............................................................74
  Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................2075
  Defined contribution plans.......................................2098
  Electronic disclosure............................................2091
  Family and medical leave.........................................3081
  Plan documents filing penalties..................................2079
  Plan documents filing requirements...............................2077
  Plan documents requested by Secretary of Labor...................2078
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...............71, 2089, 2098
  Soft dollar interpretive bulletin................................2092
  Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program...........................2094
Employment:
  See also Equal employment opportunity
           Government employees
           Manpower
  Aliens......62, 1908, 1914, 1950, 1973, 1976, 1989, 1995, 2053, 2069, 
                                                                   2074
    Eligibility verification.....................1978, 2053, 2069, 2074
    Failure to appear for interview with asylum officer.....1924, 2053, 
                                                             2069, 2074
  American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act:
    Amendments.....................................................1926
    Nonimmigrant aliens......................................1925, 1974
  BIA regulations elimination......................................1720
  Community transition program.....................................1075
  Definitions for salary basis.......................................65
  Domestic services................................................2056
  Employment authorization fee.....................................1976
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................2039
  Lower income persons.............................................1475
  State employment statistics agency representatives...............2034
  Verification of employment.................................1914, 1950
  Work provisions of Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
      Reconciliation Act..............................................6
  Workforce investment systems.................................69, 2127
Employment taxes:
  De minimis rule..................................................3120
  Unemployment repayment...........................................3073
Endangered and threatened species:
  See also Marine mammals
  Addresses for submissions of permit applications.................1613
  Alabama sturgeon...........................................1564, 1679
  Aquatic snails...................................................1557
  Arkansas River shiner............................................1654
  Army Corps of Engineers scope of analysis.........................967
  Asian bonytongue.................................................1660
  Blackburn's sphinx moth..........................................1601
  Bull trout.................................................1638, 1668
  Campeloma........................................................1557
  Canada lynx................................................1556, 1655
  Captive breeding.................................................1571
  Captive-bred exotic birds........................................1658
  Cheetah..........................................................1626
  Chiricahua leopard frog..........................................1656
  Coastal cutthroat trout..........................................1563
  Coho salmon..................................................752, 759
  Columbia white-tailed deer.......................................1562
  Conservation activities................................700, 853, 1542
  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild 
      Flora and Fauna..................................1544, 1588, 1684
  Cowhead Lake tui chub............................................1633
  Critical habitat......699, 737, 749, 757, 780, 851, 1537, 1547, 1550, 
                               1551, 1570, 1574, 1581, 1682, 1683, 1690
  CITES decisions............................................1532, 1545
  Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew..................................1555
  Eagles.....................................................1535, 1665
  Florida panther..................................................1549
  Freshwater mussels...............................................1636
  Freshwater snails................................................1636
  Gray wolf..................................................1612, 1648
  Green iguana.....................................................1640
  Grizzly bears..............................................1594, 1649
  Hawaiian damselflies.............................................1646
  Hawaiian pomace flies............................................1645
  Incidental take regulations..................................792, 853
  Indiana bat......................................................1662
  Intercross progeny policy and definitions........................1549
  Invertebrate species in Bexar County, Texas......................1653
  Johnson seagrass.............................................698, 699
  Kauai Cave amphipod..............................................1608
  Kauai Cave wolf spider...........................................1608
  Koala............................................................1610
  Least chub.......................................................1582
  List, reclassify, or delist.......1552, 1572, 1574, 1575, 1587, 1589, 
                                                                   1643
  Listing of U.S. species in CITES Appendix III....................1641
  Loch Lomond coyote thistle.......................................1575
  Lost River suckers...............................................1581
  Mariana fruit bat................................................1631
  Morelet's crocodile..............................................1642
  Mussels..........................................................1595
  Newcomb's snail..................................................1604
  Northern spotted owl.............................................1586
  Northern Idaho ground squirrel...................................1632
  Oahu elepaio.....................................................1614
  Pecos pupfish....................................................1619
  Peregrine falcon.................................................1678
  Permit requirements and exemptions.........................1544, 1666

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  Plants:
    Bigleaf mahogany.........................................1659, 1684
    California plants..............................................1579
    Camatta Canyon amole...........................................1628
    Colorado butterfly plant.......................................1634
    Desert milk vetch..............................................1671
    Desert Yellowhead..............................................1559
    Devil's River minnow...........................................1676
    Fender's blue butterfly........................................1616
    Gentner's fritilaria...........................................1627
    Hawaii.........................................................1667
    Howell's spectacular thelypody.................................1615
    Ione buckwheat.................................................1603
    Ione manzanita.................................................1603
    Keck's sidalcea................................................1605
    Kincaid's lupine...............................................1616
    Kneeland prairie penny cress...................................1618
    Larkspurs......................................................1602
    Lloyd's hedgehog cactus, removal...............................1592
    Mountain plover................................................1561
    Nipomo Mesa lupine.............................................1629
    Pariette cactus................................................1644
    Puzzle sunflower...............................................1677
    Rough popcornflower............................................1611
    Wenatchee Mountains checker-mallow.............................1553
    Wilamette daisy................................................1616
    Yreka phlox....................................................1630
    Zapata bladderpod..............................................1617
  Prebles Meadow Jumping Mouse.....................................1558
  Regulations consolidation.........................................855
  Riparian brush rabbit............................................1609
  Riparian woodrat.................................................1609
  Safe harbors.....................................................1666
  Santa Ana suckers................................................1560
  Scaleshelled mussel........................................1565, 1680
  Sea turtles.......................................................789
  Short-tailed albatross...........................................1554
  Shortnose suckers................................................1581
  Snake River chinook salmon...................................693, 757
  Tibetan antelope.................................................1661
  Tropical birds...................................................1578
  Vicuna...........................................................1533
  Virgin River fishes........................................1551, 1587
  West Coast steelhead.............................................1637
  Western snowy plover.............................................1550
  Wet Canyon talussnail............................................1647
  Yacare caiman....................................................1552
Energy:
  See also Coal
           Electric power
           Energy conservation
           Fuel economy
           Geothermal energy
           Natural gas
           Nuclear energy
           Petroleum
           Pipelines
           Solar energy
  Alternative fuels........................1032, 1039, 1045, 1057, 3440
  Conduct of DOE employees.........................................1092
  DEAR amendments..................................................1084
    Cost principles................................................1078
    Management and operating clauses...............................1082
    Mentor-Protigi Program.........................................1077
    Part 970 rewrite...............................................1081
    Purchasing by management and operating contractors.............1088
  DEAR technical amendments........................................1087
  DOD fuel allocation procedures....................................894
  Environmental Filing Requirements................................4455
  Fluorescent lamps exemption from Hazardous Waste Management......3656
  Fuel excise taxes................................................3068
  FERC reporting requirements......................................4440
  Landowner notification...........................................4455
  Open Access Same-Time Information System.........................4445
  Part 33 filing requirements......................................4441
  Privacy Act regulations..........................................1063
  Regional transmission organizations..............................4444
  Residential Area Designation.....................................4455
  State energy program.............................................1046
  Uranium mill sites...............................................1072
  Wastes from fossil fuel combustion...............................3621
Energy conservation:
  See also Fuel economy
  Appliance efficiency standards.................1029, 1034, 1035, 1049
  Appliance Labeling Rule..........................................4517
  Efficiency standards:
    Central air conditioners.........................................22
    Clothes dryers.................................................1052
    Clothes washers..................................................22
    Direct heating equipment.......................................1053
    Dishwashers..............................................1041, 1052
    Electric motors, 200 hp........................................1054
    Fluorescent and incandescent lamps.............................1055
    Fluorescent lamp ballasts........................................22
    Heat pumps.......................................................22
    High intensity discharge lamps.................................1050
    Pool heaters...................................................1053
    Water heaters....................................................22
  Electric motor vehicles..........................................1030
  Electric motors..................................................1056
  Federal buildings..........................................1042, 1043
  Model Energy Code update.........................................1435
  Residential energy-efficiency rating guidelines..................1048
  Test procedures..................................................1031
    Commercial package boilers.....................................1040
  Testing requirements:
    Commercial air conditioning equipment..........................1038
    Commercial heating equipment...................................1037
    Commercial water heaters.......................................1036
    Electric motors, small.........................................1051
    Electronic distribution transformers...........................1044
    High intensity discharge lamps.................................1050
Environmental impact statements:
  Antarctic impact assessment......................................3316
  DOT regulations................................2280, 2428, 2467, 2670
  Hazardous materials transportation...............................4613
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
  Acquisition regulation:
    Informal clauses...............................................3305
  Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act............3892, 3893
  Antarctic Treaty.................................................3316
  Chemicals.......................................110, 3576, 3585, 3596
  Class deviations incorporation into EPAAR........................3301
  Coastal waste deposit prevention.................................3752
  Cooperative agreements and Superfund state contracts.............3661
  Cross-media electronic reporting and recordkeeping rule..........3299
  Designation of hazardous substances under CERCLA.................3665
  EPA acquisition regulations......................................3303
  Federal water resource development................................966
  Forest Service special uses program..........................449, 450
  FAR regulations..................................................4194
  Grant programs....................................................123
  Grants administration............................................1064
  HUD........................................................1398, 1419
  Locatable mineral mining...........................................57

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  National Environmental Policy Act................445, 764, 3300, 3882
  National Environmental Policy Act implementation..................976
  National Forest System.......................................455, 461
  National Science Foundation......................................3892
  Pesticides.................................................3555, 3558
  Presidio.........................................................4057
  Protocol on Environmental Protection.............................3316
  Radiological Emergency Response Plan.............................3454
  Radon............................................................4593
  Restoration of DOD facilities.....................................898
  Rural economic development........................................297
  Toxics Release Inventory:
    Coal...........................................................3612
    Lead............................................................133
    Otherwise use activity exemptions..............................3612
  Transit projects...........................................2453, 2674
Equal access to justice:
  DOL..............................................................2032
  HHS..............................................................1109
Equal educational opportunity:
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................882
  Education Act Amendments of 1972.................................3885
  Federally assisted education programs.......60, 510, 1523, 3796, 3881
Equal employment opportunity:
  Aged.............................................................3755
  Broadcast and cable television rules and policies................4386
  Complaint processing..............................................138
  Coordination of functions in complaint processing................3761
  Discrimination complaint procedures........................3755, 3757
    Delegation of authority........................................3228
  Disparate impact theory..........................................3756
  Government contractors.......................................63, 4417
  Government employees........................................138, 3757
  Indians..........................................................1733
  Individuals with disabilities.....................................138
  Special disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era........2047
  Waiver of rights and claims.......................................139
  Workforce Investment Act.........................................2127
Estate taxes:
  Adequate disclosure of gifts.....................................3000
  Qualified family-owned business interests........................2923
Excise taxes:
  Alcohol....................................................2788, 2815
  Cigarette papers.................................................2803
  Deposits...................................................2912, 3085
  Diesel fuel......................................................3068
  Excess benefits transactions.....................................3003
  Kerosene.........................................................3024
  Prepaid telephone cards..........................................3002
  Transportation of persons and property by air....................2922
  Wine.............................................................2810
Explosives:
  See also Hazardous materials transportation
           Hazardous substances
  Criminal misuse reporting........................................2783
  Export controls...................................................546
  Exports and reexports.............................................548
  Exports and reexports of explosive detection systems..............551
  Fireworks.........................................................101
  Handling at waterfront facilities................................2277
  Military munitions................................................899
  Plastic explosives...............................................2817
Exports:
  Administration regulations....543, 552, 554, 556, 557, 558, 561, 578, 
                                                     580, 581, 582, 583
  Agricultural commodities................................430, 433, 435
    Cargo preference regulations...................................2741
  Alligator skins..................................................1599
  American ginseng.................................................1576
  Ammunition........................................................546
  Automated Export System.....................................523, 2880
  Bluefin tuna re-export certificates...............................813
  Chemical Weapons Convention...................................18, 545
  Chemicals........................................................3601
  Clearance requirements............................................538
  Commerce Control List.........................541, 543, 549, 550, 560
  Communication intercepting devices................................541
  Computer technology...........................537, 543, 553, 573, 585
  CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program...............................432
  De minimis exclusion for technology and software..................570
  Distilled spirits, wine, and beer................................2804
  Encryption policy............................................562, 577
  Encryption software...............................................574
  Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative.........................565
  Explosive detection systems.......................................551
  Explosives...................................................546, 548
  Exporter definition...............................................515
  Firearms..........................................................546
  Foreign boycott provisions........................................563
  Ginseng..........................................................1597
  High-performance computers........................................571
  Humanitarian donations............................................568
  India.............................................................571
  Investigational new drugs........................................1115
  Libya........................................................567, 584
  License exceptions................................................568
  Licensing.........................................................544
  Manifest data....................................................2852
  Marine mammal products.....................................1598, 1606
  Medical products containing biological agents.....................549
  Missile technology controls..................................560, 575
  North Korea.................................................539, 2231
  Nuclear equipment and materials..............................542, 571
  OETCA regulations update..........................................534
  Pakistan..........................................................571
  Reexports..........................................548, 551, 567, 584
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...............430, 556, 1173
  River otters.....................................................1650
  Shipper's export declaration............................520, 521, 522
  Technology........................................................545
  Timber from western states..................................566, 1812
  Tobacco..........................................................2813
  Veterinary user fees..............................................256
  Wassenaar Arrangement review......................................550
  Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items............547, 555, 576
  Wildlife.............................................1539, 1588, 1624


                                   F

Fair housing:
  Civil penalties for violations...................................1476
  Complaint processing:
    Plain language revision and reorganization.....................1477
  Compliance requirements...........................................290
    Performance standards..........................................1474
  Enforcement agency certification and funding.....................1473
  Occupancy standards..............................................1514
Fair Housing:
  Compliance requirements...........................................470
Family planning:
  Abortion-related services compliance standards...................1232
  Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus................................1390
Federal buildings and facilities:
  Access for individuals with disabilities.........59, 1875, 1876, 3285
    Outdoor developed areas........................................3286
    Play areas.....................................................3288
  Energy performance standards...............................1042, 1043
  GSA regulations................................3805, 3806, 3807, 3845
  Military range assessment.........................................899
  Presidential library facilities..................................3871
  Property management..............................................3824
Federal home loan banks:
  Advances collateral........................................4463, 4472
  Advances participations/transfer of advances.....................4465
  Advances regulation amendment....................................4467

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  Eligible collateral..............................................4472
  Employee selection and compensation..............................4468
  Financial management regulation...................................161
  Financial statements.............................................4459
  Joint and several liability of banks.............................4473
  Mission fulfillment..............................................4469
  President base salary caps.......................................4470
Federal Reserve System:
  Affiliate funding................................................4500
  Capital:
    Leveraged......................................................4504
    Risk-based.....................................................4504
  Consumer regulations review................................4489, 4496
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................4491
  Equal credit opportunity.........................................4488
  Margin regulations review........................................4486
  Public availability of information...............................4501
  Reserve requirements:
    Depository institutions........................................4490
  Securities brokers and dealers:
    Qualifications for banks and securities representatives........4502
  State banks......................................................4492
  Streamlining regulations.........................................4487
  Transaction between a member bank and its subsidiaries...........4499
  Year 2000 safety and soundness guidelines........................4435
Feed grains:
  Scales and weighing...............................................331
Fire prevention:
  Aircraft:
    Cargo/baggage compartments.....................................2404
    Crash-resistant fuel systems...................................2378
    Fuel tank vent protection......................................2377
    Fuel tanks and lines...........................................2386
  Towing vessels...................................................2284
  Underground coal mines...........................................2111
Firefighters:
  Payment regulations..............................................3978
  Retirement.......................................................3989
Fish:
  See also Fisheries
           Seafood
  Definition of harm................................................754
  Endangered and threatened...697, 718, 752, 753, 754, 790, 1551, 1563, 
           1581, 1582, 1587, 1619, 1633, 1637, 1638, 1654, 1660, 1668, 
                                                             1676, 1679
  Farm-raised fin fish..............................................278
  FWS permit applications..........................................1639
  Listing of U.S. species in CITES Appendix III....................1641
  Restoration programs.............................................1600
  Trip limits.......................................................636
Fisheries:
  Alaska.........................609, 634, 635, 652, 766, 767, 781, 826
  Aleutian Island Atka Mackerel.....................................650
  American lobster..................................................712
  Atlantic bluefin tuna..............................735, 741, 842, 846
  Atlantic bluefish............................................597, 657
  Atlantic herring........................................590, 599, 685
  Atlantic mackerel............................................613, 659
  Atlantic sea scallop..............................................836
  Atlantic sturgeon.................................................819
  Atlantic surf clams...............................................660
  Atlantic tuna.....................................................802
  Atlantic Coast:
    Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)..............................666, 801
  Atlantic Ocean....................................................595
  Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands...610, 636, 648, 649, 672, 815, 826, 837, 
                                                                    838
  Black sea bass...............................................656, 658
  Bottomfish........................................................614
  Butterfish........................................................659
  Capacity reduction program........................................612
  Conservation efforts.........................................677, 700
  Corals and coral reefs.......................................607, 711
  Crab..............................................................635
  Crab community development quota reserves.........................776
  Critical habitat...................................749, 757, 759, 851
  Crustacean...................................................626, 644
  Disaster relief...................................................814
  Dolphin encirclement prohibition..................................852
  Dolphin mortality limit...........................................848
  Eastern Tropical Pacific..........................................795
  Flounder..........................................................789
  Groundfish.....601, 610, 614, 623, 625, 627, 628, 634, 635, 652, 680, 
        691, 729, 736, 766, 767, 774, 778, 781, 784, 815, 822, 835, 836
  Gulf of Alaska................................610, 649, 736, 815, 837
  Gulf of Mexico..........................................755, 777, 843
  Halibut............................................636, 662, 772, 778
  Hawaiian Islands.............................................732, 809
  Incidental take regulations...................750, 791, 792, 850, 852
  King Crabs........................................................648
  License Limitation Program.........................635, 648, 652, 653
  List for 2000.....................................................645
  Lobster............................................713, 732, 769, 809
  Marine mammal deterrence..........................................750
  Marine mammal programs.............................694, 695, 794, 804
  Marine mammal taking..............................................701
  Marine Mammal Protection Act......................................795
  Monkfish..........................................................715
  National Undersea Research Program................................798
  North Pacific.....................................................598
  North Pacific EEZ.................................................733
  Ocean quahogs.....................................................660
  Pacific Coast................................................799, 823
  Pelagic............................................600, 606, 777, 800
  Pollock............................................620, 649, 672, 837
  Puerto Rico..................................................596, 711
  Red snapper..................................................617, 843
  Reef fish..........................................596, 617, 716, 777
  Rockfish.....................................................661, 799
  Sablefish.........................................................618
  Salmon.............................................697, 718, 753, 811
  Scales performance criteria.......................................634
  Scientific research...............................................751
  Scup.........................................................656, 658
  Sea turtle conservation......................................755, 760
  Shrimp..................................................755, 807, 808
  Spotter aircraft use..............................................735
  Squid.............................................................659
  Stone crab........................................................713
  Summer flounder.........................................656, 658, 760
  Swordfish.........................................................812
  Tanner crabs......................................................601
  Tanner Crabs......................................................648
  Tilefish..........................................................595
  Tuna....................................................813, 850, 852
  U.S. Virgin Islands..........................................596, 711
  Washington coastal tribal fisheries...............................832
  Western Pacific region.......................................626, 800
  Whiting...........................................................832
  Yellowfin tuna....................................................795
Fishery management plans:
  Administrative:
    Bycatch reduction measures.......................620, 768, 807, 808
    Essential fish habitats...............................714, 727, 820
    Fishery Management Councils......................603, 605, 739, 827
    Gulf of Mexico..................................................716
    Redefinition of terms...........................................714
  Alaska...................................637, 651, 653, 661, 788, 820
  American Fisheries Act amendment..................................638
  Atlantic:
    Atlantic Coast...................................613, 663, 769, 825
    South Atlantic.....613, 639, 674, 713, 723, 724, 738, 743, 782, 825

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  Atlantic salmon...................................................830
  Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands........................675, 774, 786, 787
  Black sea bass...............................................686, 727
  C. bairdi stocks rebuilding.......................................646
  Calico scallop....................................................631
  Caribbean.........................................................633
  Chinook salmon...............................................664, 838
  Crab.........................................................641, 788
  CDQ regulations amendment....................................641, 845
  Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ)...............................603, 734
  Flounder..........................................................727
  Framework adjustment.........................................829, 836
  Full retention of demersal shelf rockfish.........................661
  Groundfish.....................651, 675, 692, 734, 778, 786, 787, 788
  Gulf of Alaska.....................................611, 675, 774, 786
  Gulf of Mexico......616, 617, 632, 639, 640, 643, 667, 669, 684, 713, 
                                 728, 782, 783, 808, 825, 827, 841, 844
  Hawaiian Islands.............................................614, 644
  Highly migratory species............671, 673, 682, 717, 739, 744, 831
  Improved retention/improved utilization program...................651
  King mackerel......................................639, 663, 669, 683
  King Crabs...................................................646, 826
  North right whales................................................856
  North Pacific.....................................................601
  Northeast multispecies...591, 619, 688, 690, 715, 722, 740, 742, 745, 
                                           746, 747, 824, 829, 835, 840
  Northern anchovy.............................................725, 833
  Pacific Coast.................................624, 692, 726, 734, 811
  Pacific Insular Area Fishing Agreements...........................603
  Pelagic sargassum.................................................642
  Red snapper........................................640, 827, 841, 844
  Reef fish..........................................667, 684, 827, 841
  Salmon:
    Overfishing definition..........................................637
  Scallops................................................653, 788, 826
  Scup.........................................................686, 727
  Sea scallop........................................591, 687, 748, 836
  Shrimp............................................................643
  Sitka Sound halibut...............................................720
  South Atlantic................................616, 631, 642, 669, 807
  Spanish mackerel.............................................639, 683
  Spiny dogfish.....................................................719
  Tanner Crabs.................................................646, 826
  Tuna..............................................................817
  Western Pacific................600, 606, 607, 677, 678, 679, 806, 821
Fishing:
  Alaska............................................................647
  Bycatch reduction measures.........................647, 736, 768, 838
  Catch limits............................................630, 639, 658
  Coastal Zone Management Act..................................704, 708
  Compensatory fishing..............................................615
  Conservation programs..........603, 611, 612, 614, 714, 803, 811, 813
  Data collection program...........................................594
  Gillnets..........................................................801
  Glacier Bay National Park........................................1709
  Management measures.....................................632, 823, 824
  North Pacific Loan Program........................................770
  Optimum yield specifications......................................832
  Participation credit..............................................733
  Permit requirements and exemptions.................603, 604, 803, 853
  Quotas:
    Atlantic Bluefish...............................................657
    Community Development Quota Program fees........................629
    Halibut...............................................609, 610, 816
    Individual fishing quota survivorship provision.................828
    Northern anchovy................................................833
    Ocean quahogs...................................................660
    Sablefish..................................................609, 610
    Surf clams......................................................660
  Quotas and harvest guidelines.....................................602
  Recreational measures..............................630, 656, 777, 844
  Reporting and recordkeeping.............................654, 668, 721
  Snake River chinook salmon...................................693, 757
  Sport fishing:
    Sport Fish Restoration Program.................................1591
  Subsistence management regulations...............................1675
Fishing vessels:
  American Samoa boundaries.........................................621
  Charter boats.....................................................773
  Commercial fisheries documents for US-flag vessels.........2269, 2742
  Compensatory fishing..............................................615
  Foreign vessels...................................................603
  Framework adjustment..............................................835
  Inshore/offshore reallocation.....................................771
  Licenses..........................................................810
  Limited entry permits.........................603, 604, 623, 625, 729
  Longline vessels..................................................800
  North Pacific Observer Program....................................655
  Observer policy...............................598, 608, 692, 775, 850
  Ownership requirements............................................805
  Pacific offshore cetacean take reduction plan.....................756
  Permit consistency................................................818
  Purse seine fleet capacity limits.................................834
  Scallop vessels..............................................835, 836
  Standard definitions..............................................765
  Trawlers..........................................................627
  Tuna vessels......................................................847
  Vessel name on licenses...........................................731
  Vessel Monitoring System.....................................650, 812
Flammable materials:
  Flammability standards.....................................4246, 4256
    Children's sleepwear...........................................4262
  Upholstered furniture.......................................158, 4260
Flood control:
  Impoundment regulations..........................................2102
Flood insurance:
  Contracts........................................................3762
  Group Flood Insurance Policy.....................................3780
  HUD programs...............................................1418, 1453
  National Flood Insurance Act of 1994..............................298
  National Flood Insurance Program:
    Write-Your-Own expense allowance.........................3791, 3793
Flood plains:
  Administrative appeals process....................................969
  Wetlands:
    Conservation program......................................197, 1408
    Minimal effects exemptions......................................503
    Privately owned................................................2467
    Wetlands Reserve Program..................................200, 1408
Food additives:
  ASTM standards...................................................1151
  Cured pork products...............................................422
  Flavoring agents:
    Volatile fruit flavored concentrates...........................2808
  Regulatory reinvention...........................................1190
Food assistance programs:
  See also Food stamps
           School breakfast and lunch programs
  Child and adult care.................................3, 354, 360, 381
    Meal supplements for teenagers in low-income areas..............374
    Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
        Act.........................................................392
  Commodity Supplemental Food Program..........................351, 394
  DOD surplus food distribution....................................3277
  Food delivery systems...............................................7
  Funding formula...................................................393
  Indian reservations.....................................350, 359, 372
  National School Lunch Program...........................342, 355, 379
  Older individuals................................................1392
  Paperwork reduction...............................................347
  Soy-base beverages................................................395
  State Technical Committees........................................504
  Summer Food Service Program..................................363, 364
  TEFAP.............................................................369
  Women, infants, and children:
    Certification integrity.........................................376

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    Disqualification of vendors.....................................391
    Eligibility.....................................................365
    Farmers Market Nutrition Program................................348
    Food delivery systems..............................7, 334, 356, 384
    Food packaging..................................................389
    Funding provisions..............................................377
    Local agency expenditure reports................................375
    Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
        Act.........................................................370
    Soy-base beverages..............................................395
Food labeling:
  Fruit and vegetable juices.........................................33
  Meat and poultry.............................................405, 413
  Medical foods....................................................1187
  Ovine carcasses...................................................425
  Review of regulations............................................1186
  Trans fatty acids................................................1140
  Voluntary nutrition labeling program..............................401
Food stamps:
  Audit requirements................................................373
  Balanced Budget Act provisions....................................383
  Civil rights data collections.....................................349
  Claims establishment and collection.................................8
  Computer matching.................................................335
  Disqualifiers and noncompliance penalties...........................4
  Electronic benefits transfer system.....................343, 368, 371
  Eligibility provisions:
    Income standards.........................................5, 10, 396
  Employment and training programs..................................383
  Employment and training requirements................................6
  Failure to comply with Federal, State, or local work program........4
  Minimum and maximum allotments...........................10, 396, 397
  Monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting.....................357
  Noncitizen eligibility..............................................5
  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
                                                        4, 5, 6, 10, 68
  Program revisions and eliminations................................382
  Quality control...................................................385
  Regulatory review............................................338, 341
  Reporting provisions..............................................357
  Retail food stores..................................................9
  Retailer application processing...................................336
  Retailer integrity, fraud reduction, and penalties................390
  State agencies administrative and management requirements.....5, 338, 
                                                                    341
  State agencies reimbursement......................................358
  Wholesale food concerns.............................................9
Food Stamps:
  State agencies administrative and management requirements.........343
Foods:
  See also Animal foods
           Bakery products
           Beverages
           Cacao
           Cereals (food)
           Dairy products
           Dietary foods
           Fish
           Food additives
           Food assistance programs
           Food grades and standards
           Food labeling
           Food packaging
           Frozen foods
           Fruits
           Meat and meat products
           Nutrition
           Nuts
           Oil and fats
           Poultry and poultry products
           Seafood
           Sugar
           Vegetables
           specific foods
  Fruit and vegetable juices.........................................33
  HACCP programs.................................................13, 33
  Infant formula quality control...................................1185
  Organic.............................................................1
  Pesticide residues...............................................3570
  Regulatory reinvention...........................................1190
  Transportation in vehicles used for nonfood products.............2731
Foreign banking:
  Foreign activities of insured state nonmember banks..............4434
  Income taxation..................................................2989
Foreign currencies:
  Acquisition regulations..........................................2763
Foreign investments in U.S.:
  Income taxation..................................................2900
Foreign relations:
  See also Citizenship and naturalization
           Cultural exchange programs
           Foreign Service
           Foreign aid
           Foreign claims
           Foreign trade
           Immigration
           International boundaries
           Passports and visas
           Treaties
           specific countries
  Direct transactions of U.S. reporter with foreign affiliate.......513
  Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2874
  Fishery regulations...............................................603
  International accounting standards...............................4620
  International wills registry.....................................2198
  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).....3585
  USML revisions...................................................2188

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Foreign trade:
  See also Competitiveness
           Customs duties and inspection
           Exports
           Fairs and expositions
           Imports
           Maritime carriers
           Trade adjustment assistance
           Trade agreements
  Bond procedures for articles subject to exclusion orders.........2846
  Boycott provisions................................................563
  Canada:
    Softwood lumber................................................2853
  Disclosure standards for foreign issuers.........................4632
  Earnings and profits.............................................3062
  Exempted securities issued by the Kingdom of Sweden..............4696
  Federal employee foreign rights in inventions.....................874
  Filing of informational materials................................2008
  Financial services transactions survey............................514
  Foreign boards of trade computer terminals in the U.S............4242
  Foreign Trade Statistical Regulations changes.....515, 520, 521, 522, 
                                                                    523
  Motor vehicles...................................................3468
  Overseas use of purchase cards....................................925
  Port restrictions:
    Japanese vessels...............................................4480
  Textile labeling.................................................4512
Forests and forest products:
  See also National forests
  Assistance to timber-dependent communities........................489
  Environmental analysis policy and procedure revisions.............445
  Forestry Incentive Program........................................502
  Imported wood packing materials.....................................2
    Treatment requirements for material from China..................274
  Indian allotments.................................................453
  Management planning................................................17
  Migrant and seasonal workers......................................505
  Mineral fractions, sale...........................................440
  Softwood lumber from Canada......................................2853
  Special uses authorizations.......................................450
  Special uses permit actions.......................................449
  Stewardship Incentive Program.....................................456
  Timber sales:
    Cancellation....................................................455
    Contracts..................................................444, 461
    Export controls...........................................566, 1812
    Noncompetitive sale.............................................448
    Small business set-aside recomputation..........................460
    Surplus species.................................................441
  Unmanufactured wood from Mexico...................................275
Fraud:
  Civil remedies...................................................4414
  Debarment of health care providers...............................3960
  Fraudulent commercial driver's licenses..........................2483
  Government procurement employment prohibitions....................939
  Health care fraud and abuse......................................1102
  Microcap securities market.......................................4686
  Odometer fraud...................................................2562
  OASDI............................................................4171
  Title I property insurance.......................................1424
  Toll fraud.......................................................4321
Freedom of information:
  See also Confidential business information
  Amendments.......................................................4560
  Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3615
  Department of the Army............................................964
  Department of the Navy............................................981
  DOD...............................................................889
  DOE..............................................................1062
  DOI..............................................................1522
  DOJ........................................................1836, 1923
  DOL..............................................................2031
  Electronic communication.........................................2031
  Electronic Freedom of Information Act...1394, 1923, 3298, 3760, 3767, 
                                                 3856, 3890, 3896, 4077
  EEOC records.....................................................3760
  EPA..............................................................3298
  Farm Credit Administration.......................................4281
  FEMA.............................................................3767
  FMCS.............................................................3795
  HHS..............................................................1106
  INS..............................................................1923
  IRS..............................................................3031
  NARA organizational and procedural changes.......................3860
  NASA.............................................................3856
  NRC public document rooms........................................4615
  Office of the Special Counsel....................................4032
  OGE electronic amendments........................................3910
  OPM..............................................................3920
  Public information..........................................528, 4563
  Regulations revision........................................977, 1522
  Sex offender registration programs...............................2019
  Social Security Administration...................................4158
  SEC amendments...................................................4699
  Tax-exempt organization information..............................3119
  Veterans Affairs.................................................3229
Freight:
  See also Hazardous materials transportation
  Air carrier baggage liability limit..............................2225
  Passenger aircraft cargo:
    Oxygen generators..............................................2363
  Protection against shifting and falling cargo....................2434
Frozen foods:
  Country of origin marking........................................2849
Fruits:
  Florida fruit tree crop insurance provisions......................311
  Grain-fruit products..............................................387
  Import restrictions.....................................264, 271, 280
  Irradiation phytosanitary treatment...............................258
Fuel additives:
  Oxygenated.......................................................3587
Fuel economy:
  Calculations.....................................................2613
  Fuel economy credits.............................................2536
  Light trucks and light duty vehicles.............................3365
  Light trucks, model year 2001....................................2626
  Reporting requirements...........................................2565
Funeral industry:
  Practices rule...................................................4509


                                   G

Gambling:
  NIGC definitions.................................................4555
  NIGC hearings and appeals..................................4549, 4553
  Tribal land acquisitions.........................................1730
Gases:
  See also Helium
           Natural gas
  Coalbed methane development......................................1818
Gasohol:
  Motor vehicle use................................................1032
Geothermal energy:
  Regulation simplification........................................1802
Goats:
  Interstate movement...............................................257
Government contracts:
  See also Government procurement
  Acquisition regulations:
    USAID..........................................................3280
  Affirmative action..........................63, 907, 2046, 2050, 4417
  Airline contract city-pair fares.................................3834
  Audits...........................................................2130
  Bundled contracts................................................4097

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  Buy American Act.................................................1527
  Commodity Credit Corporation storage contracts....................199
  Commodity Credit Corporation suspension and debarment.............224
  Construction.............................................63, 66, 4182
  Contract financing payments.......................................936
  Contract reform..................................................1089
  Contractors:
    Criminal history record information access.....................2022
    DOD placement assistance program................................892
    DOE contract security personnel................................1058
    DOE employee protection program................................1069
    Government property management and disposition.................4188
    Legal services.................................................1480
    Local hiring and training......................................3313
    Performance evaluations........................................3321
    Project management.............................................1076
    Qualifications.................................................3177
    Training........................................................935
    Use of nonimmigrant aliens......................................905
    Veterans employment report..........................919, 2181, 4181
    Waivers........................................................2051
    Work for others by DOE contractors.............................1080
  Debarment and suspension...............................224, 910, 3303
  Defense contracts:
    Commercial construction.........................................921
    Congressional Medal of Honor fraud..............................923
    DFARS modification.....903, 911, 913, 923, 924, 928, 930, 931, 932, 
                                 952, 953, 955, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963
    Electronic funds transfers......................................946
    Electronic publication of DFARS.................................956
    Manufacturing technology program................................909
    People's Republic of China......................................908
    Performance-based payments......................................924
    Purchases through other agencies................................954
    Specifications and Standards Requisition Form...................955
  Demilitarization requirements.....................................915
  Dispute resolution:
    FAA procedures.................................................2411
  DD form revisions............................................943, 944
  DD Form 1057 work stoppage revision...............................958
  DD Form 2631 Performance Evaluation revision......................940
  DEAR amendments..................................................1084
    Management and operating clauses...............................1082
    Mentor-Protigi Program.........................................1077
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................882
  DOE nuclear weapons facilities worker training...................1071
  Empowerment contracting..........................................4203
  EPA acquisition regulations......................................3303
  EPA protest solicitation notification............................3319
  EPA Mentor-Protege Program.......................................3302
  Farm Service Agency...............................................201
  Federal Acquisition Regulations:
    DEAR amendments................................................1081
    DEAR technical amendments......................................1087
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act.............................2039
  Fees and incentives..............................................1089
  Finance rules.....................................................945
  Fixed price.......................................................914
  Fraud.............................................................939
  Guarantees of performance........................................1090
  Highway engineering and design related services..................2444
  Indians....................................................1719, 1783
  Labor standards....................................................66
  Lobbying restrictions.......................................508, 2244
  Multiple award indefinite delivery contracts.....................4208
  Multiyear contracting.............................................941
  National Park Service concession contracts.......................1697
  Negotiation......................................................3320
  Nondiscrimination..........................63, 2046, 2049, 2050, 3865
  Nuclear safety management..........................................25
  Penalty payments.................................................3318
  Professional services............................................4207
  Progress payments................................................4190
  Property management services and technical corrections...........3834
  Repricing clause..................................................947
  Research and development.........................................1223
  Rights to inventions..............................................873
  Shipbuilding capability preservation agreements...................980
  Site of work wages...............................................2045
  Subcontracting:
    Commercial items................................................922
  Subcontractors...................................................4189
  Taxpayer identification numbers..................................3768
  Uncompensated overtime...........................................4207
  Voluntary consensus standards....................................4209
  VAAR:
    Application of labor laws......................................3181
    Construction and architect-engineer contracts..................3180
Government employees:
  See also Conflict of interests
           Foreign Service
           Military personnel
           Political activities (Government employees)
  Absence and leave:
    Annual leave.................................3945, 3983, 4019, 4021
  Administrative law judges........................................3995
  Appeals..........................................................3939
  Authorization of solicitations...................................4030
  Availability of official information.............................3920
  Career and career conditional employment.........................3924
  Career transition assistance.....................................3968
    Panama Canal Zone Employees....................................3969
  Child care at VA facilities......................................3246
  Clarification of staffing provisions.............................4007
  Classification appeals...........................................3934
  Compensatory time off............................................3974
  Corporation for National Service:
    Noncompetitive appointments....................................3925
  Cost-of-living allowances:
    Nonforeign areas...............................................3981
  Defense of tort suits............................................2004
  Defense personnel...........................................892, 3966
  Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program.....................4023
  District of Columbia employees:
    Benefits.......................................................3986
    Retirement, health, and life insurance coverage................3987
  Emergency leave transfer program.................................3982
  Employment discrimination...................................138, 3757
  Employment priority for displaced employees......................3967
  Excepted service:
    Operational procedures.........................................3923
    Promotion and internal placement...............................3963
  Family and medical leave.........................................3983
  Federal Competitive Service appointments of volunteers...........3926
  Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program....................4022
  Financial disclosure requirements................................3904
  Foreign rights in inventions......................................874
  Gift acceptance authority of OGE.................................3899
  Health and counseling program....................................3947
  Health benefits:
    Contributions and withholding..................................4028
    Debarment of health care providers.............................3960
    Demonstration project....................................3996, 4029
    Effective dates................................................4004
    FEHBP changes............................................3959, 3994
  Hiring authorities...............................................3929
  Holiday and premium pay..........................................3974
  Holiday designation for overseas employees.......................3979
  Income tax reimbursement allowance for travel or transportation
                                                                   3837
  Interagency placement program....................................3998
    Panama Canal Zone Employees....................................3969

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  Intermittent.....................................................3931
  Investigations...................................................4003
  Job grading reviews..............................................3939
  Life insurance...................................................3958
    Court orders...................................................4027
    Federal Acquisition Regulation.................................3961
    Regulation revisions.....................................3992, 3993
  Merit promotion and internal placement...........................3928
  Nondiscrimination in USDA-conducted programs and activities.......464
  NARA recordkeeping requirements..................................3858
  Part-time........................................................3931
  Pay administration...............................................3972
  Pay rates:
    Administration...........................................3943, 3979
    Appropriated fund wage areas.....3938, 4012, 4014, 4016, 4017, 4018
    Back pay.......................................................3979
    Environmental differential pay.................................4015
    Federal Wage System (FWS) survey jobs..........................3973
    Nonappropriated fund wage areas....................3937, 3975, 4011
    Official duty station determinations...........................3971
    Overtime pay for travel........................................3979
    Physicians' comparability allowance............................3979
    Printing positions.............................................4013
    Superior qualifications appointments...........................3935
  Performance appraisal............................................3759
    Senior Executive Service........................................142
  Performance Management and Recognition System....................4000
  Personnel records................................................3922
  Probation on initial appointment to competitive position.........3927
  Promotion and internal placement...........................3963, 3965
  Reduction in force service credit................................4008
  Reemployment.........................................3944, 3999, 4005
  Relocation costs.....................................3971, 4020, 4191
  Relocation income tax allowance tax tables.......................3836
  Restoration to duty..............................................4009
  Retention allowances.............................................3980
  Retention records................................................4008
  Retirement:
    Bar of benefits after conviction.........................3932, 3953
    Court orders awarding survivor annuities.................3932, 3955
    Coverage for non-appropriated fund instrumentalities.....3932, 3985
    Credit for military service........................3932, 3950, 3952
    D.C. Financial Control Board employees...................3932, 3984
    Debt collection..........................................3932, 3954
    Determinations of marital status for survivor annuities.......3932, 
                                                                   4024
    Divorced spouses.........................................3932, 3952
    FERS basic annuity.......................................3932, 3991
    FERS coverage elections..................................3932, 3957
    Health care professionals................................3932, 3949
    Nuclear materials couriers.....................................3988
    Service credit...........................................3932, 3951
    State income tax withholding.............................3932, 3990
    Voluntary early retirement.....................................4025
  Salary offset for claims collection..............................3862
  Salary offset for debt collection....................2765, 4116, 4119
  Salary supplementation...........................................3901
  Seasonal.........................................................3931
  Security standards...............................................4002
  Selective Service registration requirements................3930, 4006
  Senior Executive Service:
    Employment requirements........................................3997
    Performance appraisal...........................................142
    Performance Awards.............................................3976
  Severance pay....................................................3942
  Standards of conduct...511, 1092, 3855, 3883, 3886, 3888, 3889, 3905, 
                                     3906, 3909, 4039, 4042, 4076, 4155
  Subpoenas........................................................3907
  Suitability standards............................................4001
  Surplus or displaced.......................................3967, 3968
  Temporary change of station......................................3971
  Testimony............................................3861, 3907, 4121
  Time-in-grade restrictions.......................................3964
  Training.........................................................3782
  Travel regulations...........3815, 3818, 3823, 3838, 3841, 3842, 3844
  Voluntary separation incentive repayment waivers.................3977
Government procurement:
  See also Government contracts
  Accession of Singapore to GPA.....................................950
  Acquisition regulations...............................935, 2203, 4601
    Buy American clauses............................................951
    Commercially available off-the-shelf items.....................4186
    DFARS modification................901, 902, 912, 927, 929, 933, 951
    DOD activity names and addresses update.........................956
    DOE............................................................1083
    EPA protest solicitation notification..........................3319
    Foreign acquisitions...........................................4187
    HUD............................................................1479
    NASA...........................................................3853
    Overseas use of purchase cards..................................925
    Panama Canal Commission........................................4034
    Purchase card use...............................................926
    Purchase cards and electronic data interchange......935, 3271, 4601
    Purchasing by management and operating contractors.............1088
    Quality of environmental data..................................3309
    Real property policies..............................935, 3810, 4601
    USAID...............................................935, 3280, 3281
    Veterans Affairs....3176, 3178, 3179, 3217, 3218, 3219, 3220, 3221, 
                                                       3272, 3273, 3274
  Affirmative action.........................................4204, 4205
  Affirmative action reform.........................................906
  Architect-engineer services................................3816, 3831
  Ball and roller bearings..........................................918
  Brand name purchase descriptions.................................4206
  Buy American Act.................................................1527
  Clean air and water amendment....................................4194
  Commercial items acquisition................902, 916, 917, 4198, 4201
  Compensation for senior executives...............................4222
  Conditionally accepted items.....................................4212
  Contractors:
    Contractor liability for loss of and/or damages to household 
        goods......................................................4220
    Cost Accounting Standards post-award notification..............4216
    Financing policies.............................................4195
    Interest in Other Financial Costs..............................4217
    Local hiring and training......................................3313
    Performance evaluations........................................3321
    Progress payments..............................................4195
    Women- and minority-owned businesses................530, 4417, 4432
  Contracts:
    Conforming late offer treatment................................4218
    Cost-reimbursement architect-engineer contracts................4215
    Increased payment protection...................................4214
    Incrementally funding fixed price contracts....................3304
    Multiple Award Schedule........................................3812
    Negotiation....................................................3320
    NFS contracts.........................................444, 455, 461
    Option clause consistency......................................4219
    Personal services..............................................3322
  Cost comparison guidance....................................876, 4202
  Costs:
    Cost principles...........................................934, 1078
    Travel.........................................................4185
  Demilitarization requirements.....................................915
  DOL..............................................................2128
  Electronic commerce..............................................4192
  Environmentally preferable products..............................3606
  Evaluation boards................................................4193
  EPA acquisition regulation:
    Informal clauses...............................................3305

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  Foreign currency use.............................................2763
  Fuel..............................................................894
  GSA regulations......................................3809, 3810, 3832
  HUBZone Program..................................................4213
  Javits-Wagner-O'Day Revisions....................................4211
  Level of effort..................................................3317
  Lobbying restrictions............................................4183
  Multiple award indefinite delivery contracts.....................4208
  Part 30 deviations................................................937
  Pollution control................................................4194
  Prompt payment...................................................3912
  Protest at the level above the contracting officer................531
  Protests.........................................................3319
  Recycled products..........................................1079, 3642
  Single process initiative.........................................938
  Small business subcontracting....................................4184
  Small businesses............................................893, 4204
    Price evaluation adjustment.....................................957
  Small, minority, and women's business utilization................3297
  State Department regulations.....................................2203
  Streamlining legislation implementation..........................4185
  Subcontracting.............................................3916, 4184
  Taxpayer identification numbers..................................3768
  Taxpayer Identification Numbers..................................4210
  Television-audio support activity.................................942
  Textiles:
    Para-aramid fibers and yarns....................................949
  Uniform Procurement Instrument Identification numbers.............920
  Universal product numbers........................................3179
  Very Small Business Pilot Program................................4221
  Voluntary consensus standards....................................4209
Government property:
  See also Federal buildings and facilities
           Government property management
           Surplus Government property
  Donation of excess USDA research equipment........................506
  Donation of surplus personal property............................3820
  Donation requirements for firearms...............................3830
  Economic development transfers of real property by DOE...........1070
  Federal surplus property used for self-help housing..............1429
  Motor vehicles...................................................3827
  Regulations replacement..........................................3821
  Sale..............................................................890
  Telephone systems................................................3798
Government property management:
  Contribution in aid of construction..............................2888
  Federal facilities in urban areas................................3824
  Negotiation procedures for leasehold interests acquisition.......3828
  Qualified lessee construction allowances for short-term leases 
                                                                   2887
  Real property........................................3811, 3825, 3846
  Regulations replacement..........................................3821
  Reporting excess personal property...............................3819
  Smoke development rating increase................................3826
  Space and related services:
    Alterations..............................................3805, 3845
    Assignment.....................................................3805
    Rents and leases.........................................3806, 3807
    Utilization....................................................3805
Government publications:
  Prohibitions against reproduction................................1098
Grains:
  See also Feed grains
           specific grains
  Crop insurance...............................................306, 307
  Divider tolerances................................................330
  Grain-fruit products..............................................387
  Reinspection or appeal inspection for grade.......................328
Grant programs:
  Block grants:
    Administration regulations.....................................1101
    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..............68, 1369, 1389
  Community Food Project............................................284
  DOI..............................................................1528
  Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook revision................3854
  Highway safety incentive grants..................................2586
  Illegitimacy rate reduction bonus requirements...................1390
  Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant program............2028
  Library services.................................................3878
  Motor vehicle safety incentive grants...2582, 2583, 2584, 2585, 2587, 
                                                                   2622
  Multifamily housing:
    Rehabilitation program.........................................1443
  National Boating Infrastructure Grant Program....................1538
  National Dam Safety Program......................................3764
  National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.....................3784
  Public Assistance Disaster Grant Program:
    Insurance requirements.........................................3773
    Redesign.......................................................3789
  Research grants..................................................1223
  Rights to inventions..............................................873
  Single Audit Act Amendments..........................1407, 2246, 3874
  Small Business Innovation Research Program administrative 
      provisions....................................................285
  State cemetery grants............................................3185
  Welfare-to-Work Grants Program.....................................68
Grant programs-agriculture:
  Administrative provisions and requirements..............284, 287, 465
  Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program 
      administrative provisions.....................................286
  Community facility grants.........................................489
  Lobbying restrictions.............................................508
  Rural economic development........................................467
  Technical assistance and training..................195, 294, 472, 491
  Water and waste disposal programs.................................477
Grant programs-education:
  Acquisition and transfer of excess personal property..............466
  Administrative regulations.......................................1000
  Combating violence against women on campuses.....................2029
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................897
  Federal Pell Grant Program.......................................1019
  Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant Program...1006, 1019
  Federal Work-Study Programs................................1006, 1019
  FmHA programs.....................................................195
  Head Start program:
    Funding..................................................1377, 1386
    Performance standards..........................................1373
    Regulation revision............................................1387
  Hispanic programs.................................................283
  Indian colleges..................................................1734
  Multicultural Scholars Program....................................282
  National Leadership Demonstration Grants.........................3878
  National Security Education Program...............................883
  Projects with industry...........................................1028
  Teacher quality enhancement programs.......................1014, 1018
Grant programs-environmental protection:
  Cooperative agreements and Superfund state contracts.............3661
  Drinking Water State Revolving Fund..............................3739
  Environmental management program.................................1064
  EPA technical assistance grants..................................3662
  Flood mitigation assistance programs.............................3762
  Performance Partnership Grants...............................123, 124
  Solid waste management grants.....................................490
Grant programs-health:
  AIDS Healthcare Foundation START Program.........................1241
  AOA rules revisions..............................................1392
Grant programs-housing and community development:
  Community development block grants:
    Community revitalization strategy..............................1460
    CDBG sanctions.................................................1464
    Expenditure documentation requirement..........................1461

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    Program income.................................................1466
    Prohibition for employment relocation activities...............1468
    Streamlining...................................................1467
  Consolidated Plan................................................1409
  Emergency Shelter Grants Program.................................1462
  Empowerment zones and enterprise communities......................463
  HUD-owned multifamily properties.................................1445
  Slum/blight prevention and elimination...........................1458
  State homes for veterans.........................................3152
Grant programs-natural resources:
  Carey Act grants.................................................1798
  Marine mammal protection:
    Rescission of administrative procedures........................1593
  National Undersea Research Program................................798
  Railroad grants..................................................1797
  Wildlife Restoration Programs....................................1600
Grant programs-science and technology:
  NCI construction grants..........................................1230
Grant programs-transportation:
  Approval process.................................................2507
  Buy American Act.................................................2605
  Clean fuels formula grant program................................2675
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program....................2475, 2490
  Uniform administrative requirements..............................2224
Grant programs-Indians:
  BIA regulations revision.........................................1720
  Construction of jails............................................2025
Grants administration:
  Audit requirements.........................................2130, 3775
  Demonstration project authority..................................4010
  Lobbying restrictions............................................2244
  National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program.............1540
  National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program...........287
  Social Security Administration.................4115, 4151, 4152, 4153
  Uniform administrative requirements.......529, 2224, 3279, 3918, 4152
Grazing lands:
  Classifications..................................................1820
  Indian land......................................................1731
  National Forest System............................................453


                                   H

Harbors:
  Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2277
  Maintenance fees.................................................2867
Hawaiian Natives:
  Grants for services provided to older individuals................1392
Hazardous materials transportation:
  See also Pipeline safety
  Air carrier emergency telephone number requirements..............2689
  Aircraft carriage................................................2688
  Barge requirements.........................................2248, 2265
  Cargo tank requirements....................................2690, 2699
  Coast Guard regulations..................................88, 89, 2305
  Environmental impacts............................................4613
  FAA material recognition training................................2335
  Hazard communication requirements................................2710
  Hazardous Waste Manifest rule.....................................114
  High-level waste.................................................4613
  Incident reporting...............................................2706
  Intergovernmental relations..................................98, 2714
  Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries....................3652
  Miscellaneous amendments.........................................2703
  Motor carriers.................................2463, 2487, 2491, 2705
  Oxidizers and organic peroxides..................................2724
  Rail transport...................................................2705
  Registration and fee assessment program..........................2704
  Shipping papers retention........................................2734
  Tank cars........................................................2720
  Train responders.................................................2704
Hazardous substances:
  See also Explosives
           Flammable materials
           Hazardous materials transportation
           Hazardous waste
           Poison prevention
           Radioactive materials
  Air pollutants......83, 106, 126, 3324, 3328, 3329, 3330, 3331, 3332, 
           3342, 3343, 3344, 3345, 3346, 3347, 3348, 3349, 3350, 3351, 
           3353, 3354, 3355, 3356, 3357, 3358, 3359, 3360, 3366, 3399, 
           3402, 3403, 3417, 3418, 3419, 3420, 3422, 3423, 3435, 3439, 
           3469, 3470, 3471, 3472, 3473, 3474, 3475, 3476, 3477, 3480, 
           3481, 3484, 3485, 3486, 3488, 3511, 3512, 3513, 3514, 3515, 
           3516, 3517, 3518, 3519, 3520, 3521, 3522, 3523, 3526, 3529, 
                                                       3533, 3599, 4512
  Aluminum:
    Spent potliners from primary reduction.........................3635
  Aluminum cylinders safety problems...............................2694
  Asbestos.............................................3577, 3580, 3605
  Beryllium..........................................................26
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3314
  Chemical test rules..................................3594, 3599, 3601
  Chemicals:
    Import of toxic chemicals..............2135, 2855, 3575, 3609, 3618
  Chromium...................................................2163, 3475
  Crystalline silica.........................................2120, 2147
  Designation under CERCLA.........................................3665
  Drinking water regulations.................................3732, 3750
  Drinking water testing methods...................................3749
  Energy sources...................................................2132
  Environmentally preferable products guidelines...................3606
  Ethylene oxide.............................................2133, 3459
  Exemptions procedures revision and clarification.................2711
  Exposure limits for air contaminants...............................83
  Extremely Hazardous Substances List........................3616, 3617
  Federally permitted releases.....................................3663
  Flammable and combustible liquids................................2167
  Glycol ethers....................................................3446
  High-pressure seamless cylinders.................................2716
  International standards..........................................2738
  Isocyanates................................................3437, 3617
  Lead...............111, 131, 1416, 3520, 3579, 3581, 3588, 3607, 3734
  Mercury-containing and rechargeable batteries....................3652
  Metals...........................................................3583
  Metalworking fluids..............................................2166
  Method 24 amendment..............................................3338
  Microorganisms...................................................3584
  MSHA protection standards........................................2114
  Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2241
  Ozone depleting substances.......................................3503
  Pesticides.....................................3561, 3565, 3568, 3574
    Emergency exemption regulations..........................3558, 3565
    EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations....................3308, 3565
    Field testing..................................................3565
    Produced by transgenic plants................3561, 3562, 3565, 3574
    Worker protection standards..............................3564, 3565
  Pipeline safety standards..........2696, 2697, 2717, 2718, 2732, 2733
  Polychlorinated biphenyls........................................3597
  Procedural and rulemaking changes................................2726
  Propane cylinders:
    Requirements for filing equipment operators....................2723
  Radon.............................................................117
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................3600
  Sulfur oxides.....................................................103
  Surface coatings.................................................3338
  Toxicological profiles:
    Metals.........................................................3583
  Toxics Release Inventory:
    Chemicals..........................102, 132, 3610, 3611, 3618, 3619
    Coal...........................................................3612
    Lead............................................................133
    Otherwise use activity exemptions..............................3612
  Water pollution control..............................3686, 3689, 3708
Hazardous waste:
  Carbamates.......................................................3660

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  Cathode ray tubes................................................3632
  Cement kiln dust.................................................3651
  Cleanups.........................................................3662
  Disposal facilities:
    Combustion facilities..........................................3647
    Low level mixed waste...........................................116
    Radioactive waste..............................................3552
  Effluent limitation guidelines.............................3666, 3682
  Groundwater contamination..................................3485, 3733
  Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators...................3451
  Identification and listing......................113, 3630, 3649, 3650
  Land disposal:
    Restrictions.............................................3633, 3648
    Spent potliners from primary aluminum reduction................3635
  Lead.............................................................3604
  Lead-based paint debris..........................................3654
  Manifest regulations..............................................114
  Medical waste....................................................2702
  Mercury..........................................................3633
  Paint manufacturing..............................................3650
  Permit program....................................................115
  Polychlorinated biphenyls........................................3644
  Radioactive waste................................................4595
    Dose methodology...............................................3376
    Site recommendation............................................1074
    Yucca Mountain, NV........................................105, 4587
  Recycled used oil..........................................3644, 3649
  Recycling........................................................3632
  Recycling in fertilizers.........................................3655
  Silver-bearing waste.............................................3643
  Solid waste................................................3623, 3636
  Solvents.........................................................3631
  Spent solvents...................................................3649
  Toxic waste site.................................................3575
  Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3646
  Training programs accreditation..................................2161
  Treatment and disposal:
    Fluorescent lamps..............................................3656
  Triarylmethane dye and pigments..................................3640
  Uncontrolled sites on the NPL....................................3659
Health care:
  See also Emergency medical services
           Medicaid
           Medicare
  Adult day health care for veterans...............................3153
  Anti-kickback provisions.......................1095, 1096, 1100, 1107
  AIDS Healthcare Foundation START Program.........................1241
  Cancer patients..................................................1220
  Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.........497
  Fraud and abuse..................................................1102
  Health supply services:
    Small business size standards..................................4084
  Home health agencies.............................................1295
    Medicare conditions of participation...........................1344
  Human cellular and tissue-based products.............1125, 1126, 1193
  Indian Health Service eligibility regulations....................1217
  Revised OIG sanction authorities.................................1105
  Risk-sharing arrangements........................................1100
  State self assessments for compliance............................1385
  Underserved areas................................................1210
  Veterans.........................................................3193
  Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act.......................1242, 2093
Health facilities:
  See also Hospitals
           Nursing homes
  Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).........................1255, 1316
  Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)..................1096, 1320
  Long-term care...................................................1277
  Payments of claims on insured mortgages..........................1427
  Physician referrals for health services..........................1294
  Renal dialysis facilities........................................1286
  Skilled nursing facilities.......................................1336
  Surety bond requirements.........................................1329
Health insurance:
  See also Black lung benefits
           Medicare
  Access:
    Employees of firms with less than 51 employees.................1315
    Individual coverage after loss of group coverage...............1315
    Pre-existing condition exclusions..............................1315
  Child health insurance.......................................48, 1372
  Continuing coverage notice.......................................2076
  CHAMPUS:
    Coverage of transplants.........................................987
    Payment for ambulatory care.....................................986
    TRICARE Prime enrollment........................................995
  COBRA continuation coverage................................1252, 3099
  District of Columbia employees...................................3987
  Electronic signatures..............................................43
  Electronic transactions standards for health plans.................44
  Employer based group health plans..........................1252, 2076
    Continuation coverage requirements.......................2076, 3099
  Employer identification number.....................................45
  Enforcement of legislative requirements..........................1245
  Exemption from State regulation..................................2075
  Government employees...............3959, 3994, 3996, 4004, 4028, 4029
  Health plan identifiers..........................................1236
  Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.......40, 72, 73, 
                                                             1236, 1323
    Minimum requirements for group health plans......72, 73, 1322, 1323
    OIG penalties....................................72, 73, 1099, 1323
  HIPAA nondiscrimination rules..............................2095, 2920
  Medicare supplemental insurance..................................1343
  Multiple employer welfare arrangements...........................2089
  Portability......................................................1315
  Provider identifiers...............................................40
  Security of individual health information..........................43
  Small Business Job Protection Act:
    Limitation of liability........................................2085
  State Children's Health Insurance Program........................1237
  Summary plan description regulations...............................76
  Third Party Collection Program....................................884
  Universal health care identifier.................................1339
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs):
  Medicaid requirements............................................1278
  Medicare contract eligibility......................................41
  Third party liability............................................1298
Health professions:
  Alien health care workers..................................1952, 2003
  Audiologists.....................................................1303
  Cytology proficiency testing.....................................1302
  CHAMPUS provider certification requirements.......................992
  Education:
    Nursing and allied health science programs.....................1275
  National Practitioner Data Bank..................................1213
  National Practitioner Data Bank reporting policy.................3154
  Nurses:
    Anesthetists...................................................1275
    Nonimmigrant aliens............................................1936
  NIH traineeships.................................................1224
  Optometrists and ophthalmologists................................4515
  Pathologists.....................................................1303
  Physicians:
    Comparability allowance........................................3979
    Health services referrals......................................1294
    Hearing evaluation performance...................................28
    VA medical opinions rules......................................3244
  Professional shortage areas......................................1210
  Provider identifiers...............................................40
  Retirement provisions............................................3949
Health records:
  Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1288
  OPM recordkeeping requirements...................................3922

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  Prescription Release Rule........................................4515
  Privacy and disclosure of SSA records and information............4163
  Privacy Act exempt record system.................................1103
  Universal health care identifier.................................1339
Health Care:
  Veterans...................................................3176, 3235
Heart disease:
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................987
Hepatitis C virus:
  Blood donors and recipients........................................31
  Hospital conditions of participation.............................1347
Highway safety:
  Accident reporting requirements..................................2429
  Diabetic interstate truck drivers................................2482
  Highway safety data improvements incentive grants................2586
  Highway-rail grade crossings.........................2436, 2455, 2466
  Motor carrier regulations...2430, 2443, 2462, 2463, 2468, 2475, 2476, 
                                                             2493, 2602
  State programs.............................................2507, 2537
  Traffic control devices:
    Bicycle safety facilities......................................2477
    Manual revision....................................2455, 2477, 2501
    Recreation and cultural interest signs.........................2477
    School areas...................................................2499
    Tourist oriented directional signs.............................2477
    Traffic signs..................................................2502
  Work zone safety.................................................2438
Highways and roads:
  See also Bridges
           Carpools
           Highway safety
           Motor carriers
           Motor vehicle safety
           Motor vehicles
           Parking
  Beautification costs.............................................2422
  Emergency relief program disaster eligibility threshold..........2472
  Engineering and design related services contracts................2444
  Environmental impact and related procedures...2428, 2453, 2467, 2527, 
                                                                   2674
  Federal aid projects.................................2465, 2492, 2498
  Federal Lands Highway Program:
    Forest highways program........................................2449
    Indian reservations road program...............................2447
    Park roads and parkways program................................2446
    Refuge roads program...........................................2448
  Funding..........................................................2464
  Intelligent Transportation System..........................2454, 2498
  National Highway System..........................................2465
  Railroad highway projects........................................2469
  Right-of-way regulations...................................2458, 2474
  Snowmobile and snowplane routes..................................1701
  Traffic noise abatement..........................................2445
  Traffic surveillance and control...........................2479, 2506
  Transborder traffic controls and fees............................1937
Historic preservation:
  Paleontological resources........................................1821
  Regulatory revisions.............................................3278
  World Heritage Convention........................................1698
Hogs:
  Imports from Europe...............................................276
  Pseudorabies indemnity payment....................................279
  Small Hog Operation Payment Program...............................237
Holding companies:
  Exemption for certain acquisitions...............................4653
  Exemption for subsidiary companies...............................4654
  Multiple savings and loan holding companies......................3142
Homeless:
  Food Stamp Program.................................................10
  Women, infants, and children......................................370
Homesteads:
  Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1794
Horses:
  Horse Industry Organizations:
    Protection requirements.........................................260
  Interstate movement to slaughter..................................267
Hospice care:
  Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc......................1363
  Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 
                                                                   1362
  Medicare conditions of participation.............................1301
  Medicare payments................................................1335
  Medicare policies................................................1350
Hospitals:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
  Clinical diagnostic laboratory services....................1240, 1268
  Conditions of participation:
    Laboratory services............................................1347
  CHAMPUS payment for ambulatory care...............................986
  Diagnostic procedures............................................1253
  DOT grants.......................................................2224
  Grants administration.................................529, 3279, 3918
  Length of hospital stay after birth of child.......................75
  Medicare conditions of participation.......................1293, 1365
  Medicare payment...................................................37
  Mortgages........................................................1456
  Outpatient services..............................................1253
  Payments of claims on insured mortgages..........................1427
  Psychiatric......................................................1280
  Voluntary reduction in number of residents.......................1356
Household appliances:
  Amplifiers.......................................................4516
  Appliance Labeling Rule..........................................4517
  Energy efficiency..............22, 1029, 1034, 1035, 1041, 1047, 1049
  Surface coating of large appliance products and parts............3346
Housing:
  See also Condominiums
           Fair housing
           Home improvement
           Homeless
           Housing standards
           Low and moderate income housing
           Manufactured homes
           Mortgage insurance
           Mortgages
           Public housing
           Relocation assistance
  Assistance applications..........................................1496
  Capital advance duration.........................................1447
  Claim reform.....................................................1441
  Disposition of HUD-owned assets in revitalization areas..........1430
  Employment opportunities.........................................1475
  Energy-efficiency rating guidelines..............................1048
  Federal surplus property used for self-help housing..............1429
  HOME Investment Partnerships Program:
    Streamlining.......................................1401, 1410, 1467
  Indians....................................................1470, 1505
    Dwelling Construction and Equipment Costs................1494, 1520
  Lead-based paint...........................................1416, 3604
  Limited denial of participation in HUD programs............1396, 1405
  Loan Guarantee Program...........................................1465
  Model Energy Code update.........................................1435
  Multifamily:
    Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform Act program violations....1397, 
                                                                   1406
    Nondiscrimination based on disability..........................1404
    Rehabilitation grants..........................................1443
    Tenant participation...........................................1444
    Uniform physical condition standards and physical inspection 
        requirements...........................................50, 1420
  OFHEO information regulation.....................................3897
  OFHEO interim debt collection regulation.........................3898
  Quality assurance review of independent public auditors..........1484
  Rental agreements................................................3115

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  Resident survey information privacy requirements.................1483
  Rural:
    Farm labor housing.........................................292, 303
    Loan policies...................................................296
    Loans and grants............................292, 293, 295, 297, 301
    Multiple-family housing.........................................292
    Rental housing.............................................292, 301
  Sale of property...........................................1441, 2945
  Single-family:
    Officer Next Door Program......................................1446
  Streamlining regulations..........................................292
  Title I property insurance.................................1424, 1437
Housing standards:
  Manufactured home construction and safety standards program......1448
  Material bulletins.........................................1422, 1434
  Uniform physical condition standards and physical inspection 
      requirements.................................................1420
Human research subjects:
  In vitro fertilization...........................................1225
  Protection of human subjects..........................998, 1227, 3231
  Student rights....................................................997
Hunting:
  Migratory birds............................................1583, 1590
  Pig frogs........................................................1702


                                   I

Immigration:
  See also Aliens
           Citizenship and naturalization
  Adjudication processing..........................................1998
  Asylum procedures................................................1915
    Failure to appear for interview with asylum officer............1924
  Availability of material under Freedom of Information and 
      Privacy Acts.................................................1923
  Border crossing identification documents...................1922, 1970
  Cancellation of removal..........................................1893
  Check points within the U.S......................................1954
  Commercial delivery service as form of personal service..........2002
  Direct mail program..............................................1997
  Discipline of attorneys in immigration proceedings...............1892
  Employer sanctions fines.........................................1968
  Employment eligibility verification..............................1978
  Examination fees schedule..................................1964, 1984
  Fee payment methods........................................2001, 2183
  Immigrant Investor Pilot Program.................................1971
  Immigration and Nationality Technical Amendments Act of 1994 
      provisions...................................................1942
  In-transit passengers............................................1909
  Inadmissability....................................................61
  Inspection of stopover passengers................................1921
  Jurisdictional changes...........................................1920
  Local law enforcement officer enforcement........................1969
  Overtime liability for inspection services.......................1907
  Petitions for employment based immigrants........................1935
  Preinspected automated lanes (PAL)...............................1954
  Promises of benefits.............................................1945
  Regulation changes regarding Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, 
      Germany, and Vietnam.........................................1988
  Special immigrant juvenile petitions.............................1904
  Sponsor obligations and penalties..........................1947, 2190
  Suspension of deportation........................................1893
  United Nations Convention Against Torture........................1977
Imports:
  See also Antidumping
           Countervailing duties
           Customs duties and inspection
           Oil imports
           Trade adjustment assistance
  Animal embryos and semen..........................................269
  Beer and wine....................................................2778
  Blood products...................................................1176
  Captive-bred exotic birds........................................1658
  Chemicals:
    Blanket certifications.......................2855, 3572, 3590, 3591
  Control of PMN chemicals.........................................3593
  Dairy product quotas.........................................431, 436
  Domestic tobacco products, cigarette papers and tubes............2801
  Duty-free entry..................................................2845
  Duty-free treatment for imports from foreign governments.........2874
  Evaluation of duty................................................948
  Export Reform and Enhancement Act................................1176
  Fish..............................................................790
  Forests and forest products.......................................263
  Fruits and vegetables..............................258, 264, 271, 280
  Hogs from Europe..................................................276
  Importation and entry bond conditions............................2865
  Marine mammal products............................................696
  Mexican pork......................................................270
  Mexican poultry products.....................................273, 423
  Motor vehicles.............................................2623, 3445
    List of nonconforming vehicles eligible..................2623, 2635
  Ozone-depleting substances.......................................3540
  Plants............................................................266
  Radio frequency devices..........................................4337
  Registration and product listing.................................1123
  Ruminants.........................................................265
  Softwood lumber from Canada......................................2853
  Textiles.........................................................2872
    Para-aramid fibers and yarns....................................949
  Unmanufactured wood from Mexico...................................275
  Veterinary user fees..............................................256
  Wheat:
    End-Use Certificate Program.....................................248
  Wildlife...................................................1539, 1624
  Wood packing materials..............................................2
    Treatment requirements for material from China..................274
Income taxes:
  Accelerated death benefits.......................................3032
  Accounting:
    Mark-to-market.................................................2984
    Partnerships...................................................2940
  Acquisitions.....................................................3037
  Alternative minimum tax..........................................3063
  Annuities........................................................3118
  Asset ownership..................................................3067
  Balanced performance measurement system..........................3126
  Bonds:
    Inflation-indexed..............................................2987
    Private activity...................................2929, 2955, 3033
  Branch remittances...............................................2983
  Branches:
    Foreign taxes..................................................3125
    Hybrid transactions............................................3094
  Business expenses................................................3025
  Capital gains....................................................3127
  Capitalization...................................................2962
  Caribbean Basin countries........................................3060
  Charitable contributions.........................................2974
  Collections......................................................2915
    Installment agreements.............................3083, 3102, 3127
    Levied property................................................2917
    Liens..........................................................3084
  Compromises................................................3077, 3122
  Consolidated returns:
    Intercompany obligations.......................................3065
    Losses and deductions..............................2997, 3064, 3117
  Constructive sales of appreciated financial positions............2903
  Controlled groups................................................3114
  Conversion to the Euro...........................................3092
  Corporate acquisitions:
    Tax period after acquisition of S corporation..................2998
  Corporate income tax.............................................3063

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  Corporate inversion transactions.................................3110
  Corporations.....................................................3111
    C corporations...........................................2991, 3113
    Continuity of interest requirement.............................3041
    Disposition of stock of another corporation....................2985
    Disregarded entitites..........................................2889
    S corporations...........................................2904, 2991
    Stock ownership after a merger.................................3114
    Tax shelter registration.......................................2910
  Debt:
    Collateralized debt obligations................................3015
  Debt instruments...........................................2901, 2916
  Deemed paid taxes................................................2900
  Disaster relief..................................................2913
  Earned income tax credit eligibility.............................3076
  Earned income tax credit recertification requirements............3087
  Education credits................................................3095
  Elective entity classification changes...........................3020
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................3121
  Electronic tip reporting.........................................3086
  Electronic transmissions.........................................2993
  Employee benefits:
    Cafeteria plans....................................2957, 3030, 3081
    Funded welfare benefit plans...................................3044
    Loans treated as distributions.................................2959
  Equity options without standard terms............................2986
  Escrow funds.....................................................2968
  Expenditures documentation.......................................2963
  Farm income................................................2921, 3128
  Farming businesses...............................................3124
  Foreign corporations.....................2900, 2979, 3039, 3040, 3061
    Earnings and profits.........................2900, 3040, 3061, 3062
  Foreign deferred compensation plans..............................3042
  Foreign governments..............................................3055
  Foreign grantor trusts.....................................3050, 3116
  Foreign insurance companies................................2899, 3051
  Foreign investment companies...............................2988, 2989
  Foreign partnerships.......................................3006, 3123
  Foreign tax credit...................................2898, 3057, 3058
  Foreign Investment in Real Property Act..........................2978
  Fringe benefit income allocation.................................2894
  Functional currency..............................................3061
  General utilities repeal.........................................3036
  Golden parachute payments........................................3035
  Grantor trust rules........................................3066, 3067
  Group health plans, continuation coverage........................3099
  Highly compensated employee................................2967, 3106
  Income:
    Gross income...................................................3109
  Income averaging.....................................2921, 3124, 3128
  Income from ocean and space activities...........................2895
  Information disclosure...........................................3089
  Intangible amortization..........................................3011
  Intercompany transfer pricing....................................3049
  Interest:
    Educational loans..............................................2928
  Interest deductions..............................................2960
  Interest expense.................................................2975
  Interest-free adjustments........................................3072
  International communications income..............................2895
  International organizations......................................3055
  International tax................................................2966
  Inventory accounting.............................................2926
  Joint returns....................................................2927
  Long-term contracts..............................................3045
  Losses:
    Disposition of personal property...............................3054
    Separate limitation............................................3056
  Marketable stock.................................................2990
  Middleman payments...............................................2908
  Mileage rates....................................................3025
  Multiple party financing.........................................3009
  Offset programs............................................2760, 2770
  Partnerships:
    Capital gains..................................................3091
    Foreign investments......................................2982, 3018
    Foreign taxes..................................................3125
    Hybrid transactions............................................3094
    Returns required on magnetic media.............................2999
    Sales of interests.............................................2982
    Section 1503(d) applications.............................2906, 2982
    Unified audit procedures.......................................3096
    Withholding....................................................2982
  Payments:
    Credit and debit cards.........................................3074
    Middleman payments.............................................2908
    Prepayments....................................................3093
    Source of payments.............................................3052
  Payments to attorneys......................................2951, 3005
  Personal property sales..........................................3053
  Preferred stock..................................................2965
  Premiums.........................................................2973
  Preparer due diligence requirements..............................3076
  Private foundation disclosure rules..............................3007
  Procedure and administration...............................2961, 3031
  Purchase price allocation........................................3037
  Qualified offers...........................................2932, 3029
  Qualified plans..................................................3014
    Cashout limits.................................................3028
    Protected benefits exceptions..................................2925
  Real estate mortgage investment conduits...................2931, 3015
  Real Estate Investment Trusts....................................2930
  Receipts for expenditures........................................2963
  Reconsideration of Rev. Rule 69-302..............................3082
  Regulated Investment Companies...................................2930
  Reimbursement allowance:
    Travel or transportation.................................3823, 3837
  Relocation allowance payments for government employees...........4191
  Relocation allowance tax tables..................................3836
  Remedial amendment period........................................3021
  Removal of temporary regulations.................................2886
  Rental agreements................................................3115
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................2907
  Research credit............................................2933, 2958
  Resident status..................................................3070
  Retention of paid preparers' signatures..........................3075
  Retirement plans.....................................3001, 3043, 3088
  Rollover contributions...........................................3014
  Sale of debt obligations.........................................2994
  Section 1502.....................................................3117
  Section 197 regulations..........................................3011
  Section 263A.....................................................3027
  Section 355 distributions........................................3111
  Section 355(d)...................................................2964
  Section 355(e) Guidance..........................................3038
  Section 382......................................................3114
  Section 42.......................................................3022
  Section 6048 regulations.........................................2909
  Section 6159.....................................................3083
  Section 6320.....................................................3098
  Section 6323.....................................................3084
  Section 6330.....................................................3097
  Section 6343.....................................................2917
  Section 882......................................................2977
  Section 884......................................................2977
  Securities.................................................2896, 3047
  Shareholders.....................................................3110
  Short taxable years..............................................3114
  Straddles........................................................2902
    Miscellaneous issues...........................................3080
  Stripping transactions...........................................3009
  Substantial new line of business.................................2981
  Supplemental tax exemptions......................................3118
  Swap transactions................................................3052
  Tax credits:
    Puerto Rico....................................................3059

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  Tax treaties.....................................................2897
  Tax-exempt organizations:
    Public disclosure of information...............................3119
  Taxpayer Bill of Rights..............................2917, 3083, 3084
  Taxpayer Identification Numbers..................................4210
  Timely mailing treated as timely filing/electronic postmark......3078
  Travel expenses for members of Congress..........................2918
  Trusts:
    Charitable remainder trusts..............................2892, 3088
    Financial asset securitization investment trusts (FASIT)......2893, 
                                                                   3088
    Foreign trusts.....................................2890, 3088, 3116
    Grantor trusts...........................................3088, 3116
    Non-exempt employees.....................................3067, 3088
  Trusts and estates...................................2904, 2924, 3013
  Voice signatures.................................................3004
  Withholding certificates.........................................2993
Indians:
  See also Indians-arts and crafts
           Indians-business and finance
           Indians-claims
           Indians-education
           Indians-enrollment
           Indians-judgment funds
           Indians-lands
           Indians-law
           Indians-tribal government
  Appealing administrative actions of the Office of the Special 
      Trustee......................................................1530
  Certificates of degree of Indian blood...........................1726
  Child support enforcement........................................1370
  Cultural exchange of marine mammal products between Natives......1606
  Eagle permits....................................................1665
  Electric power utilities.........................................1740
  Enrollment application process...................................1747
  Fishing management...........................................693, 832
  Food assistance programs...........................350, 359, 369, 372
  Housing....................................................1505, 1506
    Dwelling Construction and Equipment Costs................1494, 1520
  Indian affairs hearings and appeals..............................1525
  Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act.......1216
  Indian Health Service eligibility regulations....................1217
  Indian Judgement Funds...........................................1712
  National Indian Gaming Commission...162, 163, 4552, 4556, 4557, 4558, 
                                                       4559, 4560, 4562
  Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act 
                                                                   1470
  NIGC definitions.................................................4555
  Official Insignia of Native American Tribes.......................860
  Preference in employment.........................................1733
  Social welfare and relief of distress............................1721
  Treaty fishing rights:
    Columbia River access sites....................................1745
  Welfare reform:
    Financial assistance and social services.......................1729
    Tribal program requirements....................................1379
    Welfare-to-Work Program........................................2072
Indians-arts and crafts:
  Importation of marine mammal products.............................696
Indians-business and finance:
  Gaming authorizations............................................4557
  Gaming operations...............................162, 1748, 4561, 4562
  Indian monies and BIA special deposits...........................1529
  Indian Business Development Program discontinuation..............1742
  Loans, grants, and employment assistance.............1720, 1724, 1725
  Tribal revenue allocation........................................1743
Indians-education:
  Academic and dormitory standards.................................1718
  Adult vocational training........................................1723
  Contracts under the Johnson-O'Malley Act.........................1719
  Grants to colleges...............................................1734
  School construction contracts....................................1722
  School improvement program.......................................1713
Indians-land:
  Debt settlement for tribal land acquisition loans.................182
Indians-lands:
  Acquisitions.....................................................1728
  Acquisitions for gaming..........................................1730
  Air pollution control implementation...........3427, 3429, 3483, 3528
  Alaska Native Veterans allotments................................1810
  Allotments.......................................................1816
  EPA new source reviews...........................................3364
  Federal Lands Highway Program....................................2447
  Fishing sites on Columbia River..................................1746
  Grazing permits............................................1731, 1732
  Irrigation projects..............................................1739
  Lead and zinc mining operations, Oklahoma........................1738
  Migratory bird hunting...........................................1681
  Mining leases........................................1714, 1737, 1766
  Mining regulations...............................................1783
  Mortgages and deeds of trust.....................................1727
  Municipal solid waste landfills..................................3455
  National Forest System lands......................................453
  Oil and gas leasing................................................55
  Surface exploration, mining, and reclamation of lands............1715
  Water pollution control requirements.......................3700, 3736
Indians-law:
  Construction of jails............................................2025
  Courts of Indian Offenses........................................1744
  Hearings and appeals.................................1741, 4549, 4553
  Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1735
  NIGC enforcement regulations.....................................4554
Indians-tribal government:
  Adoptions........................................................1391
  Election procedures........................................1716, 1717
  Grants for services provided to older individuals...........204, 1392
  Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1735
  Performance Partnership Grants....................................124
  Self-determination...............................................1719
  Self-governance program procedures...............................1736
  Tribal background investigations.................................4558
Individuals with disabilities:
  See also Blind
           Disability benefits
           Education of individuals with disabilities
           Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
           Vocational rehabilitation
  Accessibility guidelines for buildings and facilities.......59, 1875, 
                                                 1876, 3284, 3285, 3291
    Outdoor developed areas........................................3286
    Play areas.....................................................3288
    Public accommodations and commercial facilities................1869
  Accessibility guidelines for children's environments.............1876
  Accessibility guidelines for telecommunications equipment and 
      customer premises equipment..................................4312
  Clarification of age as a vocational factor......................4122
  Contractor and subcontractor obligations...................2046, 2047
  Damage of mobility aids in air travel............................2247
  Disability ratings:
    The spine......................................................3169
  Employment discrimination complaints..............................138
  Evidence of permanent and total disability.......................3172
  Housing..........................................................1404
  Motor vehicle modifications......................................2568
  Motor vehicle wheelchair lifts and ramps...................2528, 2531
  Nondiscrimination..............................2049, 3808, 4038, 4161
    Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.................4161, 4282
    Federally assisted programs....................................2131
    Public accommodations and commercial facilities................1869
  Passenger vessel access....................................2239, 3289

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  Schedule for rating disabilities.....................3156, 3157, 3252
  Telecommunications relay services..........................4319, 4320
  Transportation.............................................1713, 2240
  Video programming accessibility..................................4290
  Widow's benefits.................................................4140
Infants and children:
  See also Adoption and foster care
           Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Youth
  Air bags...........................................................95
  Aircraft child restraints..................................2329, 2519
  Baby walker safety requirements..................................4251
  Backyard play sets standard......................................4258
  Bunk bed requirements.............................................160
  Child nutrition programs..........................................386
  Cigarette lighter safety standards................................159
  Crib safety standards............................................4253
  Determining family relationships.................................4061
  Flammability of children's sleepwear.............................4262
  Food assistance programs.....................3, 7, 355, 360, 381, 395
  Food stamp program................................................338
  Household chemicals, child-resistant packaging...................4252
  Individuals with disabilities..............................1026, 1876
  Infant formula...................................................1185
  Lead poisoning.............................111, 131, 1416, 3588, 3607
  Length of hospital stay after birth of child.................75, 1355
  Medicaid program.................................................1274
  Nutrition education participant contacts..........................334
  Polyvinyl chloride in toys.......................................4259
  School breakfast and lunch programs...............................337
  School child definition..........................................3209
  Special immigrant juvenile petitions.............................1904
  Sulfate in drinking water........................................3742
  Summer Food Service Program.......................................363
  Supplemental food program.........................................384
    Certification integrity.........................................376
    Funding provisions..............................................377
    Local agency expenditure reports................................375
  VA pensions for veteran or surviving spouse......................3236
  Welfare services.................................................1375
Insurance:
  See also Bank deposit insurance
           Crime insurance
           Crop insurance
           Flood insurance
           Health insurance
           Insurance companies
           Life insurance
           Mortgage insurance
           Pension insurance
           Surety bonds
           Unemployment compensation
           War risk insurance
  Credit unions:
    Requirements...................................................4547
    Share insurance................................................4533
  Equity index insurance products..................................4661
  FCSIC regulation.................................................4284
  Marine accident insurance........................................4035
  Motor vehicle reporting requirements.......................2554, 2630
  Motor vehicle verification procedures............................2015
  Passenger vessel operators.......................................4479
  Public Assistance Disaster Grant Program requirements............3773
Insurance companies:
  Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4643
Intergovernmental relations:
  See also Grant programs
           Revenue sharing
  Administration of grants and cooperative agreements.........458, 1001
  Air carrier regulation...........................................2236
  Air pollution control implementation.......104, 125, 127, 3427, 3436, 
                                                                   3527
  Alternative fuels incentives program.............................1032
  BIA arrangement for social welfare and relief of distress........1721
  BIA schools......................................................1718
  Child support non-performance TANF penalty.......................1382
  Education programs................................................283
  Employee benefit plan exemption from State regulation............2075
  Employer-based group health plans................................1252
  EPA effluent guidelines and standards............................3690
  EPA water monitoring requirements................................3744
  EPA water quality standards......................................3708
  EPA water regulations streamlining...............................3709
  EPA Hazardous Waste Manifest rule.................................114
  EPA State implementation plans (SIPs)............................3438
  EPA-California water quality standards...........................3686
  Federal payments to State veterans homes.........................3191
  Federal Assistance Funds transfers to State governments............99
  Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Program..................2060
  Flood assistance program.........................................3762
  Food assistance programs................3, 7, 348, 364, 381, 386, 395
    Sharing information with INS..........................348, 370, 395
  Food stamps.................................................5, 8, 338
  Food Security Act.................................................504
  Hazardous materials transportation...........................98, 2714
  Highway management...............................................2422
  Highway projects.....................................2464, 2465, 2492
  Highway safety data improvements incentive grants................2586
  Highway safety programs..............................2475, 2507, 2537
  HCFA State Plan Amendment reconsideration process................1300
  Local rail freight assistance....................................2647
  Medicaid:
    Administrative costs.................................46, 1332, 1333
    Eligibility....................................46, 1319, 1332, 1333
  Motor vehicle safety incentive grants...2582, 2583, 2584, 2585, 2587, 
                                                                   2622
  National Dam Safety Program......................................3764
  National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.....................3784
  National Instant Criminal Background Check System................2017
  Nuclear accident protection......................................3553
  Oil spill response...............................................2276
  Payments to State and local governments..........................1806
  Performance Partnership Grants...............................123, 124
  Railroad highway projects........................................2469
  State employment statistics agency representatives for 
      consultations with DOL.......................................2034
  State habitat conservation strategies.......................853, 1666
  State issued identification documents............................2603
  State Children's Health Insurance Program........................1237
  Transportation right-of-way regulations..........................2474
  USDA:
    Entitlement programs............................................465
    State mediation programs........................................181
  Water supply.....................................................3736
Intermodal transportation:
  Environmental impact and related procedures......................2428
International boundaries:
  Border boat landing program:
    Landing cards..................................................1999
  Border crossing card fees........................................2208
  Border crossing cards............................................2195
  Dedicated commuter lanes...................................1937, 1993
  Ports of entry...................................................1993
Inventions and patents:
  Fees.........................................................859, 861
  Foreign rights in inventions......................................874
  Interlocutory rulings at final hearing in interference 
      procesessings.................................................865
  Mineral patent applications......................................1822
  New drug patent holder notification..............................1172
  Nonprofit organizations...........................................873
  Patent applications................................862, 867, 868, 869

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  Patent business goals.............................................858
  Small businesses..................................................873
  Third-party participation.........................................870
Inventions and Patents:
  Licensing government-owned inventions.............................875
  Patent practitioners..............................................863
Investigations:
  Civil investigative demands......................................2013
  Government personnel.............................................4003
Investment companies:
  Advertising rules................................................4642
  Asset transfers..................................................2930
  Codes of ethics..................................................4664
  Custody of assets outside the U.S................................4659
  Deregistration form..............................................4667
  Directors with ownership of index fund securities................4662
  Disclosure requirements..........................................4641
  Form N-SAR.......................................................4650
  Names............................................................4656
  Private investment companies.....................................4624
  Registration form................................................4650
  Repurchase agreements............................................4645
  Securities acquisition...........................................4646
  Securities depositories as custodians of assets..................4644
  Taxation.........................................................2989
Investments:
  See also Brokers
           Commodity futures
           Foreign investments in U.S.
           Investment companies
           Securities
           United States investments abroad
  Canadian.........................................................4658
  Cash solicitation rule...........................................4651
  Economic development..............................................525
  Financial services transactions survey............................514
  Investment advisers..............................................4637
    Political contributions..................................4638, 4663
  Non-deposit investment products..................................2830
  Non-mortgage investments by GSEs.................................1399
  Proxy and information statements.................................4625
  Registration forms...............................................4633
  Taxation.........................................................3110
  U.S. direct investment abroad survey..............................512
Irrigation:
  Project operation and maintenance................................1739


                                   J

Juices:
  Food safety assessment programs....................................33
Juvenile delinquency:
  Family Unity Program.......................................1951, 2028


                                   K

Kidney diseases:
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................987
  Dialysis services................................................1286
  Medicare eligibility.............................................1233


                                   L

Labeling:
  See also Food labeling
           Packaging and containers
  American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2514
  Animal drugs.....................................................1204
  Antibiotics resistance labeling..................................1146
  Appliance Labeling Rule..........................................4517
  Beer.............................................................2779
  Building materials...............................................1434
  Country of origin statements.....................................2777
  Dietary supplements..............................................1202
  Distilled spirits..........................................2777, 2779
  Dolphin-safe tuna.................................................849
  Drugs..............................................................29
  Electric motors..................................................1056
  Hearing aids.......................................................28
  Home insulation..................................................4508
  HCFCs............................................................3524
  Insulin-containing products......................................1132
  Malt beverages...................................................2805
  Motor vehicle content calculations...............................2619
  Over-the-counter drugs...........................................1203
  Parenteral drug products containing aluminum.....................1165
  Pesticides.......................................................3561
  Polyurethane foam in upholstered furniture.......................4260
  Pregnancy labeling category for prescription drugs.........1133, 1178
  Prescription drugs...............................................1130
  Rubber-containing drugs..........................................1111
  Surgeon and patient examination gloves...........................1199
  Textiles.........................................................4512
  Unaged grape brandy..............................................2786
  Wine.......................................................2779, 2814
    Specialty products and flavored wines..........................2780
Labor:
  See also Child labor
           Employee benefit plans
           Employment
           Equal employment opportunity
           Homeworkers
           Labor management relations
           Manpower
           Migrant labor
           Occupational safety and health
           Retirement
           Unemployment compensation
           Wages
  Contractor labor disputes.........................................958
  Davis-Bacon helper regulations.....................................66
  DOA authority to approve H-2A petitions for agricultural 
      laborers.....................................................2196
  DOL user fees....................................................2042
  Fair Labor Standards Act:
    Exemptions.....................................................2043
  Small Business Job Protection Act................................2044
  State employment statistics agency representatives for 
      consultations with DOL.......................................2034
  Trade adjustment assistance................................2063, 2070
Labor management relations:
  Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................2075
  Reporting by labor relations consultants and others..............2057
Laboratories:
  Accreditation...............................................166, 2877
  Clinical laboratories regulation.....................1244, 1268, 1297
  Cytology proficiency testing.....................................1302
  EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations............................3308
  Hospital conditions of participation.............................1347
  Special surveillance list of chemicals, products, materials, 
      and equipment................................................1890
  Testing of mining equipment......................................2116
Law:
  See also Administrative practice and procedure
           Courts
           Indians-law
           Lawyers
           Military law
  International wills registry.....................................2198
  Judges, Code of Conduct..........................................4165
  Qualified offers...........................................2932, 3029
  Suits against Federal employees..................................2004
Law enforcement:
  See also Drug traffic control
           Wiretapping and electronic surveillance
  Armor vest purchase..............................................2026
  Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act....1898, 2014, 4404
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2011

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  Criminal history record information..............................2022
  Fish and Wildlife Service........................................1580
  Forest Service....................................................446
  Immigration......................................................1969
  Motor vehicle theft..............................................2015
  National Indian Gaming Commission................................4554
  National Instant Criminal Background Check System................2017
  Officer Next Door Program........................................1446
  Police Corps reimbursements of educational expenses..............2027
  Police Recruitment Program guidelines............................2020
  Public Safety Officers' Educational Assistance Program...........2030
  Retirement.......................................................3989
  Sex offender registration programs...............................2019
  U.S. Marshals Service fees.......................................2005
  Use of aliens in critical initiatives............................1939
Lawyers:
  Debarment........................................................1191
  Disciplinary procedures..........................................1892
  Practice before the National Indian Gaming Commission............4549
Lead poisoning:
  Hazard abatement..................................................111
  Paint..........................111, 131, 1416, 3579, 3581, 3588, 3607
  Reducing lead consumption and use................................3603
Lead Poisoning:
  Paint............................................................3604
Libraries:
  FDA..............................................................1141
  National Agricultural Library fee schedule........................179
  Presidential library facilities..................................3871
Life insurance:
  Accelerated death benefits.......................................3032
  Court orders.....................................................4027
  District of Columbia employees...................................3987
  Government employees.............................................3958
    Court orders...................................................4027
    Federal Acquisition Regulation.................................3961
    Regulation revisions.....................................3992, 3993
  Variable life insurance contracts................................4660
  Veterans...................................................3171, 3207
    Group Life Insurance accelerated benefit option................3212
Liquor:
  Dealer signs.....................................................2815
  Labeling.........................................................2779
Liquors:
  Exports..........................................................2804
  Standards of fill................................................2790
  Unaged grape brandy..............................................2786
Livestock:
  See also Grazing lands
           Meat and meat products
           Meat inspection
           Poultry and poultry products
           specific animals
  Animal drug residue levels.......................................1197
  Current good manufacturing practice for medicated feeds..........1143
  Emergency assistance..............................................202
  Free choice medicated feed.......................................1196
  Liquid medicated feed............................................1196
  Livestock feed assistance.........................................214
  Price reporting...................................................329
Loan programs:
  Lobbying restrictions............................................2244
  Revision of RTB loan documents....................................480
  Revision of RUS Telecommunications Program........................480
  RUS construction work plan loan eligibility.......................498
  Seismic safety requirements for new building construction.........479
  Surface transportation projects............................2511, 2687
Loan programs-agriculture:
  Account servicing.................................................198
  Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program...........468, 469, 471
  Buyback of repurchased guaranteed loans...........................246
  Civil rights of borrowers.........................................494
  Collateral requirements for emergency loans.......................239
  Community facility loans..........................................489
  Community programs...........................................291, 302
  Cotton............................................................220
  Debt settlement...................................................209
  Depreciation rates and procedures.................................486
  Farm Credit Administration:
    Borrower rights................................................4266
    Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital 
        regulation.................................................4265
    Leasing regulations............................................4278
  Farm Loan Program:
    Collection activities...........................................218
    Debt settlement.......................................185, 192, 229
    Low documentation loans.........................................238
    Real estate appraisals and chattel appraisals...................236
    Regulatory streamlining.........................................232
    Small Hog Operation Payment Program.............................237
  FCSIC regulation.................................................4284
  Housing...........................................................470
  Interest subsidy for guaranteed borrowers.........................247
  Loan changes......................................................295
  Loan deficiency payment programs..................................220
  Loans secured by real estate and property.........................228
  Lobbying restrictions.............................................508
  Nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for crambe.................235
  Regulation streamlining...........................................232
  Rural economic development...................................297, 467
  Rural electrification.........................476, 481, 484, 487, 488
  Rural housing................................................296, 301
  Rural telephone system............................................485
  State mediation programs..........................................181
  Warehouse receipt requirements....................................220
  Water and waste disposal programs.................................477
Loan programs-business:
  Fishermen.........................................................770
  Rural areas.......................................................474
Loan programs-education:
  Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.........497
  Federal Family Education Loan Program....1011, 1012, 1020, 1021, 1022
  Federal Perkins Loan Program.........................1006, 1010, 1022
  Interest.........................................................3090
  Medical research...........................................1221, 1222
  William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program...1011, 1013, 1022, 1023, 
                                                                   1024
Loan programs-health:
  NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1218
Loan programs-housing and community development:
  Loan Guarantee Program...........................................1465
  Rural areas.......................................................293
  Title I property insurance programs........................1424, 1437
Loan programs-veterans:
  Acceptance of partial payments...................................3233
  Loan refinancing.................................................3259
  Property improvements definition.................................3158
  Title evidence requirements......................................3232
Loan programs-Indians:
  BIA program elimination..........................................1720
  Housing loan guarantees..........................................1505
  Indian Lands Acquisition loans....................................182
  Mortgage loans...................................................1470
Lobbying:
  Filing of informational materials................................2008
  Foreign Agents Registration Act..................................2008
  Restrictions....................................508, 1527, 2244, 4153
Longshore and harbor workers:
  Foreign prohibitions.............................................2184
  Safety and health regulations....................................2157

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Low and moderate income housing:
  See also Public housing
           Rent subsidies
  Affordable Housing Program amendments......................4466, 4471
  Section 8..................................................1412, 1508
    Amendments...............................................1503, 1504
    Assistance contracts renewal...................................1519
    Lease termination..............................................1497
    Management assessment program..................................1493
    Moderate rehabilitation comparability..........................1509
    Payments programs........................................1431, 1508
    Statutory merger...............................................1518
Lung diseases:
  See also Black lung benefits
           Tuberculosis
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants...................................987
  Diesel particulate.................................................79


                                   M

Manpower training programs:
  Nondiscrimination................................................2126
  Q2 visas for Irish nationals in work/training program............2197
  Workforce investment systems.......................................69
Manufactured homes:
  Construction and safety...............................300, 1432, 1448
Marine mammals:
  See also Endangered and threatened species
  Animal welfare standards..........................................262
  Captive holding and transport.....................................694
  Dolphins................................................848, 849, 852
  Exports of products for cultural exchange........................1606
  Harbor porpoise...................................................829
  Incidental taking........701, 750, 791, 792, 793, 850, 852, 854, 1584
    Pacific walrus.................................................1541
    Polar bear.....................................................1541
  Level B harrassment..............................................1651
  Marine mammal products created by Alaskan natives.................696
  Marine Mammal Protection Act...........703, 795, 804, 848, 1584, 1585
  North right whales...........................................794, 856
  Permits for activities otherwise prohibited......................1625
  Photography permits...............................................695
  Research authorization............................................751
  Serious injury definition.........................................622
  Steller sea lion conservation................................649, 837
Marine resources:
  See also Fisheries
  Competitive funding requirements..................................710
  Criteria for water quality.......................................3711
  Critical habitat.............................................718, 753
  Endangered and threatened species................698, 699, 1557, 1560
  Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary..................762
  Marine Mammal Protection Act:
    Rescission of administrative procedures........................1593
  Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary............................796
  National Environmental Policy Act.................................764
  National Marine Sanctuaries Act...................................706
  NOAA overflight regulation........................................705
  Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary...........................763
  Program evaluation................................................710
  Regulations consolidation.........................................855
  Research program..................................................797
  Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.............................761
Marine safety:
  See also Vessels
  ASTM standards...................................................2287
  Blood alcohol concentration limit................................2262
  Casualty reporting...............................................2249
  FCC inspection of radio installations on ships...................4336
  Houseboats.......................................................2301
  Maritime training course approval procedures.....................2310
  Navigation lights on recreational vessels........................2260
  Panama Canal Commission insurance requirements...................4035
  Puget Sound-Area waters..........................................2306
  Safety/security zone regulations...........................2273, 2291
  Salvage and firefighting equipment...............................2256
  Towing vessels.............................................2254, 2281
  Uninspected passenger vessels....................................2259
Maritime carriers:
  See also Cargo vessels
           Passenger vessels
           Seamen
           Vessels
  Automated tariff systems.........................................4482
  Cargo preference regulations:
    Agricultural exports...........................................2741
  Communications...................................................4392
  Great Lakes load line certificate................................2282
  Japanese vessels.................................................4480
  Merchant mariners................................................2300
  Non-vessel-operating common carriers.............................4478
  Ocean transportation intermediaries..............................4481
  Service contracts..........................................4483, 4484
  USCG user fees...................................................2309
Marketing quotas:
  Crystalline fructose..............................................194
  Peanuts......................................................212, 233
  Sugar.............................................................194
  Tobacco........................184, 186, 190, 191, 211, 226, 227, 245
Mass transportation:
  Bus testing guidelines...........................................2680
  Major capital investment mass transportation projects............2683
  School bus operations............................................2684
Measurement standards:
  See also Metric system
  Gaseous fuels:
    Propane cylinders..............................................2723
Meat and meat products:
  See also Meat inspection
           Stockyards
  Advanced meat/bone separation machinery...........................412
  Cured pork products...............................................422
  Disposition and disposal requirements.............................419
  Export sales reporting............................................430
  HACCP regulations for rendered products..........................1198
  Irradiation.......................................................411
  Labeling...........................................405, 413, 416, 425
  Meat recovery systems.............................................412
  Ruminant imports..................................................265
  Sanitation requirements...........................................424
  Transportation and storage........................................414
Meat inspection:
  Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection............................418
  Contaminated......................................................420
  Fee increase......................................................429
  Food additives.....................................................14
  GRAS substances....................................................14
  HACCP programs................................................13, 415
  Labeling..........................................................408
  Partial quality control programs...................................15
  Performance standards:
    Bacon...........................................................400
    Processing procedures...........................................408
    Ready-to-eat products......................................399, 426
  Residue chemistry analyses........................................427
  Rules of practice.................................................409
Medicaid:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
           Public assistance programs
  Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs)...............................1255
  Case management services.........................................1353
  Clinical laboratories regulation.................................1244
  Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc................1249, 1363
  Drug rebate program..............................................1281
  Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment 
      services.....................................................1274
  Eligibility:
    AFDC children..................................................1321

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    Medically needy................................................1319
    Non-U.S. citizens..............................................1333
  Employer-based group health plans................................1252
  Estate recoveries................................................1308
  Federal financial participation income limits....................1332
  Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)........................1320
  Health insuring organizations....................................1278
  Health maintenance organizations.................................1278
  Home and community-based services................................1262
  Hospice care.....................................................1309
  Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 
                                                             1248, 1362
  Low-income pregnant women........................................1283
  Managed care.................................................46, 1342
    Civil penalties................................................1093
  Medicaid Management Information System...........................1285
  Medical child support............................................1326
  Nursing facilities:
    Substandard care...............................................1313
  Nursing home benefits......................................1270, 1270
  Outstation intake locations......................................1283
  Penalties, sanctions, exclusions and overpayments................1099
  Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1280
  Quarterly listing..........................................1358, 1361
  Referral to child support enforcement agencies...................1282
  Skilled nursing facilities.......................................1277
  State plan requirements:
    Plans of care..................................................1254
  State Children's Health Insurance Program........................1237
  Third party liability............................................1298
  Tuberculosis-related services....................................1292
Medical and dental schools:
  NIH scholarships.................................................1219
Medical devices:
  Computer software programs.......................................1188
  Exports of medical products containing biological agents..........549
  Hearing aids.......................................................28
  Intermittent positive pressure machine...........................1289
  Intraocular lenses...............................................1354
  Liability limitations............................................1305
  Medical care telemetry devices.............................4339, 4345
  Medicare coverage................................................1299
  Payment limits...................................................1349
  Restricted devices promotion.....................................1117
  Standards........................................................1151
  Surety bond requirements...............................38, 1329, 1330
  Surgeon and patient examination gloves...........................1199
Medical research:
  Classification of sheep as minor species.........................1182
  Contraception and infertility..............................1221, 1222
  Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1288
  National Research Service Awards.................................1226
  NCI construction grants..........................................1230
  NIH service payback obligation...................................1226
  Peer review......................................................1223
  Radiopharmaceuticals.............................................1121
Medicare:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
  Accelerated payments.............................................1243
  Additional supplier standards....................................1251
  Advanced refunding of debt.......................................1334
  Allowable costs:
    FICA and other payroll taxes...................................1307
  Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).........................1255, 1316
  Anti-kickback safe harbor provisions.......................1094, 1097
  Appeals:
    Coverage.......................................................1324
    Payment determinations.........................................1290
  Audiologists.....................................................1303
  Bone mass measurements...........................................1338
  Catastrophic Coverage Act........................................1272
  Clinical diagnostic laboratory services..........................1240
  Clinical laboratories regulation.................................1244
  Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc................1249, 1363
  Competitive medical plans:
    Appeal protections.............................................1324
  Computer errors, recovery of overpayments........................1271
  Consolidated billing.............................................1357
  Contract eligibility...............................................41
  Contract performance evaluation..................................1287
  Contractors:
    Integrity Program..............................................1323
    Millennium compliance..........................................1345
  Cost reports.....................................................1304
  CHAMPUS benefits..................................................991
  Demonstration project......................................3996, 4029
  Dialysis services..........................................1233, 1286
  Durable medical equipment:
    Fee schedules..................................................1311
    Payment limits.................................................1349
  End-stage renal disease:
    Demonstration waivers..........................................1314
  Fee schedules:
    Ambulance services...............................................36
    Durable medical equipment......................................1311
    Payment limits.................................................1349
    Physicians...............................................1331, 1367
    Reasonable charge methodology..................................1341
  Health care prepayment plans:
    Appeal protections.............................................1324
  Health maintenance organizations:
    Appeal protections.............................................1324
  Home health agencies:
    Conditions of participation..............................1295, 1344
    Definition.....................................................1299
    Prospective Payment System.....................................1364
    Survey and sanctions...........................................1273
  Hospice care.........................................1301, 1335, 1350
  Hospital conditions of participation.......................1293, 1365
  Income protection for community spouse...........................1272
  Integrity Program................................................1323
  Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 
                                                             1248, 1362
  Liability insurance..............................................1310
  Loan repayments..................................................1334
  Medical equipment................................................1289
  Medical services coverage decisions..............................1348
  Medicare+Choice plans............................................1337
    Civil penalties................................................1093
  Mentally ill or retarded persons.................................1318
  Organ procurement and transplantation rules......................1234
  Ownership changes................................................1291
  Penalties, sanctions, exclusions and overpayments................1291
  Physicians:
    Fee schedules............................................1325, 1367
    Volume performance standard rates of increase..................1325
  Physicians' referrals......................................1294, 1327
  Prospective Payment System.......................................1357
  Prosthetic Devices:
    Payment limits.................................................1349
  Provider agreement and supplier participation:
    Billing numbers..................................................35
  Provider reimbursement disbursement and appeals..................1279
  Provider-sponsored organizations solvency standards..............1337
  Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1280
  Quarterly listing..........................................1358, 1361
  Religious non-medical health care institutions coverage..........1264
  Rural health clinics.............................................1346
  Screening Pap smears.............................................1276
  Secondary payer......................................1284, 1306, 1310
  Skilled nursing facilities.....................1277, 1296, 1299, 1318
    Cost limits....................................................1336

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    Prospective Payment System...............................1357, 1366
    Substandard care.........................................1313, 1318
  Speech-language pathologists.....................................1303
  State allotments:
    Part B.........................................................1359
  Suggestion system................................................1266
  Surety bond requirements...............................38, 1329, 1330
  Telephone request for payment determinations review..............1290
  User fees........................................................1328
  Vision care......................................................1354
Mental health programs:
  Group health plan benefit parity...........................1355, 2087
  Medicaid and Medicare sanctions for psychiatric hospitals........1280
Metals:
  Emission standards for ferroalloy industry.......................3523
  EPA trace metal analysis.........................................3708
  High temperature metal recovery residues.........................3648
  Lead and zinc mining, Oklahoma...................................1738
  Waste water treatment sludges from metal finishing...............3645
Metric system:
  Conversion.......................................................2506
    Motor vehicle safety standards.................................2543
Migrant labor:
  Forestry service contracts........................................505
  Job service complaint system.....................................2068
  Labor standards..................................................2055
  Transportation of workers........................................2494
Military personnel:
  See also Armed forces
           Armed forces reserves
  Appointment of non-status employees..............................4005
  Claims settlement.................................................877
  Compensation for beneficiaries of the Vietnamese Commandos 
      Compensation Commission.......................................900
  Former spouse payments from retired pay...........................896
  Informed consent for human drugs and biologics...................1169
  Reemployment.....................................................3944
  Restoration to duty..............................................4009
  Retirement regulations...........................................3950
Milk:
  See also Milk marketing orders
  Child and adult care food program.................................360
Milk marketing orders:
  Consolidation and reform..........................................177
Mine safety and health:
  See also Black lung benefits
  Air quality standards............................................2114
  Belt entry.......................................................2101
  Coal Mine Workers' Compensation regulations......................2040
  Confined-space hazards...........................................2115
  Crystalline silica...............................................2120
  Hazard communication.............................................2109
  Metal and nonmetal mines:
    Electrical standards...........................................2119
  Metal/nonmetal impoundments......................................2102
  Methane safety standards.........................................2123
  Noise control standard...........................................2122
  Regulation elimination and improvement...........................2104
  Respirable coal dust.........................................78, 2100
  Surface haulage equipment........................................2103
  Testing of equipment by independent laboratories.................2116
  Training and retraining of miners................................2125
  Training of miners...............................................2105
  Underground coal mines:
    Diesel particulate...............................................79
    Dust control plan verification...................................77
    Flame-resistant conveyor belts.................................2112
    High-voltage longwall equipment................................2111
    Roof-bolting machines..........................................2117
    Safety standard revisions......................................2118
    Ventilation....................................................2124
  Underground mines:
    Diesel particulate...............................................80
    Self-contained self-rescuer life approvals and training........2108
Mineral resources:
  See also Coal
           Metals
           Oil and gas reserves
           Public lands-mineral resources
  Coal:
    Coal management................................................1803
  Disposal of mineral materials....................................1808
  Fractions sale....................................................440
  Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1823
  Mineral patent applications......................................1822
  Mining leases on Indian lands..............................1714, 1766
  Surface exploration, mining, and reclamation of Indian lands.....1715
Mineral royalties:
  Credit adjustments...............................................1766
  Indian lands, Osage Reservation..................................1737
  Interest and late payments.......................................1750
  Offsets, recoupments, and refunds..........................1750, 1765
Mines:
  See also Mine safety and health
           Miners
           Reclamation
           Surface mining
           Underground mining
  Abandoned........................................................1777
  Backfilling and grading..........................................1778
  Indian lands...............................................1714, 1737
  Lead and zinc mining, Oklahoma...................................1738
  Locatable minerals.................................................57
  Recordation and annual fee collection procedures.................1809
  Water pollution control..........................................3678
Minimum wages:
  Records to be kept by employers............................2041, 2044
  Violation penalties..............................................2054
Minority businesses:
  Government contracting...........................................4417
  Minority Enterprise Development......................4105, 4106, 4107
Mortgage insurance:
  Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program..........................1442
  Mortgage Insurance Certificates..................................1433
  Premium reduction................................................1438
  Single-family....................................................1433
    Direct endorsement and automated underwriting..................1439
    Floodplains....................................................1453
    Informed consumer choice disclosure............................1455
    Roster removal procedures......................................1436
  Statements of policy.............................................1452
Mortgages:
  See also Mortgage insurance
  Broker disclosure requirements...................................1450
  Builder warranty for high ratio mortgages........................1454
  Escrow account statement itemization.............................1457
  Federal home loan bank advance collateral........................4472
  GNMA.............................................................1470
  Home mortgage disclosure.........................................4485
  Homebuyer downpayment sources....................................1440
  Hospitals........................................................1456
  Indian lands.....................................................1727
  Model Energy Code update.........................................1435
  Multifamily housing..............................................1412
  Real estate appraisals...........................................2832
  Real estate mortgage investment conduits.........................2931
  Risk-based capital regulation....................................3894
  RESPA amendments.................................................1450
    Payments for referrals.........................................1451
  Single-family appraisal assessment...............................1426
Motor carriers:
  See also Buses
  Brake systems....................................................2579

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  Commercial vehicles:
    Antilock brake systems.........................................2541
    Definition.....................................................2471
    Duty status records............................................2491
    Inspection, repair, and maintenance............................2503
    Intermodal container chassis and trailers......................2503
    Marking requirements...........................................2462
    Safety fitness procedures......................................2442
  Data display units...............................................2430
  Drivers:
    Diabetic.......................................................2482
    Disqualification...............................................2509
    Hours of service regulations...............................93, 2435
    Licensing..........................................2423, 2435, 2483
    Qualification requirements.............2425, 2427, 2460, 2486, 2488
    Safety performance history.....................................2429
    Training.......................................................2426
  Electronic filing of bonds, agreements, certificates and 
      cancellations................................................2495
  English language requirement.....................................2497
  Federal safety regulations:
    Administrative actions.........................................2463
    Recordkeeping requirements.....................................2493
    Waivers, exemptions, and pilot programs........................2476
    Zero-base revision.............................................2443
  Financial data collections.......................................2747
  FAA compliance activities:
    Fees...........................................................2470
  Hazardous materials transportation...................2463, 2487, 2705
  Heavy truck conspicuity..........................................2602
  Household goods transportation...................................2473
  Information, licensing and registration systems:
    Development of a single, on-line Federal system................2431
  Inspection, repair, and maintenance..............................2468
  Insurance........................................................2470
  Intermodal cargo containers......................................2461
  Marking of vehicles..............................................2459
  Medical examinations.............................................2460
  Mexican........................................2439, 2440, 2441, 2613
  Migrant workers transportation...................................2494
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program....................2475, 2490
  Out-of-service criteria..........................................2500
  Periodic inspections.............................................2485
  Railroad grade crossing safety...................................2466
  Rear underride protection........................................2508
  Safety fitness procedures:
    Unsatisfactory ratings.........................................2478
  Tank cars:
    Manufacturing, maintenance and use requirements................2699
  Television receivers.............................................2430
  Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2731
  Truck length and width...........................................2484
  Truck size and weight............................................2424
    Nondivisible...................................................2510
Motor vehicle pollution:
  After-market conversion entities certification...................3448
  Alternative fuels................................................1032
  Emissions standards....................................126, 129, 3379
  Emissions testing................................................3468
  Gasoline:
    Reformulated.......................................3398, 3413, 3542
  Highway diesel fuel quality......................................3544
  Imported vehicles emissions standards............................3445
  Inspection/maintenance programs............................3326, 3458
  Low emission vehicles program....................................3440
  Original equipment manufacturers certification...................3448
Motor vehicle safety:
  See also Highway safety
  Add-on devices...................................................2532
  Brake systems:
    Air brakes.....................................................2579
    Antilock brake system malfunction indicator lamp...............2589
    Light vehicles.................................................2618
    Linings........................................................2559
    Motorcycles....................................................2540
  Bumper standard requirements.....................................2629
  Certifications:
    Vehicle alterers...............................................2625
  Child restraint systems............2517, 2523, 2525, 2598, 2604, 2631
  Community transportation vehicles................................2542
  Crashworthiness ratings..........................................2599
  Drunk driving prevention.......................2584, 2585, 2588, 2622
  Ejection mitigation using advanced glazing.......................2518
  Electric vehicles..........................................2561, 2591
  Financial responsibility.........................................2437
  Fire performance requirements....................................2530
  Foreign vehicles.................................................2437
  Lamps and reflective devices:
    Administrative rewrite of requirements.........................2545
    Daytime running lamps..........................................2575
    European regulations...........................................2615
    Geometric visibility requirements for lamps....................2563
    Large trailers.................................................2505
    Motorcycles..............................................2526, 2535
    Performance and test requirement modifications.................2576
    Signal lamps...................................................2534
  Mining industry..................................................2103
  Mirrors:
    Convex cross view mirrors......................................2515
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program....................2475, 2490
  National Highway System Designation Act..........................2435
  NHTSA global technical regulations statement of policy...........2581
  Occupant crash protection:
    Air bags.....................95, 2533, 2572, 2573, 2574, 2606, 2607
    Door retention.................................................2544
    Dynamically deploying head protection systems..................2590
    Head/neck protection...........................................2539
    Safety incentive grants........................................2583
    Side impact protection.........................................2601
    Upper interior impact..........................................2548
  Pelvic restraints................................................2610
  Power window switches............................................2567
  Power-operated windows compliance testing........................2564
  Radiator safety cap..............................................2529
  Rollover protection................................................94
  Roof crashworthiness.......................................2516, 2594
  Roof crush compliance testing....................................2609
  Safety fitness procedures........................................2442
    Unsatisfactory ratings.........................................2478
  Safety glazing...................................................2538
  School buses:
    Flammability of interior materials.............................2600
    Parking brake warning system...................................2546
  Seat belts:
    Rear seats...............................................2513, 2532
    Safety incentive grants........................................2582
    Seat adjustment position.................................2532, 2608
    Use surveys....................................................2587
  Seating systems:
    Performance....................................................2560
  Shifting and falling cargo.......................................2434
  Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2489
  State highway safety programs....................................2627
  Test dummies:
    Child dummies......................................2572, 2573, 2574
    CRABI 12-month size............................................2574
    Hybrid III.............................2524, 2533, 2569, 2572, 2573
  Tires:
    Identification symbols.........................................2614
    Test procedures................................................2577
  Traffic control for school areas.................................2499
  Traffic control manual revision..................................2477
  Trailer conspicuity..............................................2505
  Transmission control levers......................................2580

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  Transporting Head Start participants.............................1376
  Wheelchair lifts.................................................2528
  Windshield defrosting and defogging systems:
    European regulations...........................................2617
  Windshield wiping and washing systems:
    European regulations...........................................2616
Motor vehicles:
  See also Buses
           Fuel economy
           Motor carriers
           Motor vehicle safety
           Traffic regulations
  Air conditioning system..........................................3534
  Alternatively fueled vehicles....................................3440
  American Automobile Labeling Act.................................2514
  Cargo tank motor vehicles........................................2720
  Certification requirements for vehicle alterers..................2625
  Certification requirements of multistage vehicles................2512
  Community transportation vehicles................................2542
  Dealer notification by manufacturer..............................2566
  Defects..........................................................2566
  Domestic origin of parts.........................................2514
  Driver training..................................................2425
  Electric.........................................................1030
  Imports....................................................2623, 3445
  Inconsequential defects..........................................2547
  Insurance:
    Insurer's reporting requirements.........................2554, 2630
  Light trucks.....................................................3363
    Fuel economy for model year 2001...............................2626
  Location and monitoring systems..................................4409
  Modifications for individuals with disabilities..................2568
  National Driver Register...................................2612, 2628
  National Stolen Passenger Motor Vehicle Information System......1897, 
                                                                   2015
  Noncompliance exemption..........................................2547
  Odometer fraud...................................................2562
  Open alcohol containers..........................................2584
  Snowmobiles......................................................1701
  State issued identification documents............................2603
  Theft data.................................................2553, 2620
  Theft prevention.................................................2621
  Truck size and weight:
    Nondivisible...................................................2510
  Wheelchair lifts and ramps.......................................2531
Musculoskeletal disorders:
  Ergonomic protection standards...............................81, 4138
Music:
  Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2839


                                   N

National banks:
  Capital regulations..............................................2823
  Commercial mortgage-backed securities:
    Real estate appraisal requirements.............................2832
  Minimum security devices and procedures..........................2825
  Safety and soundness standards...................................4426
  Treatment of financial contracts by receivers....................2831
  Uniform rules of practice and procedure..........................2824
  Year 2000 safety and soundness guidelines..................2829, 4435
National defense:
  See also Armed forces
           Arms and munitions
           Civil defense
           Classified information
           Defense communications
           Emergency powers
           Military air transportations
           Strategic and critical materials
  Technical surveillance countermeasures............................887
National forests:
  Crime prevention..................................................439
  Employee appeals..................................................459
  Federal Lands Highway Program....................................2449
  Fire prevention...................................................439
  Grazing permits...................................................462
  Hydroelectric uses................................................438
  Small business land use...........................................443
  Special use authorizations........................................442
  Transportation system.............................................447
  Visitor services..................................................457
National parks:
  Aircraft overflights.........................................90, 2402
  Alaska:
    Glacier Bay National Park......................................1709
  Appalachian National Scenic Trail................................1705
  Concession contracts.............................................1697
  Delaware Water Gap NRA Bicycle Trail.............................1703
  Denali National Park.............................................1694
  Federal Lands Highway Program....................................2446
  Grand Canyon National Park:
    Air tour operations............................................2373
    Airspace modifications.........................................2374
  Grand Teton National Park:
    Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1701
  Information collection activities................................1707
  John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway:
    Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1701
  Kaloko-Honokohou National Historic Park..........................1710
  National Natural Landmarks Program...............................1708
  Park police insignia.............................................1691
  Personal watercraft use..........................................1704
  Presidio:
    Environmental quality..........................................4057
    Management...............................................4055, 4056
  Public nudity..............................................1710, 1711
  Resource protection........................................1692, 1693
  Rights-of-way....................................................1699
  Snowmobile use.............................................1701, 1705
  Solid waste sites................................................1696
  Vehicles and traffic safety......................................1695
  Visitor use......................................................1692
  Voyageurs National Park:
    Aircraft operations............................................1700
National Parks:
  Big Cypress National Preserve:
    Frogging.......................................................1702
Natural gas:
  See also Oil and gas exploration
           Oil and gas reserves
           Pipelines
  Collaborative procedures for facilities..........................4453
  Liquefied natural gas:
    Safety standards...............................................2725
  Motor vehicle fuel...............................................1032
  Private activity bond rules......................................3034
  Reformulated gasoline............................................3542
  Regulation revision..............................................4454
  Transportation on Outer Continental Shelf........................4446
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..................3893

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  Damage assessments..........................................707, 1521
  National Natural Landmarks Program...............................1708
  Wetlands.........................................................1408
    Minimal effects exemptions......................................503
Navigation (air):
  Airspace regulations..................................705, 2353, 2382
  Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2344
  Instrument flight rules..........................................2379
  Objects affecting navigable airspace.............................2343
  Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2388
  Standard instrument approach procedures..........................2381
  Transponder requirement....................................2354, 2395
Navigation (water):
  Delaware Bay.....................................................2283
  Offshore pipeline hazards........................................2697
  Prince William Sound.............................................2295
  Puget Sound......................................................2295
  Regulated navigation areas.......................................2299
News media:
  See also Newspapers and magazines
           Radio
           Television
  Newspapers:
    Radio cross-ownership..........................................4380
Noise control:
  Airports.........................................................2393
  Construction.....................................................2445
  Highway traffic..................................................2445
  Mining industry..................................................2122
  Overflights of national parks................................90, 2402
  Small airplanes..................................................2415
Nonprofit organizations:
  Cultural property regulations....................................2850
  DOT grants.......................................................2224
  Food assistance programs..........................................364
  Grants administration.................................529, 3279, 3918
  Rights to inventions..............................................873
Nuclear energy:
  See also Nuclear materials
           Nuclear power plants and reactors
  Energy compensation sources for well logging.....................4591
  NRC document control and distribution............................4584
  Payments for special burdens and in lieu of taxes................1073
  Prior approval procedures........................................4608
  Requirements for certificate holders, applicants, contractors, 
      and subcontractors...........................................4607
Nuclear materials:
  Adjudicatory proceedings...................................4618, 4619
  Emergency response worker training...............................1071
  Export controls.........................................542, 560, 571
  Industrial devices containing byproducts...................4565, 4614
  Licensing........................................................4564
    Application for specific licenses..............................4590
  Nuclear fuel.....................................................4593
  Retirement benefits for couriers.................................3988
  Spent fuel......1074, 4573, 4574, 4575, 4576, 4578, 4579, 4580, 4581, 
                                                                   4612
Nuclear power plants and reactors:
  ASME codes and standards.........................................4582
  Decommissioning:
    Financial assurance requirements...............................4596
  Design and site suitability......................................4600
  Design certification:
    AP600..........................................................4592
    Changes to licensing procedures................................4570
  Emergency core cooling system evaluations models..................164
  Emergency planning requirements for shutdown sites...............4597
  Emergency preparedness...........................................4603
  Emissions........................................................3538
  Fee schedules....................................................4616
  Fire protection..................................................4569
  Gaseous diffusion plants.........................................4606
  IEEE National Consensus Standard.................................4610
  Licensing........................................................4584
  Maintenance activities...........................................4609
  Nuclear occurrence...............................................4594
  NRC regulation amendments:
    Clarifications and addition of flexibility.....................4566
  Operator examinations............................................4602
  Operator licensing proceedings.............................4618, 4619
  Personnel:
    Fitness-for-Duty Program.......................................4583
  Potassium iodide use after a nuclear accident....................4588
  Radiation safety:
    Discrete radioactive particles protection......................4571
    Personnel dosimeters...........................................4599
  Reporting requirements...........................................4586
  Safety assessments...............................................4609
  Safety regulations.............................................24, 25
  Source term use..................................................4589
  Spent fuel storage...............................................4612
    Geological and seismological characteristics...................4598
    HOLTEC Cask..............................................4575, 4617
    Transnuclear Cask........................................4567, 4574
    VECTRA NUHOMS Cask.............................................4568
  Three Mile Island................................................4594
  Waste disposal.............................................4577, 4595
Nursing homes:
  See also Health facilities
  Civil penalties..................................................1360
  Medicare and Medicaid benefits.......................1270, 1296, 1366
  Mentally ill or retarded residents...............................1318
  Notice requirements..............................................1360
  Skilled nursing facility definition..............................1299
  Veterans.........................................................3152
Nutrition:
  See also Food assistance programs
           Foods
  Dietary supplement labeling......................................1202
  Food labeling.....................................401, 405, 413, 1186
  Medical food labeling............................................1187
  Parenteral drug products containing aluminum.....................1165
  School meals......................................................386


                                   O

Occupational safety and health:
  See also Mine safety and health
           Workers' compensation
  Air quality..................................................83, 2162
  Beryllium exposure...........................................26, 2172
  Cargo handling...................................................2157
  Chemicals........................................................2135
  Child labor regulations............................................64
  Construction industry............................................2164
  Consultation agreements..........................................2155
  Cotton dust......................................................2138
  Crystalline silica exposure......................................2147
  Electric power...................................................2169
  Energy sources...................................................2132
  Ergonomic standards................................................81
  Ethylene oxide...................................................2133
  Fall protection........................................84, 2134, 2174
  Fire brigades....................................................2180
  Flammable and combustible liquids................................2167
  Glycol ethers....................................................2160
  Grain handling facilities........................................2137
  Hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout)........................2171
  Hazardous waste handling...................................2161, 2180
  Hexavalent chromium exposure.....................................2163
  Metalworking fluids..............................................2166
  Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories Program:
    Fees...........................................................2145
  Personal protective equipment......................................87
  Plain language revision of existing standards........2149, 2175, 2179
  Power tool standards.............................................2146
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...............85, 2168, 2173

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  Respiration protection...........................................2156
  Safety and health management program...............................82
  Scaffolds........................................................2158
  Shipyard standards.............................2143, 2158, 2159, 2165
  Steel erection activities..........................................84
  Tuberculosis exposure..............................................86
  Walking working surfaces.........................................2174
Oil and gas exploration:
  Addition to Toxics Release Inventory..............................102
  Drilling operations..............................................1754
  Incidental taking of marine mammals.........................701, 1541
  Leasing....................................................1804, 1815
    Leasing and operations regulations.........................58, 1804
    Oil valuation....................................................56
    Operations within national parks...............................1693
    State audit functions..........................................1775
  Offshore facilities:
    Deep water emergency well control operations...................1768
  Outer continental shelf..........................................2252
  Outer Continental Shelf....................................1762, 2273
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................1751, 1753
  Royalty in kind for oil and gas..................................1776
  Royalty relief.............................................1767, 1769
  Royalty reporting standards................................1752, 1767
  Worker training..................................................1762
Oil and gas reserves:
  Alaska petroleum reserve.........................................1804
  Regulation clarification.........................................1761
Oil pollution:
  ASTM standards...................................................2287
  Discharge-removal equipment......................................2293
  Oil spill response.........................88, 2276, 2294, 2305, 2721
  Prevention...........................................2255, 3658, 3703
  Tank vessels...............................................2267, 2295
Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance:
  Acceptable medical sources.......................................4143
  Calculation of the contribution and benefit base and earnings 
      test exempt amounts..........................................4154
  Disability determinations:
    Adjudication officers....................................4168, 4169
    Residual functional capacity..............................156, 4169
    Single decisionmaker...........................................4160
  Drug addiction or alcoholism.....................................4166
  Fees for representation of claimants.............................4112
  Fraud............................................................4171
  Hemic and lymphatic system, disability criteria..................4141
  Incarcerated individuals and individuals confined in criminal 
      cases........................................................4149
  Malignant neoplastic diseases, disability criteria...............4141
  Mental disorders, evaluation criteria............................4139
  Musculoskeletal system, disability criteria......................4138
  Replacing social security number cards...........................4150
  Representative payee reforms.....................................4111
  Speech and language impairments..................................4143
  Substantial gainful activity...............................4130, 4167
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance:
  Disability determinations:
    Clarification of age as a vocational factor....................4122
  Revised medical criteria for determination of disability.........4164
  Substantial gainful activity.....................................4174
  Video teleconference technology...................................152
Organization and functions:
  Advisory committees........................................1826, 3799
  Consolidated Farm Service Agency..................................196
  Farm Credit Administration.................................4268, 4276
  Federal Advisory Committee Act...................................3799
  Federal Housing Finance Board........................4458, 4461, 4462
  FEMA.......................................................3779, 3781
  OCC..............................................................2837
  Panama Canal Commission:
    Removal of Secretary of the Army as prescribing authority......4036
  Public housing agencies....................................1512, 1515
  RRB..............................................................4073
Over-the-counter drugs:
  Adverse experience reporting.....................................1116
  Ephedrine drug products..........................................1887
  Labeling requirements............................................1203


                                   P

Packaging and containers:
  See also Food packaging
           Labeling
  Child-resistant............................................4252, 4261
  Country of origin marking..................................2849, 2873
  Drug repackaging approval requirements...........................1148
  Printing materials control guidelines............................3380
  Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4507
Passenger vessels:
  See also Maritime carriers
  Access for individuals with disabilities...................2239, 3289
  Emergency response plans.........................................2304
  Financial responsibility requirements............................4479
  Hull examination alternative.....................................2263
  Inspection frequency.............................................2263
  Inspection of alien crew members...........................1919, 1940
  Safety...........................................................2259
  Underwater surveys...............................................2263
Passports and visas:
  Authority to issue...............................................2194
  B visas..........................................................2187
  DOA authority to approve H-2A petitions for agricultural 
      laborers.....................................................2196
  F-1 foreign students.............................................1913
  Nonimmigrant visas:
    Alien witnesses and informants.................................2192
    Exemptions.....................................................1972
    Voiding and cancellation.......................................2000
    Waiver for firearm prohibition.................................2006
  Q2 visas for Irish nationals in work/training program............2197
  Transit without visa.............................................2186
  Visa ineligibility...............................................2206
  Visa waiver pilot program:
    Countries eligible.............................................2189
  Visa Waiver Pilot Program........................................1986
Peanuts:
  Aflatoxin....................................................221, 230
  Contracting additional peanuts by type and segregation............213
  Marketing quotas..................................................212
  Poundage quota and price support...................183, 225, 233, 252
  Regulation clarification..........................................206
Peer review organizations (PROs):
  Contracts........................................................1340
Peer Review Organizations (PROs):
  Beneficiary complaints...........................................1317
  Medicare regulations changes...................1269, 1287, 1288, 1312
Penalties:
  See also Seizures and forfeitures
  Air pollution control............................................3467
  Civil....................................2097, 2349, 2655, 2756, 3763
    Inflation adjustment...................2016, 2097, 2349, 2655, 3763
    Medicaid managed care organizations..........1093, 2097, 2349, 2655
    Medicare+Choice Organizations................1093, 2097, 2349, 2655
    Nursing homes................................1360, 2097, 2349, 2655
    Test and evaluation program..............................2330, 2655
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2011
  Customs duties and inspection....................................2856
  False drawback claims............................................2859
  Food stamp program................................................390
  Food Stamp Program..................................................4
  FHA program violations.....................................1406, 1476
  Immigration......................................................1891
  Inflation adjustment.............................................2054
  Labor Department...........................................2054, 2079

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  Marketing quotas.............................................211, 212
  Nuclear weapons contractors......................................1071
  OIG..............................................................1099
Pensions:
  See also Pension insurance
           Railroad retirement
           Social security
  Adequate consideration definition................................2096
  Audit requirements...............................................2081
  Civil penalties for breach of fiduciary duties...................2097
  Employer liability...............................................4052
  ERISA:
    Cessation of operations........................................4054
    Employee benefit plans.........................................2085
    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act..............73
  Filing and issuance rules........................................4044
  GATT provisions affecting accrued benefits.......................3043
  Lump sum benefits................................................4047
  Medication copayments............................................3148
  Paperless administration of retirement plans.....................3001
  Payroll deduction programs for contribution to individual 
      retirement accounts..........................................2099
  Premium payments...........................................4050, 4051
  PBGC premium self-audit..........................................4043
  Reporting and notification requirements......................71, 4053
  Single-employer plans:
    Premium payments...............................................4053
    Valuation.......................................................146
  Trusteed plans, payment of benefits..............................4045
  Valuation of plan benefits..................................146, 4049
  Veterans...................................................3204, 3265
Pesticides and pests:
  See also Plant diseases and pests
  Antimicrobial pesticides.............................3557, 3565, 3568
  Boll Weevil Eradication Program...................................193
  Canceled or suspended......................................3560, 3567
  Data requirements................................................3555
  Disposal and storage guidelines......................3560, 3561, 3567
  Drinking water testing methods...................................3749
  Emergency exemption regulations..................................3558
  Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Program................3556
  Forests and forest products.......................................263
  FIFRA exemptions...........................................3559, 3571
  Groundwater protection............................................130
  Importation of non-indigenous organisms...........................254
  National Laboratory Accreditation Program.........................166
  Negotiated consent/procedural test rule..........................3574
  Pesticide tolerance reassessment program.........................3570
  Pesticide-treated seeds..........................................3559
  Registration review program......................................3554
  Residue in agricultural products:
    Emergency exemptions...........................................3565
  Scientific research..............................................3308
  Storage and disposal.................................3560, 3561, 3567
  Tolerance fees...................................................3569
  Transgenic plants................................................3562
  Worker protection standards......................................3564
Petroleum:
  See also Fuel additives
           Gasoline
           Oil and gas exploration
           Oil and gas reserves
           Oil imports
           Oil pollution
           Oils and fats
           Petroleum allocation
           Petroleum price regulations
           Pipelines
  Air pollution from petroleum solvent dry cleaners................3472
  Air pollution from production facilities.........................3513
  DOD contracting...................................................893
  Electrical standards update for facilities.......................1774
  Gas valuation....................................................1770
  Locations for electrical installations at facilities.............1764
  Oil pipeline regulations.........................................4451
  Oil valuation..................................................55, 56
  Onshore oil pipelines............................................2721
  Refineries.......................................................3423
  Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3646
Pipeline safety:
  Aluminum cylinders...............................................2694
  Breakout tanks...................................................2737
  Corrosion control................................................2707
  Corrosion determinations.........................................2718
  Emergency flow restricting devices...............................2696
  Enforcement procedures...........................................2727
  Environmentally-sensitive and high-density population areas......2695
  Gas gathering lines........................................2693, 2733
  Gas pipeline repair..............................................2708
  Hazardous liquid pipelines.......................................2701
  Hazardous liquids gathering lines................................2733
  Increased inspection requirements................................2732
  Inspection devices...............................................2719
  Liquefied natural gas............................................2725
  Maps and records of location.....................................2717
  Operator qualifications..........................................2736
  Periodic updates to regulations..................................2739
  Permanent underwater inspections.................................2697
  Pressure testing.................................................2709
  Regulatory review................................................2700
Pipelines:
  See also Natural gas
           Pipeline safety
  Natural Gas Transportation System..........................4442, 4443
  Oil pipeline regulations...................................4447, 4451
  Onshore oil pipelines............................................2721
  Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2722
Plant diseases and pests:
  Accreditation of private seed laboratories........................255
Plants:
  See also Plant diseases and pests
           Seeds
  Endangered and threatened...1553, 1559, 1561, 1579, 1589, 1602, 1603, 
           1605, 1611, 1615, 1616, 1617, 1618, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 
                                     1634, 1644, 1659, 1667, 1671, 1677
  Exports..........................................................1576
  Imports...........................................................266
  Listing of U.S. species in CITES Appendix III....................1641
  Noxious weeds:
    Categories and priorities.......................................253
    Restrictions on interstate movement.............................277
Plastics materials and synthetics:
  Air pollution control regulations................................3331
Poison prevention:
  See also Lead poisoning
  Child-resistant packaging..................................4252, 4261
Political activities (Government employees):
  Honoraria donated to charities...................................3909
Poultry and poultry products:
  Disposition and disposal requirements.............................419
  Food additives.....................................................14
  HACCP regulations for rendered products..........................1198
  Mexican imports..............................................273, 423
  Sanitation requirements...........................................424
  Transportation and storage........................................414
Poultry inspection:
  Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection............................418
  Contaminated......................................................420
  Fee increase......................................................429
  HACCP programs................................................13, 415
  Labeling..........................................................408
  Partial quality control programs...................................15
  Performance standards:
    Processing procedures.................................332, 408, 417
    Ready-to-eat products......................................399, 426

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  Residue chemistry analyses........................................427
  Rules of practice.................................................409
Prescription drugs:
  Antibiotics................................................1127, 1128
    Resistance labeling............................................1146
  Direct-to-consumer promotion.....................................1117
  Fixed-combination dosage form....................................1147
  Generic drug exclusivity for abbreviated new drug applications 
                                                                   1183
  Labeling.........................................29, 1130, 1133, 1178
  Prescribed for veterans by non-VA physicians...............3192, 3194
  PDMA policy information, guidance, and clarifications............1159
Price controls:
  FCC..............................................................4285
Price support programs:
  Peanuts............................................183, 225, 233, 252
  Tobacco.............................184, 186, 190, 191, 226, 227, 245
Prisoners:
  Administrative remedy program..............................1831, 1837
  Classification and program review..........................1834, 1857
  Drug abuse treatment.............................................1847
    Disincentives and enhanced incentives..........................1832
  Early release considerations.....................................1847
  Eligibility for FPI work program.................................1862
  Good conduct time................................................1846
  Intensive confinement center programs............................1847
  Legal activities.................................................1841
  Literacy program.................................................1843
  Military prisoners...............................................1853
  Nudity and sexually explicit material or information.............1845
  Occupational educational programs................................1833
  Over-the-counter medications.....................................1852
  OASDI benefits...................................................4149
  Personal property of inmates.....................................1861
  Prohibited acts..................................................1849
  Psychiatric treatment and medication.............................1853
  Special mail procedures....................................1863, 1865
  Telephone regulations and financial responsibility...............1860
  Victim and/or witness notification in State custody transfers 
                                                                   1851
  Visitors...................................................1848, 1864
  Volunteer community service projects.............................1839
Prisons:
  Acceptance of donations..........................................1866
  Commissary account deposit procedures............................1855
  Commissary privileges............................................1844
  Cost of incarceration fee........................................1867
  Employment priority for displaced employees......................3967
  Federal Prison Industries standards and procedures...............1868
  Federal Prison Industries work program...........................1862
  Incoming publications............................................1841
  Infectious disease management....................................1842
  Intensive confinement centers....................................1840
  Postsecondary education programs.................................1830
  Smoking/no smoking areas.........................................1850
  Telephone privileges.............................................1844
Privacy:
  See also Confidential business information
  Databases of convicted offenders...........................2017, 2018
  Education Department records exclusions...........................999
  Federal-State Unemployment Compensation program records..........2065
  Food Stamp Program................................................335
  Peer Review Organizations (PROs).................................1317
  Privacy Act:
    Crop insurance............................................305, 3891
    CNCS records...................................................3296
    DOC amendments..................................................528
    DOE records..............................................1063, 3891
    DOJ implementation.......................................1836, 1923
    Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank record system 
                                                                   1103
    Inspector General investigative files....................3887, 3891
    INS regulations................................................1923
    NARA procedures................................................3891
    OGE procedures...........................................3891, 3900
    SEC amendments.................................................4699
  Resident survey information......................................1483
  Return of Nixon Presidential materials...........................3875
  School breakfast and lunch programs...............................337
  Social security records and information..........................4163
Public assistance programs:
  See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Food assistance programs
           Medicaid
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  Aliens...........................................................1960
  BIA arrangement for social welfare and relief of distress........1721
  Eligibility of immigrants........................................1947
  Individual Development Accounts..................................1388
  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
                                                      4, 5, 10, 68, 369
  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families..........................1389
  Welfare reform:
    Tribal program requirements....................................1379
  Welfare-to-Work Program....................................1384, 2072
Public health:
  See also Immunization
           Meat inspection
           Waste treatment and disposal
  Air pollution effects............................................3599
  Blood and blood products.........................................1160
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3314
  Parenteral drug products containing aluminum.....................1165
  Radiological Emergency Response Plan.............................3454
  Safeguarding food during transport...............................2731
  Water contamination....................................118, 120, 3556
Public housing:
  See also Low and moderate income housing
           Rent subsidies
  Admission and occupancy..............................1402, 1508, 1514
  Capital Fund allocation formula....................................54
  Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program funding.............1516
  Conversion of distressed projects to tenant-based assistance.....1502
  Conversion to vouchers...........................................1501
  Designated housing regulations...................................1489
  Development regulations revisions................................1512
  Drug Elimination Program.........................................1507
  Eligibility:
    Noncitizens..............................................1414, 1508
  Indians..........................................................1506
  Joint venture and corsortia formation............................1500
  Mixed finance partnership development:
    Streamlining...................................................1513
  Operating Fund allocation formula..................................51
  Pet ownership....................................................1495
  Public Housing Agency Plan.......................................1510
  Revitalization potential.........................................1517
  Tenant income reporting..........................................1415
  Uniform physical condition standards and physical inspection 
      requirements.................................................1420

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Public lands:
  See also Grazing lands
           Homesteads
           National forests
           National parks
           National trails system
           Public lands-classification
           Public lands-grants
           Public lands-mineral resources
           Public lands-rights-of-way
           Public lands-sales
           Public lands-withdrawal
           Reclamation
  BLM application procedures.......................................1825
  Color of title and omitted lands:
    Regulatory simplification......................................1801
  Damage repairs...................................................1828
  Definitions......................................................1824
  Desert land entries..............................................1793
  Highway discretionary funds......................................2464
  Indian allotments................................................1816
  Land and Water Conservation Fund.................................1706
  Leases...........................................................1791
  Payments to State and local governments..........................1806
  Permit and easements.............................................1791
  Policy and management......................................1791, 1792
  Recreational use permits.........................................1807
  Revenues management..............................................1789
  Subsistence hunting and fishing..................................1675
  Wilderness area management.......................................1814
Public lands-classification:
  Regulations removal and updating.................................1820
Public lands-grants:
  Carey Act grants.................................................1798
  Railroad grants..................................................1797
Public lands-mineral resources:
  Coalbed methane development......................................1818
  Disposal of mineral materials....................................1808
  Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1794
  Leasing..........................................................1766
  Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1823
  Mining operations..................................................57
  Oil and gas leasing..............................................1815
    Performance standards............................................58
    Valuation of oil.............................................55, 56
  User fees........................................................1795
Public lands-rights-of-way:
  Administrative process and standards.............................1526
  Regulations removal..............................................1796
Public lands-sales:
  Segregation and opening of lands.................................1799
Public lands-withdrawal:
  Streamlining of operations.......................................1819


                                   R

Radiation protection:
  See also Radioactive materials
  Contractors and subcontractors.....................................25
  Discrete radioactive particles protection........................4571
  Dose methodology.................................................3376
  Drinking water...................................................3553
  Medical byproduct use............................................4585
  Occupational radiation protection................................4605
  Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program fees.........3772
  Personnel dosimeters.............................................4599
  Radiological Emergency Response Plan.............................3454
  Yucca Mountain, NV..........................................105, 4587
Radio:
  See also Communications
  Allocation of 455-456 MHz and 459-460 MHz........................4347
  Broadcast ownership..............................................4383
  Certification of equipment in the 24.05-24.25 GHz band...........4355
  Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4397
  Competitive bidding process................................4382, 4407
  Digital audio radio service in the 2310-2360 MH band.............4364
  FM radio.........................................................4385
    Low power......................................................4387
  Government transfer band.........................................4353
  Imports of radio frequency devices...............................4337
  Inspection of radio installations on ships.......................4336
  Interconnection obligations of CMRS..............................4396
  Main Studio/Public File Requirements for Broadcasters............4389
  Mass media applications, rules, processes........................4384
  Millimeter wave technology.......................................4342
  Multiple access systems..........................................4406
  Newspaper cross-ownership........................................4380
  Public safety communications requirements........................4405
  Radionavigation service at 31.8 - 32.2 GHz.......................4354
  Railroad standards and procedures................................2640
  Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4393
  Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4365
  Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2388
  Specialized Mobile Radio Systems.................................4395
  Station ownership................................................4375
  Uniden scanners and cellular radio signals interference..........4351
  Wireless information networks..............................4346, 4403
Radioactive materials:
  See also Nuclear materials
           Radiation protection
  Medical use......................................................1121
Railroad employees:
  See also Railroad retirement
           Railroad unemployment insurance
  Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2663
  Locomotive engineers.............................................2669
  Safety regulations...............................................2667
Railroad retirement:
  Annuity:
    Deductions by reason of work...................................4067
    Exemption from supplemental tax................................3118
  Creditability of pay.............................................4071
  Disability determination.......................4062, 4063, 4069, 4070
  Eligibility:
    Children and stepchildren......................................4061
  Employee status..................................................4066
  Employer status..................................................4065
  National emergency plan..........................................4058
  Remuneration.....................................................4059
  RRB general administration.......................................4073
  Trial work period, redefined.....................................4069
Railroad safety:
  Brakes...........................................................2656
  Bridge maintenance guidelines....................................2650
  Bridge worker safety standards...................................2659
  Consolidations, mergers, acquisitions of control and start-up 
      operations.....................................................97
  Crane safety standards...........................................2668
  Event recorder crashworthiness...................................2644
  Freight cars...............................................2648, 2656
  Grade crossing and signal systems....................2436, 2466, 2649
  High speed rail..................................................2654
  Hours of service recordkeeping...................................2636
  Locomotives:
    Cab working conditions.........................................2639
    Crashworthiness................................................2641
    Remotely controlled............................................2672
    Steam locomotives..............................................2653
  Monetary threshold for reporting rail equipment accidents/
      incidents....................................................2662
  Passenger equipment standards....................................2671
  Pilot programs:
    One-person crews...............................................2657

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    Remotely controlled locomotives................................2672
  Radio communications and train control...........................2640
  Safety integration plans...........................................97
  Shared use of railroad system trackage.....................2643, 2685
  Signal systems.............................................2651, 2652
  Track maintenance................................................2642
  Track standards:
    Gage restraint measurement systems.............................2664
  Utility employee protection......................................2667
  Whistle bans at grade crossings....................................96
Railroad unemployment insurance:
  Benefits amendments..............................................4060
  Employee status..................................................4066
  Employer status..................................................4065
  Finality of decisions............................................4072
  Repayment tax....................................................3073
  Voluntary quit...................................................4068
Railroads:
  See also Railroad employees
           Railroad retirement
           Railroad safety
           Railroad unemployment insurance
  Assistance to States.............................................2647
  BLM railroad grants..............................................1797
  Consolidation procedures.........................................4700
  Environmental impact and related procedures................2428, 2670
  Hazardous materials transportation...............................2705
  Magnetic levitation transportation technology deployment 
      program......................................................2661
  Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1907
  Railroad highway projects........................................2469
  Rehabilitation and improvement financing.........................2660
  Small businesses or entities.....................................2655
  STB authority....................................................4701
  Tank cars........................................................2720
  Tourist and historic railroads:
    Regulatory review..............................................2637
  Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2731
  Waste disposal on AMTRAK.........................................2666
Real property acquisition:
  Farm real estate:
    Real estate appraisals and chattel appraisals...................236
  Highway construction.............................................2458
Reclamation:
  See also Mines
           Surface mining
  Acreage limitation...............................................1788
  Backfilling and grading..........................................1778
  Financing........................................................1785
  Indian lands.....................................................1715
Recreation and recreation areas:
  See also Fishing
           Hunting
           National forests
           National parks
           National trails system
           Rivers
           Seashores
           Wilderness areas
  Access for individuals with disabilities...................1871, 3291
  Presidio:
    Environmental Quality..........................................4057
    Management...............................................4055, 4056
  Wildlife refuges.................................................1596
Recycling:
  Cathode ray tubes................................................3632
  DEAR amendment...................................................1079
  Government purchase of recovered materials.......................3642
  Refrigerant..........................................3425, 3426, 3534
Refugees:
  See also Aliens
  Admission procedures.......................................1915, 1982
  Refugee Resettlement Program.....................................1381
Relocation assistance:
  Cost ceiling.....................................................4191
  Relocation allowances............................................3813
  Relocation expense test program..................................3835
  Streamlining.....................................................1417
Rent subsidies:
  HOPWA Assistance options and technical changes...................1459
  Tenant income reporting..........................................1415
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements:
  Adverse experience reporting.....................................1119
  Air carriers.........................................2242, 2347, 2398
  Automotive fuel economy reports..................................2565
  ARMIS reporting requirements.....................................4323
  Bank Secrecy Act implementation....2750, 2751, 2752, 2753, 2755, 2757
  Blood and blood products.........................................1160
  Carbamates.......................................................3660
  Casinos..........................................................2754
  Chemical inventory reporting................................110, 3615
  Coast Guard drug testing reporting requirements..................2312
  Credit union audits and verifications............................4543
  Criminal databases:
    Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database........................2018
    National Instant Criminal Background Check System..............2017
  CDBG program:
    Expenditure documentation......................................1461
    Prohibition for employment relocation activities...............1468
  Defined contribution plans.......................................2098
  Direct transactions of U.S. reporter with foreign affiliate.......513
  DEA........................................................1882, 1883
  DOI..................................................1751, 1753, 1767
  DOL........................................................2041, 2057
  DOT..............................................................2468
  Electronic records management....................................3864
    NASA...........................................................3856
  Electronic signatures............................................2333
  Excess government property.......................................3833
  Export information................................................515
  Export Reform and Enhancement Act................................1176
  Exports.....................................................556, 1173
  EPA..............................................................3301
    Cross-media electronic reporting and recordkeeping rule........3299
    Emissions reporting requirements...............................3361
  Fisheries.....................................654, 668, 766, 781, 784
  Fishing......................................................721, 769
  Food assistance programs..........................................364
  Food Stamp Program...........................................336, 357
  FAA..............................................................2328
  FCC..............................................................4376
  FDA..............................................................1193
  FDA adverse drug experiences.....................................1116
  FERC.................................................4440, 4448, 4449
  GSA's role in records management.................................3797
  Hazardous material releases......................................3663
  Hazardous materials incident reporting...........................2706
  Hazardous materials transportation...............................2734
  Hazardous substances.............................................3600
  Health care fraud and abuse......................................1102
  Honoraria donated to charities...................................3909
  Human cellular and tissue-based products...................1126, 1193
  Importation and entry bond conditions............................2865
  Infant formula testing...........................................1185
  Information collection requests..................................3653
  Investment advisers..............................................4634
  Investment companies...........................4641, 4664, 4665, 4667
  INS:
    Commercial delivery service as form of personal service........2002
    Material availability requirements.............................1923
  IRS..............................................................2963

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  Mortgage broker fees.............................................1450
  Motor carriers.......................................2429, 2491, 2493
  Motor vehicle insurers.....................................2554, 2630
  Multiple employer welfare arrangements...........................2089
  MMS electronic reporting.........................................1772
  National Practitioner Data Bank............................1213, 3154
  Nuclear power plants.............................................4586
  NARA:
    Facility standards for records centers..........................140
    Records center..................................................141
    Reproduction fees..............................................3863
    Storage standards..............................................3866
  NOAA..............................................................694
  NPDES permittee reporting........................................3675
  Occupational injuries and illnesses................................85
  Occupational safety and health...................................2173
  Outcome and Assessment Information Set data......................1344
  Ozone-depleting substances importation...........................3540
  OSHA:
    Employer certifications........................................2168
  Paperwork reduction.........................................347, 2796
  Pension plans................................................71, 4053
  Personal property................................................3819
  Personnel records................................................3922
  Pesticides.................................................3308, 3567
  Privacy Act exempt record system from the Healthcare Integrity 
      and Protection Data Bank.....................................1103
  Rail equipment accidents/incidents...............................2662
  Railroad employees.........................................2636, 2652
  Records, nonrecord materials, and personal papers................3858
  Rural electrification loans.......................................476
  RCRA.............................................................3653
  Securities:
    Broker-dealers.........................4640, 4669, 4678, 4691, 4693
    Large trader reporting system............................4621, 4689
    Life insurance contracts.......................................4660
    Related issuers and guarantors.................................4627
    Transfer agent services............................4679, 4680, 4687
  Sugar.............................................................215
  Sugar and crystalline fructose marketing allotment................194
  SSA:
    Production of records in legal proceedings.....................4121
  Telecommunications operations support systems....................4324
  Telecommunications relay services contributors...................4333
  Tenant income reporting..........................................1415
  Tobacco exports..................................................2813
  Toxic chemical test rules........................................3601
  Toxics Release Inventory........102, 132, 133, 3610, 3611, 3612, 3619
  U.S. partners of controlled foreign partnerships.................3123
  Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2722
  Uranium mill sites...............................................1072
  Vessel documentation.............................................2261
  Vessel numbering system..........................................2251
  VA.........................................................3163, 3200
  Wassenaar arrangement........................................547, 576
  Welfare-to-Work Program..........................................1384
Research:
  See also Agricultural research
           Educational research
           Human research subjects
           Medical research
  Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act:
    Matching funds requirement......................................289
    Stakeholder input to formula funds..............................288
  Biotechnology....................................................3584
  Conformity assessment activities..................................587
  Credit for increasing research activities........................3019
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................897
  EPA consolidation of GLPS regulations............................3308
  Incidental taking of marine mammals...............................791
  Marine mammals....................................................751
  Marine resources.............................................710, 797
  Misconduct.......................................................1231
  National Undersea Research Program................................798
  North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan.............................598
  NARA registration requirement....................................3873
Retirement:
  See also Pensions
           Railroad retirement
           Social security
  Canadian.........................................................4658
  District of Columbia employees...................................3987
  Firefighters.....................................................3989
  FEHB coverage....................................................3959
  Government employees.........3949, 3950, 3955, 3957, 3984, 4024, 4025
  Law enforcement officers.........................................3989
  National Guard technicians.......................................4026
  Nuclear materials couriers.......................................3988
  Paperless administration of retirement plans.....................3001
  Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act.................896
Rights-of-way:
  See also Public lands-rights-of-way
  Acquisition of real property for.................................2458
  Regulation revision..............................................1699
Rivers:
  Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.....................200
  National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...........................1829
  Tennessee River System...........................................4177
Rural areas:
  Business and industrial loan programs........................467, 474
  Community development:
    Rural venture capital demonstration.............................473
  Community facility loans.....................................299, 489
  Construction work plan loan eligibility...........................498
  Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.........497
  Economic development loans and grants.............................297
  Electric borrowers......................................487, 488, 492
  Electric loans................................476, 481, 484, 486, 494
  Empowerment zones.................................................463
  Enterprise communities............................................463
  Farm labor housing................................................303
  Housing:
    Loans, grants, and programs...........................292, 293, 296
    Manufactured housing............................................300
  Pipeline safety standards........................................2733
  Regulation streamlining...........................................292
  Revision of RUS Telecommunications Program........................480
  Seismic safety requirements for new building construction.........479
  Small farmer outreach training....................................195
  Special equipment contract........................................482
  Technical assistance grants and programs................195, 294, 472
  Telecommunications system construction policies....478, 493, 495, 499
  Water and waste disposal loans and grants.........................477
  Water and waste disposal program regulations......................496


                                   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..............................2321
  Escalator safety standard........................................4247

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  Outer continental shelf platforms................................2252
  Source term use at operating nuclear reactors....................4589
  Space launch activities..........................................2410
Satellites:
  See also Space transportation and exploration
  Communications:
    Allocation of 455-456 MHz and 459-460 MHz......................4347
    Dedicated short range communications of intelligent 
        transportation systems.....................................4348
    Digital audio radio service....................................4364
    Earth stations.................................................4363
    Fixed satellite service in the ku-band.........................4356
    MSS spectrum allocation............................4344, 4362, 4370
    Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4365
    Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4361
  Licensing..........................................................19
Savings associations:
  Application processing...........................................3134
  Capital standards................................................3133
  Exempt holding companies.........................................3142
  Letters of credit, suretyship, and guaranty......................3146
  Safety and soundness standards...................................4426
  Year 2000 safety and soundness guidelines........................4435
Scholarships and fellowships:
  National Institutes of Health....................................1219
  Service fellowships..............................................1228
School breakfast and lunch programs:
  Amendments...................................................379, 386
  Consolidation of programs.........................................388
  Eligibility.......................................................340
  Formulated grain-fruit products...................................387
  Menu planning.....................................................366
  Release of eligibility information................................337
Schools:
  See also Colleges and universities
           Educational facilities
           Private schools
           School construction
  Asbestos...................................................3580, 3605
  Asbestos model accreditation plan................................3577
  Indian School Equalization Program...............................1713
  School child definition..........................................3209
Science and technology:
  Conformity assessment activities..................................587
  De minimis exclusion for technology and software..................570
  Deemed export rule................................................569
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................882
  DOT monitoring of motor carriers.................................2493
  Private sector industrial technology partnerships.................872
  Rights to inventions..............................................873
  Service fellowships..............................................1228
  Technology exports................................................545
Seafood:
  See also Fish
           Fisheries
  Import regulations................................................790
  Transportation and storage........................................414
Seamen:
  Merchant marine training, certification, and watchkeeping........2300
Securities:
  See also Bonds
           Government securities
  Broker-dealers.............................................4670, 4678
    Automated submission of trading data...........................4672
    Foreign........................................................4670
    Operational capability.........................................4695
    Quotation requirements.........................................4686
  Cancelled security certificate destruction.......................4690
  Company registration and regulation of capital formation...4622, 4628
  Conduit financing transactions...................................3010
  Custody or possession of funds or securities.....................4635
  Customer Protection Rule.........................................4668
  Depositories.....................................................4644
  Deregistration form amendments...................................4667
  Direct participation program interests...........................4671
  Disclosure requirements....................................4621, 4641
    Extraordinary corporate transactions...........................4630
    International standards........................................4632
  Equity securities..........................................4673, 4692
  Exemptions for the Kingdom of Sweden.............................4696
  EDGAR system modernization.................................4652, 4666
  Form S-8.........................................................4628
  Haircuts on......................................................4677
  Holding companies....................................3140, 4653, 4654
  Income taxation..................................................3047
  Insurance products...............................................4660
  Integrated financial transactions................................2896
  Intermarket Trading System Plan............................4681, 4694
  International disclosure standards...............................4632
  International transactions.......................................4674
  Investment advisers............................4634, 4636, 4637, 4655
    Political contributions........................................4663
  Investment companies...............4641, 4644, 4656, 4664, 4665, 4667
    Directors with ownership of index fund securities..............4662
  Large trader reporting system....................................4689
  Margin regulations review........................................4486
  Mark-to-market accounting........................................3048
  Marketable stock.................................................2990
  Mortgage-backed securities:
    Real estate appraisal requirements.............................2832
  Multijurisdictional tender offers................................4631
  National bank subsidiary activities..............................4426
  Net capital requirements.............................4675, 4676, 4684
  Options disclosure document................................4629, 4685
  Preferred stock............................................2965, 3010
  Private Securities Litigation Reform Act:
    Definition of terms............................................4623
  Qualified purchaser..............................................4624
  Registration.....................................................4660
  Registration form amendments.....................................4691
  Regulation T.....................................................4668
  Related issuers and guarantors...................................4627
  Reorganization events............................................4683
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............4669, 4678, 4679
    Annual reports and prospectuses....................4657, 4669, 4678
  Rule amendments..................................................4699
  Rule 11Ac1-1.....................................................4688
  Rule 15a-4.......................................................4655
  Rule 15c2-5, 15c3-1, 15c3-3......................................4668
  Rule 17a-3 and 17a-4.............................................4678
  Rule 3a12-11.....................................................4668
  Rules 30d-1 and 30d-2............................................4657
  Safe harbor:
    Exceptions.....................................................2976
  Section 8........................................................4668
  Streamlining.....................................................4626
  Tender and reorganization agents.................................4683
  Transfer agent services..............................4679, 4680, 4687
    Operational capability.........................................4695
  Two-sided quotations.............................................4688
Security measures:
  See also Classified information
  Classified national security information.............1086, 3876, 3877
  DOE contractors..................................................1058
  Private Remote Sensing Space Systems...............................19
  Technical surveillance countermeasures............................887
  Terrorist activity:
    Airplanes......................................................2345
    Airports.......................................................2346
  Wassenaar Arrangement review......................................550
Seeds:
  Pesticide-treated................................................3559
  Testing and certification.........................................173

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Seizures and forfeitures:
  Customs regulations........................................2839, 2854
  FCC regulations..................................................4335
Selective Service System:
  Registration requirements..................................3930, 4006
Sewage disposal:
  Incinerator emissions standards..................................3435
  Sewer collection systems.........................................3673
  Sludge use and disposal..............................3669, 3671, 3721
Sex discrimination:
  Federally assisted programs....60, 510, 1393, 1523, 3245, 3796, 3865, 
                                                                   3881
Sheep:
  Interstate movement...............................................257
  Medical research classifications.................................1182
Shipbuilding industry:
  Air pollution control............................................3526
  Safety and health regulations..............................2143, 2165
Small business:
  Lending company expansion and oversight...........................147
  Premier Certified Lenders Program................................4104
Small businesses:
  See also Minority businesses
  Administrative offset by SBA.....................................4096
  Bundled contracts................................................4097
  Common rule on title IX of the Civil Rights Act..................4086
  Construction businesses..........................................4098
  DEAR amendments:
    Mentor-Protigi Program.........................................1077
  DOD contracting...................................................893
  Economic development..............................................525
  Government procurement:
    Affirmative action reform......................................4205
    Price evaluation adjustment.....................................957
  Government subcontracting..................................3839, 4184
  Guaranteed loans servicing.......................................4081
  Health care industries...........................................4098
  HUBZone program......................................3917, 4088, 4213
  Liquidation plans................................................4080
  Loans:
    SBA guaranty...................................................4102
  Minority Enterprise Development......................4105, 4106, 4107
  National forest land use..........................................443
  North American Industry Classification System....................4079
  Penalties........................................................2655
  Privacy regulations..............................................4077
  Record disclosure................................................4077
  Rights to inventions..............................................873
  Size standards:
    Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services..................4083
    Architecture and engineering.......................4079, 4098, 4103
    Construction.................................4079, 4098, 4100, 4103
    Electric services..............................................4085
    Health supply services.........................................4084
    Refuse systems.....................................4079, 4098, 4103
  Small Business Development Center Program revisions..............4078
  Small Business Innovation Research Program administrative 
      provisions....................................................285
  SBA standards of conduct.........................................4076
  SBIC Program reform..............................................4099
  Timber sales:
    Set-aside recomputation.........................................460
  Trusts...........................................................2904
  Very Small Business Pilot Program................................4221
  Women-owned businesses:
    Solicitation provisions and contract causes.....................530
Smoking:
  Air carrier prohibition..........................................2238
  Workplace air quality............................................2162
Social security:
  See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income
           Unemployment compensation
  Contributions for support........................................4144
  Coverage:
    Employees of State and local governments.......................4159
  Debarment and suspension.........................................4151
  Debt collection......................................4116, 4117, 4119
  Disability determinations:
    Endocrine system and obesity...................................4169
    Medical consultants' opinions...................................157
  Drug-free workplace requirements.................................4151
  Dually entitled beneficiaries....................................4135
  Employer ID numbers for State and local government employment 
                                                                   4173
  Facility of payment provision....................................4147
  Freedom of information regulations...............................4158
  Grants administration..........................4115, 4151, 4152, 4153
  HHS regulation migration to SSA..........4115, 4151, 4152, 4153, 4157
  Interest and penalties on debts..................................4118
  Maximum family benefit...........................................4147
  Medical equipment liability......................................1305
  Misuse of symbols, emblems, or names.............................4113
  Replacing social security number cards...........................4150
  Review process...................................................4148
  Self-sufficiency incentives......................................4120
  SSA employees:
    Ethical conduct................................................4155
  Third Party Collection Program....................................884
  Widow's benefits.................................................4140
Social Security:
  Alien applicants.................................................1910
  Disability determinations:
    Clarification of age as a vocational factor....................4122
  Earnings records determinations..................................4146
  Publications:
    Prohibitions against reproduction..............................1098
  Revised medical criteria for determination of disability.........4164
  Substantial gainful activity determination.......................4174
  SSA employees:
    Testimony......................................................4121
  Video teleconference technology...................................152
Soil conservation:
  Conservation Reserve Program.................................201, 241
  Highly erodible land and wetlands............................197, 501
Space transportation and exploration:
  Commercial launch activities.....................................2410
    DOT licenses.............................................2401, 2403
    Reusable launch vehicles.......................................2405
  Cross-waiver of liability........................................3851
  Financial responsibility requirements for licensed reentry 
      activities...................................................2336
  Licenses.........................................................2410
  Non-U.S. licensed space stations.................................4366
  Reentry licensing regulations....................................2405
  Tracking and data relay satellite system:
    Non-government users...........................................3852
Statistics:
  See also Census data
           Economic statistics
           Health statistics
  State employment statistics agency representatives for 
      consultations with DOL.......................................2034
Students:
  Student rights in research, experimental programs, and testing 
                                                                    997
Sugar:
  Marketing allotment program.......................................194

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  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements..........................215
Superfund:
  Claims application streamlining..................................3664
  Cooperative agreements and state contracts.......................3661
  Grants for technical assistance..................................3662
  Reportable quantity adjustments for carbamates...................3660
Supplemental Security Income (SSI):
  Acceptable medical sources.......................................4143
  Computation of benefits..........................................4145
  Denial of benefits...............................................4134
  Disability determinations:
    Clarification of age as a vocational factor....................4122
    Drug abuse or alcoholism.......................................4166
    Endocrine system and obesity.............................4142, 4169
    Medical consultants' opinions...................................157
  Effective date of application for benefits.......................4170
  Eligibility:
    Non-U.S. citizens..............................................1333
  Fees for representation of claimants.............................4112
  Income:
    Children of Vietnam veterans...................................4162
    Deeming from ineligible parents................................4156
  Payment of past-due benefits.....................................4133
  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
                                                                   4170
  Plans to achieve self-support....................................4114
  Representative payee reforms.....................................4111
  Revised medical criteria for determination of disability.........4164
  Speech and language impairments..................................4143
  Substantial gainful activity...............................4130, 4174
  Video teleconference technology...................................152
Surety bonds:
  Automated surety interface.......................................2870
  Health facilities............................................39, 1329
  Medical device suppliers...............................38, 1329, 1330
  SBA policy and procedure modifications...........................4075
Surface mining:
  See also Coal
           Mine safety and health
  Coal:
    Abandoned coal refuse sites....................................1777
    Backfilling and grading........................................1778
    Dam safety rules...............................................1779
    Rights.........................................................1781
    Subsidence resulting from underground mining...................1782
  Electronic forms filing..........................................1780
  Indian lands...............................................1715, 1783
  Ownership and control............................................1784
  Reclamation......................................................1785


                                   T

Taxes:
  See also Customs duties and inspection
           Employment taxes
           Estate taxes
           Excise taxes
           Gift taxes
           Income taxes
           Interest equalization tax
           Tax treaties
  Breweries.........................................................100
  Collateral eligibility and valuation.............................2773
  DOE policy on making payments in lieu of taxes...................1073
  Escrow funds.....................................................2968
  Foreign trade....................................................2969
  Passive activity losses and credits..............................3046
  Procedure and administration:
    Statement......................................................3031
Teachers:
  DOD placement assistance program..................................892
  Quality enhancement grant programs.........................1014, 1018
Technical assistance:
  Environmental Protection Agency grants...........................3662
Telecommunications:
  See also Radio
           Satellites
           Telegraph
           Telephone
           Television
  Advanced telecommunications facilities and services..............4326
  Application of subscriber line charges to ISDN service...........4330
  ARMIS reporting requirements.....................................4323
  Bell Operating Companies and affiliates:
    Enhanced services..............................................4317
    Equipment manufacture..........................................4301
    Telemessaging, electronic publishing and alarm.................4305
  Carrier identification codes.....................................4314
  Communication intercepting devices................................541
  Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act..........2014, 4404
  Complaint procedures.............................................4316
  Detariffing of interstate exchange access services...............4318
  Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program.........497
  Equipment manufacture............................................4301
  North American Numbering Plan....................................4314
  Out-of-region interstate, interexchange services:
    Tariff filing requirements.....................................4306
  Performance measurements and reporting requirements..............4324
  Pole attachments.................................................4293
  Protection of Children From Sexual Predators Act:
    Designation of agencies to receive and investigate reports.....2009
  Regulatory fee assessment and collection.........................4390
  Relay services.............................................4319, 4320
  Revision of RUS Telecommunications Program........................480
  Rural areas..................................................478, 493
  Special equipment contract........................................482
  Telecommunications relay services contributor reporting 
      requirements.................................................4333
  Telecommunications Act:
    Access charge reform...........................................4310
    Access charge return...........................................4325
    Customer proprietary network information (CPNI)................4304
    Individuals with disabilities..................................4312
    Interstate pay-per-call and other information services.........4303
    Local competition provisions...................................4311
    LEC provision of interexchange services........................4309
    Non-accounting safeguards......................................4302
    Review of policies and rules...................................4306
    Streamlining requirements......................................4308
    Telemessaging, electronic publishing and alarm monitoring......4305
  Unauthorized changes of long distance carriers...................4307
  Uniden scanners and cellular radio signals interference..........4351
  Wireless information networks....................................4346
Telephone:
  Advertising......................................................4514
  Caller ID standards..............................................4296
  Dial Equipment Minutes Weighting Program.........................4299
  Enhanced 911 emergency calling systems.....................4313, 4402
  Inside wiring....................................................4315
  LEC definition and exemptions from Section 214...................4331
  Part 41 elimination..............................................4332
  Rural Telephone Bank..............................................485
  Telecommunications system construction policies...................495
  Toll free service access codes...................................4300
  Uniden scanners and cellular radio signals interference..........4351
  Universal Service Fund...........................................4299
  900-number service...............................................4514
  911 codes and other abbreviated dialing arrangements.............4298
Television:
  See also Cable television

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  Advanced systems.................................................4388
  Advertising......................................................4377
  Broadcast ownership..............................................4383
  Competitive availability of navigation devices...................4292
  Digital television service.......................................4352
  EEO rules and policies...........................................4386
  Filing of network affiliation contracts..........................4376
  Main Studio/Public File Requirements for Broadcasters............4389
  Mass media applications, rules, processes........................4384
  Medical care telemetry devices.............................4339, 4345
  Over-the-air reception devices...................................4289
  Station ownership..........................................4375, 4381
  Video programming:
    Accessibility..................................................4290
Terrorism:
  Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act....................2817
  Contractor training...............................................935
Textiles:
  Customs regulations..................................2872, 2875, 2883
  Flammability standards.....................................4246, 4256
  Labeling.........................................................4512
Tires:
  Uniform tire quality grading.....................................2611
Tobacco:
  See also Cigars and cigarettes
  Exports..........................................................2813
  Marketing quotas.........................184, 186, 190, 191, 226, 227
  Price support programs...................184, 186, 190, 191, 226, 227
  Regulation clarification..........................................205
  Reimportation of products........................................2801
  Smokeless tobacco:
    Health warnings................................................4507
    Sale and distribution requirements.............................1194
    State and local requirement exemptions.........................1195
  Tax increase.....................................................2802
  Veterans Affairs acquisition regulations.........................3273
  Veterans' claims based on effect of tobacco products.............3168
Trade adjustment assistance:
  TAA program amendments...........................................2063
  Workers transitional adjustment assistance.......................2070
Trade agreements:
  Endangered species...............................................1588
  Market development................................................434
    Accession of Singapore to GPA...................................950
  North American Free Trade Agreement..................2070, 2842, 2851
  Textile trade agreements.........................................2872
Trade practices:
  Consumer product warranties................................4520, 4521
  Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4513
  Telephone service................................................4514
Trademarks:
  Fees.........................................................859, 861
  Official Insignia of Native American Tribes.......................860
  Registration to practice before the PTO in patent cases...........864
  Trademark Law Treaty..............................................871
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......................108, 3401, 3527
  Buy America requirements.........................................2682
  Civil penalties..................................................2624
  Dedicated short range communications of intelligent 
      transportation systems.......................................4348
  Disadvantaged business enterprise participation in airport 
      concessions..................................................2232
  Drug testing of transportation personnel...................2209, 2223
  DOT rulemaking procedure.........................................2226
  Environmental review.......................................2674, 3362
  Hazard communication requirements................................2710
  Head Start participants..........................................1376
  Individuals with disabilities..............................2240, 3289
  Interstate movement of equines to slaughter.......................267
  Interstate movement of noxious weeds..............................277
  Interstate shipment of biological materials......................1108
  National Transit Database........................................2686
  Planning.........................................................2676
  Pre-employment alcohol testing...................................2230
  Surface transportation projects:
    Credit assistance........................................2511, 2687
  Transportation Conformity Pilot Program..........................3539
  Transportation Equity Act amendment..............................2058
  Transshipment of ozone depleting substances......................3503
  Water pollution control..........................................3703
  Wildlife...................................................1539, 1624
Travel:
  See also Passports and visas
           Travel and transportation expenses
           Travel restrictions
  Air tour and sightseeing operations..............................2321
Travel and transportation expenses:
  Deductions for members of Congress...............................2918
  FTR amendment................3815, 3823, 3834, 3838, 3841, 3842, 3844
  Government employees.............................................4185
  Travel expense test program......................................3835
Treaties:
  See also Tax treaties
           Trade agreements
  Antarctic Treaty.................................................3316
  Chemical Weapons Convention........................................18
  Compacts of Free Association.....................................1949
  Montreal Protocol....................................3383, 3384, 3540
  World Heritage Convention........................................1698
Tuberculosis:
  Correctional management....................................1292, 1842
  Occupational exposure..............................................86


                                   U

Underground mining:
  See also Mine safety and health
  Subsidence resulting from........................................1782
  Ventilation..................................................77, 2124
Unemployment compensation:
  See also Railroad unemployment insurance
  Confidentiality and disclosure of State records..................2065
  Disaster unemployment assistance.................................2059
  Performance system...............................................2060
United States investments abroad:
  Foreign utilities..........................................4653, 4654
Uranium:
  Mill sites.................................................1072, 4593
  NRC regulations amendments.......................................4604
Utilities:
  See also Electric utilities
           Natural gas
           Water supply
  Exemption for certain acquisitions...............................4653
  Exemption for subsidiary companies...............................4654
  Filing of responses to FERC Form No. 580 interrogatories.........4440


                                   V

Vegetables:
  Import restrictions...............................................280
  Irradiation phytosanitary treatment...............................258

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Venereal diseases:
  Correctional management..........................................1842
Vessels:
  See also Anchorage grounds
           Cargo vessels
           Fishing vessels
           Marine safety
           Maritime carriers
           Navigation (water)
           Nuclear vessels
           Oceanographic research vessels
           Oil Pollutions
           Passenger vessels
  Alternate Compliance Program.....................................2313
  Anchorage area regulations.................................2288, 2292
  Armed forces vessels:
    Uniform national discharge standards...........................3724
  Automatic Identification System..................................2264
  Ballast water exchange guidelines................................2302
  Blood alcohol concentration limit for operators..................2262
  Boarding.........................................................2860
  Certificates of origin...........................................2278
  Coast Guard escort requirements..................................2298
  Commercial diving operations.....................................2258
  Controlled substances............................................1879
  Discharge-removal equipment......................................2293
  Documentation....................................................2261
  Emissions standards for new marine engines.......................3381
  Foreign repairs to American vessels..............................2861
  Government contracting...........................................2039
  Inspection requirements..........................................4037
  National Boating Infrastructure Grant Program....................1538
  Navigation lights on recreational vessels........................2260
  Outer continental shelf..........................................2252
  Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1907
  Panama Canal:
    Insurance requirements.........................................4035
  Port restrictions and fees:
    Japanese vessels...............................................4480
  Regattas and marine parades................................2280, 2296
  Registration requirements........................................4037
  Safety/security zone regulations.................................2291
  Salvage and firefighting equipment...............................2256
  Ship financing guarantees........................................2743
  Standard measurement system exemption............................2285
  Temporarily landed for repair....................................2863
  Towing vessel operators..........................................2281
  Vessel identification system...............................2275, 2278
  Vessel Traffic Service.....................................2264, 2290
Veterans:
  Acquisition regulations:
    Application of labor laws......................................3181
    Construction and architect-engineer contracts..................3180
    Purchase cards and electronic data interchange....3176, 3178, 3217, 
                                           3220, 3221, 3271, 3273, 3274
  Adult day health care in state homes.............................3153
  Advanced health care planning....................................3193
  Affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations of 
      contractors and subcontractors.........................2047, 2049
  Allotments for Alaska Natives....................................1810
  Allowance for children with spinal bifida........................3166
  Appeals regulations......................3222, 3223, 3238, 3242, 3243
    Case docketing.................................................3225
    Delegations of authority.......................................3224
    Notification of representatives in connection with clear and 
        unmistakable error motions...........................3226, 3227
    Simultaneously contested claims................................3183
  Blind......................................................3151, 3155
  Burial benefits..........................3184, 3185, 3186, 3187, 3188
    Provisions for capital crimes..................................3189
  Checks:
    Returned and canceled benefit checks...........................3267
  Child care centers...............................................3246
  Children's benefits........................................3206, 4162
    School child definition........................................3209
  Claims based on aggravation of nonservice-connected disability 
                                                                   3237
  Claims based on effect of tobacco products.......................3168
  Clothing allowance...............................................3150
  Compensation for beneficiaries of the Vietnamese Commandos 
      Compensation Commission.......................................900
  Custody of school age or adult disabled children.................3236
  Denial of claims:
    Reconsiderations...............................................3247
  Disability rating:
    Dental disabilities............................................3254
    Digestive system...............................................3157
    Evidence of permanent and total disability.....................3172
    Eye, ear, and other sense organs.........................3197, 3252
    Fibromyalgia...................................................3253
    Individual unemployability.....................................3159
    Liver diseases.................................................3264
    Medical evidence of improvement................................3235
    Neurological conditions and convulsive disorders...............3156
    Orthopedic system..............................................3234
    Skin conditions................................................3195
    Systemic conditions............................................3254
    The spine......................................................3169
    Total disability...............................................3196
  Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program.....................4023
  Education:
    Advanced and lump sum payments.................................3256
    Course approval requirements.......................3162, 3199, 3202
    Flight training..........................................3163, 3202
    Montgomery G.I. Bill...................3199, 3214, 3215, 3255, 3260
    Montgomery G.I. Bill administrative errors.....................3269
    Montgomery G.I. Bill eligibility criteria................3211, 3216
    Reservists.........................................3200, 3261, 3263
    Survivors and dependents.................................3164, 3205
    Veterans Programs Enhancement Act..............................3170
  Equal employment opportunity discrimination complaints:
    Delegation of authority........................................3228
  Evidence requirements............................................3160
  Food assistance programs.........................................3277
  Freedom of Information Act.......................................3229
  Group Life Insurance accelerated benefit option..................3212
  Income exclusions................................................3208
  Insurance........................................................3207
  Loan guaranty:
    Acceptance of partial payments.................................3233
    Conveyance of property to the VA...............................3232
    Interest rate reduction refinancing loans......................3257
    Property improvements definition...............................3158
  Loan refinancing.................................................3259
  Medical benefits:
    Adjunct conditions definition..................................3149
    Drugs and medicines......................................3192, 3194
    Enrollment and provisions of hospital care and medical 
        services.............................................3249, 3251
  Medical care collection or recovery..............................3250
  Medical evaluations:
    Ankylosis......................................................3161
    Intervertebral disc syndrome...................................3198
    Limitation in hand movement....................................3161
  Medical opinions rules...........................................3244
  Medication copayments............................................3148
  Medication prescribing authority.................................3248
  National Cemetery Administration title changes...................3275
  National Practitioner Data Bank reporting policy.................3154
  National Service Life Insurance..................................3171
  Pensions.............................................3204, 3236, 3265
  Post-traumatic stress disorder...................................3258
  Proof of service.................................................3167
  Prosthetic services..............................................3151
  Recognition of organizations and accreditation of 
      representatives for claimants................................3230
  Rehabilitation programs..........................................3196

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  Rules of Practice:
    Subpoenas......................................................3182
    Title change...................................................3223
  Special disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era........2047
  State homes................................................3152, 3191
  Survivor benefits................................................3266
    DIC benefits...................................................3210
    Spouses........................................................3268
  Veterans employment report..................................919, 4181
  Vocational training programs...............................3201, 3203
  Well grounded claims/duty to assist..............................3165
Vocational rehabilitation:
  Self-sufficiency incentives......................................4120
  State programs...................................................1027
  Veterans.........................................................3203
Volunteers:
  DOL regulation...................................................2039
  National Service Trust...........................................3295
  Peace Corps....................................3926, 4040, 4041, 4042
  Prison inmate community service projects.........................1839
  Vista............................................................3926


                                   W

Wages:
  See also Employee benefit plans
           Minimum wages
  Appropriated fund wage areas.......3938, 4012, 4014, 4016, 4017, 4018
  Back pay.........................................................3979
  Domestic services................................................2056
  Federal construction contracts.....................................66
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................2039
  Government printing positions....................................4013
  Hazardous duty pay...............................................4015
  Hourly compensation:
    Computer-related occupations...................................2044
  Overtime.........................................................2041
  Overtime pay for travel..........................................3979
  Pay administration...............................................3979
  Pay and leave administration.....................................3972
  Physicians' comparability allowance..............................3979
  Salary basis.......................................................65
  Severance pay....................................................3942
  Site of work.....................................................2045
  Tipped employees.................................................2044
Warehouses:
  Commodity Credit Corporation storage..............................199
  Cotton.......................................................208, 244
  Tobacco auction warehouses........................................211
Warranties:
  Disclosure of terms and conditions...............................4520
  Informal Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (IDSM)....................4522
  Pre-sale availability of written warranty terms..................4521
Waste treatment and disposal:
  See also Hazardous waste
           Recycling
           Sewage disposal
  Armed forces vessels.............................................3724
  Effluent guidelines................3666, 3682, 3685, 3695, 3713, 3725
  Financial test criteria..........................................3639
  Fossil fuel combustion wastes....................................3621
  Iron and steel manufacturing.....................................3710
  Land disposal:
    Restrictions.................................3622, 3635, 3637, 3648
  Lead-based paint debris..........................................3654
  Metal machinery and equipment wastewater.........................3704
  Municipal waste combustion units.................................3388
  Nuclear waste disposal...........................................4595
  Ocean dumping....................................................3751
  Passenger vehicle waste discharge................................2666
  Permit applications........................................3705, 3719
  Radioactive waste.................................................105
  Recoverable metals criteria......................................3707
  Recycling of hazardous waste in fertilizers......................3655
  Rural loans and grants............................................477
  Rural program regulations.........................................496
  Sewer grouting...................................................3595
  Shore Protection Act.............................................3752
  Sludges from metal finishing industry............................3645
  Solid waste disposal:
    Grant programs..................................................490
    Guideline revisions......................................3623, 3636
    Landfill criteria........................................3623, 3624
    Landfills and incinerators...................3451, 3455, 3471, 3685
    Municipal landfills......................................3357, 3657
    Physical/chemical evaluation methods...........................3627
  Streamlining regulations.........................................3688
  Toxics Release Inventory.........................................3618
  Underground storage tanks:
    Toxicity characteristic rule...................................3646
  Uniform national discharge standards.............................3724
  Vessels transporting waste.......................................2274
Water pollution control:
  See also Oil pollution
           Waste treatment and disposal
  Biological test methods..........................................3706
  Clean Water Act........3668, 3684, 3689, 3706, 3707, 3708, 3722, 3723
    Test procedures......3668, 3680, 3692, 3693, 3694, 3706, 3708, 3714
  Cyanide criteria.................................................3689
  Effluent guidelines:
    Animal feeding operations..................................121, 122
    Coal mining....................................................3678
    Industrial waste combustors....................................3695
    Industrial wastewater..............................3456, 3704, 3720
    Iron and steel manufacturing...................................3710
    Landfills and incinerators.....................................3685
    Mining.........................................................3727
    Oil and gas extraction.........................................3715
    Pulp, paper and paperboard.............3501, 3511, 3697, 3713, 3725
    Regulations reformatting.......................................3690
    Transportation equipment cleaning..............................3683
  Great Lakes................................................3679, 3711
  Marine pollution:
    Discharge-removal equipment carriage and inspection............2293
    Emergency control measures for tank barges.....................2305
    Facility response plans for hazardous substances.................88
    Facility response plans for non-petroleum oils.................2286
    Facility response plans for vegetable oils and animal fats.....3703
    Ocean dumping..................................................3751
    Oil or hazardous substances..............................2276, 2294
    Tank monitoring devices........................................2308
    Tank vessels.....................................................89
  Microbiological test methods.........................3680, 3749, 3750
  NPDES permits..............................................3673, 3709
  NPDES permittee reporting........................................3675
  Oil and grease test procedures...................................3722
  Permit applications........................................3705, 3719
  Pretreatment regulations.........................................3687
  Publicly owned treatment works renewal process...................3723
  Radon.............................................................117
  Recoverable metals criteria......................................3707
  Sewer collection systems.........................................3673
  Sludge management programs.....................3641, 3645, 3669, 3721
  Stormwater runoff.................................................134
  Test procedures for the analysis of pollutants.......3674, 3712, 3726
  Total maximum daily loads....................................136, 137
  Trace metals criteria............................................3708
  Vapor control systems............................................2265
  Water quality standards............3672, 3686, 3692, 3693, 3694, 3699
    Alabama..................................................3698, 3716
    Criteria for acute aquatic life.......3672, 3692, 3693, 3694, 3699, 
                                                                   3711

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    Mixing zone elimination and phase-out provision................3679
    State and tribal standards.....................................3700
Water resources:
  See also Water bank program
           Water supply
           Watersheds
  Army Corps of Engineers environmental quality requirements........966
  Best technology available for cooling water intake structures 
                                                                   3670
  Colorado River Basin........................................200, 1790
  Land and Water Conservation Fund.................................1706
  National Invasive Species Act....................................2302
  Water Bank Program................................................200
Water supply:
  See also Dams
           Irrigation
           Reservoirs
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3314
  Central Valley Project of California.............................1786
  Colorado River Basin.............................................1790
  Drinking water:
    Aldicarb and atrazine..........................................3743
    Arsenic.........................................................119
    Contaminant level goals (MCLGs)................................3736
    Contaminants...........117, 120, 3553, 3680, 3732, 3737, 3749, 3750
    Copper.........................................................3734
    Disinfectants.......................................118, 3741, 3746
    Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Program..............3556
    Filter backwash recycling......................................3748
    Injection wells................................................3733
    Lead...........................................................3734
    Monitoring requirements........................................3744
    Oxygenated fuel additives......................................3587
    Public notification requirements................................135
    Radionuclides..................................................3736
    Regulations reformatting.......................................3735
    Rural program regulations.......................................496
    State revolving fund...........................................3739
    Sulfate........................................................3742
    Unregulated contaminant monitoring program.....................3747
  Groundwater protection............................................130
  Storage and marketing............................................1790
Waterways:
  See also Bridges
           Harbors
           Rivers
  Facility response plans for hazardous substances...................88
  Facility response plans for non-petroleum oils...................2286
  Facility response plans for vegetable oils and animal fats.......3703
Weather:
  Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4341
Wheat:
  Crop insurance....................................................306
  Diseases..........................................................255
  End-Use Certificate Program.......................................248
Whistleblowing:
  FBI employees..............................................1903, 2021
  Research misconduct..............................................1231
Wildlife:
  See also Marine mammals
           Wildlife refuges
  Albatross........................................................1554
  Aviation bird encounter regulations........................2358, 2400
  Brush-tailed possum..............................................1607
  Captive bred.....................................................1571
  Eagles...............................................1535, 1621, 1665
  Endangered and threatened...1550, 1551, 1552, 1558, 1562, 1578, 1586, 
                                           1587, 1589, 1604, 1655, 1661
  Exotic birds:
    Importation....................................................1658
  Exportation......................................................1539
  Falcons....................................................1621, 1673
  FWS permit applications..........................................1639
  Importation......................................................1539
  Injurious..................................................1531, 1607
  Management and protection..................................1584, 1585
  Marine sanctuary program..........................................761
  Migratory birds:
    Canada goose permits...........................................1669
    Hunting regulations..........................1583, 1590, 1681, 1688
    List revision..................................................1573
    Permits......................................1622, 1623, 1652, 1673
    Tin shot.......................................................1672
  Permit procedures................................................1577
  Restoration programs.............................................1600
  River otter exports..............................................1650
  Seabirds.....................................................647, 763
  Transport standards for reptiles and amphibians..................1536
  Transportation...................................................1539
Wildlife refuges:
  Alaska...........................................................1620
  Disturbance regulations..........................................1670
  Federal Lands Highway Program....................................2448
  Hunting and fishing regulations..................................1674
  National Wildlife Refuge System..................................1534
  Public entry and use.................................1596, 1620, 1814
Wine:
  Ameliorating materials...........................................2789
  Exports..........................................................2804
  Grape variety names..............................................2816
  Imports..........................................................2778
  Labeling.............................................2779, 2814, 2815
  Labeling of specialty products and flavored wines................2780
  Standards of fill................................................2790
  Tax refund.......................................................2810
  Viticultural areas...............................................2811
Women:
  See also Minority businesses
           Sex discrimination
  In vitro fertilization...........................................1225
  Length of hospital stay after birth of child.................75, 1355
  Nutrition education participant contacts..........................334
  Violence against women on campuses...............................2029
  Women-owned businesses:
    Government contracting.........................................4417
    Government subcontracting......................................4184
    Solicitation provisions and contract causes.....................530
  Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act.......................1242, 2093
Women, infants, and children:
  Funding formula...................................................393
  Supplemental food program:
    Administrative requirement changes..............................370
    Certification integrity.........................................376
    Food delivery systems........................................7, 384
    Food packaging..................................................389
    Funding provisions..............................................377
    Local agency expenditure reports................................375
    Soy-base beverages..............................................395
Workers' compensation:
  Coal miners......................................................2040
  Third Party Collection Program....................................884


                                   Y

Youth:
  See also Infants and children
           Juvenile delinquency
  AmeriCorps participants..........................................3295
  Meal supplements for teenagers in low-income areas................374