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1-3-96 Vol. 61 No. 2 Wednesday January 3, 1996 I United States Government SECOND CLASS NEWSPAPER Printing Office Postage and Fees Paid SUPERINTENDENT U.S. Government Printing Office OF DOCUMENTS (ISSN 0097-6326) Washington, DC 20402 iiiiiiiiiiMiiniiiMiiiiiiiiiii OFFICIAL BUSINESS Penalty for private use, $300 A FR UMI 346U DEC 96 R UMI SERIALS ACQUISITIONS PO BOX 1346 ANN ARBOR MI 48106 Wednesday January 3, 1996 f Briefings on How To Use the Federal Register For informiltion on briefings in Washington, DC, see announcement on the inside cover of this issue. n Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 1996 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND COPIES PUBUC Subscriptions: Paper or fiche 202-512-1800 FEDERAL REGISTER Published daily, Monday through Friday, Assistance with public subscriptions 512-1806 (not Dublished on Saturdays, Sundays, or on official holidays), by General online information 202-512-1530 the Office of the Federal Raster, National Archives and Rrcords Administration, Washington, DC 20408, under the Federal Register Single copiesdMck copies: Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. 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Printed on recycled paper containing 100% post consumer waste Contents Federal Register Vol. 61, No. 2 Wednesday, January 3, 1996 Agricultural Marketing Service Environmental Protection Agency RULES RULES Papayas grown in Hawaii, 99-100 Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines: Peanuts domestically produced, 102-104 Clean-fuel vehicles and engines emission standards, Raisins produced from grapes grown in California, 100-102 conversion requirements, and California pilot text program; small-voliune manufacturers certification NOTICES program conversion sales volxime limit provision Agency information collection activities: removed, 129-130 Proposed collection; comment request, 159-160 Deterioration factors for alternative fuel vehicles, determination requirements; inherently low-emission Agriculture Department vehicles; labeling reqviirements amendbnents, 122- See Agricultural Marketing Service 128 See Food and Consumer Service PROPOSED RULES Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines: See Foreign Agricultural Service Small-volume manufacturers certification of clean-fuel See Rural Utilities Service and conventional vehicle conversions; sales volmne NOTICES limit provisions, 140-145 Import quotas and fees: NOTICES Upland cotton, 156-157 Confidential business information and data transfer, 162- Privacy Act: / 163 Computer matching programs, 158-159 Executive Office of the President See Presidential Docmnents Coast Guard Federal Aviation Administration PROPOSED RULES Ports and waterways safety: RULES Savannah River et al., GA; safety/security zones, 136-139 Airworthiness directives: Boeing, 116-120 Airworthiness stemdards: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Special conditions— NOTICES Hamilton Standard model 568F propeller, 114-115 Meetings; Simshine Act, 230 Class E airspace, 120-121, 121-122 Class E airspace; correction, 232 PROPOSED RULES Customs Service Airworthiness directives: NOTICES British Aerospace, 131-133 Imported glassware; tariff classification emd guidelines, Domier, 133-134 223-229 McDonnell Douglas, 134-136 NOTICES Organization, functions, and authority delegations: Defense Department Bloomington, IN, 223 RULES Mimcie, IN, 223 Acquisition regulations: South Lake Tahoe, CA, 223 Uruguay Roimd (1996 agreement); implementation, 130 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission PROPOSED RULES Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Employee stock ownership plans; comment period EcoElectrica, L.P.; correction, 232 extension, 234 Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Coliunbia Gas Transmission Corp. et al., 161 Energy Department NorAm Gas Transmission Co., 161-162 See Energy Research Office Federal Housing Finance Board See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NOTICES Meetings; Simshine Act, 230 Energy Research Office Federal Reserve System NOTICES Meetings: NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, 162 Proposed collection; comment request, 163-166 Meetings; Sunshine Act, 230-231 Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Fidelity Co. et al., 166 IV Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 1996 / Contents J.G.D.B. y Cia. S. en C. et al., 166—167 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Johnson, Arthur C., et al., 166 RULES Middlefork Financial Group et al.; correction, 167 Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing: National City Corp., 167-168 Nuclear power plants— Ohio Valley Banc Corp et al., 168 Light water reactor pressure vessels; fracture toughness Royal Bank of Canada, 168 requirements; correction, 232 NOTICES Meetings: Federal Trade Commission Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 173-174 NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 231 Prohibited trade practices: Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards Mama Tish’s Italian Specialities, Inc., 168—170 considerations; biweekly notices, 174-192 Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Food and Consumer Service Commonwealth Edison Co., 192-193 NOTICES Minnick, Gary A., 193-195 Agency information collection activities: Proposed collection; comment request, 160-161 Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Food and Drug Administration NOTICES NOTICES Meetings, 195 Organization, functions, and authority delegations: Office of Communication, Training, and Manufacturers Presidential Documents Assistance, Center for Biologies Evaluation and EXECUTIVE ORDERS Research, et al., 170-171 Government employees: Pay and allowances; rates (EO 12984), 237-245 Foreign Agricultural Service NOTICES Public Health Service Meetings: See Food and Drug Administration Food and Agriculture Organization Committee on World Food Security, 161 Reclamation Bureau NOTICES General Services Administration Environmental statements; availability, etc.: PROPOSED RULES Boise Project, ID; Cascade Reservoir Resource Federal Acqiusition Regulation (FAR): management plan, 171 Employee stock ownership plans; comment period S extension, 234 Rural Utilities Service RULES Health and Human Services Department Electric loans: See Food and Drug Administration RUS borrowers; audit policy and certified public accoimtant requirements, 104—114 Interior Department See Reclamation Bureau Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: Library of Congress American Stock Exchange, Inc., 196—199 NOTICES Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 199—202 Television and Video Preservation in U.S.; hearing; study, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, 203-204 171-173 National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 204-208 Participants Trust Co., 208-209 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 209-213 PROPOSED RULES Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Transportation Department Employee stock ownership plans; comment period See Coast Guard extension, 234 See Federal Aviation Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration National Credit Union Administration NOTICES RULES Aviation proceedings: Credit unions: Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 213-214 Truth in savings; reporting and recordkeeping Certificates of public convenience and necessity and requirements, 114 foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications, 214 Transportation Marketplace Conference and Seminars; proposal request, 214-223 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration PROPOSED RULES Fuel economy standards: Treasury Department Light trucks— See Customs Service 1998 model year, 145-155 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 1996 / Contents V Separate Parts In This Issue New Feature in the Reader Aids! Beginning with the issue of December 4,1995, a new listing will appear each day in the Reader Aids section of the Part 11 Federal Register called “Reminders”. The Reminders will Department of Defense, General Services Administration, have two sections; “Rules Going Into Effect Today” and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 234 “Comments Due Next Week”. Rules Going Into Effect Today will remind readers about Rules documents published in the past which go into effect “today”. Part III Comments Due Next Week will remind readers about The President, 237-245 impending closing dates for comments on Proposed Rules documents published in past issues. Only those dociunents' published in the Rules and Proposed Rules sections of the Federal Register will be eligible for inclusion in the Reader Aids Reminders. Additional information, including a list of public laws, The Reminders feature is intended as a reader aid only. telephone numbers, and finding aids, appears in the Reader Neither inclusion nor exclusion in the listing has any legal Aids section at the end of this issue. significance. The Office of the Federal Register has been compiling data for the Reminders since the issue of November 1,1995. No documents published prior to November 1,-1995 will be listed in Reminders. Electronic Bulletin Board Free Electronic Bulletin Board service for Public Law numbers. Federal Register finding aids, and a list of documents on public inspection is available on 202-275- 1538 or 275-0920. VI A cumulative list of the parts affected this month can be found in the Reader Aids section at the erxf of this issue. 3CFR Executive Orders: 12944 (Superseded by EO 12984). MR 12984. . MR 7CFR 928...99 997. .102 1773. .104 10CFR 50. .-...233 12CFR -■ 707. .114 14CFR 35. 1 Hill 'll 11^ 39....116 71 (3documerrts).120,121, 232 PfODOMd Rultts: 39 (3 documents).131,133, 134 33CFR Proposed Rules: 165.136 40CFR 86.122 88 (2 documerrts).122, 129 Proposed Rules: 85 .140 86 .140 88..;.140 48CFR 225.130 252.130 Proposed Rules; ,31...234 49CFR Proposed Rules: 533.145 99 Rules and Regulations Federal Register Vol. 61, No. 2 Wednesday, January 3, 1996 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER amended (7 U.S.C. 601-674), hereinafter approximately 60 handlers regulated contains regulatory documents having general referred to as the “Act.” imder this marketing order. Small applicability and legal effect, most of which The Department of Agriculture agricvdtural producers have been are keyed to and codified in the Code of (Department) is issuing this rule in defined by the Small Business Federal Regulations, which is published under conformance with Executive Order Administration (13 CFR 121.601) as 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510. 12866. those having annual receipts of less than The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by This rule has been reviewed under $500,000, and small agricultural service the Superintendent of Documents. Prices of Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice firms are defined as those whose emnual new books are listed in the first FEDERAL Reform. Under the marketing order receipts are less than $5,000,000. The REGISTER issue of each week. provisions now in effect, papayas grown majority of these producers and in Hawaii are subject to assessments. It handlers may be classified as small is intended that the assessment rate as entities. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE issued herein will be applicable to all The papaya marketing order, assessable papayas handled during the administered by the Department, Agricultural Marketing Service 1995-96 fiscal year, which began July 1, requires that the assessment rate for a 1995, and ends June 30,1996. This final particular fiscal year apply to all 7 CFR Part 928 rule will not preempt any State or local assessable papayas handled from the laws, regulations, or policies, vmless [Docket No. FV95-028-1-FR; Amendment 1] beginning of such year. Annual budgets they present an irreconcilable conflict of expenses are prepared by the Papayas Grown in Hawaii; Reduction with this rule. Committee, the agency responsible for of Expenses and Assessment Rate for The Act provides that administrative local administration of this marketing the 1995-96 Fiscai Year proceedings must be exhausted before order, and submitted to the Department parties may file suit in court. Under for approval. The members of the AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, section 608c(15)(A) of the Act, any Committee are handlers and producers USDA. handler subject to an order may file of Hawaiian papayas. They are familiar ACTION: Final rule. with the Secretary a petition stating that with the Committee’s needs and with the order, any provision of the order, or the costs for goods, services, and SUMMARY: This final rule reduces the any obligation imposed in connection personnel in their local area, and are expenses and rate of assessment with the order is not in accordance with thus in a position to formulate previously established under Marketing law and request a modification of the appropriate budgets. The Committee’s Order No. 928 for the 1995-96 fiscal order or to be exempted therefi’om. Such budget was formulated and discussed in year. This rule reduces the budget of handler is afforded the opportimity for a public meeting. Thus, all directly expenses and assessment rate which a hearing on the petition. After the affected persons have had an papaya handlers will be assessed for hearing the Secretary would rule on the opportunity to participate and provide funding expenses by the Papaya petition. The Act provides that the input. Administrative Committee (Committee) district court of the United States in any The assessment rate recommended by that are reasonable and necessary to district in which the handler is an the Committee was derived by dividing administer the program.. inhabitant, or has his or her principal anticipated expenses by expected EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1,1995 through place of business, has jurisdiction in shipments of papayas. Because that rate June 30,1996. equity to review the Secretary’s,ruling is applied to actual shipments, it must on the petition, provided a bill in equity FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: be established at a rate which will is filed not later than 20 days after date Mary Kate Nelson, Marketing Assistant, produce sufficient income to pay the of the entry of the ruling. California Marketing Field Office, Fruit Pursuant to requirements set forth in Committee’s expected expenses. In and Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), the recommending an assessment rate, the 2202 Monterey Street, suite 102B, Administrator of the Agricultural Committee also considered funds Fresno, California 93721, telephone Marketing Service (AMS) has available in a monetary reserve that (209) 487-5901, or Fax # (209) 487- considered the economic impact of this could be used to pay expenses. 5906; or Charles L. Rush, Marketing rule on small entities. The Committee met on April 28,1995, Order Administration Branch, Fruit and The purpose of the RFA is to fit and imanimously recommended Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, room regulatory actions to the scale of expenses totaling $562,044 for its 1995— 2522-S, P.O. Box 96456, Washington, business subject to such actions in order 96 budget. The Committee met again on D.C. 20090-6456; telephone: (202) 720- that small businesses will not be unduly July 20, 1995, and unanimously 5127, or Fax # (202) 720-5698. or disproportionately burdened. recommended a new budget because the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final Marketing orders issued pursuant to the original budget contained inaccuracies. rule is issued vmder Marketing Act. and rules issued thereunder, are The revised recommendation contained Agreement and Order No. 928 (7 CFR unique in that they are brought about expenses totaling $465,800 for the part 928), regulating the handling of through group action of essentially 1995-96 budget. This was a $123,400 papayas grown in Hawaii, hereinafter small entities acting on their own reduction in expenses compared to the referred to as the “order.” The behalf. Thus, both statutes have small 1994-95 budget of $589,200. marketing agreement and order are entity orientation and compatibility. The Committee also unanimously effective under the Agricultural There are approximately 300 recommended an assessment rate of Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as producers of papayas in Hawaii, and $.0089 per pound for the 1995-96 fiscal 100 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 1996 / Rules and Regulations year, which was the same as was After consideration of all relevant 7 CFR Part 989 recommended for the 1994-95 fiscal matter presented, including the [FV95-989-5IFR] year. information and recommendations An interim final rule was published submitted by the Committee and other Raisins Produced From Grapes Grown in the Federal Register (60 43351, available information, it is hereby foimd in California; Reduction in the August 21,1995). A final rule was that this rule, as hereinafter set forth, Production Cap for the 1996 Raisin published in the Federal Register on will tend to effectuate the declared Diversion Program for Natural (Sun- September 28,1995 (60 FR 50078). policy of the Act. dried) Seedless Raisins The Committee met again on September 28,1995, and recommended Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 533, it is also agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, revising the budget to reduce expenses found and determined that good cause USDA. to $435,800, and the assessment rate to exists for not postponing the effective ACTION: Interim final rule with request $.0059 per pound for the 1995-96 fiscal date of this rule until 30 days after for comments. year, which is $.0030 less than was publication in the Federal Register recommended for the 1994-95 fiscal because: (1) This action reduces the SUMMARY: This interim final rule invites year. The Committee recommended expenses and rate of assessment comments on a reduction of the reducing their expenses for research and previously established under the production cap for the 1996 Raisin development by $30,000, and reducing marketing order for the 1995-96 fiscal Diversion Program (RDP) for Natural the reserve carryover for the following year; (2) the 1995 crop year began on (sun-dried) Seedless raisins. The year to $26,597. There was some July 1,1995, and the marketing order production cap, which limits the concern expressed at the meeting as to amount of raisin tonnage per acre for requires that the rate of assessment whether the Committee would have which an RDP participant can receive apply to all assessable papayas during enough income to meet expenses. credit, is reduced from 2.75 tons per the crop year; and (3) handlers are Ultimately, by a vote of eight to three acre to 2.2 tons per acre for this aware of this rule which was with one abstention, the Committee program. This reduction is intended to recommended by the Committee at a recommended the reduced expenses of bring the production cap for 1996 in public meeting aaid published in the $435,800 and an assessment rate of line with 1995 production per acre, $.0059. Federal Register as a proposed rule. The which was approximately 20 percent The assessment rate, when applied to proposed rule provided a 30-day smaller than the 1994 crop yield per anticipated shipments of 33 million comment period; no comments were acre. This rule was unanimously pounds, yields $194,700 in assessment received. recommended by the Raisin income. Other sources of program List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 928 Administrative Committee (Committee), income include $40,000 from the the body which locally administers the Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Marketing agreements. Papayas, marketing order. $57,000 from the Department’s Foreign Reporting and recordkeeping DATES: This interim final rule becomes Agricultural Service, $7,800 from the requirements. effective January 3,1996. Comments Japanese Inspection program, $3,000 in which are received by January 18,1996 interest income, and $4,766 from the For the reasons set forth in the will be considered prior to any County of Hawaii. Thus, total income is preamble, 7 CFR part 928 is amended as finalization of this interim final rule. expected to be $307,266. The Committee follows; plans to use money from its reserve ADDRESSES: Interested persons are account to meet its estimated expenses PART 928—PAPAYAS GROWN IN invited to submit written comments concerning this action. Comments must for the year. HAWAII be sent in triplicate to the Docket Clerk, Major expense categories for the 1995-96 fiscal yecu- include $165,500 for 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR Fruit and Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, room 2525-S, P.O. Box 96456, the market expansion program, part 928 continues to read as follows: Washington, DC 20090-6456, or faxed $115,000 for research and development, Authority; 7 U.S.C. 601-674. to 202-720-5698. Comments should and $67,000 for salaries. Funds in the reference the docket number and the reserve at the end of the 1995-96 fiscal 2. A new § 928.225 is added to read date and page number of this issue of year, estimated at $26,597, will be as follows: the Federal Register and will be made within the maximmn permitted by the Note: This section will not appear in the available for public inspection in the order of one fiscal year’s expenses'. A proposed rule was published in the Code of Federal Regulations. Office of the Docket Clerk during regular business hours. Federal Register on November 6,1995 § 928.225 Expenses and assessment rate. (60 FR 56003). That rule provided a 30- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: day comment period. No comments Expenses of $435,800 by the Papaya Richard Van Diest, Marketing Specialist, were received. Administrative Committee are California Marketing Field Office, Fruit This action will reduce the authorized and an assessment rate of and Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, assessment obligation imposed on $.0059 per pound of assessable papayas 2202 Monterey Street, suite 102B, handlers. The assessments will be is established for the fiscal year ending Fresno, California 93721; telephone: uniform for all handlers. The June 30,1996. Unexpended funds may 209-487-5901 or Mark A. Slupek, assessment costs are expected to be be carried over as a reserve. Marketing Specialist, Marketing Order offset by the benefits derived from the Administration Branch, Fruit and Dated: December 26,1995. operation of the marketing order. Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, room Therefore, the Administrator of the Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, 2523-S, P.O. Box 96456, Washington, AMS has determined that this action Deputy Director, Fruit and Vegetable Division. DC 20090-6456; telephone: 202-205- will not have a significant economic {FR Doc. 96-23 Filed 1-2-96; 8:45 am] 2830. impact on a substantial number of small BILUNG CODE 3410-02-P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This entities. interim final rule is issued under

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