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Agriculture Department Interior Department
NOTICES See Land Management Bureau
A^ncy information collection activities:
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 407 Interstate Commerce Commission
NOTICES
Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase From Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
People Who Are Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc., 412-413
See Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Live Oak, Perry & Georgia Railroad Co., Inc., 413
Severely Disabled Norfolk Southern Railway Co. et al., 413—414
Ortman, Raymond L., 414
Commerce Department Portland & Western Railroad, Inc., 414
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Railroad services abandonment:
Boston & Maine Corp., 414—415
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Norfolk & Western Railway Co., 415-416
Severely Disabled Southern Pacific Transportation Co., 416
NOTICES
' Procurement list; additions and deletions, 407—408 Labor Department
RULES
Defense Department Federal transit law guidelines; interests of employees ^
See National Communications System affected; protection
Effective date deferral; furlough, 386
Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Copimission
Land Management Bureau
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Environmental statements; availability, etc.: NOTICES
Meetings:
Stockpile stewardship and management program;
Powder River Regional Coal Team, 412
implementation plan, 408
National Archives and -Records Administration
Executive Office of the President
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Public availability and use:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Suitland research room; location of records and hours of
use, 390
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Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
Cinergy Services Inc. et al., 409—411 National Communications System
Environmental statements; availability, etc.: NOTICES
PaciliCorp Electric Operations, 411 Meetings:
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: National Security Telecommunications Advisory
Greenwich Energy Partners, L.P., 408 Committee, 416
Northwest Pipeline Corp., 408—409
Nationai Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Federal Reserve System RULES
Oil Pollution Act:
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Federal Open Market Committee: Natural resource damage assessments, 440-510
Domestic policy directives, 412
Meetings: Sunshine Act, 438 Nuciear Regulatory Commission
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Financial Management Service Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
See Fiscal Service Consumers Power Co., 422—423
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
Fiscal Service Commonwealth Edison Co., 416—419
PROPOSED RULES Detroit Edison Co., 419—420
Marketable book-entry Treasury bills, notes and bonds; sale Public Service Electric & Gas Co. et al., 420—422
and issue, 402-406
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Polymaleic acid and sodium salt, 385-386 investigations, 394—402
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See Food and Drug Administration Proposed collection; comment request, 423
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Presidential Documents Separate Parts In This Issue
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances: Part II
Burke, Admiral Arleigh A.; death (Proc. 6860), 381 Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS Atmospheric Administration, 440-510
Libya; continuation of state of emergency with U.S. (Notice
of January 3, 1996), 383
Reader Aids
Public Health Service
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See Food and Drug Administration
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Railroad Retirement Board
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International Securities Clearing Corp., 430-431 Today will remind readers about Rules documents
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 433-435 published in the past which go into effect “today”.
New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 432—433, 436-437 Comments Due Next Week will remind readers about
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: impending closing dates for comments on Proposed Rules
DFA Investment Dimensions Group, Inc., et al., 425-428 documents published in past issues. Only those documents
Marcum Natural Gas Services, Inc., 428 published in the Rules and Proposed Rules sections of the
NDE Environmental Corp., 428—429 Federal Register will be eligible for inclusion in the
Public utility holding company filings, 423-425 Reminders.
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