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Contents
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Vol. 65, No. 4
Thursday, January 6, 2000
Bonneville Power Administration Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed
NOTICES settlements, etc.:
Meetings: WICO Site, St. 'Thomas, VI, 773
Columbia River Basin; regional fish and wildlife policy;
implementation, 765-766
Executive Office of the President
Coast Guard See Presidential Documents
RULES
Drawbridge operations: Federal Aviation Administration
Massachusetts, 710 RULES
Pollution: Airworthiness directives:
Marine transportation-related facilities and tank vessels; Airbus, 697-699
response plans; on-water oil recovery capacity; cap CFE Co., 691-692
increases review, 710-716 Fokker, 695-697
NOTICES General Electric Co., 692-695
Conunittees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: Class E airspace, 699-701
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory PROPOSED RULES
Council, 800-801 Airworthiness directives:
Environmental statements; notice of intent: British Aerospace, 729-730
District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, MD, and NOTICES
Alexandria and Fairfax Coimty, VA, 801-802 Airport noise compatibility program:
Meetings: Noise exposure map—
Merchemt Marine Personnel Advisory Committee, 802- Lanai Airport, HI, 803
803 Exemption petitions; summary and disposition, 803-805
Commerce Department
Federal Election Commission
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 773
Customs Service
NOTICES Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Automation program test: RULES
Electronic processing of quota-class apparel merchandise, Electric utiUties (Federal Power Act):
806-807 Rate schedules filing—
Regional Transmission Organizations, 809-959
Energy Department
NOTICES
See Bonneville Power Administration Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Energy East Corp. et al., 766-769
NOTICES Saguaro Power Co. et al., 769-771
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Practice and procedure:
Forest products industry; black liquor/biomass
Off-the-record communications, 771
gasification development and demonstration, 762-
763
Federal Highway Administration
Meetings:
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory NOTICES
Board— Environmental statements; notice of intent:
Hanford Site, WA, 764 District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, MD, and
Savaimah River Site, SC, 763-764 Alexandria and Fairfax County, VA, 801-802
Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, 764-765
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, 765 Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Environmental Protection Agency
Banks and bank holding companies:
RULES Change in bank control, 773
Air programs: Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 773-774
Stratospheric ozone protection— Permissible nonbanking activities, 774
Essential-use allowances; allocation, 716-728
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and Federal Trade Commission
promulgation; various States: NOTICES
California, 732 Premerger notification waiting periods: early terminations,
NOTICES 774-777
Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.: Prohibited trade practices:
Cyanazine, 771-773 MacDermid, Inc., et al., 777-779
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Fish and Wildlife Service International Trade Administration
NOTICES PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, Watches, watch movements, and jewelry:
787 Duty-exemption allocations—
Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern
Thurston, Mason, and Grays Harbor Counties, WA; Mariana Islands, 731-732
marbled murrelet, etc.; habitat conservation plan, NOTICES
761-762 Antidumping:
Brass sheet and strip fi'om—
Netherlands, 735-752
Food and Drug Administration
Carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings fi-om—
RULES Various countries, 753
Food for human consumption:
Mechanical transfer presses firom—
Food labeling—
Japan, 753-758
Dietary supplements; effect on structure or function of
Silicon metal from—
body; types of statements, definition, 999—1050
Argentina, 758-759
NOTICES Cheese quota; foreign government subsidies:
Agency information collection activities:
Annual list, 759-760
Proposed collection; comment request, 779-782
Export trade certificates of review, 760-761
Food additive petitions:
Alcide Corp., 782
Labor Department
Meetings:
National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
Committee, 783
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 789-790
Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory
Committee, 783-784
National Credit Union Administration
NOTICES
Geological Survey Agency information collection activities:
NOTICES Proposed collection; comment request, 790
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Submission for OMB review; comment request, 790-791
Brucellosis vaccination of fiee-ranging elk and bison in
Greater Yellowstone Area; ballistic delivery systems, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
787
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Thurston, Mason, and Grays Harbor Counties, WA;
Health and Human Services Department
marbled murrelet, etc.; habitat conservation plan,
See Food and Drug Administration
761-762
See Pubhc Health Service
National Science Foundation
Indian Affairs Bureau
NOTICES
NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 791
Agency information collection activities:
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 787-789 Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Interior Department Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
See Fish and Wildlife Service FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co., 794—795
See Geological Survey Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
See Indian Affairs Bureau Carolina Power & Light Co., 791-793
PROPOSED RULES Commonwealth Edison Co., 793-794
Watches, watch movements, and jewelry:
Duty-exemption allocations— Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern NOTICES
Mariana Islands, 731-732 Agency information collection activities:
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 789
Internal Revenue Service
Presidential Documents
RULES
Income taxes: ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Venezuela; emergency disaster relief assistance
Insurance companies other than life insurance;
(Presidential Determination No. 2000-9 of December 23,
underwriting income determination; deductions for
1999), 689
unearned premiums increase, 701-710
NOTICES
Public Health Service
Agency information collection activities:
See Food and Drug Administration
Proposed collection; comment request, 807-808
NOTICES
National Toxicology Program:
International Development Cooperation Agency Low-dose issues for endocrine disrupters; peer review;
See Overseas Private Investment Corporation comment request, 784-787
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Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
NOTICES
Investment Company Act of 1940: Submission for OMB review; comment request, 806
Exemption applications—
Manufactiuers Investment Trust et al., 797-799 Veterans Affairs Department
New Covenant Funds et al., 795-797 RULES
Joint industry plan: Medical benefits:
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., et al., Nursing home care of veterans in State homes; per diem
799-800 payments, 961-997
Surface Transportation Board
PROPOSED RULES
Separate Parts in This issue
Rail carriers:
Carload waybill sample and public use file regulations;
modification, 732-734 Part il
NOTICES Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 809-959
Rail carriers:
Cost recovery procedures— Part Hi
Adjustment factor, 805-806 Veterans Administration, 961-997
Transportation Department
Part IV
See Coast Guard
Food and Drug Administration, 999-1050
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
Reader Aids
Treasury Department Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this issue for
See Customs Service phone numbers, online resomces, finding aids, reminders,
See Internal Revenue Service and notice of recently enacted pubhc laws.
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CFR PARTS AFFECTED IN THIS ISSUE
A cumulative list of the parts affected this month can be found in the
Reader Aids section at the end of this issue.
3 CFR
Administrative Orders;
Presidential Determinations:
No. 2000-9 of
December 23,
1999 .689
14 CFR
39 (4 documents).691,
691,692,695,697
71 (4 documents).699,
700
Proposed Rules:
39 .729
15 CFR
Proposed Rules:
303.731
18 CFR
35.810
21 CFR
101.1000
26 CFR
1.701
33 CFR
117.710
154 .710
155 .710
38 CFR
17.762
51 .762
58 .762
40 CFR
82.716
Proposed Rules:
52 .732
49 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1244 .732
Presidential Documents
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Title 3— Presidential Determination No. 2000-9 of December 23, 1999
The President Drawdown Under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, as Amended, To Provide Emergency Disaster
Relief Assistance to Venezuela
Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Secretary of Defense
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 506(a)(2] of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2318(a)(2) (“the Act”), I
hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States
to draw down articles and services from the inventory and resources of
the Department of Defense, for the purpose of providing international disaster
relief assistance to Venezuela.
I therefore direct the drawdown of up to $20 million of articles and services
from the inventory and resources of the Department of Defense for the
Government of Venezuela for the purposes and under the authorities of
chapter 9 of part I of the Act.
The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this determination
to the Congress immediately and to arrange for its publication in the Federal
Register.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, December 23, 1999.
(FR Doc. 00-381
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