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Agriculture Department National Institutes of Health
See Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension NOTICES
Service Agency information collection activities:
See Rural Housing Service Submission for OMB review; comment request, 4562-
4563
Census Bureau Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing,
4563
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities: Meetings:
Proposed collection; comment request, 4560-4561 National Cancer Institute, 4563-4564
National Eye Institute, 4564
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 4564
Commerce Department
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and
See Census Bureau
Skin Diseases, 4564—4565
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 4565—4566
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Service
RULES
NOTICES
Fishery conservation and management:
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone—
1890 Institution teaching and research capacity building
American Fisheries Act; emergency implementation,
program, 4556-4560
4520-4544
PROPOSED RULES
Employment Standards Administration Fishery conservation and management:
NOTICES Northeastern United States fisheries—
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted Scup,4546-4547
construction; general wage determination decisions, Summer flounder, scup, and Black Sea bass, 4547—4555
4566-4567
National Science Foundation
Environmental Protection Agency
NOTICES
NOTICES Meetings:
Meetings: Biological Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, 4567
Phosmet, revised pesticide risk assessment, 4561—4562 Electrical and Communications Systems Special
Emphasis Panel, 4567-4568
Health and Human Services Department Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory
See Health Care Financing Administration Committee, 4568
See National Institutes of Health
Postal Service
Health Care Financing Administration RULES
PROPOSED RULES Domestic Mail Manual:
Medicare: Experimental nonletter-size business reply mail
Ambulance Fee Schedule Negotiated Rulemaking categories and fees; termination, 4517—4520
Committee—
Meetings, 4545—4546
Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Housing and Urban Development Department Middle East peace process, continuation of emergency
NOTICES regarding terrorists who threaten to disrupt (Notice of
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: January 19, 2000), 3579-3581 Editorial Note: In tlie
Facilities to assist homeless— Federal Register issue of January 21, 2000, the page
Excess and smrplus Federal property, 4566 number for the Notice of January 19, 2000, was
inadvertently omitted and should have appeared as
Interior Department ”3581”
See Land Management Bureau
Public Health Service
Labor Department See National Institutes of Health
See Employment Standards Administration
Rural Housing Service
Land Management Bureau NOTICES
NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.;
Motor vehicle use restrictions: Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Program
Montana, 4566 Correction, 4560
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Surface Transportation Board Transportation Department
NOTICES See Surface Transportation Board
Rail carriers:
Cost recovery procedures—
Productivity adjustments, 4568
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.: Reader Aids
North American railroad industry; major railroad
Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this issue for
consolidations; comment request, 4568-4570
phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders,
Railroad services abandonment:
and notice of recently enacted publid laws.
Union Pacific Railroad Co., 4570—4571

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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER 31326. This final rule also sets forth the Background
contains regulatory documents having general Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
As a consequence of Postal Rate
applicability and legal effect, most of which standards adopted for permanent
Commission Docket No. MC97-1, the
are keyed to and codified in the Code of implementation.
Federal Regulations, which is published under United States Postal Service engaged in
50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510. EFFECTIVE DATE: February 6, 2000. an experiment that started on June 8,
1997. It was designed to test the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by feasibility of two alternative methods of
Lettmann, [phone]; or Michael
the Superintendent of Documents. Prices of accounting for nonletter-size business
T. Tidwell, [phone].
new books are listed in the first FEDERAL reply mail: the reverse manifesting
REGISTER issue of each week. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal method and the bulk weight-averaging
Service is terminating the experimental
method. A maximum of 20 participants
classification and fees for non letter-size
could participate in the experiment,
POSTAL SERVICE business reply mail (BRM) and
with no more than 10 participants
establishing permanent classification
39 CFR Partin allowed for each of the two accounting
and fees because appropriate levels of
methods. Separate set-up/qualification,
management oversi^t and sufficient
Nonletter-SIze Business Reply Mail monthly auditing or sampling, and per
technical resources are now available to
Categories and Fees—Final Rule piece fees were established for each
ensure that revenue protection
method.
agency: Postal Service. standards can be met. Earlier, the All experimental classifications and
ACTION: Final rule. experimental period was extended fees were originally scheduled to expire
beyond the two-year period that was to on June 7,1999. However, on March 14,
summary: The Postal Service is end on June 7, 1999, in order to give the 1999, the Postal Service requested the
terminating the experimental nonletter- Postal Service additional time to Postal Rate Commission to approve an
size business reply mail categories and eliminate technical and administrative extension of the experiment until as late
fees effective February 5, 2000, and will obstacles to permanent implementation. as February 29, 2000, or sooner if
implement a permanent classification The weight-averaging experiment will circumstances permitted. The request
and fees for weight-averaged nonletter- end at midnight on February 5, 2000, was made to allow the Postal Service
size business reply mail on February 6, and the permanent classification and additional time for the resolution of
2000. This is in accordance with the fees will become effective on February administrative and technical issues that
Decision of the Governors of the Postal 6, 2000. The limitations that were in stood in the way of implementing
Service on the Rpcommended Decision effect dming the experiment with weight averaging on a permanent basis.
of the Postal Rate Commission on respect to the number of participants, The Postal Service also asked that the
Establishment of Permanent mail volumes, geographic locations, and experimental reverse manifesting
Classification and Fees for Nonletter- abilities to implement and maintain classification and fees be allowed to
Size Business Reply Mail, Docket No. quality control procedures for expire as originally scheduled, because
MC99-2; Board of Governors Resolution accounting and documentation have the operational feasibility of the method
99-12 (November 1,1999). The Postal been eliminated. was unproven. At the same time, the
Service was authorized to conduct the The per piece accounting fee for bulk Postal Service requested the
experiment until as late as February 29, weight-averaged nonletter-size BRM establishment of a permanent
2000. The extension was granted in pieces will be 1 cent, plus the classification and fees for weight-
order for the experiment to be extended appropriate First-Class Mail or Priority averaged nonletter-size Business Reply
beyond its original expiration date of Mail postage. Mailers will be required to Mail.
June 7,1999, to allow the Postal Service pay an annual business reply mail The proceedings for consideration of
additional time to resolve certain permit fee and an annual business reply these requests were designated by the
administrative and technical issues mail advance deposit accounting fee, Postal Rate Commission as Docket No.
which could not be resolved before the which are currently $100.00 and MC99-1 and Docket No. MC99-2,
original June 7,1999, experiment $300.00, respectively. In addition, a respectively. On May 19,1999, pursuant
expiration date. These issues have been monthly audit and maintenance fee of to 39 U.S.C. 3624, the Commission
resolved and it is possible to proceed $600.00 will be assessed for each BRM recommended the extension of the
with permanent implementation. The account at a postal facility where the nonletter-size BRM experiment until
permanent fees for bulk weight weight-averaging accounting method is February 29, 2000, or until the Postal
averaging are the same as those placed employed. Service implemented permanent fees,
into effect when the experiment was Mailers who want to take advantage of whichever came first. The Commission
extended on June 8,1999. The extension the lower per piece fees for qualifying also recommended the experimental
was approved pursuant to the Decision nonletter-size BRM pieces must submit weight-averaging classification and fees
of the Governors of the Postal Service on a letter of application to the postmaster that were proposed in a Joint
the Recommended Decision of the at the post office where their BRM will Stipulation and Agreement by the
Postal Rate Commission on the be received. Those who receive parties in Docket No. MC99-1.
Classification and Fees for Nonletter- approval for the bulk weight-averaging After reviewing the Commission’s
Size Business Reply Mail, Docket No. method will be required to enter into a Recommended Decision and its
MC99-1; Board of Governors Resolution service agreement with the Postal consequences for the Postal Service and
99-6 (May 26, 1999). See 64 FR 31325- Service. postal customers, the Governors of the
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