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--- schema: federal-register doc_type: fedreg source_file: FR-2000-06-06.xml --- 65 109 Tuesday, June 6, 2000 Contents Agricultural Agricultural Marketing Service RULES Cotton classing, testing, and standards: Classification services to growers; 2000 user fees, 35807-35808 00-14114 Fluid milk promotion order, 35808-35810 00-14186 PROPOSED RULES Meats, prepared meats, and meat products; grading, certification, and standards: Livestock and poultry products; equipment used in slaughter, processing, and packaging; certification of sanitary design and fabrication, 35857-35869 00-14113 Agriculture Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Service See Food and Nutrition Service See Forest Service See Natural Resources Conservation Service Alcohol Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau PROPOSED RULES Alcohol; viticultural area designations:

Walla Walla Valley and Columbia Valley, WA; boundary revision, 35871-35875 00-14162 Centers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES Grant and cooperative agreement awards: University of Miami; comprehensive cancer control, 35937-35939 00-14097 Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)— National organizations to enable postsecondary institutions to prevent HIV infection and other important health problems among youth, 35939-35943 00-14098 Coast Guard Coast Guard RULES Drawbridge operations:

California, 35825-35826 00-14042 Florida, 35826-35827 00-14152 Ports and waterways safety: Chesapeake Bay, VA; safety zone, 35838-35840 00-14153 First Coast Guard District navigable waters; regulated navigation area, 35832-35838 00-14110 OPSAIL 2000, New York Harbor, East River, and Hudson River, NY and NJ; safety zones, 35827-35832 00-14111 NOTICES Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: National Boating Safety Advisory Council, 35996-35997 00-14155 Commerce Commerce Department See International Trade Administration See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corporation Corporation for National and Community Service NOTICES Agency information collection activities:

Proposed collection; comment request, 35906-35907 00-14102 Defense Defense Department RULES Acquisition regulations: Cost accounting standards; waiver, 36033-36035 00-13828 NAFTA procurement threshold, 36033-36034 00-13827 Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Cost accounting standards coverage; applicability, thresholds, and waiver, 36027-36030 00-13824 FAR drafting principles, 36014-36016 00-13818 Federal Procurement Office policy letters; rescission, 36013-36014 00-13817 General records schedules, 36020-36023 00-13820 Introduction, 36011-36013 00-13816 Recycled products and environmentally preferable services; supporting procurement requirements, 36015-36021 00-13819 Small business opportunities;

Federal supply schedules, 36022-36025 00-13821 Small entity compliance guide, 36030-36032 00-13826 Technical amendments, 36029-36031 00-13825 Trade agreements thresholds, 36024-36027 00-13822 Yugoslavia and Afghanistan acquisitions; restrictions, 36026-36028 00-13823 Defense Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board RULES Freedom of Information Act; implementation: Fee schedule, 35810 00-14043 Education Education Department NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Proposed collection; comment request, 35907-35908 00-13930 00-14087 Submission for OMB review; comment request, 35908-35910 00-13929 00-14088 00-14089 Special education and rehabilitative services:

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)— Correspondence; quarterly list, 36037-36040 00-14074 Energy Energy Department See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission EPA Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States: Pennsylvania, 35840-35842 00-13769 PROPOSED RULES Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States: Pennsylvania, 35875 00-13770 NOTICES Agency information collection activities:

Submission for OMB review; comment request, 00-14180 35922-35925 00-14181 00-14182 00-14184 Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: EPA-USDA Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition; meeting, 35925 00-13942 Hazardous pollutants assessment; benchmark dose software; availability, 35925-35926 00-14177 Meetings: Science Advisory Board, 35926-35927 00-14178 Municipal solid waste landfill permit programs; adequacy determinations: Guam, 35927-35928 00-14179 Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

BioTEPP, Inc., et al., 35928-35929 00-14185 Project XL (excellence and leadership); innovative technologies projects: Labs21 program; improved environmental performance at laboratories; policy or regulatory flexibility as incentive, 35929-35931 00-14183 Equal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request, 35931-35932 00-14104 00-14105 Executive Executive Office of the President See Trade Representative, Office of United States See Presidential Documents FAA Federal Aviation Administration RULES Administrative regulations:

Air traffic and related services for aircraft that transit U.S.-controlled airspace but neither take off from, nor land in, U.S.; fees, 36001-36009 00-14045 Airworthiness directives: Eurocopter France, 35819-35822 00-14194 Fokker, 35817-35819 00-13694 Rolls-Royce plc, 35814-35817 00-13566 Airworthiness standards: Special conditions— Raytheon Aircraft Co. Model 4000 airplane, 35813-35814 00-14156 VOR and colored Federal airways and jet routes, 35822-35823 00-14044 PROPOSED RULES Airworthiness directives:

MD Helicopters, Inc., 35869-35871 00-14195 NOTICES Air carrier certification and operations: Emergency medical equipment; automatic external defibrillators at airports; requirements, 35971-35973 00-14086 Civil penalty actions; Administrator's decisions and orders; index availability, 35973-35989 00-14048 Exemption petitions; summary and disposition, 35989-35991 00-14157 00-14158 Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, MI, 35991-35992 00-14159 FCC Federal Communications Commission RULES Common carrier services:

Personal communications services— Narrowband rules; modifications; competitive bidding, 35843-35855 00-13961 PROPOSED RULES Common carrier services: Personal communications services— Narrowband spectrum; unlicensed megahertz; decision whether to license or not; competitive bidding, 35875-35877 00-13962 NOTICES Meetings: North American Numbering Council, 35932-35933 00-14282 Meetings; Sunshine Act, 35933-35934 00-14283 FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation NOTICES Meetings;

Sunshine Act, 35934 00-14365 Federal Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NOTICES Electric rate and corporate regulation filings: P&L Coal Holdings Corp. et al., 35920-35921 00-14118 Hydroelectric applications, 35921-35922 00-14076 *Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:* American Electric Power Service Corp. et al., 35910 00-14125 Baconton Power LLC, 35910 00-14130 Cabrillo Power II LLC, 35910-35911 00-14142 California Independent System Operator Corp., 35911 00-14124 Commonwealth Edison Co., 35911 00-14143 Duke Energy Corp., 35911, 00-14137 35912 00-14138 Dynegy Inc. et al., 35912 00-14131 East Tennessee Natural Gas Co., 35912 00-14077 Electric Energy, Inc., 35912-35913 00-14123 Garden Banks Gas Pipeline, LLC, 35913 00-14080 Kansas City Power & Light Co., 00-14132 35913-35914 00-14133 00-14134 00-14135 00-14136 Louisville Gas & Electric Co. et al., 35915 00-14139 00-14140 Mid-Continent Area Power Pool, 35915 00-14120 Midwest Generation, LLC, 35915 00-14126 Mississippi Canyon Gas Pipeline, LLC, 35916 00-14079 Nautilus Pipeline Co., L.L.C., 35916 00-14078 New England Power Co. et al., 35916-35917 00-14145 New York Independent System Operator, Inc., 35917 00-14122 Northern States Power Co., 35917 00-14128 P&L Coal Holdings Corp. et al., 35917 00-14127 Southern Energy Delta, L.L.C., et al., 35918 00-14121 Southwestern Public Service Co., 35918 00-14144 Stockport Mill Country Inn Water Power Project, 35918 00-14081 Strategic Power Management, Inc., 35918-35919 00-14119 Tampa Electric Co., 35919 00-14141 USGen New England, Inc., 35919-35920 00-14082 UtiliCorp United Inc. et al., 35920 00-14129 Federal Railroad Federal Railroad Administration NOTICES Exemption petitions, etc.:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co., 35992 00-14049 Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, Inc., 35992 00-14058 Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad, 35993 00-14062 Ouachita Railroad, 35993 00-14061 Peninsula Terminal Co., 35993-35994 00-14064 Relco Locomotives, Inc., 35994 00-14063 Traffic control systems; discontinuance or modification: Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway, 35994-35995 00-14059 00-14060 Colorado Transportation Department, 35995-35996 00-14053 CSX Transportation, Inc., 00-14054 35971, 00-14055 35996, 00-14056 35997 00-14057 Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, 35997-35998 00-14050 Union Pacific Railroad Co., 35998 00-14051 Federal Reserve Federal Reserve System NOTICES Agency information collection activities:

Proposed collection; comment request, 35934-35935 00-14069 Banks and bank holding companies: Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 35935 00-14070 FTC Federal Trade Commission NOTICES Prohibited trade practices: Zim Textile Corp., 35935-35936 00-14146 Financial Financial Management Service See Fiscal Service Fiscal Fiscal Service NOTICES Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds: Frontier Insurance Co.; termination, 35998-35999 00-14188 Fish Fish and Wildlife Service NOTICES Comprehensive conservation plans; availability, etc.:

Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge Complex, ND, 35950 00-14100 Endangered and threatened species: Findings on petitions, etc.— Southern torrent salamander, 35951-35956 00-14084 Food Food and Drug Administration RULES Animal drugs, feeds, and related products: Selenium yeast in feed and drinking water, 35823-35824 00-14214 NOTICES Meetings: Arthritis Advisory Committee, 35943-35944 00-14213 Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Blood and blood components; uniform labeling standards; recognition and use, 35944-35945 00-14211 Fumonisin levels in human foods and animal feeds, 35945 00-14106 Food Food and Nutrition Service NOTICES Agency information collection activities:

Proposed collection; comment request, 35882 00-14095 Forest Forest Service NOTICES Appealable decisions; legal notice: Intermountain Region, 35882-35884 00-14096 Environmental statements; notice of intent: Tongass National Forest, AK, 35884-35885 00-14065 GAO General Accounting Office NOTICES Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, 35936 00-14068 GSA General Services Administration RULES Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Cost accounting standards coverage; applicability, thresholds, and waiver, 36027-36030 00-13824 FAR drafting principles, 36014-36016 00-13818 Federal Procurement Office policy letters; rescission, 36013-36014 00-13817 General records schedules, 36020-36023 00-13820 Introduction, 36011-36013 00-13816 Recycled products and environmentally preferable services; supporting procurement requirements, 36015-36021 00-13819 Small business opportunities; Federal supply schedules, 36022-36025 00-13821 Small entity compliance guide, 36030-36032 00-13826 Technical amendments, 36029-36031 00-13825 Trade agreements thresholds, 36024-36027 00-13822 Yugoslavia and Afghanistan acquisitions; restrictions, 36026-36028 00-13823 Health Health and Human Services Department See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Food and Drug Administration See Health Care Financing Administration See Health Resources and Services Administration NOTICES Meetings:

Vital and Health Statistics National Committee, 35936-35937 00-14083 Health Health Care Financing Administration NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Proposed collection; comment request, 35945-35946 00-13987 Submission for OMB review; comment request, 00-14067 35946-35947 00-14263 Meetings: Medicare program; documentation guidelines for evaluation and management services; town hall meeting, 35947-35948 00-14163 Privacy Act: Systems of records, 35948 00-14071 Health Health Resources and Services Administration NOTICES Agency information collection activities:

Proposed collection; comment request, 35948-35949 00-14215 Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: Childhood Vaccines Advisory Commission, 35949-35950 00-14041 Meetings: Childhood Vaccines Advisory Commission, 35950 00-14107 Housing Housing and Urban Development Department RULES Public and Indian housing: Public Housing Assessment System; amendments Correction, 36041-36046 00-14160 NOTICES Public and Indian housing: Public Housing Assessment System; transitional assistance, 36046-36047 00-14161 Interior Interior Department See Fish and Wildlife Service See Minerals Management Service See National Park Service See Reclamation Bureau International International Trade Administration NOTICES Antidumping:

Dynamic random access memory semiconductors of one megabit or above from— Korea, 35886-35892 00-14204 Frozen concentrated orange juice from— Brazil, 35892-35896 00-14205 Polyvinyl alcohol from— Taiwan, 35896-35901 00-14206 Porcelain-on-steel cookware from— Mexico, 35901 00-14203 Justice Justice Department See National Institute of Justice Labor Labor Department NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request, 35961-35963 00-14147 00-14148 00-14149 Minerals Minerals Management Service RULES Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulphur operations:

CFR subparts revision; sections assigned new section numbers; correction, 35824 00-13867 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration RULES Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Cost accounting standards coverage; applicability, thresholds, and waiver, 36027-36030 00-13824 FAR drafting principles, 36014-36016 00-13818 Federal Procurement Office policy letters; rescission, 36013-36014 00-13817 General records schedules, 36020-36023 00-13820 Introduction, 36011-36013 00-13816 Recycled products and environmentally preferable services; supporting procurement requirements, 36015-36021 00-13819 Small business opportunities;

Federal supply schedules, 36022-36025 00-13821 Small entity compliance guide, 36030-36032 00-13826 Technical amendments, 36029-36031 00-13825 Trade agreements thresholds, 36024-36027 00-13822 Yugoslavia and Afghanistan acquisitions; restrictions, 36026-36028 00-13823 NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Council Aero-Space Technology Advisory Committee, 35963-35964 00-14038 Space Science Advisory Committee, 00-14039 35964 00-14040 National Archives National Archives and Records Administration RULES NARA facilities:

Public use; miscellaneous amendments Correction, 35840 00-14117 National Institute National Institute of Justice NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Communications Interoperability and Information Sharing Technologies, 35961 00-14094 NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RULES Fishery conservation and management: Atlantic highly migratory species— Large coastal shark, small coastal shark, and pelagic shark species, 35855-35856 00-14036 PROPOSED RULES Fishery conservation and management:

Atlantic highly migratory species— North Atlantic swordfish, 35881 00-14037 Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic fisheries— South Atlantic snapper-grouper, 35877-35881 00-14197 Ocean and coastal resource management: Marine sanctuaries— Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; boundary expansion; correction, 35871 00-14116 NOTICES Marine mammals: Ecuador; yellowfin tuna and products; affirmative finding, 35901-35902 00-14199 Meetings: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 35902-35903 00-14200 Permits:

Marine mammals, 35903-35906 00-14198 00-14201 National Park National Park Service NOTICES National Register of Historic Places: Pending nominations, 35956-35957 00-14210 National Science National Science Foundation NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request, 35964-35965 00-14090 National Transportation National Transportation Safety Board NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 35965 00-14347 NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Black Bayou Culverts Hydrologic Restoration Project, LA, 35885-35886 00-14066 Nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOTICES Agency information collection activities: Proposed collection; comment request, 00-14191 35965-35966 00-14192 Meetings: Integrated Safety Analysis guidance document, etc., 35968 00-14190 *Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:* Wisconsin Electric Power Co., 35966-35968 00-14189 Nuclear Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board NOTICES Meetings: Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; management and transportation; human factors, etc., 35968-35969 00-14103 Office of U.S.

Trade Office of United States Trade Representative See Trade Representative, Office of United States Presidential Presidential Documents PROCLAMATIONS *Special observances:* Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (Proc. 7316), 36051-36052 00-14440 Public Public Debt Bureau See Fiscal Service Public Public Health Service See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Food and Drug Administration See Health Resources and Services Administration Reclamation Reclamation Bureau NOTICES Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Flaming Gorge Dam, Colorado River Storage Project, UT, 35957-35961 00-14207 SBA Small Business Administration RULES Small business size standards: Help Supply Services; $10 million in average annual receipts, 35810-35813 00-14015 Trade Trade Representative, Office of United States NOTICES World Trade Organization: Canada and U.S.; consultations regarding measures treating export restraints as subsidies, 35969-35970 00-14209 Dispute settlement panel establishment requests— Japan; hot-rolled steel products, 35970-35971 00-14208 Transportation Transportation Department See Coast Guard See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Railroad Administration Treasury Treasury Department See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau See Fiscal Service Separate Parts In This Issue Part II Federal Aviation Administration, 36001-36009 00-14045 Part III General Services Administration, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 36011-36032 00-13816 00-13817 00-13818 00-13826 Part IV Department of Defense, 00-13827 36033-36035 00-13828 Part V Department of Education, 36037-36040 00-14074 Part VI Department of Housing and Urban Development, 36041-36047 00-14160 00-14161 Part VII The President, 36049-36052 00-14440 Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this issue for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders, and notice of recently enacted public laws. 65 109 Tuesday, June 6, 2000 Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Marketing Service 7 CFR Part 28 [Docket No.

CN-99-003] RIN 0581-AB57 Revision of User Fees for 2000 Crop Cotton Classification Services to Growers AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing Service

(AMS)will maintain user fees for cotton producers for 2000 crop cotton classification services under the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act at the same level as in 1999. This is in accordance with the formula provided in the Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987. The 1999 user fee for this classification service was $1.35 per bale. This final rule would maintain the fee for the 2000 crop at $1.35 per bale. The fee and the existing reserve are sufficient to cover the costs of providing classification services, including costs for administration and supervision. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2000. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lee Cliburn, Cotton Program, 202-720-2145. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A proposed rule detailing the revisions was published in the **Federal Register** on March 8, 2000 (65 FR 12140). A 30-day comment period was provided for interested persons to respond to the proposed rule. No comments were received, and no changes have been made in the provisions of the final rule. This final rule has been determined to be not significant for purposes of Executive Order 12866, and it has not been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This final rule has been reviewed under Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. It is not intended to have retroactive effect. This rule would not preempt any state or local laws, regulations, or policies unless they present an irreconcilable conflict with this rule. There are no administrative procedures which must be exhausted prior to any judicial challenge to the provisions of this rule. Regulatory Flexibility Act Pursuant to requirements set forth in the Regulatory Flexibility Act

(RFA)(5 U.S.C. 601 *et seq.* ) AMS has considered the economic impact of this action on small entities and has determined that its implementation will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses. The purpose of the RFA is to fit regulatory actions to the scale of businesses subject to such actions in order that small businesses will not be disproportionately burdened. There are an estimated 35,000 cotton growers in the U.S. who voluntarily use the AMS cotton classing services annually, and the majority of these cotton growers are small businesses under the criteria established by the Small Business Administration (13 CFR 121.201). Continuing the user fee at the 1999 crop level will not significantly affect small businesses as defined under the RFA because:

(1)The fee represents a very small portion of the cost-per-unit currently borne by those entities utilizing the services (the 1999 user fee for classification services was $1.35 per bale; the fee for the 2000 crop will be maintained at $1.35 per bale; the 2000 crop is estimated at 17,945,000 bales);

(2)The fee for services will not affect competition in the marketplace; and

(3)The use of classification services is voluntary. For the 1999 crop, 16,409,650 bales were produced, and virtually all of them were submitted by growers for the classification service.

(4)Based on the average price paid to growers for cotton from the 1998 crop of 65.3 cents per pound, 500 pound bales of cotton are worth an average of $326.50 each. The user fee for classification services, $1.35 per bale, is less than one percent of the value of an average bale of cotton. Paperwork Reduction Act In compliance with OMB regulations (5 CFR part 1320) which implement the Paperwork Reduction Act

(PRA)(44 U.S.C. 3501 *et seq.* ), the information collection requirements contained in the provisions to be amended by this proposed rule have been previously approved by OMB and were assigned OMB control number 0581-0009 under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 *et seq.* ). The changes will be made effective July 1, 2000, as provided by the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act. Fees for Classification Under the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act of 1927 The user fee charged to cotton producers for High Volume Instrument

(HVI)classification services under the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act (7 U.S.C. 473a) was $1.35 per bale during the 1999 harvest season as determined by using the formula provided in the Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987, as amended by Public Law 102-237. The fees cover salaries, costs of equipment and supplies, and other overhead costs, including costs for administration, and supervision. This final rule establishes the user fee charged to producers for HVI classification at $1.35 per bale during the 2000 harvest season. Public Law 102-237 amended the formula in the Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987 for establishing the producer's classification fee so that the producer's fee is based on the prevailing method of classification requested by producers during the previous year. HVI classing was the prevailing method of cotton classification requested by producers in 1999. Therefore, the 2000 producer's user fee for classification service is based on the 1999 base fee for HVI classification. The fee was calculated by applying the formula specified in the Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987, as amended by Public Law 102-237. The 1999 base fee for HVI classification exclusive of adjustments, as provided by the Act, was $2.14 per bale. An increase of one and thirty-nine hundredths percent, or three cents per bale increase due to the implicit price deflator of the gross domestic product added to the $2.14, would result in a 2000 base fee of $2.17 per bale. The formula in the Act provides for the use of the percentage change in the implicit price deflator of the gross national product (as indexed for the most recent 12-month period for which statistics are available). However, this has been replaced by the gross domestic product by the Department of Commerce as a more appropriate measure for the short-term monitoring and analysis of the U.S. economy. The number of bales to be classed by the United States Department of Agriculture from the 2000 crop is estimated at 17,945,000 bales. The 2000 base fee was decreased 15 percent based on the estimated number of bales to be classed (one percent for every 100,000 bales or portion thereof above the base of 12,500,000, limited to a maximum adjustment of 15 percent). This percentage factor amounts to a 33 cents per bale reduction and was subtracted from the 2000 base fee of $2.17 per bale, resulting in a fee of $1.84 per bale. With a fee of $1.84 per bale, the projected operating reserve would be 49.77 percent. The Act specifies that the Secretary shall not establish a fee which, when combined with other sources of revenue, will result in a projected operating reserve of more than 25 percent. Accordingly, the fee of $1.84 must be reduced by 49 cents per bale, to $1.35 per bale, to provide an ending accumulated operating reserve for the fiscal year of 25 percent of the projected cost of operating the program. This will establish the 2000 season fee at $1.35 per bale. Accordingly, § 28.909, paragraph

(b)will reflect the continuation of the HVI classification fee at $1.35 per bale. As provided for in the Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987, as amended, a five cent per bale discount would continue to be applied to voluntary centralized billing and collecting agents as specified in § 28.909(c). Growers or their designated agents requesting classification data provided on computer punched cards will continue to be charged the fee of 10 cents per card in § 28.910(a) to reflect the costs of providing this service. Requests for punch card classification data represented less than 1.0 percent of the total bales classed from the 1999 crop, down from 2.6 percent in 1997. Growers or their designated agents receiving classification data by methods other than computer punched cards would continue to incur no additional fees if only one method of receiving classification data was requested. The fee for each additional method of receiving classification data in § 28.910 would remain at five cents per bale, and it would be applicable even if the same method was requested. However, if computer punched cards were requested, a fee of ten cents per card would be charged. The fee in § 28.910(b) for an owner receiving classification data from the central database would remain at five cents per bale, and the minimum charge of $5.00 for services provided per monthly billing period would remain the same. The provisions of § 28.910(c) concerning the fee for new classification memoranda issued from the central database for the business convenience of an owner without reclassification of the cotton will remain the same. The fee for review classification in § 28.911 will be maintained at $1.35 per bale. The fee for returning samples after classification in § 28.911 will remain at 40 cents per sample. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553, it is determined that good cause exists for not postponing the effective date of this rule until 30 days after publication in the **Federal Register** because:

(1)the cotton crop year begins July 1, 2000,

(2)a uniform fee for the entire crop is mandated by the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, and

(3)a 30 day comment period was provided for in the proposed rule and no comments were received. List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 28 Administrative practice and procedure, Cotton, Cotton samples, Grades, Market news, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Standards, Staples, Testing, Warehouses. For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 7 CFR Part 28 is amended as follows: PART 28—[AMENDED] 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 28, Subpart D, continues to read as follows: Authority: 7 U.S.C. 471-476. 2. In § 28.909, paragraph

(b)is revised to read as follows: § 28.909 Costs.

(b)The cost of High Volume Instrument

(HVI)cotton classification service to producers is $1.35 per bale. 3. In § 28.911, the last sentence of paragraph

(a)is revised to read as follows: § 28.911 Review classification.

(a)* * * The fee for review classification is $1.35 per bale. Dated: May 31, 2000. Kenneth C. Clayton, Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service. [FR Doc. 00-14114 Filed 6-1-00; 4:36 pm]

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