This document contains final regulations governing portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

In the October 7, 2004 Federal Register (69 FR 60242), we published a correction to the final rule that appeared in the August 11, 2004 Federal Register entitled ``Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2005 Rates.'' This amendment corrects errors in that final rule and the correction of the

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Western Area Power Administration

These proposed rules would clarify certain portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. These rules propose to implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act enacted as

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

The Departments invite comments about benefit-specific waiting periods. This solicitation is to ensure that the public can provide input into any criteria used to determine whether a benefitspecific waiting period utilized by a group health plan or issuer is a preexisting condition exclusion under HIPAA. The Departments are requesting this

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

This proposed rule would amend the consolidated plan regulations of state and local governments to make clarifying and streamlining changes that are expected to make the consolidated plan of state and local jurisdictions more resultsoriented and useful to communities in assessing their own progress toward addressing the problems of lowincome

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Western Area Power Administration

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The President
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Memorandum of December 8, 2004

Assignment of Functions Implementing the HELP Commission Act
Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Administrator

Presidential Documents : Western Area Power Administration

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Presidential Determination No. 2005-14 of December 15, 2004

Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by

Presidential Documents : Western Area Power Administration

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Presidential Determination No. 2005-10 of December 8, 2004

Waiver of Restrictions on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by

Presidential Documents : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), published a notice of proposed procedures and call for applications, ParkerDavis ProjectPost2008 Resource Pool in the Federal Register on October 1, 2004. This notice extends the filing date for the submission of comments on the

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration