This document designates ``Difficult Development Areas'' and ``Qualified Census Tracts'' for purposes of the LowIncome Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) makes new Difficult Development Area designations annually and makes

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Veterans Affairs Department

HUD is publishing proposed ``Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons'' (Guidance) as required by Executive Order 13166, which addresses assistance to recipients of federal financial assistance who have limited English

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Veterans Affairs Department

On August 18, 1983, we promulgated Standards of Performance for Bulk Gasoline Terminals (48 FR 37590). The 1983 standards of performance limit and control emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) that react with other pollutants to form ozone (or smog) which has been linked to respiratory impairment and eye irritation, and negatively affects

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Veterans Affairs Department

This final action deletes the subcategory of sources that do not utilize mercury cells to produce chlorine and caustic. We have determined that this nonmercury cell chlorine production subcategory should be deleted because chlorine and hydrochloric acid (HCl), the only hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emitted, are not carcinogenic, have welldefined

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Veterans Affairs Department

This action promulgates national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP), specifically mercury emissions, from mercury cell chloralkali plants. The final rule will limit mercury air emissions from these plants. The final rule will implement section 112(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) which requires all categories and subcategories

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Veterans Affairs Department

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is revising VA Directive and Handbook 5021, Employee/Management Relations, dated April 15, 2002, to include the delegation from the Under Secretary for Health to the Deputy Under Secretary for Health the authority to accept, reject, or remand findings and decisions of Disciplinary Appeals Boards (DABs)

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

In a companion document published as a final rule in this issue of the Federal Register, we are amending the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning ``reasonable charges'' for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran:
For a nonserviceconnected disability for which the veteran is entitled to care

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning ``reasonable charges'' for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran:
[sbull] For a nonserviceconnected disability for which the veteran is entitled to care (or the payment of expenses of care) under a health plan contract;

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

Pursuant to Public Law 108-15, Sec. 103, enacted on April 23, 2003, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) announces its meetings for the calendar year 2004. These meetings are open to the public. The purpose of the CCAC is to advise the Secretary of the Treasury on designs pertaining to the coinage of the United States and for other

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : United States Mint

Executive Order 12260 requires the United States Trade Representative to set the U.S. dollar thresholds for application of Title III of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2511 et seq.), which implements U.S. trade agreement obligations, including those under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE : Trade Representative, Office of United States

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE : Trade Representative, Office of United States

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE : Trade Representative, Office of United States

Maritime Rail, LLC (Maritime Rail), a noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to lease and operate certain railroad properties totaling about 3,500 track feet in length. The tracks, which extend beyond a point of connection with a Consolidated Rail Corporation branch line known as Meadows Industrial Track No.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Surface Transportation Board

We are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the New Mexico regulatory program (hereinafter, the ``New Mexico program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). New Mexico proposes revisions to and additions of rules about definitions of permit modification, permit revision, and temporary cessation

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office

A meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will be held at the American Embassy in London, England on January 9, 2004. The Commission will examine and approve public diplomacy subjects for exploration in Fiscal Year 2004.

The Commission was reauthorized pursuant to Pub. L. 106113 (H.R. 3194, Consolidated Appropriations

DEPARTMENT OF STATE : State Department

December 15, 2003.

Pursuant to section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that on November 21, 2003, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (``Phlx'' or ``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') the proposed rule change as

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Securities and Exchange Commission

December 12, 2003.

Pursuant to section 19(b)(7) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b7 under the Act,\2\ notice is hereby given that on December 8, 2003, OneChicago, LLC (``OneChicago'' or ``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'' or ``Commission'') the proposed rule changes described

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Securities and Exchange Commission

December 12, 2003.

Pursuant to section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that on November 24, 2003, the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (``NYSE'' or ``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Securities and Exchange Commission

December 12, 2003.

Pursuant to section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that on November 26, 2003, the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (``NYSE'' or ``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'' or ``SEC'') the proposed rule change as

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Securities and Exchange Commission

Applicants: AEGON/Transamerica Series Fund, Inc. (``ATSF'') and AEGON/ Transamerica Fund Advisers, Inc. (``ATFA'') (collectively, ``Applicants'').
Summary Of Application: Applicants seek an order to permit shares of ATSF and shares of any other existing or future investment company that is designed to fund insurance products and for which ATFA, or

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Securities and Exchange Commission

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural BusinessCooperative Service's intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection in support of the program for 7 CFR part 4284, subpart G.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Rural Business-Cooperative Service

The Bureau of Reclamation will hold an additional open house on the DEIS for the Lake Berryessa Visitor Services Plan (VSP). The first open house was held on November 22, 2003. The public hearings will be held as originally planned on January 21, 2004. The notice of availability of the DEIS and notice of public workshop and notice of public

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Reclamation Bureau

This interim rule is designed to provide a fair and expeditious means of handling the case of an accused parole violator who is found to be mentally incompetent to proceed with a scheduled parole revocation hearing. Under the Commission's present rule, such a parolee is sent to the Bureau of Prisons for a mental health examination, with a report

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE : Parole Commission

OSHA solicits comments concerning its proposal to decrease the existing burdenhour estimates, and to extend OMB approval of the information collection requirements of the regulation titled Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (29 CFR 1910.1020).

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR : Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued NRC Bulletin 200302 to all holders of operating licenses for pressurized water nuclear power reactors (PWRs) with penetrations in the lower head of the reactor pressure vessel, (RPV) except those who have permanently ceased operations and have certified that fuel has been permanently removed from

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION : Nuclear Regulatory Commission