This final rule amends the regulations governing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. It strengthens vendor management in retail food delivery systems by establishing mandatory selection criteria, training requirements, criteria to be used to identify highrisk vendors, and monitoring requirements, including

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Treasury Department

This document amends the delegations of authority from the Secretary of Agriculture to other General Officers and agency heads to delegate to the Director, Hazardous Materials Management Group authority to carry out certain duties related to hazardous materials management.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Agriculture Department

We are amending the regulations governing the importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) beef from Argentina by adding a requirement that Argentina certify that the beef does not come from animals that have ever been in specified areas along Argentina's borders with Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Uruguay. We are taking this action as an emergency

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

This rule implements provisions of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (the 2001 Act) related to the Livestock Indemnity Program for Contract Growers (LIPCG). That statute amended the time period during which eligible losses could have occurred and the Commodity Credit

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) published Guidelines for the State Plans of Work for Agricultural Research and Extension Formula Funds on July 1, 1999 [64 FR 3591035919]. The guidelines prescribe the procedures to be followed by the eligible institutions receiving Federal agricultural research and

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting, as a final rule, without change, the provisions of an interim final rule which authorizes Japan as an eligible export market under the diversion and exemption provisions of the Federal tart cherry marketing order (order). Previously, shipments to Canada, Mexico, or Japan did not qualify for

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Agricultural Marketing Service

This interim rule amends, on an emergency basis, the Class III and Class IV pricing formulas used in Federal milk orders, effective for milk marketed on or after January 1, 2001. The rule thereby conforms to the requirements of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000, which mandated reconsideration of the Class III and Class IV pricing formulas

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

This rule makes final an interim rule published in the Federal Register on December 28, 1999. This final rule adopts the changes made to the Summer Food Service Program by the interim rule as mandated by three public lawsthe Healthy Meals for
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Healthy Americans Act of 1994, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Food and Nutrition Service

December 22, 2000.

The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413. Comments regarding (a) whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Agriculture Department

This notice announces the application period for the Fiscal Year 2001 Emerging Markets Program.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Foreign Agricultural Service

This notice is to announce that the Caribbean National Forest is revising the date for filing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Rio Sabana Day Use Picnic Area; and that the USDA Forest Service and the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public works have agreed to act as joint lead agencies in the preparation of the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Forest Service

This notice announces the application period for the Fiscal Year 2002 Foreign Market Development Cooperator (Cooperator) Program.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This notice announces the application period for the Fiscal Year 2001 Market Access Program (MAP).

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

It is the intention of NRCS in Indiana to issue a revised conservation practice standard in section IV of the FOTG. The revised standard is Waste Treatment Lagoon (359). This practice may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and/or wetlands.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Natural Resources Conservation Service

We are making a technical amendment to the regulations regarding the importation of horses to restore the State of Florida to the list of States approved to receive mares over 731 days of age from regions affected with contagious equine metritis. The entry for the State of Florida was inadvertently removed from that list in an earlier final rule.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

This notice informs the public of the annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates for meals served in the Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP). These adjustments reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index and are required by the statute governing the Program. In addition, further adjustments are made to these rates to reflect the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Food and Nutrition Service

The Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, announces a program of competitively awarded grants and cooperative agreements for research that will improve the administrative effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) in delivering nutrition related benefits. Of particular interest are efforts that will assist potentially eligible customers in

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Food and Nutrition Service

The Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on January 18, 2001, at Tahoe Seasons Resort, 3901 Saddle Rd., South Lake Tahoe, CA. This Committee, established by the Secretary of Agriculture on December 15, 1998 (64 FR 2876) is chartered to provide advice to the Secretary on implementing the terms of the Federal Interagency

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Forest Service

It is the intention of NRCS in Indiana to issue a revised conservation practice standard in Section IV of the FOTG. The revised standard is Grassed Waterway (412). This practice may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and/or wetlands.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Natural Resources Conservation Service

It is the intention of NRCS in Indiana to issue a revised conservation practice standard in section IV of the FOTG. The revised standard is Closure of Waste Impoundments (360). This practice may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and/or wetlands.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Natural Resources Conservation Service

It is the intention of NRCS in Indiana to issue a revised conservation practice standard in Section IV of the FOTG. The revised standard is Waste Storage Facility (313). This practice may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and/or wetlands.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Natural Resources Conservation Service

On August 18, 2000, (65 FR 50401) the Agency published a final [[Page 81326]]
rule, which reduced the term of future Shared Appreciation Agreements (SAA), lowered the interest rate on amortized SAA recapture, and deducted the value of certain capital improvements from the shared appreciation calculation. This document contains a correction to that

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Rural Utilities Service

The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of housing funds for fiscal year 2001 (FY 2001). This action is taken to comply with 42 U.S.C. 1490p, which requires that RHS publish in the Federal Register notice of the availability of any housing assistance.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Veterans Affairs Department

This NOFA announces a Demonstration Program to provide section 502 loans and grants in North Carolina for verylow and lowincome elderly families who lost their housing as a result of a major disaster.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Veterans Affairs Department

This NOFA announces the timeframe to submit applications for section 514 Farm Labor Housing loan funds and section 516 Farm Labor Housing grant funds for new construction and acquisition with rehabilitation of offfarm units for
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farmworker households. Applications may also include requests for section 521 rental assistance (RA) and

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Veterans Affairs Department