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Federal
Register Watch by Mike Powers January
20 - 24, 2003
The Federal
Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules,
and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive
Orders and other Presidential Documents.
This column attempts to summarize the highlights (or lowlights)
of the Federal Register during the preceding week. Instructions
for subscribing to the Federal Register can be found at the end of the
column. Looks
like we got a reprieve from any new rules today, thanks to the MLK
Holiday Observance. It’s
too bad that every day is not a federal holiday! Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) – Public Hearing On Sugar Cane Crop Allotment The
U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold a public hearing regarding the
application of Arizona Sugar Factory, L.L.C. for a cane sugar marketing
allocation for the 2003 crop year. Much
like OPEC controls oil production in its member countries to
“stabilize” prices, the USDA establishes an annual “marketing
allotment” for domestic cane sugar producers.
When allotments are in effect, no cane processor may market sugar
in excess of its allocation. These
market allocation provisions were determined by the “Farm Security and
Rural investment Act of 2002”, which assures protectionist subsidies
for domestic sugar growers through price supports and import quotas that
ultimately result in higher sugar prices. Price-fixing
is standard operating procedure in many government organizations.
Yet, the feds routinely sick their attack dogs on private
organizations that engage in the practice.
Those who make the rules (and have the guns to back them up)
don’t have to abide by them. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-1340.htm National
Foundation of the Arts and Humanities – Grant for the Mayors’
Institute on City Design A
$400,000 grant is available through the National Endowment for the Arts
to support the activities of the mayors’ institute on City Design, a
forum designed to foster “an understanding of and appreciation for the
role of design in creating vibrant, livable cities, and the importance
of mayors and their role as design advocates in American cities.”
A collectivist planner’s wet dream. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-1462.htm
Department
of Transportation – Notice of Intent to Impose a Passenger Facility
Charge (PFC) at The
Federal Aviation Administration plans to impose a PFC of $4.50 on
passengers traveling through The
price of a typical round-trip domestic airline ticket increases by
nearly 40% due to the myriad of federal, state, and local taxes that are
imposed on the flying public. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-1667.htm Presidential
Documents – Establishing the Office of Global Communications The
mission of the Office shall be “to advise the President (and other
agencies) on utilization of the most effective means for the United
States Government to ensure consistency in messages that will promote
the interests of the United States abroad, prevent misunderstanding,
build support for and among coalition partners of the United States, and
inform international audiences. The Office shall provide such advice on
activities in which the role of the United States Government is apparent
or publicly acknowledged.” Sounds
like an Orwellian propaganda machine to me. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-1798.htm To
subscribe to the Federal Register Table of Contents LISTSERV electronic
mailing list, go to http://listserv.access.gpo.gov
and select Online mailing list archives, FEDREGTOC-L, Join or leave the
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