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PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN Volume 26 Number 37 Saturday, September 14, 1996 • Harrisburg, Pa. Pages 4401—4504 In this issue: The Courts Delaware River Basin Commission Department of Agriculture Department of Banking Department of Community Affairs Department of Environmental Protection Department of General Services Department of Health Department of Transportation Environmental Hearing Board Independent Regulatory Review Commission Insurance Department Lawyer Trust Account Board Milk Marketing Board Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission State Board of Medicine Detailed list of contents appears inside. 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Church Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-3198. 4403 Contents THE COURTS INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Proposed Rulemaking DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF THE SUPREME COURT Notices of increase in premium and midterm cancel- Notice of suspension ..............................4410 lation of nonrenewal of policies ..................4434 Notices Independence Blue Cross: EXECUTIVE AGENCIES Non-group rate increase for Basic Blue Cross, DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION Personal Choice and Special Care; filing no. Notices 7-P-96........................................4481 Rate increase for Blue Cross Community-Rated Commission meeting and public hearing............4437 Groups; filing no. 9-P-96 ......................4481 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Rate increase for Medicare Supplement Programs: Notices Plans A, B, C and H (Security 65); filing no. 8-P-96........................................4481 Pennsylvania Peach and Nectarine Research Pro- Pennsylvania Blue Shield; rate increase for non- gram; amendments .............................4438 group major medical; filing no. 6-P-96 ..........4482 DEPARTMENT OF BANKING Pennsylvania Blue Shield; rate increase for Per- Notices sonal Choice Community-Rated Group; filing Action on applications.............................4438 no. 10-P-96 ...................................4482 Review procedure hearings; cancellation or refusal DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS of insurance (2 documents) ................ 4482, 4483 Proposed Rulemaking Review procedure hearings under The Unfair Insur- Industrialized housing and components ............4432 ance Practices Act ..............................4483 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT BOARD Notices Notices Applications, actions and special notices............4440 Meeting notice....................................4483 Availability of technical guidance ..................4471 MILK MARKETING BOARD DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES Notices Notices Presubmission schedule and prehearing conference Contract awards ..................................4504 for all milk marketing areas; over-order premium; State contracts information........................4497 hearing ........................................4483 State surplus property division ....................4472 Presubmission schedule and prehearing conference for milk marketing area no. 5; hearing ...........4484 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION Notices Notices Notice of beginning of review; Certificates of Need . 4472 Consolidated Rail Corporation; railroad ............4495 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Donna L. Blair v. Consolidated Rail Corporation and Rules and Regulations Joseph R. Spilis v. Consolidated Rail Corporation; School buses and school vehicles ................... 4411 railroad ........................................4495 Fuel adjustment statements; doc. no. M-FACS9601- Notices 9604 ...........................................4485 Access route approvals ............................4473 Petition of Pennsylvania-American Water Company Retention of engineering firms.....................4476 for approval to implement a tariff supplement establishing a distribution system improvement ENVIRONMENTAL HEARING BOARD charge; doc. no. P-00961031 .....................4485 Notices Petition of Philadelphia Suburban Water Company Borough of Felton v. DEP; EHB doc. no. 95-269-C. 4480 for approval to implement a tariff supplement Montgomery County v. DEP; EHB doc. no. 92- establishing a distribution system improvement 448-MR ........................................4480 charge; doc. no. P-00961036 .....................4490 INDEPENDENT REGULATORY REVIEW Service of notice of motor carrier applications.......4496 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Author- COMMISSION ity; railroad ....................................4495 Notices Notice of filing of final-form rulemakings ...........4481 STATE BOARD OF MEDICINE Rules and Regulations Corrective amendment to 49 Pa. Code § 16.13 ...... 4411 PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN, VOL. 26, NO. 37, SEPTEMBER 14, 1996 4404 READER’S GUIDE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN AND PENNSYLVANIA CODE Pennsylvania Bulletin proposal must be published in the Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Bulletin is the official gazette of Bulletin before it can take effect. If the agency the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is published wishes to adopt changes to the Notice of Proposed every week and includes a table of contents. A Rulemaking to enlarge the scope, they must re- cumulative subject matter index is published quar- propose. terly. 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