FWS will reintroduce whooping cranes as a nonessential experimental population into historic habitat in southwestern Louisiana to establish a nonmigratory flock.

OSM approved an amendment to Alabama's regulatory program under SMCRA concerning licensing.

EPA approved revisions to North Carolina's hazardous waste management program.

SIP Approval: Pennsylvania (conformity, contingency, and control measures for the Pennsylvania portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City moderate 1997 eight-hour ozone nonattainment area)

SIP Approval: Maryland (definition of "fuel-burning equipment")

SIP Approval: Kansas (PSD permit requirements)

SIP Approval: Illinois (waiver of nitrogen oxide reasonably available control technology requirements)