October 4, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that Red Mountain Road, located on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management approximately eight miles east of Piercy, California, is closed to public access due to dangers posed by the Nobles Fire. Exempted from this closure are vehicles and personnel involved with fighting the Nobles Fire, federal, state and local officers involved in the enforcement of their duties, and Red Mountain Road area residents who show valid identification. This closure is necessary to protect public health and safety.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is providing for additional public input in connection with its annual Government- Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, to be held Friday, September 29, 2006, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, at its Washington, DC headquarters. The morning sessions of the Forum will be Webcast on the Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov. The public is invited to submit written statements in connection with the Forum. This year's Forum program will include two roundtable discussions in the morning. The first roundtable will discuss the advantages to smaller public companies of filing interactive data with the SEC. The second roundtable will discuss current issues in capital raising techniques for small business, such as the status of the IPO (initial public offering) market and PIPE (private investment in public equity) offerings. The Commission expects that the Forum will develop recommendations for government and private action to facilitate small business capital formation. The afternoon sessions of the Forum, which will not be Webcast, will be devoted to breakout sessions to develop recommendations. More information about the Forum is available at www.sec.gov/info/ smallbus/sbforum.shtml.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new SOR titled ``Low Vision Rehabilitation Demonstration (LVRD),'' System No. 09-70-0582. The program is mandated by Section 641 of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Public Law (Pub. L.) 108-173), enacted into law on December 8, 2003, and amended Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (the Act). The LVRD program seeks to establish a new demonstration project to examine Medicare beneficiaries who are diagnosed with moderate to severe visual impairment and who may be eligible to receive covered vision rehabilitating services. Rehabilitation may be conducted under general supervision of a qualified physician in an appropriate setting including in the home of the beneficiary receiving the services. Improvements in these areas are expected to generate savings to the Medicare program to offset the costs of the performance payments. The primary purpose of the system is to collect and maintain identifiable information on Medicare beneficiaries who participate in Medicare Part B fee-for-service coverage, qualified physicians, such as ophthalmologists or optometrists, qualified occupational therapists, and vision rehabilitation therapists who are certified by the Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation Professionals. Information retrieved from this system will also be disclosed to: (1) Support regulatory, reimbursement, and policy functions performed within the agency or by a contractor, consultant, or grantee; (2) assist another Federal or state agency with information to enable such agency to administer a Federal health benefits program, or to enable such agency to fulfill a requirement of Federal statute or regulation that implements a health benefits program funded in whole or in part with Federal funds; (3) assist an individual or organization for a research project or in support of an evaluation project related to the prevention of disease or disability, the restoration or maintenance of health, or payment related projects; (4) support litigation involving the agency; and (5) combat fraud, waste, and abuse in certain health benefits programs. We have provided background information about the new system in the Supplementary Information section below. Although the Privacy Act requires only that CMS provide an opportunity for interested persons to comment on the proposed routine uses, CMS invites comments on all portions of this notice. See Effective Dates section for comment period.

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

DEA proposes to amend its regulations to update the list of non-traditional countries authorized to export narcotic raw materials (NRM) to the United States. This change would replace Yugoslavia with Spain. This proposed rule seeks to maintain a consistent and reliable supply of narcotic raw materials from a limited number of countries consistent with United States obligations under international treaties and resolutions.

The Department of Defense (DoD or ``the Department''), with the approval of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), received authority to conduct a personnel demonstration project within DoD's civilian acquisition workforce and those supporting personnel assigned to work directly with it. [See Section 4308 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Pub. L. 104-106; 10 U.S.C.A. section 1701 note), as amended by section 845 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Pub. L. 105-85)]. The project was developed under legislative authority granted in Fiscal Year 1996 and modified in Fiscal Year 1998. Subsequent legislation authorized establishment of NSPS, a human resources management system for DoD under 5 U.S.C. 9902, as enacted by section 1101 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Pub. L. 108-136). This notice provides authorization for an out-of-cycle payout under CCAS prior to transition to NSPS and addresses procedures for conversion of employees from this demonstration project to NSPS.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number.

This document commences a hearing proceeding by directing Terry Keith Hammond, the licensee of Station KBKH(FM), Shamrock, Texas, to show cause why the license of Station KBKH(FM) should not be revoked, and by designating the license renewal application for Station KBKH(FM) for an evidentiary hearing on issues relating to Terry Keith Hammond's qualifications to be and remain a Commission licensee.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 757-200, -200PF, and -200CB series airplanes. This AD requires doing initial and repetitive detailed or high frequency eddy current inspections for cracks around the rivets at the upper fastener row of the skin lap splice of the fuselage, and repairing any crack found. This AD results from a report indicating that certain rivets were incorrectly installed in some areas of the skin lap splices during production because they were drilled with a countersink that was too deep. We are issuing this AD to detect and correct premature fatigue cracking at certain skin lap splice locations of the fuselage, and consequent rapid decompression of the airplane.

This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.

In this document, the Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') announces decisions on four issues involving the Telemarketing Sales Rule (``TSR''): the denial of a petition submitted by Voice Mail Broadcasting Corporation (``VMBC'') requesting creation of a new safe harbor for the TSR that would permit the use of prerecorded messages in calls to established customers; a new proposal to amend the TSR by expressly prohibiting unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing calls without the consumer's prior written agreement; revocation of the Commission's previously announced policy of forbearance from bringing enforcement actions against sellers and telemarketers who make prerecorded telemarketing calls to established customers effective January 2, 2007; and a new proposal to amend the prescribed method for measuring the maximum allowable call abandonment rate in the TSR's existing safe harbor provision, in response to a petition from the Direct Marketing Association, Inc. (``DMA''). The Commission is requesting public comment on the proposed amendments during a comment period ending November 6, 2006.