July 22, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that Thomas A. Jefferson, NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 has been issued a permit to conduct research on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the new information collection, Extension of Timber Sales.

There will be an open house in Washington, DC to discuss the proposed rule for the management of roadless areas on National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado.

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA or Agency), through the FCA Board (Board), issued a final rule under part 613 on May 28, 2008 (73 FR 30460) amending our regulation governing financing of processing and marketing operations by Farm Credit System institutions under titles I and II of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended. In accordance with 12 U.S.C. 2252, the effective date of the final rule is 30 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register during which either or both Houses of Congress are in session. Based on the records of the sessions of Congress, the effective date of the regulations is July 17, 2008.

Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority No. 236 of October 19, 1999, as amended, and Delegation of Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], I hereby determine that the objects to be included in the exhibition ``Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna 1575-1725'' to be displayed at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign owners or custodians. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit and additional objects at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, from on or about December 16, 2008, until on or about May 3, 2009, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be determined, is in the national interest. Public Notice of these Determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register. For Further Information Contact: For further information, including a list of the exhibit objects, contact Wolodymyr Sulzynsky, Attorney- Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202/453-8050). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA- 44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

NRCS is providing public notice that the Secretary of Agriculture has determined the payments made under Pennsylvania's Upper Makefield Township Riparian Restoration and Preservation Grant Program are primarily for the purpose of protecting or restoring the environment. NRCS was assigned technical and administrative responsibility for reviewing the Upper Makefield Township Riparian Restoration and Preservation Grant Program and making appropriate recommendations for the Secretary's determination of primary purpose. This determination is in accordance with section 126 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (26 U.S.C. 126), and permits recipients of cost-share payments to exclude from gross income to the extent allowed by the Internal Revenue Service.

EPA is issuing amendments to the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for semiconductor manufacturing. These amendments establish a new maximum achievable control technology floor level of control for existing and new combined hazardous air pollutants process vent streams containing inorganic and organic hazardous air pollutants and clarify the emission requirements for process vents by adding definitions for organic, inorganic, and combined hazardous air pollutant process vent streams that contain both organic and inorganic hazardous air pollutant.

The Deputy Secretary of Energy confirmed and approved Rate Order No. WAPA-136 and Rate Schedule SNF-7, placing a non-firm power formula rate from the Stampede Powerplant (Stampede) of the Washoe Project of the Western Area Power Administration (Western) into effect on an interim basis. The provisional rate will be in effect until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirms, approves, and places it into effect on a final basis or until it is replaced by another rate. The provisional rate will provide sufficient revenue to pay all annual costs, including interest expense, and repayment of power investment within allowable periods.

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Roxana Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University: Based on reports submitted by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) inquiry and investigation committees, the Respondent's own admission in sworn testimony, and additional analysis conducted by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) during its oversight review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found that Roxana Gonzalez, graduate student, Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Psychology, CMU, engaged in scientific misconduct in research supported by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grants R01 MH56880, R03 MH62376, and R24 MH67346. Specifically, PHS found that Ms. Gonzalez engaged in the following acts of scientific misconduct: 1. Respondent altered the main dependent variable (life events; life expectation) in the electronic file and the manipulation check variables for ease-of-thought generation so that the reported study results are largely unsupported in: (a) Publication: Lerner, J.S., & Gonzalez, R.M. ``Forecasting one's future based on fleeting subjective experiences.'' Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 31:454-466, 2005; (b) 2005 Manuscript: Lerner, J. S., & Gonzalez, R. M. ``On perceiving the self as triumphant when happy or angry''; (c) Review Article: Lerner J. S., Tiedens, L.Z., & Gonzalez, R. M. ``Portrait of the angry decision maker: How appraisal tendencies shape anger's influence on cognition.'' Journal of Behavioral Decision Making: Special Issue on Emotion and Decision Making. 2. Respondent falsified cortisol values, and possibly cardiovascular measures and optimistic appraisals (as measured by LOT), so that a large portion of the mediation analyses of Table 3 does not reflect the data actually collected and analyzed for the study reported in a publication (Lerner, J.S., Gonzalez, R.M., Dahl, R.E., Hariri, A.R., & Taylor, S.E. ``Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses.'' Biological Psychiatry 58:743-750, 2005). Respondent further allowed one of her collaborators to report the results from this study at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society held in Los Angeles, California in May 2005, although Respondent's collaborator did not know at the time that the results were tainted by Respondent's acts of research misconduct. 3. Respondent falsified the analyses based on participants' responses to the manipulation check items (including the data for self reported fear) in a study reported in a publication (Fischhoff, B., Gonzalez, R.M., Lerner, J.S., & Small, D.A. ``Evolving judgments of terrorism's risks: Foresight, hindsight, and emotion.'' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 11:124-139, 2005. 4. Respondent falsified the main dependent variable (reservation price, BDM) in the electronic file for 48 of the 175 subjects participating in a study reported in a 2005 manuscript (Lerner, J.S., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A., Lowenstein, G., & Dahl, R.E. ``Emotional influence on economic behavior among adolescents.''). Respondent directed the alteration of the paper files for those subjects in order to match the altered electronic file. One of Respondent's collaborators included a qualitative description of the results of the research that is the subject of this study in an NIH grant application, although Respondent's collaborator did not know at the time that the results were tainted by the Respondent's acts of research misconduct. ORI acknowledges Ms. Gonzalez' extensive cooperation with CMU's research misconduct proceedings. Ms. Gonzalez has entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement (Agreement) in which she has voluntarily agreed, beginning on June 26, 2008: (1) To exclude herself from serving in any advisory capacity to PHS, including but not limited to service on any PHS advisory committee, board, and/or peer review committee, or as a consultant or contractor to PHS, for a period of three (3) years; (2) That for a period of three (3) years, any institution that submits an application for PHS support for a research project on which the Respondent's participation is proposed or that uses the Respondent in any capacity on PHS supported research, or that submits a report of PHS-funded research in which the Respondent is involved, must concurrently submit a plan for supervision of the Respondent's duties to the funding agency for approval; the supervisory plan must be designed to ensure the scientific integrity of the respondent's research contribution; Respondent agrees to ensure that a copy of the supervisory plan is also submitted to ORI by the institution; Respondent agrees that she will not participate in any PHS-supported research until such a supervisory plan is submitted to ORI; (3) for a period of three (3) years to ensure that any institution employing her submits, in conjunction with each application for PHS funds or report, manuscript, or abstract of PHS-funded research in which the Respondent is involved, a certification that the data provided by the Respondent are based on actual experiments or are otherwise legitimately derived, and that the data, procedures, analyses, and methodology are accurately reported in the application, report, manuscript or abstract; the Respondent must ensure that the institution sends a copy of the certification to ORI; and (4) to write ORI-approved letters to (a) collaborators/coauthors of the manuscripts and published papers cited above, stating what she falsified/fabricated and offering restitution; and (b) editors of the journals in which papers were published (even if they have been retracted/corrected) to state that her falsifications/fabrications were the underlying reason for the retraction/correction.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.