May 6, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces the first meeting of the HIT Standards Committee in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

The Commission grants a petition for rulemaking filed by Comcorp of Bryan License Corp., the licensee of post-transition station KYLE-DT, DTV channel 29, to substitute its originally assigned DTV channel 28, for post-transition DTV channel 29 at Bryan, Texas and to move its transmitter location and make associated technical changes.

EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (SBCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act), we are approving

The President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) will meet on May 21, 2009, in a partially closed session.

EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (NCUAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act), we are proposing to

EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from boilers, process heaters, steam generators and residential water heaters. We are approving local rules that regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel concrete reinforcing bars (rebar) from Turkey with respect to two companies, Ekinciler Demir ve Celik Sanayi A.S. and Ekinciler Dis Ticaret A.S. (collectively ``Ekinciler'') and Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kaptan).\1\ The review covers the period April 1, 2007 through March 25, 2008.

The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that the subject exempted fishing permit (EFP) application contains all the required information and warrants further consideration. Therefore, NMFS announces that the Assistant Regional Administrator proposes to recommend that an EFP be issued that would allow one commercial fishing vessel to conduct fishing operations that are otherwise restricted by the regulations governing the fisheries of the Northeastern United States. The EFP, which would enable the applicants to investigate the selectivity of different groundfish trawl codend configurations with a small-mesh cover, would allow for exemptions for one vessel from the Northeast (NE) Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP) as follows: NE multispecies Gulf of Maine (GOM) minimum mesh size. In addition, this EFP would allow temporary exemptions from the NE Multispecies and Monkfish FMPs, per the stipulations detailed in this document, as follows: NE multispecies minimum fish sizes; NE multispecies possession restrictions; monkfish minimum fish sizes; and monkfish possession restrictions.

We determine that imports from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') of folding metal tables with legs connected by cross-bars, so that the legs fold in sets, and otherwise meeting the description of in-scope merchandise, are within the class or kind of merchandise subject to the order on folding metal tables and chairs (``FMTCs'') from the PRC.

This notice announces the Agency's receipt of several initial filings of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.

In this document, the Commission, via the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, extends the limited waiver granted in the Implementation of Sections 255 and 251(a)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as Enacted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Access to Telecommunications Service, Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Persons with Disabilities; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, Order (2008 TRS 711 Waiver Order) of the requirement that traditional telecommunications relay service (TRS) providers (those providing relay service via the public switched telephone network and a text telephone (TTY)) must automatically and immediately call an appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) when receiving an emergency 711-dialed call placed by an interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) user. In taking this action, the Commission grants, to the extent provided herein, the petition for extension of waiver filed by AT&T Inc. (AT&T) and Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint) with respect to traditional TRS providers' duty to automatically and immediately route emergency 711 calls that originate on the network of an interconnected VoIP provider.

This regulation establishes a time-limited tolerance for residues of novaluron in or on strawberry. This action is in response to EPA's granting of an emergency exemption under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of the pesticide on strawberries. This regulation establishes a maximum permissible level for residues of novaluron in this food commodity. The time-limited tolerance expires and is revoked on December 31, 2011.

On May 1, 2009, the Department of State certified, pursuant to Section 609 of Public Law 101-162 (``Section 609''), that 15 nations have adopted programs to reduce the incidental capture of sea turtles in their shrimp fisheries comparable to the program in effect in the United States. The Department also certified that the fishing environments in 24 other countries and one economy, Hong Kong, do not pose a threat of the incidental taking of sea turtles protected under Section 609. Shrimp imports from any nation not certified were prohibited effective May 1, 2009 pursuant to Section 609.

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is partially rescinding its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Mexico for the period November 1, 2007, to October 31, 2008 with respect to four of the eight companies for which the review was initiated. This rescission is based on the timely withdrawal of the request for review by the interested party that requested the review. A complete list of the companies for which the administrative review is being rescinded is provided in the Background section below.

The U.S. Department of State is holding a public meeting on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 1 p.m. at the Department of State, 2201 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20520, in the Loy Henderson Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting is to allow non-governmental organizations, and others with expertise on the legal rights of workers and victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, to provide their expertise and input into the development and distribution of an information pamphlet on the legal rights and resources for aliens applying for employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visas. This is pursuant to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, specifically section 202, Protections for domestic workers and other nonimmigrants. This Act defines ``employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visa'' as a nonimmigrant visa issued under subparagraph (A)(iii), (G)(v), (H), or (J) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)); and any nonimmigrant visa issued to a personal or domestic servant who is accompanying or following to join an employer. Organizations or individuals may also submit written comments to be considered by the Department of State as it develops this information pamphlet.

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR part 1320, Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the National Park Service (NPS) invites public comments on a proposed new collection of information (1024-xxxx).

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent No. 5,167,956 and PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US92/00813 and foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Immunotoxin with in vivo T cell suppressant activity and methods of use'' (HHS Ref. No. E-012-1991/0); U.S. Patent No. 5,725,857 and foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Immunotoxin with in vivo T cell suppressant activity and methods of use'' (HHS Ref. No. E-012-1991/2); U.S. Patent No. 5,762,927 and foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Immunotoxin with in vivo T cell suppressant activity and methods of use'' (HHS Ref. No. E-012-1991/4); Australian Patent No. 762197 and PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US96/ 05087 and other foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Methods of inducing immune tolerance using immunotoxins'' (HHS Ref. No. E-012- 1991/5); U.S. Patent No. 6,103,235 and foreign equivalents thereof and U.S. Patent No. 7,125,553 and foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Methods of inducing immune tolerance using immunotoxins'' (HHS Ref. No. E-012-1991/7); Australian Patent No. 766692 entitled ``Novel vectors and expression methods for producing mutant proteins'' (HHS Ref. No. E-043-1997/0); U.S. Patent Application No. 10/566,886 and PCT Application No. PCT/US2004/24786 and foreign equivalents thereof entitled ``Methods for expression and purification of immunotoxins'' (E-043-1997/2); U.S. Patent No. 6,632,928 and PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US98/04303 and foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Novel immunotoxins and methods of inducing immune tolerance'' (HHS Ref. No. E-044-1997/0); U.S. Patent Application No. 10/296,085 and PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US01/16125 and foreign equivalents thereof entitled ``Immunotoxin Fusion Proteins and Means for Expression Thereof'' (HHS Ref. No. E-044-1997/1); U.S. Patent No. 7,288,254 and PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US99/08606 and foreign equivalents thereof entitled ``Use of immunotoxins to induce immune tolerance to pancreatic islet transplantation'' (HHS Ref. No. E-059-1998/0); Australian Patent No. 781547 and PCT Application No. PCT/US00/10253 and other foreign equivalents thereof, entitled ``Methods related to combined use of immunotoxins and agents that inhibit dendritic cell maturation'' (HHS Ref. No. E-168-1999/0), to Angimmune LLC which is located in Bethesda, Maryland. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted the information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The submission describes the nature of the information collection, the categories of respondents, the estimated burden (i.e., the time, effort and resources used by respondents to respond) and cost, and includes the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.

This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for the State of Texas (FEMA-3294-EM), dated September 10, 2008, and related determinations.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Arkansas (FEMA-1834-DR), dated 04/27/2009.