Agencies and Commissions February 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In this document, the Commission initiates a hearing proceeding before a Commission Administrative Law Judge to determine whether an application to renew the license for Amateur Radio Service Station W6WBJ filed by William F. Crowell should be granted.

The TVA Regional Resource Stewardship Council (RRSC) will hold a meeting on March 13 and March 14, 2008, to obtain views and advice on the topic of TVA's Draft Environmental Policy & Framework and TVA's Natural Resources Management Strategy. The RRSC was established to advise TVA on its natural resource stewardship activities. Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, (FACA). The meeting agenda includes the following: (1) TVA Updates. (2) TVA's Draft Environmental Policy & Framework: Land & Water Stewardship Issues. (3) External Perspectives on Land & Water Stewardship Activities. (4) TVA Natural Resources Management Strategy. (5) Drought Conditions Updates. (6) Bear Creek Dam Update. (7) Public Comments. (8) Council Discussion and Advice. The TVA Regional Resource Stewardship Council will hear opinions and views of citizens by providing a public comment session. The public comment session will be held at 9:30 a.m., EDT, on Friday, March 14. Persons wishing to speak are requested to register at the door by 9 a.m., EDT, on March 14 and will be called on during the public comment period. Handout materials should be limited to one printed page. Written comments are also invited and may be mailed to the Regional Resource Stewardship Council, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT 11B, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Tennessee (FEMA1745DR), dated 02/ 07/2008. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding Incident Period: 02/05/2008 through 02/06/2008. Effective Date: 02/12/2008. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 04/07/2008. EIDL Loan Application Deadline Date: 11/07/2008.

The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List a product and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete a service previously furnished by such agencies. Comments Must Be Received On or Before: March 23, 2008.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

The Peace Corps is revising its current regulations on debt collection. The revisions will clarify and simplify Peace Corps' debt collection procedures and practices. It eliminates the tax refund offset provisions of the previous regulation, and consolidates the administrative and tax refund offset provisions into one section.

Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will meet on Friday, February 29, 2008. The meeting will be held in the Cash Room of the Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC at 9:45 a.m. The ACHP was established by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) to advise the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy and to comment upon Federal, federally assisted, and federally licensed undertakings having an effect upon properties listed in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The ACHP's members are the Architect of the Capitol; the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Defense, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Transportation; the Administrator of the General Services Administration; the Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the President of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; a Governor; a Mayor; a Native American; and eight non-Federal members appointed by the President. The agenda for the meeting includes the following:

This document grants a Petition for Reconsideration filed by CC Licenses, LLC, directed to the Report and Order in this proceeding. In doing so, it reallots Channel 299A from Windsor to Norfolk, Virginia, and modifies the Station WJCD license to specify Norfolk as the community of license. To replace the loss of a sole local service at Windsor, it also reallots Channel 287B from Norfolk to Windsor and modifies the Station WKUS license to specify Windsor as the community of license. The reference coordinates for the Channel 299A allotment at Norfolk, Virginia, are 36-55-26 and 76-15-05. The reference coordinates for the Channel 287B allotment at Windsor, Virginia, are 36-48-47 and 76-35-57. With this action, the proceeding is terminated.

This document requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by Moy Communications, Inc. (``Petitioner'') proposing the allotment of Channel 243C1 at Dededo, Guam, as the second local aural transmission service at Dededo. The proposed coordinates are 13-29-17 NL and 144-49-35 WL, with a site restriction of 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) south of Dededo, Guam.

This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a partially exclusive license worldwide to practice the inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,684,531, entitled ``Ranging Apparatus and Method Implementing Stereo Vision System''; 5,673,082, entitled ``Light-Directed Ranging System Implementing Single Camera System for Telerobotics Applications''; and 6,244,644, entitled ``Compact Dexterous Robotic Hand'', to HyperMedia Corporation, having its principal place of business in Barker, Texas. The fields of use may be limited to underwater applications for oil and gas exploration and production. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective partially exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.

In the Order, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) amended the Commission's rules to delegate authority to the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau to administer the Commission's rules that pertain to disruptions to communications. This delegation is consistent with the purpose and functions of the Bureau to promote a more efficient, effective and responsive organizational structure and to better promote and address public safety, homeland security, national security, emergency management and preparedness, disaster management, and related issues. Establishment of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Order, 21 FCC Rcd 13655 (2006).