Agencies and Commissions July 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau (the Bureau) maintains support on a limited, interim, fiscally responsible basis for specific Rural Health Care Pilot Program participants that have exhausted their funding this year or will exhaust such funding during funding year 2012 to ensure that they can continue to benefit from access to these Pilot Program-funded broadband networks, while the Commission considers potential reforms to transition recipients of Pilot funding to a longer-term mechanism for supporting broadband services delivered to rural HCPs. This interim support will preserve transitioning Pilot Program participants' connectivity and the resulting health care benefits that patients receive from those investments made by the Commission in health care broadband networks.

Notice is hereby given of the publication of technical amendments to Guide 3, Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies (``Industry Guide 3''), and Guide 7, Description of Property by Issuers Engaged or to be Engaged in Significant Mining Operations (``Industry Guide 7''), of the Securities Act of 1933 Industry Guides (``Industry Guides''). These revisions are to conform the Industry Guides to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification\TM\ (``FASB Codification'').

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instructions on what happens to records when no longer needed for current Government business. They authorize the preservation of records of continuing value in the National Archives of the United States and the destruction, after a specified period, of records lacking administrative, legal, research, or other value. Notice is published for records schedules in which agencies propose to destroy records not previously authorized for disposal or reduce the retention period of records already authorized for disposal. NARA invites public comments on such records schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to increase small business size standards for one industry and one sub- industry in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Sector 23, Construction. SBA proposes to increase the size standard for NAICS 237210, Land Subdivision, from $7 million to $25 million and the size standard for Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities, a sub- industry category (or an ``exception'') under NAICS 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, from $20 million to $30 million in average annual receipts. As part of its ongoing comprehensive size standards review, SBA has evaluated all size standards in NAICS Sector 23 to determine whether they should be retained or revised. This proposed rule is one of a series of proposed rules that will review size standards of industries grouped by NAICS Sector. SBA issued a White Paper entitled ``Size Standards Methodology'' and published a notice in the October 21, 2009 issue of the Federal Register to advise the public that the document is available on its Web site at www.sba.gov/size for public review and comments. The ``Size Standards Methodology'' White Paper explains how SBA establishes, reviews, and modifies its receipts based and employee based small business size standards. In this proposed rule, SBA has applied its methodology that pertains to establishing, reviewing, and modifying a receipts based size standard.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') is making a technical amendment to rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') to correct an inadvertent error. On December 21, 2011, the Commission extended the expiration date for the temporary municipal advisor registration regime to September 30, 2012. In the release extending the expiration date, the Commission inadvertently omitted a reference to Subpart N, which resulted in the deletion of Subpart N from the Code of Federal Regulations. With this technical amendment, the Commission is correcting the omission and adding back Subpart N to the Code of Federal Regulations.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Florida (FEMA- 4068-DR), dated 07/09/2012. Incident: Tropical Storm Debby. Incident Period: 06/23/2012 and continuing. Effective Date: 07/09/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 09/07/2012. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 04/09/2013.

In this document, the Commission extends the deadline for filing reply comments on the Commission's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) proposing additional rules to help consumers prevent and detect the placement of unauthorized charges on their telephone bills, an unlawful and fraudulent practice commonly referred to as cramming. The extension will facilitate the development of a full record given the importance of the issues in this proceeding.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') is proposing a rule pursuant to its authority under Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) allowing cooperatives meeting certain conditions to elect not to submit for clearing certain swaps that such cooperatives would otherwise be required to clear in accordance with Section 2(h)(1) of the CEA.