Agencies and Commissions August 13, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Following receipt of a request on July 31, 2012, from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) under section 115 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3524) and section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332(g)), the U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) instituted two investigations for the purpose of providing the requested advice and information: investigation No. 332-532, The Information Technology Agreement: Advice and Information on the Proposed Expansion: Part 1, and investigation No. 332-536, The Information Technology Agreement: Advice and Information on the Proposed Expansion: Part 2.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) plans to conduct a workshop on performance assessments of near-surface low-level radioactive waste (LLW) disposal facilities. The workshop has been developed to facilitate communication among Federal and State agencies, industry representatives, contractors, and members of the public on three aspects of a performance assessment: (1) Features, Events, and Processes (FEPs) analysis, (2) the development of scenarios and conceptual models, and (3) the selection of computer codes. Information gathered from invited subject matter experts, stakeholders, and other interested members of the public will be used to improve guidance on performance assessments for near-surface disposal of LLW.

This document revises the Commission's list of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved public information collection requirements with their associated OMB expiration dates. This list will provide the public with a current list of public information collection requirements approved by OMB and their associated control numbers and expiration date as of June 30, 2012.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Maryland (FEMA- 4075-DR), dated 08/02/2012. Incident: Severe storms and straight-line winds. Incident Period: 06/29/2012 through 07/08/2012. Effective Date: 08/02/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 10/01/2012. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 05/02/2013.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Wisconsin (FEMA- 4076-DR), dated 08/02/2012. Incident: Severe storms and flooding. Incident Period: 06/19/2012 through 06/20/2012. Effective Date: 08/02/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 10/01/2012. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 05/02/2013.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Montana dated 08/06/2012. Incident: Dahl Fire. Incident Period: 06/26/2012 through 07/06/2012. Effective Date: 08/06/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 10/05/2012. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 05/06/2013.

This document amends the Commission's rules to provide a more efficient use of the 76-77 GHz band, and to enable the automotive and aviation industries to develop enhanced safety measures for drivers and the general public. Specifically, the Commission is eliminating the in- motion and not-in-motion distinction for vehicular radars, and instead adopting new uniform emission limits for forward, side, and rear- looking vehicular radars. This will facilitate enhanced vehicular radar technologies to improve collision avoidance and driver safety. The Commission is also amending its rules to allow the operation of fixed radars at airport locations in the 76-77 GHz band for purposes of detecting foreign object debris on runways and monitoring aircraft and service vehicles on taxiways and other airport vehicle service areas that have no public vehicle access. The Commission takes this action in response to petitions for rulemaking filed by Toyota Motor Corporation (``TMC'') and Era Systems Corporation (``Era'').

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add Priority Mail Contract 39 the competitive product list. This notice addresses procedural steps associated with this filing.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) determines that the four factors contained in section 713(e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act) will continue to apply when evaluating individual requests for closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) and our corresponding rules, notwithstanding a change in terminology in the statute, enacted by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), which replaced the term ``undue burden'' in that section with the term ``economically burdensome.'' The Order further amends the Commission's rules to replace all current references to ``undue burden'' with the term ``economically burdensome.'' These rule amendments correspond with the new statutory language in the CVAA requiring petitioners seeking individual closed captioning exemptions under section 713(d)(3) of the Act to show that providing captions on their programming would be economically burdensome.