Agencies and Commissions 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to enter into an additional international mail contract. This document invites public comments on the request and addresses several related procedural steps.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an ID (Order No. 30) of the administrative law judge (``ALJ'') granting a joint motion to terminate the investigation. The investigation is hereby terminated.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an initial determination (``ID'') (Order No. 39) of the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') terminating the above-captioned investigation as to all remaining respondents based on a settlement agreement. The remaining respondents included the following: LG Electronics, Inc. and LG Innotek Co., Ltd., both of Seoul, South Korea; LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; and LG Innotek U.S.A., Inc. of San Diego, California (collectively, ``LG'').

The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) plans to hold its regular committee and Board meetings in Washington, DC, Monday through Wednesday, January 7-9, 2013 on the times and location listed below.

This Call invites experienced early stage fund managers to submit the preliminary materials discussed in Section II, in the form of the Small Business Investment Company (``SBIC'') Management Assessment Questionnaire (``MAQ''), for consideration by the Small Business Administration (``SBA'') to be licensed as Early Stage Small Business Investment Companies. Licensed Early Stage SBICs may receive SBA-guaranteed debenture leverage of up to 100 percent of their Regulatory Capital, up to a maximum of $50 million. Early Stage SBICs must invest at least 50% of their investment dollars in early stage small businesses. For the purposes of this initiative, an ``early stage'' business is one that has never achieved positive cash flow from operations in any fiscal year. By licensing and providing SBA guaranteed leverage to Early Stage SBICs, SBA seeks to expand entrepreneurs' access to capital and encourage innovation as part of President Obama's Start-Up America Initiative launched on January 31, 2011. More information on the Early Stage SBIC Initiative and the regulations governing these SBICs may be found at www.sba.gov/inv/ earlystage. In order to expedite licensing of qualified applicants that have already raised the required capital, SBA has established two ``tracks'' for the Early Stage SBIC Licensing Process as follows: [rtrif] Track 1Applicants with Capital: This includes all applicants that have signed commitments for at least $15 million in Regulatory Capital and the remaining capital needed to achieve the minimum $20 million in Regulatory Capital for Early Stage SBICs ``soft- circled.'' (This may include drop-down funds.) Track 1 applicants that receive a Green Light letter will need signed commitments of at least $20 million in Regulatory Capital when they file their Licensing Application on or before June 7, 2013. SBA will accept a commitment that is conditioned upon issuance of an Early Stage SBIC license and/or approval of the applicant's organizational documents, but will not accept a commitment that is subject to any other conditions. [rtrif] Track 2All Other Applicants.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the District of Columbia (FEMA- 4096-DR), dated 12/05/2012. Incident: Hurricane Sandy. Incident Period: 10/26/2012 through 10/31/2012. Effective Date: 12/05/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 02/04/2013. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 09/05/2013.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of MARYLAND (FEMA-4091-DR), dated 11/20/2012. Incident: Hurricane Sandy. Incident Period: 10/26/2012 through 11/04/2012. Effective Date: 12/03/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 01/21/2013. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 08/20/2013.

The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act authorizes the Access Board to convene a stakeholder working group to develop best practices for making information on prescription drug container labels accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. The working group will hold its first meeting on January 10 and 11, 2013.

On December 10, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') published a document in the Federal Register to amend its regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') to extend the dates with respect to the requirements that designated clearing agencies for which the Commission is the supervisory agency file advance notices and clearing agencies file security-based swap submissions with the Commission in an electronic format to dedicated email addresses to December 10, 2013, and amend the General Instructions to Form 19b-4 to clarify the process for submitting advance notices and security-based swap submissions to the Commission. The document contained an error with respect to the placement and numbering of a footnote.

The FDIC originally promulgated the Statement of Policy for Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (SOP) in December 1998. The FDIC, in 2007, issued a clarification to the SOP based on the 2006 amendment to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, which addressed institution-affiliated parties (IAPs) participating in the affairs of Bank Holding Companies, or Savings and Loan Holding Companies. The FDIC, in 2011, clarified the SOP as to: (i) The applicability of section 19 on bank and thrift holding company institution-affiliated parties; (ii) the term ``complete expungement;'' and (iii) the factors for considering de minimis convictions. The FDIC is restating the full SOP, including previous changes, and modifying what the FDIC views as the definition of de minimis offenses.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) deletes one system of records from its existing inventory of systems of records subject to the Privacy Act.