February 8, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The regulation to implement the re-engineered permanent foreign labor certification program (PERM) was published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2004, with an effective date of March 28, 2005. See 69 FR 77326. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is issuing this notice to announce the mailing addresses for employers that choose to file applications by mail under the new permanent foreign labor certification program. The Department encourages employers to file applications electronically as applications submitted by mail will not be processed as quickly as those filed electronically. As of December 13, 2004, the Department opened two new National Processing Centers in Atlanta and Chicago. The National Processing Centers will handle permanent labor certification cases filed under the PERM system. In addition, these centers will process all applications that are withdrawn from the current permanent labor certification program and re-filed under the new PERM program.

This notice announces EPA's plan to establish a comprehensive framework for making decisions about the extent to which it will consider or rely on certain types of research with human participants. Among other actions the plan provides for: Issuing proposed and final rules, and providing in this Notice a description of the Agency's case- by-case process for evaluating human studies, which is to remain in effect until superseded by rulemaking. This Notice invites public comments on the overall plan and particularly on the current case-by-case process.

On February 4, 2003, in response to a petition from the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (``NYMEX'' or ``Exchange'') the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission''), issued an order \1\ pursuant to Section 1a(12)(C) of the Commodity Exchange Act (``Act''). The order provides that, subject to certain conditions, Exchange floor brokers and floor traders (collectively referred to hereafter as ``floor members'') who are registered with the Commission, when acting in a proprietary trading capacity, shall be deemed to be ``eligible contract participants'' as that term is defined in Section 1a(12) of the Act. The order (hereafter the ``original order'' or the ``ECP Order'') is effective for a two-year period and thus will expire on February 4, 2005.

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be available for licensing.

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be available for licensing.

Background Notice is hereby given of the final approval of proposed information collection(s) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) under OMB delegated authority, as per 5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB Regulations on Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public). Board-approved collections of information are incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. Copies of the OMB 83-Is and supporting statements and approved collection of information instrument(s) are placed into OMB's public docket files. The Federal Reserve may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The Department of Commerce, 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, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) herein describes its issuance of final interpretive rules, general statements of policy and rules of agency procedure or practice relating to the Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS), Language Preservation and Maintenance (hereinafter referred to as Native Language), and Environmental Regulatory Enhancement (hereinafter referred to as Environmental) programs.