February 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Copyright Office announces a modification to a policy decision announced January 21, 2005, concerning changing the format of certain copyright registration certificates. The modification clarifies how the Office will select applications for registration to be included in a pilot program in which certificates of registration will be generated from registration data scanned from the applications and stored in an electronic information system.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the lands described below in the BLM-Eastern States, Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.

Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of the forthcoming meeting of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss the findings of the 2004 Science and Technology Quality Review of Air Force Research Laboratory programs. Because classified and contractor-proprietary information will be discussed, this meeting will be closed to the public.

The invention listed below is assigned to the United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,825,801: Outer Loop Test Generator for Global Positioning System.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Cytoplex Biosciences, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license, to practice in the field of real time monitoring of molecular binding for pharmaceutical drug discovery in the United States and certain foreign countries, the Government- Owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 5,372,930: Sensors for Ultra-Low Concentration Molecular Recognition, Navy Case No. 73,568// U.S. Patent No. 5,807,758: Chemical and Biological Sensor Using an Ultra-Sensitive Force Transducer, Navy Case No. 76,628//U.S. Patent No. 5,981,297: Biosensor Using Magnetically-Detected Label, Navy Case No. 77,576//U.S. Patent No. 6,180,418: Force Discrimination Assay, Navy Case No. 78,183.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are made available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/152,471: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TRACKING PROJECT TRENDS //U.S. Patent No. 6,650,297: LASER DRIVEN PLASMA ANTENNA UTILIZING LASER MODIFIED MAXWELLIAN RELAXATION //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/553,510: SPECIAL SOUNDS VIDEO NARROWBAND PROCESSING SOFTWARE //U.S. Patent No. 6,657,594: PLASMA ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD //U.S. Patent No. 6,806,833: CONFINED PLASMA RESONANCE ANTENNA AND PLASMA RESONANCE ANTENNA ARRAY //U.S. Patent No. 6,827,791: APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PAINT FROM A SUBSTRATE // U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/037,808: SEPARATED FLOW LIQUID CATHOLYTE ALUMINUM HYDROGEN PEROXIDE SEAWATER SEMI-FUEL CELL //U.S. Patent No. 6,829,198: ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER HAVING COMPRESSION SCREW MECHANICAL BIAS //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/874,306: NON-LINEAR AXISYMMETRIC POTENTIAL FLOW BOUNDARY MODEL FOR PARTIALLY CAVITATING HIGH SPEED BODIES //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 839,449: LOW FREQUENCY SONAR COUNTERMEASURE //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/565,237: ADAPTABLE HIGH SPEED UNDERWATER MUNITION (AHSUM) CONTROL CIRCUITRY FOR HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERA OPERATION //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/463,907: ANTENNA FOR DEPLOYMENT FROM UNDERWATER LOCATION //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/672,963: ROTATING FEELER GAGE //U.S. Patent No. 6,822,928: ADAPTIVE SONAR SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 637,074: ACOUSTIC PROCESSING FOR ESTIMATING SIZE OF SMALL TARGETS // U.S. Patent No. 6,834,608: AN ASSEMBLY OF UNDERWATER BODIES AND LAUNCHER THEREFOR //U.S. Patent No. 6,809,444: FREE ROTATING INTEGRATED MOTOR PROPULSOR //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/627,103: ASYMMETRIC TOW SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE LINEAR SEISMIC ARRAYS //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,674: LAUNCHER ASSEMBLY WITH ELASTOMERIC EJECTION //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,675: PLUNGING TOWED ARRAY ANTENNA //U.S. Patent No. 6,819,630: ITERATIVE DECISION FEEDBACK ADAPTIVE EQUALIZER //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 679,677: SURF ZONE MINE CLEARANCE ASSAULT SYSTEM //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/730,184: UNDERWATER WEAPON SYSTEM HAVING A ROTATABLE GUN //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,687: GUN- ARMED COUNTERMEASURE //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/695,497: VORTEX ASSISTED PRESSURE CONTROL AT INLET OF UNDERWATER LAUNCH SYSTEM / /U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/663,059: GRAVITY-ACTUATED SUBMARINE ANTENNA //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/644,574: LASER-BASED ACOUSTO-OPTIC UPLINK COMMUNICATIONS TECHNIQUE //U.S. Patent No. 6,813,219: DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZATION PRE-PROCESSOR WITH TURBOEQUALIZER //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/456,140: ROTARY ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCH TUBE //U.S. Patent No. 6,835,108: OSCILLATING APPENDAGE FOR FIN PROPULSION //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 652,078: APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING VOLTAGE SPIKE WAVEFORMS FOR THREE-PHASE ELECTRICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/652,079: APPARATUS AMD METHOD FOR CALIBRATING VOLTAGE SPIKE WAVEFORMS //U.S. Patent No. 6,813,218: BUOYANT DEVICE FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL ACOUSTO-OPTIC SIGNAL TRANSFER ACROSS THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/672,964: A BROADBAND, TOWED LINE ARRAY WITH SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION CAPABILITIES //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,678: TOWABLE SUBMARINE MAST SIMULATOR // U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/456,245: MULTI-LOBED BUOYANT LAUNCH CAPSULE //U.S. Patent No. 6,822,373: BROADBAND TRIPLE RESONANT TRANSDUCER //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/ 730,187: HIGH VELOCITY UNDERWATER JET WEAPON //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/429,331: WATERWAY SHIELDING SYSTEM AND METHOD //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/779,554: A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE PROPERTIES OF A SOLID MATERIAL SUBJECTED TO COMPRESSIONAL FORCES //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/385,448: PUNCTURE PROOF TIRE EMPLOYING AN ELONGATED BODY TUBE HAVING SHEAR RESISTANT FILM //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,684: CHROMATE-FREE METHOD FOR SURFACE ETCHING OF ALUMINUM AND ALUMINUM ALLOYS //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/679,682: CHROMATE-FREE METHOD FOR SURFACE ETCHING OF TITANIUM //U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/851,748: COMBINED IN- PLANE SHEAR AND MULTI-AXIAL TENSION OR COMPRESSION TESTING APPARATUS.

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska Resource Advisory Council will meet as indicated below.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer confidential business information (CBI) collected from the pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacturing; iron and steel manufacturing; and other industries listed below to Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), and its subcontractors. Transfer of the information will allow the contractor and subcontractors to support EPA in the planning, development, and review of effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the development of discharge standards under Title XIV: Certain Alaskan Cruise Ship Operations (33 U.S.C. 1902 note). The information being transferred was or will be collected under the authority of section 308 of the CWA. Some information being transferred from the pulp, paper, and paperboard industry was collected under the additional authorities of section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and section 3007 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Interested persons may submit comments on this intended transfer of information to the address noted below.

The EPA proposes to approve revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP). We are proposing approval, through parallel processing, of a revision to the SIP that would change the compliance date for Texas Low-Emission Diesel (TXLED) fuel from April 1, 2005, to October 1, 2005. In addition, we are requesting comments on a refinement to the State's proposed revision. The refinement contemplated by the State is a phased schedule which would extend the compliance date from April 1, 2005 to October 1, 2005 for producers and importers, from April 1, 2005 to November 15, 2005 for bulk plant distribution facilities, and from April 1, 2005 to January 1, 2006 for retail fuel dispensing outlets, wholesale bulk purshaser/consumer facilities, and all other affected persons. The change is being made to address fuel supply uncertainty in the April 2005 time frame.

Notice is hereby given that effective with this publication, the following NAD 83based Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams last revised on the date indicated are available for information only, in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, New Orleans, Louisiana. Copies are also available for download at https:// www.mms.gov/ld/atlantic.htm. The Minerals Management Service in accordance with its authority and responsibility under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act is updating and depicting the ambulatory Submerged Lands Act boundary and Limit of ``8 (g) Zone'' for the entire Continental United States and Alaska, except where fixed under a Supplemental Decree of the United States Supreme Court. This effort is being conducted under a joint project with the NOAA National Ocean Service and the Department of State's Interdepartmental Baseline Committee to develop a new National Baseline for the United States. These diagrams constitute the basic record of the marine cadastre in the geographic area they represent.

Notice is given that, pursuant to section 209b of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1719(b)), Mr. Tim Weikert has applied to purchase the mineral estate described as follows:

On September 15, 2004 the State of Utah and Daggett County submitted two applications for recordable disclaimers of interest from the United States. These recordable disclaimer of interest applications are identified by BLM Serial Number UTU-81879 for Road D28 and UTU- 81880 for Road D30, both in Daggett County, Utah. On December 8, 2004 the State of Utah and Beaver and Iron Counties submitted two additional applications for recordable disclaimers of interest from the United States. These recordable disclaimer of interest applications are identified by BLM Serial Number UTU-82193 for Hickory Peak Road in Beaver County, Utah and UTU-82194 for Horse Valley Road in Beaver and Iron Counties, Utah. Recordable disclaimers of interest, if issued, would confirm that the United States has no property interest in the identified public highway rights-of-way. This Notice is intended to notify the public of the pending applications and the State's and Counties' grounds for supporting them. Specific details of the applications are provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has determined that 30 acres of public land located in Owyhee County, Idaho is suitable for direct sale to Owyhee County under Sections 203 and 209 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat 2750, 43 U.S.C. 1713).

Public Land Order 6550, which withdrew 159.91 acres of National Forest System lands from mining for use by the Bureau of Reclamation in constructing recreation facilities associated with the Upalco Unit of the Central Utah Project, has expired. This order opens the lands to location and entry under the mining laws.

The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a valid control number. Comments are requested concerning (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.