September 1, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is automatically initiating five-year (``Sunset Reviews'') of the antidumping duty orders listed below. The International Trade Commission (``the Commission'') is publishing concurrently with this notice its notice of Institution of Five-year Review which covers these same orders.

The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) has elected to cancel its previously scheduled September 16, 2005 plenary meeting. The meeting will be rescheduled for a later time to be determined in 2005. The ETTAC is mandated by Public Law 103-392. It was created to advise the U.S. government on environmental trade policies and programs, and to help it to focus its resources on increasing the exports of the U.S. environmental industry. ETTAC operates as an advisory committee to the Secretary of Commerce and the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). ETTAC was originally chartered in May of 1994. It was most recently rechartered until May 30, 2006. For further information phone Joseph Ayoub, Office of Energy and Environmental Technologies Industries (OEEI), International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-5225 or Joseph.Ayoub@mail.doc.gov.

An open meeting of the Area 4 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comment, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), nonimmigrant aliens and United States citizens are generally required to present passports to enter the United States. The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State have the joint authority to waive this requirement for nonimmigrant aliens under certain circumstances and the Secretary of State has the authority to make exceptions to the requirement for United States citizens. In accordance with those authorities, current regulations permit United States citizens and nonimmigrant aliens from Canada, Bermuda and Mexico to enter the United States from certain Western Hemisphere countries without presenting a passport. On December 17, 2004, the President signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA). Section 7209 of this statute limits the Secretaries' discretion to waive or to make exceptions to the passport requirements under the INA and expressly provides that, by January 1, 2008, United States citizens and nonimmigrant aliens may enter the United States only with passports or such alternatives as the Secretary of Homeland Security may designate as satisfactorily establishing identity and citizenship. In the future, as a result of the implementation of the new statute, travel to the United States by United States citizens and others from the Western Hemisphere will require a passport or acceptable alternative documents in circumstances where travel was previously permitted without such documents. Section 7209 directs that the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, develop and implement a plan relating to the new requirements ``as expeditiously as possible.'' The statute provides that this plan shall be implemented no later than January 1, 2008. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, will be deciding how to implement the new law. This Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking announces the rulemakings that are expected to implement the new law, invites comments on the possible means of implementation and specifically invites comments on the documents other than passports that should be accepted under section 7209 as sufficient to establish citizenship and identity.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is issuing this notice to invite private sector providers and users of chemical information to indicate their interest in participating in a new working group of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), to advise on interactions with private sector information providers in the development of PubChem. PubChem is a publicly available NIH database that includes information about the biological activities of chemical compounds. It is designed to facilitate more integrated access to these information resources for biomedical researchers. The working group will advise on such issues as improving connections with private sector chemical information providers in order to enhance linkages and interoperability among resources and avoid unnecessary duplication with commercial information services. Response Date: Persons, groups, or organizations interested in participating in the working group should send an e-mail indicating their expertise in issues related to PubChem, along with their contact information, to: Christine Ireland, Committee Management Officer, NLM, irelanc@mail.nih.gov. Emails must be received on or before October 3, 2005. Supplementary Information: In 2004, as part of the NIH's Roadmap Initiative to speed new medical treatments and improved health care to all Americans, NIH launched an on-line database called PubChem as part of an integrated suite of databases supporting the New Pathways to Discovery component of the Roadmap effort. New Pathways focuses on very basic biomedical research, and especially focuses on understanding the molecular biology of health and illnesses. Bioinformatics is a critical component of that effort and PubChem provides the free, publicly available database that links chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information. Drawing from many public sources, PubChem organizes information about the biological activities of chemical compounds into a comprehensive biomedical database. All of this supports the part of the Roadmap called the Molecular Libraries initiative. This includes nine different componentsa compound repository, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center, the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Network, PubChem, a series of Cheminformatics Research Centers, and technology development for chemical diversity synthesis, assay development, instrumentation, and toxicology. PubChem is the informatics backbone for virtually all of these components, and is intended to empower the scientific community to use small molecule chemical compounds in their research. Small molecules include many of the chemicals commonly used as medicines. They affect genes, proteins, cells, and people. Identification of small molecule tools is a compelling next step following on the success of the Human Genome Project. It offers a new paradigm to transform basic biomedical research, speeding development of new therapies and finding solutions to America's most important health problems. NIH's goals are to rapidly translate the discoveries of the genome into new therapeutics and to integrate small molecule chemistry into biomedical research. PubChem facilitates these efforts by linking genome, chemistry, protein, and biomedical literature information. This seamless integration of resources is essential for providing information about potential starting points for the development of new medications. Without PubChem, the work of NIH funded scientists will be greatly hampered and progress in biomedical research will be slowed. NIH intends to continue to operate PubChem as a free, publicly available resource that is an integral part of the NIH Roadmap Initiative. This is consistent with the principles of publicly funded science. NLM has had extensive and valuable private sector interactions for developing and maintaining other major information resources, such as sequence databases and PubMed/Medline. NIH believes that the private sector has expertise that will be helpful in the further development of PubChem and will help to ensure coordinated and integrated access by researchers to the full range of resources useful for advancing scientific discovery. Therefore, NIH is asking private sector providers and users of chemical information to indicate their interest in participating in a working group of the NLM/NCBI Board of Scientific Counselors, which is established under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. All members of such a working group would be required to disclose their potential conflicts. This new working group of outside experts would be separate from the existing PubChem Working Group, which provides advice about details of the operation of the PubChem database and also reports to the NCBI Board of Scientific Counselors. Specifically, this working group would advise the NCBI Board of Scientific Counselors on such issues as: Establishing a process for retrospective evaluation of the biomedical relevance of compounds entered into PubChem Ensuring the provenance of the data (i.e., whether private data are being improperly deposited in PubChem) Ensuring the high quality of data in PubChem Monitoring the effect of PubChem on scientific progress Improving/integrating interactions with commercial information providers Avoiding unnecessary duplication with commercial information providers

This action corrects errors in certain amendments to the required IFR (instrument flight rules) altitudes and changeover points for certain Federal airways, jet routes, or direct routes for which a minimum or maximum en route authorized IFR altitude is prescribed listed in a final rule published in the Federal Register on August 2, 2005 (70 FR 44278).

NMFS proposes to revise Table 2 (species codes) to 50 CFR part 679 that is used in data collection, analysis, and monitoring of the Federal groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Alaska. Within a database, species codes identify fish species that are landed, discarded, made into product, and transferred. This proposed action is necessary to standardize collection of species information with the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game, increase effectiveness of rockfish management, reflect current fisheries management interest in skates, and promote better enforcement of rockfish regulations. This action is intended to meet the conservation and management requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) with respect to groundfish and to further the goals and objectives of the Alaska groundfish fishery management plans.

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: Petition for Remission or Mitigation of Forfeitures and Penalties. This is a proposed extension of an information collection that was previously approved. CBP is proposing that this information collection be extended with no change to the burden hours. This document is published to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register (70 FR 28316) on May 17, 2005, allowing for a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.

FEMA is publishing minimum training and education requirements, as required by section 207 of the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004, for all insurance agents who sell Standard Flood Insurance Policies issued through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).