January 9, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces that the following programs are soliciting applications for financial assistance for FY 2006: (1) The Gaithersburg Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, and (2) the Boulder Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. Each program will only consider applications that are within the scientific scope of the program as described in this notice and in the detailed program descriptions found in the Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) announcement for these programs. Dates: See below. Addresses: See below. Supplementary Information: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Name and Number: Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards11.609.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on a survey of healthcare practitioners' preferences regarding public health notifications (PHNs).

Under the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease COC66204 from John P. Strang for lands in Garfield County, Colorado. The petition was filed on time and was accompanied by all the rentals due since the date the lease terminated under the law.

This action proposes to establish an Area Navigation Instrument Flight Rules Terminal Transition Route (RITTR), designated T-210, in the Jacksonville, FL, terminal area. The purpose of RITTR is to expedite the handling of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) overflight aircraft through busy terminal airspace areas. The FAA is proposing this action to enhance the safe and efficient use of the navigable airspace in the Jacksonville, FL, terminal area.

The Coast Guard announces that the Eighth Coast Guard District is realigning the boundaries of sectors to facilitate unity of operational effort.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service announces its intent to seek approval to extend an information collection to implement the Forest Land Enhancement Program. This information collection consists of 7 components: (1) Forest Land Enhancement Program State priority plans; (2) State program accomplishment reports; (3) landowner management plans; (4) applications for cost-share payments; (5) program assignment of payment; (6) Power of Attorney forms; and (7) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) income reporting requirements for participants.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted the following proposal(s) for the collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval.

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 Number 5,264,693, entitled ``Microelectronic Photomultiplier Device with Integrated Circuitry'', issue date November 23, 1993. U.S. Patent Number 5,272,476, entitled ``Data Acquisition System having novel, low power circuit for time-division-multiplexing sensor array signals'', issued December 21, 1993. U.S. Patent Number 5,276,695, entitled ``Multifrequency, rapidly sequenced or simultaneous tunable laser'', issued January 4, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,285,467, entitled ``Compact, efficient, scalable neodymium laser co-doped with activator ions and pumped by visible laser diodes'', issued February 8, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,306,904, entitled ``Multilayer microelectronic photomultiplier device with a stacked series of dynode and insulating layers'', issued April 26, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,310,989, entitled ``Method for laser-assisted etching of III-V and II-VI semiconductor compounds using chlorofluorocarbon ambients'', issued May 10, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,310,990, entitled ``Method of laser processing ferroelectric materials'', issued May 10, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,736,950, entitled ``Sigma-delta modulator with tunable signal passband'', issued April 7, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,737,347, entitled ``Laser with multiple gain elements'', issued April 7, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,757,867, entitled ``Digital mixing to baseband decimation filter'', issued May 26, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,760,722, entitled ``Distributed quantization noise transmission zeros in cascaded sigma-delta modulators'', issued June 2, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,764,677, entitled ``Laser diode power combiner'', issued June 9, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 6,342,866, entitled ``Wideband antenna system'', issued January 29, 2002. U.S. Patent Number 6,404,038, entitled ``Complementary vertical bipolar junction transistors fabricated of silicon-on-sapphire utilizing wide base PNP transistors'', issued June 11, 2002.

California has scheduled a special general election on April 11, 2006, to fill the U.S. House of Representatives seat in the Fiftieth Congressional District vacated by Representative Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham. Under California law, a majority winner in a special election is declared elected. Should no candidate achieve a majority vote, a special runoff election will be held on June 6, 2006, among the top vote-getters of each qualified political party, including qualified independent candidates. Committees participating in the California special elections are required to file pre- and post-election reports. Filing dates for these reports are affected by whether one or two elections are held.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is implementing a Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pilot program for a selected number of local campaigns. This pilot program will allow Department of Defense (DoD) personnel deployed to certain warfighting areas of responsibility the opportunity to expand their giving options to include the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) activities and/or to the local charities located within the corresponding stateside campaign associated with their home base, in addition to the National and International charities. OPM will assess the results of the pilot program and determine, in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, if a permanent change should be made to CFC regulations and DoD Directive 5035-1.

This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) and/or Weather Takeoff Minimums for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised criteria, or because of changes occurring in the National Airspace System, such as the commissioning of new navigational facilities, addition of new obstacles, or changes in air traffic requirements. These changes are designed to provide safe and efficient use of the navigable airspace and to promote safe flight operations under instrument flight rules at the affected airports.

The actions that will take place include the approval of the minutes from the Board of Regents meeting on November 7, 2005; acceptance of departmental reports; and the awarding of graduate degrees in the biomedical sciences from the Uniformed Services University (USU) School of Medicine. The President, USU; Dean, USU School of Medicine; Dean, USU Graduate School of Nursing; and Director, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute will also present reports. These actions are necessary in order to remain an accredited medical school and to pursue our mission, which is to provide trained medical personnel to our uniformed services.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled ``Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Herpes Simplex Virus Types 1 and 2 Serological Assays.'' This draft guidance document describes a means by which herpes simplex virus types 1 and/or 2 (HSV 1 and/or 2) serological assays may comply with the requirement of special controls for class II devices. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA is publishing a proposed rule to reclassify these devices from class III into class II (special controls).