Notice of New Exposure Draft; Interpretation: Items Held for Remanufacture, 44294-44295 [06-6677]

Download as PDF 44294 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 150 / Friday, August 4, 2006 / Notices appropriate State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) on federal undertakings that have the potential to affect historic properties listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. EPA, Region 5 is currently in discussions with the Michigan SHPO regarding its determination that approval of the state biosolids management program would have no adverse effect on historic properties within the State of Michigan. gechino on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES B. Regulatory Flexibility Act Based on General Counsel Opinion 78–7 (April 18, 1978), EPA has long considered a determination to approve or deny a State Clean Water Act (CWA) program submission to constitute an adjudication because an ‘‘approval,’’ within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), constitutes a ‘‘license,’’ which, in turn, is the product of an ‘‘adjudication.’’ For this reason, the statutes and Executive Orders that apply to rulemaking action are not applicable here. Among these are provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq. Under the RFA, whenever a Federal agency proposes or promulgates a rule under section 553 of the APA, after being required by that section or any other law to publish a general notice of proposed rulemaking, the Agency must prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis for the rule, unless the Agency certifies that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. If the Agency does not certify the rule, the regulatory flexibility analysis must describe and assess the impact of a rule on small entities affected by the rule. Even if the CWA program approval were a rule subject to the RFA, the Agency would certify that approval of the State proposed CWA program would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. EPA’s action to approve a CWA program merely recognizes that the necessary elements of the program have already been enacted as a matter of state law; it would, therefore, impose no additional obligation upon those subject to the state’s program. Accordingly, the Regional Administrator would certify that this Michigan biosolids management program, even if a rule, would not have significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. C. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), Public Law 104–4, establishes requirements for Federal agencies to assess the effects of VerDate Aug<31>2005 22:39 Aug 03, 2006 Jkt 208001 their regulatory actions on state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector. Under section 202 of the UMRA, EPA generally must prepare a written statement, including a cost-benefit analysis, for proposed and final rules with ‘‘Federal mandates’’ that may result in expenditures to state, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or to the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one year. Before promulgating an EPA rule for which a written statement is needed, section 205 of the UMRA generally requires EPA to identify and consider a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives and adopt the least costly, most costeffective or least burdensome alternative that achieves the objectives of the rule. The provisions of section 205 do not apply when they are inconsistent with applicable law. Moreover, section 205 allows EPA to adopt an alternative other than the least costly, most cost-effective or lease burdensome alternative if the Administrator publishes with the final rule an explanation why that alternative was not adopted. Before EPA establishes any regulatory requirements that may significantly or uniquely affect small governments, including tribal governments, it must have developed under section 203 of the UMRA a small government agency plan. The plan must provide for notifying potentially affected small governments, enabling officials of affected small governments to have meaningful and timely input in the development of EPA regulatory proposals with significant Federal intergovernmental mandates, and informing, educating, and advising small governments on compliance with the regulatory requirements. Today’s decision includes no Federal mandates for state, local or tribal governments or the private sector. The Act excludes from the definition of a ‘‘Federal mandate’’ duties that arise from participation in a voluntary Federal program, except in certain cases where a ‘‘Federal intergovernmental mandate’’ affects an annual Federal entitlement program of $500 million or more which are not applicable here. Michigan’s request for approval of its biosolids management program is voluntary and imposes no Federal mandate within the meaning of the Act. Rather, by having its biosolids management program approved, the state will gain the authority to implement the program within its jurisdiction, in lieu of EPA, thereby eliminating duplicative state and federal requirements. If a state chooses not to seek authorization for administration of a biosolids management program, regulation is left PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 to EPA. EPA’s approval of state programs generally may reduce compliance costs for the private sector, since the state, by virtue of the approval, may now administer the program in lieu of EPA and exercise primary enforcement. Hence, owners and operators of biosolids management facilities or businesses generally no longer face dual federal and state compliance requirements, thereby reducing overall compliance costs. Thus, today’s decision is not subject to the requirements of sections 202 and 205 of the UMRA. The Agency recognizes that small governments may own and/or operate biosolids management facilities that will become subject to the requirements of an approved state biosolids management program. However, small governments that own and/or operate biosolids management facilities are already subject to the requirements in 40 CFR parts 123 and 503 and are not subject to any additional significant or unique requirements by virtue of this program approval. Once EPA authorizes a state to administer its own biosolids management program and any revisions to that program, these same small governments will be able to own and operate their biosolids management facilities or businesses under the approved state program, in lieu of the federal program. Therefore, EPA has determined that this document contains no regulatory requirements that might significantly or uniquely affect small governments. List of Subjects Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedures, Indian Country, Intergovernmental relations, Waste treatment and disposal, Water pollution control. Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. Dated: July 5, 2006. Norman Niedergang, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. [FR Doc. E6–12359 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ADVISORY BOARD Notice of New Exposure Draft; Interpretation: Items Held for Remanufacture Board Action: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules of Procedure, as amended in April, 2004, E:\FR\FM\04AUN1.SGM 04AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 150 / Friday, August 4, 2006 / Notices notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) has issued an exposure draft, Interpretation: Items Held for Remanufacture. The proposed Interpretation would clarify the principles governing the classification, valuation and reporting of items that are in the process of major overhaul or remanufacture for sale or for internal use. The Exposure Draft is available on the FASAB home page https://www.fasab.gov/exposure.html. Copies can be obtained by contacting FASAB at (202) 512–7350. Respondents are encouraged to comment on any party of the exposure draft. Written comments are requested by October 16, 2006, and should be sent to: Wendy M. Comes, Executive Director, Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. 441 G Street, NW., Suite 6814, Mail Stop 6K17V, Washington, DC 20548. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Comes, Executive Director, 441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20548, or call (202) 512–7350. Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92–463. Dated: August 1, 2006. Charles Jackson, Federal Register Liaison Officer. [FR Doc. 06–6677 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM gechino on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below. The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also 22:39 Aug 03, 2006 Jkt 208001 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 1, 2006. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E6–12608 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S BILLING CODE 1610–01–M VerDate Aug<31>2005 includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than August 31, 2006. A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Andre Anderson, Vice President) 1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309: 1. Piedmont Community Bank Group, Inc., Gray, Georgia; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Piedmont Community Bank, Gray, Georgia. Notice of Availability: Secretarial Recognition of Certain Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) Functionality, Interoperability, Security and Reliability Criteria for Ambulatory Electronic Health Records AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. Authority: EO 13335 (‘‘Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology and Establishing the Position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator’’) and Pub. L. 109–149 (‘‘Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006’’). SUMMARY: By this document we are informing the public of the Secretary’s recognition of certain Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) criteria for ambulatory EHR functionality, interoperability, security and reliability standards. This list of recognized criteria is available by clicking the applicable link at https://www.hhs.gov/ healthit. The CCHIT was created in 2004 by an industry coalition of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Health PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 44295 Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. CCHIT’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of HIT by creating an efficient, credible and sustainable product certification program. During the three comment cycles that generated the ambulatory EHR criteria that the Secretary has recognized, CCHIT received over 1500 comments from a wide range of stakeholders. Further outreach was achieved through the establishment of several large Town Hall presentations with attendances in the range of 500–1000 at Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conferences as well as at more than thirty smaller presentations to a variety of associations, organizations and the press gatherings. CCHIT grouped its ambulatory EHR certification criteria recommendations into three groups, ‘‘functionality,’’ ‘‘interoperability’’ and ‘‘security/ reliability.’’ For ease of understanding, the Secretary broke the security and reliability recommendations into separate categories. Definitions of these categories, and an example that illuminates the various functions of each category are as follows: 1. Functionality criteria identify minimum required and provisional product features for documenting and managing a typical patient encounter. For example, a physician needs to be able to access his/her patient’s laboratory test results, so an example of a functional requirement is that an EHR would need to provide the capability of displaying laboratory test results. 2. Interoperability criteria establish standards for how products interact with other products within and across care settings. For example, to ensure interoperability, the physician EHR noted above would need to be able to receive laboratory test results from another physician’s (within care settings) as well as from laboratory systems (across care settings). 3. Security and reliability criteria are designed to help the security inspector assess a product’s ability to protect, manage and audit access to sensitive patient data. For clarity, we have broken these criteria into the two separate categories, security and reliability. a. Security 1 addresses the appropriate access to data by appropriate parties and the protection of data from improper manipulation. For example, laboratory test results should be accessible to a 1 HHS notes that the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule continue to be applicable. E:\FR\FM\04AUN1.SGM 04AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 150 (Friday, August 4, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44294-44295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6677]


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FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ADVISORY BOARD


Notice of New Exposure Draft; Interpretation: Items Held for 
Remanufacture

    Board Action: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules of 
Procedure, as amended in April, 2004,

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notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory 
Board (FASAB) has issued an exposure draft, Interpretation: Items Held 
for Remanufacture.
    The proposed Interpretation would clarify the principles governing 
the classification, valuation and reporting of items that are in the 
process of major overhaul or remanufacture for sale or for internal 
use. The Exposure Draft is available on the FASAB home page https://
www.fasab.gov/exposure.html. Copies can be obtained by contacting FASAB 
at (202) 512-7350. Respondents are encouraged to comment on any party 
of the exposure draft.
    Written comments are requested by October 16, 2006, and should be 
sent to: Wendy M. Comes, Executive Director, Federal Accounting 
Standards Advisory Board. 441 G Street, NW., Suite 6814, Mail Stop 
6K17V, Washington, DC 20548.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Comes, Executive Director, 441 G 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20548, or call (202) 512-7350.

    Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463.

    Dated: August 1, 2006.
Charles Jackson,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-6677 Filed 8-3-06; 8:45 am]
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