February 23, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Employment and Training Administration published a document in the Federal Register on February 13, 2007 announcing the availability of funds and solicitation for grant applications (SGA) for the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant programs. This notice is an amendment to the SGA and it amends the Supplementary Information section to correct the number of sections in this SGA.

This notice announces the dates, time, and location of the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) public meetings to be held in calendar year 2007 to discuss our preliminary coding and payment determinations for all new public requests for revisions to the HCPCS. These meetings provide a forum for interested parties to make oral presentations or to submit written comments in response to preliminary coding and payment determinations. Discussion will be directed toward responses to our specific preliminary recommendations and will include all items on the public meeting agenda.

This notice announces CMS' grant of deeming authority to the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program. We have determined that the requirements of the Joint Commission accreditation process are equal to or more stringent than the CLIA condition level requirements, and that the Joint Commission has met the requirements of subpart E of 42 CFR part 493. Consequently, laboratories that are voluntarily accredited by the Joint Commission and continue to meet the Joint Commission requirements will be deemed to meet the CLIA condition level requirements for laboratories and therefore are not subject to routine inspection by State survey agencies to determine their compliance with Federal requirements. They are, however, subject to Federal validation and complaint investigation surveys conducted by us or our designee.

In this notice, we grant COLA (formerly the Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation) deeming authority as an accrediting organization for clinical laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program. We have determined that the requirements of the COLA accreditation process are equal to or more stringent than the CLIA condition level requirements, and that COLA has met the requirements of subpart E of 42 CFR Part 493. Consequently, laboratories that are voluntarily accredited by COLA and continue to meet COLA requirements will be deemed to meet the CLIA condition-level requirements for laboratories and therefore are not subject to routine inspection by State survey agencies to determine their compliance with Federal requirements. They are, however, subject to Federal validation and complaint investigation surveys conducted by us or our designee.

NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by catcher processor vessels using pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) management area. This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2007 Pacific cod total allowable catch (TAC) specified for catcher processor vessels using pot gear in the BSAI.

The EPA is announcing two public hearings on our proposed ``Federal Implementation Plan Under the Clean Air Act for Certain Trust Lands of the Forest Country Potawatomi Community Reservation if Designated as a PSD Class I Area; State of Wisconsin.'' We are also extending the comment period from January 17, 2007, until April 27, 2007, 30 days from the second public hearing. This proposed rulemaking was published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2006 (71 FR 75694), and proposes to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) if it approves the Forest County Potawatomi (FCP) Community's request to redesignate certain trust lands as a Class I area under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program.

This notice announces the 15th meeting of the American Health Information Community Population Care and Clinical Care Connections Workgroup [formerly BioSurveillance Workgroup] in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. no. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.)

This notice announces the 14th meeting of the American Health Information Community Electronic Health Records Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

This notice announces the 3rd meeting of the American Health Information Community Personalized Healthcare Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 93-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

Under the provisions of Title 49, U.S.C. Section 47153(c), notice is being given that the FAA is considering a request from the City of Douglas to waive the requirement that approximately .76 acres of surplus property, located at the Douglas Municipal Airport, be used for aeronautical purposes.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering a proposal to change a potion of the airport from aeronautical use to non-aeronautical use and to authorize the release of 68.277 acres of vacant airport property for the proposed development bulk warehouse/ distribution facilities as a component of the Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park. The land was acquired by the Rickenbacker Port authority through two Quitclaim Deeds dated March 30, 1984 from the Administrator of General Services for the United States of America and May 11, 1999 from the United States of America, acting by and through the Secretary of the Air Force. There are no impacts to the airport by allowing the airport to dispose of the property. Approval does not constitute a commitment by the FAA to financially assist in the disposal of the subject airport property nor a determination of eligibility for grant-in-aid funding from the FAA. The CRAA will receive $1,468,000 for the parcel. In accordance with section 47107(h) of title 49, United States Code, this notice is required to be published in the Federal register 30 days before modifying the land-use assurance that requires the property to be used for an aeronautical purpose.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the effective date for the information collection requirements contained in a final rule published in the Federal Register of August 25, 2000 (65 FR 51758). The rule amended FDA's regulations on food additive and color additive petitions to permit an efficient joint review by both FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), of petitions for approval to use a food ingredient or source of radiation in or on meat or poultry products. An information collection requirement cannot be instituted unless it is reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), approved by OMB, and assigned an OMB control number. OMB's approval of the information collection requirements of the August 25, 2000, final rule was announced in the Federal Register of March 1, 2001 (66 FR 12938), and these requirements are currently approved under OMB control number 0910-0016. Accordingly, FDA is announcing that the information collection requirements of the August 25, 2000, final rule will go into effect on March 26, 2007.