February 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Coast Guard is correcting a technical amendment that appeared in the Federal Register on August 21, 2006. That technical amendment authorized the Commanding Officer of the National Maritime Center (NMC) to perform certain mariner credentialing functions in addition to Officers in Charge, Marine Inspection, who currently perform those functions. At the end of a transitional period, most credentialing functions will be consolidated at a centralized location. The technical amendment also made technical changes to the mariner credentialing appellate process.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking information to formulate a regulatory position on insect repellent products that contain over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen ingredients. FDA is considering amending its monograph for OTC sunscreen drug products (the regulation that establishes conditions under which these drug products are generally recognized as safe and effective and not misbranded) to add conditions for marketing insect repellent-sunscreen drug products. The insect repellent ingredients in these products are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register is a companion document in which EPA is also requesting information and comments on these products. The decision on what regulations, if any, to propose will be based, in part, on information and comments submitted in response to this request for data and information.

NMFS is closing directed fishing for the rock sole, flathead sole, and ``other flatfish'' fishery category by vessels using trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the first seasonal allowance of the 2007 halibut bycatch allowance specified for the trawl rock sole, flathead sole, and ``other flatfish'' fishery category in the BSAI.

This Notice announces the availability of grant funds in calendar year 2007 for U.S. manufacturers of certain worsted wool fabrics. The purpose of this notice is to provide the general public with a single source of program and application information related to the worsted wool grant offerings, and it contains the information about the program required to be published in the Federal Register.

The Advisory Committee was established by Pub. L. 98-181, November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide comments for inclusion in the reports of the Export-Import Bank of the United States to Congress.

This document confirms the effective date of the direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Creston, IA.

The FDIC is seeking comment on proposed guidelines it will use for determining how adjustments of up to 0.50 basis points would be made to the quarterly assessment rates of insured institutions defined as large Risk Category I institutions, and insured foreign branches in Risk Category I, according to the Final Assessments Rule (the final rule).\1\ These guidelines are intended to further clarify the analytical processes, and the controls applied to these processes, in making assessment rate adjustment determinations.

This notice announces the issuance of PS-ACE100-2005-50001. This Final Policy Statement sets up Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification policy on applying Advisory Circular (AC) 20-152 to complex airborne electronic hardware (CEH) installed in part 23 aircraft or in airships. This was issued for Public Comment on January 26, 2006. When possible, comments received were used to modify the draft policy.

This proposed rule would allow fishery participants in U.S. domestic pelagics, crustaceans, bottomfish and seamount groundfish, precious corals, and coral reef fisheries of the western Pacific the optional use of NMFS-approved electronic logbook forms in lieu of paper logbooks. The intended effects of this action are to enhance the efficiency of fish catch and effort data reporting and recordkeeping by fishermen, reduce human error, and improve data accuracy.

The American Petroleum Institute (API), with the assistance of other interested parties, continues to develop standards, both national and international, in several areas. This notice lists the standardization efforts currently being conducted by API committees. The publication of this notice by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on behalf of API is being undertaken as a public service. NIST does not necessarily endorse, approve, or recommend the standards referenced.

The Board grants an exemption, under 49 U.S.C. 10502, from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323, et seq., for Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (collectively, NS), to acquire control of Algers, Winslow and Western Railway Company (AWW) and to consolidate AWW into NS following the acquisition. The exemption is granted subject to the employee protective conditions in New York Dock Ry.ControlBrooklyn Eastern Dist., 360 I.C.C. 60 (1979), and the condition that NS adhere to its pledge to preserve the Oakland City, IN interchange and honor existing contracts involving AWW.

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR Part 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventions embodied in Patent Cooperation Treaty Application No. PCT/US02/27592 filed August 29, 2002 and United States National Stage Application Serial No. 10/487,974 filed February 27, 2004, entitled ``New Adenovirus Type 7 Vectors'' [HHS Reference No. E-236-2001/0], and United States Patent Application Serial No. 11/282,319 filed November 17, 2005, entitled ``Improved Replication-Competent Adenovirus Vectors'' [HHS Reference No. E-203-2004/0], to PaxVax, Inc., which has offices in Menlo Park, CA. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned and/or exclusively licensed to the Government of the United States of America. The prospective exclusive license territory may be the United States of America, and the field of use may be limited to the development of vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus, human papillomavirus, influenza, malaria, and tuberculosis.

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed collection of information, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. We are publishing a revised version of the notice that we published in the Federal Register on January 30, 2006 (72 FR 4273-4274) to reflect a correction in the data presented in Table A. In the previous notice, we inadvertently calculated the burden totals on the basis of 400 subjects for a single year. We should have calculated the burden totals on the basis of 400 subjects per each of three study years. Today's notice corrects that error.