March 8, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department is updating its current FY 2004-2009 Strategic Plan. As part of this process, the Department is inviting comments on its draft FY 2007-2012 Strategic Plan.

The Coast Guard proposes establishing a temporary safety zone on the navigable waters of the Lower Colorado River, Laughlin, NV, in support of a fireworks display near the AVI Resort and Casino. The safety zone is necessary to provide for the safety of the crew, spectators, participants of the event, participating vessels and other vessels and users of the waterway. Persons and vessels will be prohibited from entering into, transiting through, or anchoring within this safety zone unless authorized by the Captain of the Port, or his designated representative.

The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Route 82 Bridge across the Connecticut River, mile 16.8, at East Haddam, Connecticut. Under this temporary deviation, the bridge may remain in the closed position for two nights from 8:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. between March 19, 2007 and March 23, 2007. The exact two closure dates will be determined based upon favorable weather necessary to perform the scheduled repairs. This deviation is necessary to facilitate scheduled bridge maintenance.

Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency that administers the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs, has made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) with respect to a request from Earth Resources Inc. for assistance from RUS to finance the construction and operation of a twenty (20) MW power generating station utilizing chicken litter and woody biomass as fuel. The proposal would be constructed on a 140-acre property in Franklin County, Georgia.

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Department of Education published on January 24, 2007, a Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests in the Federal Register on Page 3119, Column 1 (72 FR 3119). That document invited public comment for a period of 60 days on the proposed information collection entitled, ``Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Web-Based Collection System''. The Department has received comments regarding some of the new questions included for the first time in this proposed IPEDS Information Collection Request (ICR). The Secretary has taken these comments into consideration and decided to revise the proposed collection by removing some of the new items proposed for this annual data collection. The Department will continue to take comment on the proposed IPEDS ICR during the remainder of the initial 60-day comment period and will post the revised IPEDS ICR on the Web site the Department uses to take comment. The current proposed IPEDS ICR and the revised proposed IPEDS ICR are and will be available at https:// edicsweb.ed.gov. After posting the revised ICR, the Department will publish the required second PRA notice, providing an opportunity for an additional 30-day public comment period. The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, hereby issues this notice under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations that address food and color additives and generally recognized as safe (GRAS) substances. The purpose of the amendments is to update the name of an FDA office, to correct minor errors in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and to delete obsolete information. The technical amendments made by this final rule are editorial in nature and are intended to provide accuracy and clarity to the agency's regulations.

This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a partially exclusive license worldwide to practice the inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,155,035, entitled `` Method for Culturing Mammalian Cells in a Perfused Bioreactor''; 5,153,133, entitled ``Method for Culturing Mammalian Cells in a Horizontally Rotated Bioreactor''; 5,155,034, entitled ``Three Dimensional Cell to Tissue Assembly Process''; 5,153,132, entitled ``Three-Dimensional Co-culture Process''; 5,308,764, entitled ``Multi-Cellular Three-Dimensional Living Mammalian Tissue''; 5,627,021, entitled ``Three-Dimensional Co-Culture Process''; 5,153,131, entitled ``High Aspect Reactor Vessel and Method of Use''; 5,496,722, entitled ``Method for Producing Non-neoplastic, Three- dimensional, Mammalian Tissue and Cell Aggregates under Microgravity Culture Conditions and the Products Produced Therefrom''; 5,846,807, entitled ``Media Compositions for Three-dimensional Mammalian Tissue Grown under Microgravity Culture Conditions''; 5,858,783, entitled ``Production of Normal Mammalian Organ Culture Using a Medium Containing MEM-alpha, Leibovitz L-15, Glucose Galactose Fructose''; 5,962,324, entitled ``Three Dimensional Optic Tissue Culture and Process''; 6,485,963, entitled ``Growth Stimulation of Biological Cells and Tissue by Electromagnetic Fields and Uses Thereof'', 6,673,597, entitled ``Growth Stimulation of Biological Cells and Tissue by Electromagnetic Fields and Uses Thereof''; 6,730,498, entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity''; 6,946,246, entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 10/734,759, entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 10/947,786, entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', Foreign Patent No. 0423277 ``Bio-Reactor Cell Culture Process'', Foreign Patent No. 1987294, ``Bio-Reactor Cell Culture Process'', International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, European Application No. 98915320.0 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, Japanese Application No. 10-540983 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, Canadian Application No. 2286349 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, Israeli Application No. 132264 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, Mexican Application No. 999265 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', and International Application No. PCT/US98/06826, Brazilian Application No. 98915320.0 entitled ``Production of Functional Proteins: Balance of Shear Stress and Gravity'', to Aedifico Biosciences, Inc., having its principal place of business in Beverly Hills, California. The fields of use may be limited to cosmetics and personal care products. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective partially exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is terminating the instant proceeding. The Commission also finds that it may only assert jurisdiction over a gathering provider affiliated with an interstate pipeline when the gatherer has used its market power over gathering to benefit the pipeline in its performance of jurisdictional transportation or sales service and that benefit is contrary to the Commission's policies concerning jurisdictional service adopted pursuant to the NGA. Further, the order clarifies that, where the gathering affiliate has engaged in the type of conduct described above as justifying an assertion of jurisdiction, the Commission need not also find ``concerned action'' between the pipeline and its gathering affiliate.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adds specific rules concerning involuntary salary offset by adding a new part 33 to title 45 CFR. The rule implements 5 U.S.C. 5514, as amended by the salary offset provisions of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA), as implemented by the Office of Personnel Management at 5 CFR part 550, subpart K. Involuntary salary offset was previously included in the Department's more general claims collection regulations at 45 CFR part 30.

We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product. The MCAI describes the unsafe condition as the finding of an improper geometry of some pulley brackets, which can offset the cable in the sheave. We are issuing this AD to require actions to correct the unsafe condition on these products.

This technical amendment corrects a final rule published in the Federal Register on July 24, 2006 (71 FR 41728), Docket No. FAA- 2006-23926, Airspace Docket No. 06-AAL-10. In that rule, the reference to FAA Order 7400.9 was published as FAA Order 7400.9O. The correct reference is FAA Order 7400.9P. Also, the corresponding effective date that refers to the Order should state `` * * * September 15, 2006'', instead of `` * * * September 16, 2006''. This technical amendment corrects those errors.

This technical amendment corrects a final rule published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2006 (71 FR 37492), Docket No. FAA- 2005-225010, Airspace Docket No. 06-AAL-17. In that rule, the reference to FAA Order 7400.9 was published as FAA Order 7400.9O. The correct reference is FAA Order 7400.9P. This technical amendment corrects those errors.