March 13, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Commerce initiated an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on hard red spring wheat from Canada, covering the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2004. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 71 FR 68535 (November 27, 2006). As a result of a timely withdrawal of the request for review by the Canadian Wheat Board, we are rescinding this review.

In response to a request from petitioner Aqualon Company, a division of Hercules Incorporated (``Aqualon''), a U.S. manufacturer of carboxymethylcellulose (``CMC''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on CMC from the Netherlands. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 71 FR 51573 (August 30, 2006). This administrative review covers the period December 27, 2004, through June 30, 2006. We are now rescinding this review with respect to Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry BV and Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V. (collectively, ``Akzo'') due to the withdrawal of Aqualon's review request with respect to Akzo.\1\

FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 15 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions granted will not compromise safety. The Agency has concluded that granting these exemptions will provide a level of safety that will be equivalent to, or greater than, the level of safety maintained without the exemptions for these commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers.

An open meeting of the Area 3 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.

An open meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.

The Towing Vessel Inspection Working Group of the Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) will meet to discuss matters relating to these specific issues of towing safety. The meetings will be open to the public.

An open meeting of the Wage & Investment Reducing Taxpayer Burden (Notices) Issue Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection. This ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

The U.S. Postal Service is amending the enforcement provisions of the rules for conduct on Postal Service property to restate the statutory basis for the powers of members of the Postal Service security force. Enactment of permanent law defining these powers and authority necessitates this amendment. The Postal Service infers and intends no substantive change to the referenced powers and authority.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``Recordkeeping Requirements for Human Food and Cosmetics Manufactured From, Processed With, or Otherwise Containing, Material from Cattle'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled ``Statistical Guidance on Reporting Results from Studies Evaluating Diagnostic Tests.'' This guidance describes some statistically appropriate practices for reporting results from different studies evaluating diagnostic tests and identifies some common inappropriate practices. Special attention is given to describing a practice called discrepant resolution and its associated problems.

The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are seeking sponsors interested in participating in a pilot project to test the submission of case report form (CRF) data provided electronically in extensible markup language (XML) based on the Operational Data Model (ODM) developed by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). This pilot will test the ability of a new data format to support all review activity, which our current submission format is incapable of doing. Data supplied in ODM format by sponsors during the pilot project will not replace any regulatory requirements for submitting CRFs. We anticipate that a successful pilot will allow CDER and CBER to routinely accept CRFs from studies employing electronic data capture (EDC) in ODM format in marketing applications provided in electronic format.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 announces its intent to delete the Peripheral Operable Unit (OU) and Operable Unit 3 (OU 3), also referred to as the Offsite Areas, encompassing approximately 25,413 acres, of the Department of Energy (DOE) Rocky Flats Plant from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this proposed action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR Part 300, which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP), which EPA promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Rocky Flats Plant means the property owned by the United States Government, also known as Rocky Flats, Rocky Flats Site, or Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), as identified in Figure 1. The Rocky Flats Plant is divided into the Central and Peripheral Operable Units (Figure 2) which contain 1,308 and 4,933 acres, respectively, and OU 3 (Figure 3) which contains approximately 20,480 acres. The 3 referenced figures are available as described below in the section entitled Docket. EPA bases its proposal to delete the Peripheral OU and OU 3 of the Rocky Flats Plant on the determination by EPA and the State of Colorado, through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), that all appropriate actions under CERCLA have been implemented to protect human health, welfare and the environment and that no further response action by responsible parties is appropriate. This partial deletion pertains to the surface media (soil, surface water, sediment) and subsurface media, including groundwater, within the Peripheral OU and OU 3 of the Rocky Flats Plant. The Central OU will remain on the NPL and is not being considered for deletion as part of this action.