April 10, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instructions on what happens to records when no longer needed for current Government business. They authorize the preservation of records of continuing value in the National Archives of the United States and the destruction, after a specified period, of records lacking administrative, legal, research, or other value. Notice is published for records schedules in which agencies propose to destroy records not previously authorized for disposal or reduce the retention period of records already authorized for disposal. NARA invites public comments on such records schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new system titled, ``Master Demonstration, Evaluation, and Research Studies (DERS) for the Office of Research, Development and Information (ORDI),'' System No. 09-70- 0591. This notice serves as the Master system for all demonstration, evaluation, and research studies administered by ORDI. Sixteen existing ORDI demonstration, evaluation, and research studies will be included under this notice and the separate, existing systems of records notices for those studies will be deleted upon the effective date of this notice. DERS will become effective 30 days from the publication of the notice in the Federal Register, or 40 days from the date submitted to OMB and the Congress, whichever is later. With the publication of this master system, ORDI will only be deleting the systems of records listed below as separate stand alone notices to the public. Retention and destruction of the data contained in these systems will follow the schedules listed in this DERS system notice. The existing ORDI systems of records to be included under DERS and which will be deleted by this notice are as follows: ``Municipal Health Services Program System No. 09-70- 0022,'' 65 Federal Register (FR) 37792 (June 16, 2000); ``Monitoring of the Home Health Agency Prospective Payment Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0048, 65 FR 37792 (June 16, 2000); ``Person-Level Medicaid Data System, System No. 09-70- 0507'' last published at 71 FR 60726 (October 16, 2006); ``Medicare Cancer Registry Record System,'' System No. 09- 70-0509, last published at 71 FR 67133 (November 20, 2006); ``End Stage Renal Disease Program Management and Medical Information System,'' System No. 09-70-0520, last published at 67 FR 41244 (June 17, 2002); ``Evaluations of the Medicaid Reform Demonstrations,'' System No. 09-70-0523, last published at 71 FR 60540 (October 13, 2006); ``MMA Section 641 Prescription Drug Benefit Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0545, last published at 69 FR 32587 (June 10, 2004); ``Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0559, last published at 70 FR 58432 (October 6, 2005); ``Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial Minorities,'' System No. 09-70-0560, last published at 70 FR 57602 (October 3, 2005); ``Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0562, last published at 70 FR 58442 (October 6, 2005); ``Rural Hospice Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0563, last published at 71 FR 57968 (October 2, 2006); ``Medicare Chiropractic Coverage Demonstration and Evaluation,'' System No. 09-70-0577, last published at 71 FR 41450 (July 21, 2006); ``Low Vision Rehabilitation Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0582, last published at 71 FR 58621 (October 4, 2006); ``Medicare Lifestyle Modification Program Demonstration,'' System No. 09-70-0585, last published at 71 FR 41807 (July 24, 2006); ``Competitive Bidding for Clinical Laboratory Services,'' System No. 09-70-0589, last published at 71 FR 60713 (October 16, 2006); and ``Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration and Evaluation,'' System No. 09-70-0592, last published at 71 FR 60718 (October 16, 2006). The purpose of this system is to document, track, monitor, evaluate, and conduct ORDI-administered demonstration, evaluation, and research studies. Information retrieved from this system may be disclosed to: (1) Support regulatory, reimbursement, and policy functions performed within the agency or by a contractor, consultant or CMS grantee; (2) assist another Federal or state agency with information to contribute to the accuracy of CMS's payment of Medicare benefits, enable such agency to administer a Federal health benefits program, or to enable such agency to fulfill a requirement of Federal statute or regulation that implements a health benefits program funded in whole or in part with Federal funds; (3) support an individual or organization for a research project or in support of an evaluation project related to the prevention of disease or disability, the restoration or maintenance of health, or payment related projects; (4) support litigation involving the agency; and (5) combat fraud, waste and abuse in certain Federally-funded health benefits programs. We have provided background information about the new system in the ``Supplementary Information'' section below. Although the Privacy Act requires only that CMS provide an opportunity for interested persons to comment on the proposed routine uses, CMS invites comments on all portions of this notice. See Effective Dates section for comment period.

The National Tree-marking Paint Committee will meet in Portland, Oregon on May 15-17, 2007. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss activities related to improvements in, concerns about, and the handling and use of tree-marking paint by personnel of the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management.

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

In accordance with section 206A of the National Housing Act, HUD has adjusted the basic statutory mortgage limits for multifamily housing programs for calendar year 2007.

This proposal would extend the duration of first- and third- class medical certificates for certain individuals. A first-class medical certificate is required when exercising airline transport pilot privileges and at least a third-class medical certificate when exercising private pilot privileges. Certain conforming amendments to medical certification procedures and some general editorial amendments also are proposed. The intent of this action is to improve the efficiency of the medical certification program and service provided to medical certificate applicants.

This action corrects an error in the northwest boundary description of a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on February 23, 2007 (72 FR 8100) Federal Register Docket No. FAA-2006- 24826, Airspace Docket No. 06-ANM-3.

Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to file the plats of survey of the lands described below thirty (30) calendar days from the date of this publication in the BLM Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming.