April 26, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its accounting and reporting regulations to require public utilities and licensees to continue to follow the Commission's Uniform System of Accounts (USofA) and to file annual and quarterly financial reports when they have ceased making jurisdictional sales of electric energy, or providing jurisdictional transmission service, but continue collecting amounts pursuant to a Commission- accepted tariff or rate schedule, or a Commission order. The Final Rule will close a gap in the Commission's regulations which apply now only to operating public utilities and licensees, and which provide information necessary to the Commission's regulatory responsibilities.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Learjet Model 45 airplanes. This AD requires deactivating the auxiliary power unit (APU), capping/plugging the fuel lines to the APU, and removing the APU fuel shutoff valve. This AD results from reports of fuel leaking from the APU fuel shutoff valve into a flammable fluid fire protection area that is also interconnected with the main landing gear's wheel well bay. We are issuing this AD to prevent fuel leaking from the fuel shutoff valve of the APU, which could result in an uncontrollable fire and adversely affect the airplane's continued safe flight and landing.

On April 10, 2007 (72 FR 17881), the Department of Defense published a notice with the subject heading ``Department of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care'' which should have read ``Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences''. This notice corrects the title for that notice. All other information remains unchanged.

In a rule published November 8, 2002, EPA promulgated new emission standards for recreational vehicles beginning in model year 2006. This included a newly regulated class of nonroad vehicles/engines commonly referred to as all-terrain vehicles. In that rulemaking, a temporary provision was included allowing manufacturers to certify all- terrain vehicles over a steady-state, engine-based, duty cycle for exhaust emissions prior to the 2009 model year in lieu of the transient, chassis-based, Federal Test Procedure which was effective for 2006 and later model years. In this rulemaking we are proposing to extend the availability of this temporary provision for in some cases up to an additional six model years, after which the chassis-based Federal Test Procedure would become the only available test cycle. More specifically, manufacturers would have to certify exhaust emission engine families representing not less than 50 percent of their U.S.- directed production on the Federal Test Procedure in model year 2014 and 100 percent in 2015. Manufacturers with only one all-terrain vehicle exhaust emission engine engine family would not be required to use the Federal Test Procedure until the 2015 model year. For those manufacturers who have not yet done so, this will allow additional time to certify to the previously promulgated Federal Test Procedure-based emission standards using either contract facilities or by obtaining in- house capability.

The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a second meeting of RTCA Special Committee 213, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems/Synthetic Vision System (EFVS/SVS).