June 15, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing its intention to request a revision of an approved information collection regarding the regulatory requirements associated with the production of meat from Advanced Meat Recovery systems to reflect its most recent plant data, which support a finding of fewer total burden hours.

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

The closed meeting of the Art Advisory Panel which was to be held in Washington, DC on June 20, 2007 has been postponed and will be rescheduled for Fall 2007. (The date to be determined.)

The Federal Trade Commission is extending the deadline for filing public comments on several issues in connection with the preparation of a report required by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

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.

The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone established in 33 CFR 165.1191, during the City of Monterey's Fourth of July Fireworks display, to be held on July 4, 2007, in the navigable waters of Monterey Bay. This safety zone is necessary to ensure the safety of participants and spectators during the loading, transport, and launching of fireworks. Unauthorized persons or vessels are prohibited from entering into, transiting through, or anchoring in the safety zone without permission of the Captain of the Port or his designated representative. Enforcement Dates: 33 CFR 165.1191 will be enforced from 9 a.m. to 9:35 p.m. on July 4, 2007.

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, (Privacy Act) the Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a new system of records entitled ``Impact Evaluation of Upward Bound's Increased Focus on Higher-Risk Students'' (18-13-17). The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance at the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) commissioned this evaluation. It will be conducted under a contract that IES awarded in September 2006. IES has been collaborating with the Department's Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) to coordinate the study of the impacts of the Upward Bound program on higher-risk students and students as a whole. The study will address the following questions: (1) What are the impacts of Upward Bound on student outcomes including course taking, grades received, test scores, retention in high school, college preparation services received, and college and career expectationsboth overall and for higher-risk students? (2) Does the impact of Upward Bound vary according to grantee practices and characteristics, such as the ratio of higher-risk students to total students served by the grantee? (3) Does there appear to be a relationship between program impacts and control group students' receipt of similar services, such as tutoring, mentoring, after-school and summer enrichment programs, and college application and financial aid assistance? The system will contain information about approximately 3,600 students applying for admission at approximately 90 Upward Bound grantees for the 2007-2008 academic year, of which approximately 1,800 will have been offered admission to Upward Bound and 1,800 will serve as a control group for the purposes of this evaluation. These students will be in either 9th or 10th grade during the 2007-2008 academic year. The Upward Bound grantees included in the evaluation will be a sample of all Upward Bound grantees. The system of records will include information about these sampled students, including their names, addresses, demographic information such as race/ethnicity, gender, age, and educational background, attitudes toward school, and educational aspirations.

The Advisory Committee's study group is participating in an initiative by the United National Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to revise the 1994 UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services (``Model Procurement Law''), and its Guide to Enactment, available at https://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/ uncitraltexts/procurementinfrastructure/1994Model.html. The UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law is not binding on the United States, but it is cited and relied upon in many other nations as a model procurement code. The reform effort regarding the Model Procurement Law is being undertaken by UNCITRAL's Working Group I, which has been meeting twice annually, in Vienna and New York, to develop new language for the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law and the Guide to Enactment. The working papers that reflect this effort are gathered at the UNCITRAL Web site, at https://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/workinggroups/ 1Procurement.html. As part of its broader effort to reform the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law to reflect advances in electronic procurement, the UNCITRAL working group has made substantial progress in developing new provisions in the model law. At its May 2007 meeting in New York, the UNCITRAL working group addressed proposed provisions that would: (a) Set standards for the use of electronic communications in procurement under the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law; (b) Describe when, and how, electronic reverse auctions might be used under the model law; and (c) Define rules for the use of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (``IDIQ'') contracts, generally referred to as ``frameworks agreements'' in the European Union and under the proposed changes to the Model Procurement Law. The provisions under consideration by the working group are described in, inter alia, working paper A/CN.9/WG.I/WP.51 (Mar. 13, 2007), available at the previously referenced Web site. A report on the May 2007 meeting is to be published by the UNCITRAL Secretariat at the same Web site. The Advisory Committee's study group will be holding a public meeting to review and discuss the proposed reforms to the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law at The George Washington University Law School Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor 2000 H Street, NW., Washington, DC on June 27, 2007 from 1 p.m. EST to 3 p.m. EST. Written comments need to be submitted by June 22, 2007 to the Office of Private International Law, U.S. Department of State, 2430 E Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037-2851, attn: Michael Dennis, or by facsimile to 202-776-8482, or by electronic mail to DennisMJ@State.gov. Any persons wishing to reserve an opportunity to comment at the public meeting should note so in a submission to the address above or should call Trisha Smeltzer at 202-776-8423.

On June 8, 2007, Notice was published in the Federal Register (volume 72, number 110, 31872-31873) announcing a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion on July 18, 2007 at the Department of State. Due to scheduling conflicts, the meeting has now been cancelled.

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.

CERHR announces the second meeting of the CERHR Expert Panel on Bisphenol A on August 6-8, 2007, at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, VA. This meeting is open to the public with time scheduled for oral public comment. Attendance is limited only by the available meeting space.

We are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Kentucky Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation (AMLR) Plan under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The amendment makes several revisions to Kentucky's AMLR Plan and is intended to update and improve the effectiveness of the AMLR plan. Kentucky submitted the amendment in response to the passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006. This document gives the times and locations that the Kentucky program and this submittal are available for your inspection, the comment period during which you may submit written comments, and the procedures that we will follow for the public hearing, if one is requested.

These regulations finalize the interim regulations that provide the rules for determining an employee's official worksite when he or she teleworks from an alternative worksite during an emergency situation, such as a pandemic health crisis, and permit an agency to provide evacuation payments to an employee who is ordered to evacuate from his or her regular worksite and directed to work from home (or an alternative location mutually agreeable to the agency and the employee) during a pandemic health crisis. The final regulations revise the interim regulations to clarify that an employee need not have a telework agreement when directed to work from home. These regulations are issued as part of OPM's efforts to provide agencies with guidance to ensure they are able to fulfill their critical missions while at the same time protect their employees should a pandemic health crisis occur.

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared three Proposed Resource Management Plans/Final Environmental Impact Statements (PRMPs/FEISs) for public lands managed by the Eagle Lake Field Office, Susanville, California; the Alturas Field Office, Alturas, California; and the Surprise Field Office, Cedarville, California. These plans are now available for public review.

The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), 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 to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

This action adds to the Procurement List products to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.

As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an appealable decision approving lands for conveyance pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act will be issued to Pitka's Point Native Corporation. The lands are in the vicinity of the Native village of Pitka's Point, Alaska, and are located in:

Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) 07-09; National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities; Notice of Correction. 1. Subject: National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities; Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement. 2. Purpose: The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) announced a competition to fund a cooperative agreement to establish the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities within a 24-month period of performance. This solicitation was previously published in the Federal Register (72 FR 26836) on May 11, 2007. ODEP has since determined that $150,000 should be added to the total amount being awarded; accordingly, this document serves as notification that up to $1,850,000 is now available to fund this cooperative agreement. 3. Originator: Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). 4. Dates: Applications must be mailed, hand-delivered or electronically sent to: U.S. Department of Labor, Procurement Services Center, Attention: Cassandra Mitchell, Reference SGA 07-09, Room S- 4307, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. Applications sent by e-mail or telefascimile (FAX) will not be accepted. The closing date for receipt of applications is June 25, 2007. All applications, including those hand-delivered, must be received not later than 4:45 p.m. (EST).