June 18, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Board proposes, and seeks comment on, three changes to its released rates authorization, to enhance the protection of consumers whose household goods are damaged or lost by motor common carriers.

On January 24, 2007, President Bush signed Executive Order 12343, ``Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management.'' Section 4(b) of the E.O. authorizes the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), after consultation with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the agencies, to issue instructions to implement the E.O. CEQ issued the first set of implementing instructions on March 30, 2007.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to update a telephone number for the Office of Information Services and an NRC Web site location. This document is necessary to inform the public of these changes to the NRC's regulations.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Oklahoma ( FEMA- 1707-DR), dated 06/07/2007. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Incident Period: 05/04/2007 through 05/11/2007. Effective Date: 06/07/2007. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 08/06/2007.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Missouri (FEMA-1708-DR), dated 06/11/2007. Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding. Incident Period: 05/05/2007 through 05/18/2007. Effective Date: 06/11/2007. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 08/10/2007. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 03/11/2008.

NOAA publishes this notice to announce the availability of the revised draft NOAA 5-Year Research Plan for public comment. The Research Plan is revised to update it for 2007-2011.

By letter dated November 9, 2006, Governor Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania requested that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) enter into an Agreement with the Commonwealth as authorized by Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (Act). Under the proposed Agreement, the Commission would give up, and Pennsylvania would take over, portions of the Commission's regulatory authority exercised within the Commonwealth. As required by the Act, the NRC is publishing the proposed Agreement for public comment. The NRC is also publishing the summary of an assessment by the NRC staff of the Pennsylvania regulatory program. Comments are requested on the proposed Agreement, especially its effect on public health and safety. Comments are also requested on the draft NRC staff assessment, the adequacy of the Pennsylvania program, and the Commonwealth's program staff, as discussed in this notice. The proposed Agreement would release (exempt) persons who possess or use certain radioactive materials in Pennsylvania from portions of the Commission's regulatory authority. The Act requires that the NRC publish those exemptions. Notice is hereby given that the pertinent exemptions have been previously published in the Federal Register and are codified in the Commission's regulations as 10 CFR part 150.

Notice is hereby given that the State of Connecticut has fulfilled the enforceable commitments it made to EPA to complete a mid- course review (MCR) assessing whether two one-hour ozone nonattainment areas are, or are not, making sufficient progress toward attainment of the one-hour ozone standard under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The two areas are the Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey- Long Island 1-hour ozone nonattainment area, and the Greater Connecticut 1-hour ozone nonattainment area. EPA has reviewed the MCR documents submitted by Connecticut and has determined that Connecticut has met the commitment to perform these MCRs. EPA has sent a letter to Connecticut finding that their MCRs fulfill the commitment made by Connecticut in their 1-hour ozone attainment demonstrations.

Under Section 122(h)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the United States Environmental Protection Agency has entered into a settlement for reimbursement of past response concerning the Holmes Scrap Yard Site located in East Spencer, Rowan County, North Carolina.

The FAA is revising an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Learjet Model 45 airplanes. The original NPRM would have required revising the Airworthiness Limitations section of the airplane maintenance manual to incorporate certain inspections and compliance times to detect fatigue cracking of certain principal structural elements (PSEs). The original NPRM resulted from new and more restrictive life limits and inspection intervals for certain PSEs. This action revises the original NPRM by changing the applicability to add certain airplanes. We are proposing this supplemental NPRM to ensure that fatigue cracking of various PSEs is detected and corrected; such fatigue cracking could adversely affect the structural integrity of these airplanes.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,996,493: PROGRAMMED COMPUTATION OF PREDICTED PRESSURE LOADS ON MARINE VESSELS.//U.S. Patent No. 7,025,014: SEA VESSEL RETRIEVAL OF UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES.//U.S. Patent No. 7,025,112: PRETREATMENT PROCESSING OF METAL-MATRIX CARBIDE POWER FOR MOLD CASTING OF PRODUCTS. //U.S. Patent No. 7,026,738: QUAD SHAFT CONTRAROTATING HOMOPOLAR MOTOR.//U.S. Patent No. 7,026,981: SURFACE INTERACTION REGION METHODOLOGY FOR DELIMITING MULTIPATH PROPAGATION INQUIRY://U.S. Patent No. 7,041,987: INSPECTION OF COMMON MATERIALS FOR RADIATION EXPOSURE BY ATOMIC AND/OR MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY.//U.S. Patent No. 7,052,226: WHEELED CONTAINER TRANSFER SELF-ALIGNING PLATFORM FOR MARINE TERMINAL CRANE.//U.S. Patent No. 7,052,607: BIOREACTOR PROCESSING METHOD WITHIN A TANK INTERNALLY CHAMBERED TO SEQUENTIALLY PERFORM BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT AND MEMBRANE FILTRATION.//U.S. Patent No. 7,059,566: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE FOR LOGISTICAL DELIVERY.//U.S. Patent No. 7,068,027: SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF METALLIC DEBRIS IN FLUID.//U.S. Patent No. 7,070,882: REACTIVE METAL HYDROGEL/INERT POLYMER COMPOSITE ANODE AND PRIMARY METAL-AIR BATTERY.//U.S. Patent No. 7,082,355: WAKE WASH SEVERITY MONITOR FOR HIGH SPEED VESSELS.//U.S. Patent No. 7,090,893: RHENIUM COMPOSITE.//U.S. Patent No. 7,101,237: PROPELLOR BLADE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM FOR PROPULSION THROUGH FLUID ENVIRONMENTS UNDER CHANGING CONDITIONS.//U.S. Patent No. 7,110,891: DEGAUSSING VULNERABILITY DISPLAY PROGRAM.//U.S. Patent No. 7,108,782: MARINE VESSEL ONBOARD WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 7,111,523: ROTATIONAL POWER TRANSMITTING DRIVE COMPONENT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND ASSEMBLY CHARACTERISTICS.//U.S. Patent No. 7,111,809: AIRCRAFT EXCESSIVE FUEL DUMPING EJECTION PARALLEL TO FLIGHT DIRECTION./ /U.S. Patent No. 7,114,764: MINE AND COLLISION PROTECTION FOR PASSENGER VEHICLE.//U.S. Patent No. 7,122,117: SELF-CLEANING COMPOSITE DECK DRAIN.//U.S. Patent No. 7,124,698: AUXILIARY FACILITIES FOR THE MANEUVERING OF SUBMERGED WATER JET PROPELLED SEA CRAFT.//U.S. Patent No. 7,136,324: PRESSURE EQUALIZING FLUIDBORNE SOUND PROJECTOR.//U.S. Patent No. 7,138,743: SOLID AND LIQUID HYBRID CURRENT TRANSFERRING BRUSH.//U.S. Patent No. 7,138,941: IN-SITU CALIBRATION OF RADAR FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT.//U.S. Patent No. 7,139,223: DEEP WATER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 7,144,282: CONTOURED RUDDER MANEUVERING OF WATERJET PROPELLED SEA CRAFT.//U.S. Patent No. 7,148,600: ELECTRICAL CURRENT TRANSFERRING AND BRUSH PRESSURE EXERTING INTERLOCKING SLIP RING ASSEMBLY.//U.S. Patent No. 7,149,150: UNDERWATER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 7,152,375: SEAL INTEGRITY DETECTION SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent No. 7,163,107: OIL/WATER SEPARATOR WITH ENHANCED IN-SITU CLEANING.//U.S. Patent No. 7,163,138: FRICTION STIRRED INTRODUCTION OF PARTICLES INTO A METALLIC SUBSTRATE FOR SURFACE DURABILITY TREATMENT.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,178,782: QUIET OPENING BALL VALVE.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,179,090: INTEGRAL DUAL-COMPONENT CURRENT COLLECTION DEVICE.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,180,581: LITHOGRAPHY FOR OPTICAL PATTERNING OF FLUIDS.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,180,828: NON-KINKING OIL-FILLED ACOUSTIC SENSOR STAVE.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,198,001: UNDERWATER INSPECTION MEASUREMENT SURVEY.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,206,258: DUAL RESPONSE ACOUSTICAL SENSOR SYSTEM.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,214,306: ELEVATED POTENTIAL DEPOSITION OF RHENIUM ON GRAPHITE SUBSTRATES FROM A REO.SUB.2/H.SUB.2O.SUB.2 SOLUTION.//U.S. Patent application Serial No. 7,114,764: MINE AND COLLISION PROTECTION FOR PASSENGER VEHICLE.//PTC international application No. PTC/US2005/013934: ARMOR INCLUDING A STRAIN RATE HARDENING ELASTOMER.

Pursuant to Section (102)(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, and the regulations implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (Navy) announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the potential environmental consequences of expanding Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Site's (NSWCDL) research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) activities taking place outdoors on the Potomac River Test Range Complex, the Explosives Experimental Area, and Mission Areas. RDT&E activities are conducted in support of NSWCDL's mission requirements in surface warfare, surface ship combat systems, strategic systems, ordnance, and special warfare systems. These activities include outdoor operations that require the use of ordnance, lasers, electromagnetic fields, and chemical and biological simulants (imitations).

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to NaturalNano, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the fields of use in Electromagnetic Shielding; Strength Enhancement; Cosmetics; Odor Masking; Eluting Implantable Medical Devices; Visibility Enhanced Implantable Medical Devices; Eluting Bandages; Local Drug Delivery; Agricultural; Vertebrate Aversion; Veterinary; Ink and Paper; Electronics; Fabrics and Textiles; all other fields of use specifically excluding: Halloysite in Building Materials and Petroleum; and Paint in the United States and certain foreign countries, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 6,913,828: Production of Hollow Metal Microcylinders from Lipids, Navy Case No. 83,603.//U.S. Patent No. 6,936,215: Processing Methodology for the Rational Control of Bilayer Numbers Leading to High Efficiency Production of Lipid Microtubules, Navy Case No. 77,839.// U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/229,433: Novel Biodegradable Biofouling Control Coating and Method of Formulation, Navy Case No. 96,826 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary is announcing a public meeting of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory Committee.

On September 15, 2003, we published a notice of proposed rulemaking (68 FR 53939) soliciting public comments regarding further guidance on OIG's exclusion authority under section 1128(b)(6)(A) of the Social Security Act and 42 CFR 1001.701 of our regulations. Having considered the public comments and for the reasons explained below, we are not promulgating a final rule.

The Coast Guard proposes to temporarily change the drawbridge regulation of the Belleair Beach Bridge, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway mile 131.8, Belleair Beach, Pinellas County, Florida. This proposed rule will require this drawbridge to open on signal, except that from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. this bridge will open on the hour and half-hour. This action is necessary for workers safety and will assist in expediting the construction of the new bridge.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 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 a proposed revised information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning FEMA's National Emergency Training Center (NETC) to approve and coordinate the use of the NETC facility for extracurricular training activities.