November 5, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS is reallocating projected unused amounts of Pacific cod from catcher vessels using trawl gear, catcher vessels using pot gear, catcher vessels using hook and line gear, and vessels using jig to catcher/processors using pot gear and catcher/processors using hook- and-line gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). These actions are necessary to allow the 2009 total allowable catch (TAC) of Pacific cod to be harvested.

The Department of Commerce (``Department'') is currently conducting an antidumping duty investigation of certain standard steel fasteners from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). The period of investigation (``POI'') is January 1, 2009, through June 30, 2009. We are limiting the number of quantity and value questionnaires that will be sent directly to exporters and extending the deadline for parties to submit a response to the quantity and value questionnaire.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry titled ``Dosage Delivery Devices for OTC Liquid Drug Products.'' FDA is issuing this guidance because of ongoing concerns about potentially serious accidental drug overdoses that can result from the use of dosage delivery devices with markings inconsistent or incompatible with the labeled dosage directions for over-the-counter (OTC) liquid drug products.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate as a color additive in the feed of salmonid fish to enhance the color of their flesh. This action is in response to a petition filed by DSM Nutritional Products, Inc.

The FAA proposes to rule and invite public comment on the release of land at the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport under the provisions of Section 47125(a) of Title 49 United States Code (U.S.C.).

The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces an open competition for two grants for summer institutes for youth. Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3), including accredited, post-secondary U.S. educational institutions, may submit proposals to provide a three- to four-week U.S.-based institute for one of the two institute options in the summer of 2010 for up to 45 teenagers aged 16-18. One institutethe Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Instituteis for participants from Europe, the European countries of Eurasia, and the United States. The other institutethe Benjamin Franklin Summer Institute with Asiais for participants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the United States. U.S. Embassies in all the participating countries will select the foreign participants, and the U.S. grant recipients will select the American participants. Both institutes will focus on leadership development, critical thinking, diplomacy, community activism, and the media as ways that young adults can unite around their common goals. Support for individual or small group follow-on projects in the home communities of the exchange alumni will complete the program.

This action revises Colored Federal Airway Amber 1 (A-1), by adding a segment from the Abbotsford, BC, Non-directional Beacon (NDB) to the Victoria, BC, NDB. Specifically, the FAA is taking this action to enhance the management of air traffic during the 2010 Winter Olympics at the request of the Canadian Government.

This document contains a correction to final regulations (TD 9465) that were published in the Federal Register on Monday, September 28, 2009 (74 FR 49315) concerning the determination of the interest expense deduction of foreign corporations engaged in a trade or business within the United States. These final regulations conform the interest expense rules to recent U.S. Income Tax Treaty agreements and adopt other changes to improve compliance.