2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), that the October 8, 2009 regular meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board) has been rescheduled. The regular meeting of the Board will be held Thursday, October 15, 2009 starting at 9 a.m. An agenda for this meeting will be published at a later date.

Through this notice, HUD announces the availability on its website of the application information, submission deadlines, funding criteria, and other requirements for the FY2009 Community Development Technical Assistance (CD-TA) Program NOFA. The FY2009 CD-TA NOFA makes $23.8 million available to provide technical assistance to achieve the highest level of performance and results for five separate community development areas. These areas are the Home Program (HOME), Home Investment Partnerships for Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDO, HOME), McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance (Homeless), Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG). The notice providing information regarding the application process, funding criteria and eligibility requirements is available on the Grants.gov website at https://apply07.grants.gov/ apply/formsappsidx.html. A link to Grants.gov is also available on the HUD Web site at https://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/ fundsavail.cfm. The Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers for the CD-TA program are: 14.239 HOME and CHDO (HOME), 14.235 Homeless. 14.241 HOPWA, 14.218 CDBG Entitlement Grants, 14.219 CDBG States and Small Cities Program, 14.227 CDBG/Technical Assistance Program (B), 14.225 CDBG Insular Program, and 14.248 CDBG Section 108. Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.

We are extending the comment period for our notice that would recognize 16 additional magisterial districts in 3 provinces as pest- free areas for citrus black spot in the Republic of South Africa. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments.

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be available for licensing.

This document contains proposed regulations relating to the exclusion from gross income for amounts received on account of personal physical injuries or physical sickness. The proposed regulations reflect amendments under the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996. The proposed regulations also delete the requirement that to qualify for exclusion from gross income, damages received from a legal suit, action, or settlement agreement must be based upon ``tort or tort type rights.'' The proposed regulations affect taxpayers receiving damages on account of personal physical injuries or physical sickness and taxpayers paying these damages.

The Department of the Treasury, 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)). Currently, the IRS is soliciting comments concerning Form 8582-CR, Passive Activity Credit Limitations.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Indiana dated 09/04/2009.

The Western Area Power Administration (Western), an agency of the DOE, intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed interconnection of the Hualapai Valley Solar Project (Project) in Mohave County, near Kingman, Arizona. Hualapai Valley Solar, LLC (HVS) has applied to Western to interconnect the proposed Project to Western's power transmission system. Western is issuing this notice to inform the public and interested parties about Western's intent to prepare an EIS, conduct a public scoping process, and invite the public to comment on the scope, proposed action, alternatives, and

On September 16, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer will host a DHS Workforce Diversity informational meeting to discuss ways to enhance diversity within the DHS workforce and, in particular, among the Department's senior leadership ranks. The purpose of this meeting is to provide stakeholders from the diversity community with an overview of DHS diversity policy, initiatives, and planning. The meeting, which will also be attended by representatives from the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, DHS component representatives and members of the diversity community, is strictly informational and it is not meant to result in advice or recommendations to the Department.

The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) will meet via teleconference for the purpose of reviewing the findings and recommendations of the HSAC's Southwest Border Task Force.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has completed its administrative review of the countervailing duty (``CVD'') order on certain pasta from Italy for the period January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007. On May 28, 2009, we published the Preliminary Results of this review. See Certain Pasta from Italy: Preliminary Results of the 12th (2007) Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 74 FR 25489 (May 28, 2009) (``Preliminary Results''). We did not receive any comments on the Preliminary Results and have made no revisions. We find that De Matteis Agroalimentare S.p.A. (``De Matteis'') received countervailable subsidies. The final net subsidy rate for De Matteis is listed below in the section entitled ``Final Results of Review.''

The Department of Commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain oil country tubular goods from the People's Republic of China. For information on the estimated subsidy rates, see the ``Suspension of Liquidation'' section of this notice.