February 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

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

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 an existing final regulation, LR-189-80 (T.D. 7927), Amortization of Reforestation Expenditures (Sec. Sec. 1.194-2 and 1.194-4).

The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 135: Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes to fund, construct, and operate a new Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and Base Building at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (AZO), Portage City, Michigan. The FAA's preferred alternative is to construct the ATCT at a location on the northeast portion of AZO. The purpose and need of the proposed project is to improve visibility of airport surfaces, have the capability to meet future operational and administrative expansion requirements, and increase the efficient functionality of the facility because the current ATCT and collocated Terminal Radar Approach Control facility are outdated and outmoded.

This document contains corrections to final and temporary regulations (TD 9477) that were published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 (74 FR 69021) regarding certain transactions that are subject to section 304 but that are entered into with a principal purpose of avoiding the application of section 304 to a corporation that is controlled by the issuing corporation in the transaction, or with a principal purpose of avoiding the application of section 304 to a corporation that controls the acquiring corporation in the transaction.

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 an existing final regulation, LR-213-76 (TD 8095), Estate and Gift Taxes; Qualified Disclaimers of Property (Section 25.2518-2(b)).

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 5471 (and related schedules), Information Return of U.S. Persons With Respect To Certain Foreign Corporations.

This notice is provided in accordance with IRC section 6039G, as amended, by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996. This listing contains the name of each individual losing their United States citizenship (within the meaning of section 877(a) or 877A) with respect to whom the Secretary received information during the quarter ending December 31, 2009.

The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) is amending its regulations on availability of records to establish the manner of service for administrative subpoenas issued by the Agency and to delegate authority to the Agency's General Counsel to issue administrative subpoenas. These changes implement section 107 of the Thrift Savings Plan Enhancement Act of 2009, which gave the Agency authority to issue subpoenas duces tecum in order to carry out the Agency's functions.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the recordkeeping requirements for this collection of information concerning substances prohibited from use in animal food or feed and animal proteins prohibited in ruminant feed.

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR part 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/010,737, entitled ``Dihydropyridine, pyridine-, benzopyran one-, and triazoloquinazoline derivatives, their preparation and use as adenosine receptor antagonists,'' filed January 29, 1996 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/0-US-1], U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/021,191, entitled ``Dihydropyridine, pyridine-, benzopyran one-, and triazoloquinazoline derivatives, their preparation and use as adenosine receptor antagonists,'' filed July 3, 1996 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/1-US-1], PCT Application PCT/US97/01252, entitled ``Dihydropyridine, pyridine-, benzopyran one-, and triazoloquinazoline derivatives, their preparation and use as adenosine receptor antagonists,'' filed January 29, 1997 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-PCT- 1], U.S. Patent 6,066,642, entitled ``Dihydropyridine, pyridine-, benzopyran one-, and triazoloquinazoline derivatives, their preparation and use as adenosine receptor antagonists,'' issued May 23, 2000 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-US-08], Australian Patent 709190, issued December 9, 1999 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-AU-04], European Patent Application No. 97905627.2, filed January 29, 1997 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-EP- 05], Hong Kong Application No. 99102653.6, filed January 29, 1997 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-HK-06], Japanese Patent Application No. 527065/ 1997, filed January 29, 1997 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-JP-07], Australian Patent 755525, issued March 27, 2003 [HHS Ref. No. E-225- 1995/2-AU-02], and Canadian Patent 2244774, issued October 17, 2006 [HHS Ref. No. E-225-1995/2-CA-03], U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/092,292, entitled ``A3 Adenosine Receptor Antagonists,'' filed July 10, 1998 [HHS Ref. No. E-096-1998/0-US-1], PCT Application PCT/US99/ 15562, entitled''A3 Adenosine Receptor Antagonists,'' filed July 2, 1999 [HHS Ref. No. E-096-1998/0-PCT-2], U.S. Patent 6,376,521, entitled ``A3 Adenosine Receptor Antagonists,'' issued April 23, 2003, [HHS Ref. No. E-096-1998/0-US-04], and Canadian Patent Application No. 2336967, filed July 2, 1999 [HHS Ref. No. E-096-1998/0-CA-03], U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/085,588, entitled ``Truncated Methanacarba Adenosine Derivatives as A3 Antagonists,'' filed August 1, 2008 [HHS Ref. No. E-285-2008/0-US-1], PCT Application PCT/US2009/52439, entitled ``Truncated Methanacarba Adenosine Derivatives as A3 Antagonists,'' filed July 31, 2009 [HHS Ref. No. E-285-2008/0-PCT-2], and Korean International Application No. PCT/KR2007/001131, entitled ``Adenosine derivatives, method of synthesis thereof, and the pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and treatment of the inflammatory diseases containing the same as an active ingredient,'' filed March 7, 2007, [HHS Ref. No. E-109-2006/0-PCT-01] to Acorn Biomedical, Inc., having an office in at 612 SE. 5th Avenue, Suite 3, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 U.S.A. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America.

In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a renewal of an existing computer matching program that we are currently conducting with OCSE.

Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended, (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), and NASA's NEPA policy and procedures (14 CFR part 1216, subpart 1216.3), NASA has prepared and issued the Draft PEIS for the proposed SRIPP at WFF. The U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have served as Cooperating Agencies in preparing the Draft PEIS.

This final rule announces inseason changes to management measures in the commercial, recreational and tribal Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries. These actions, which are authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP), are intended to allow fisheries to access more abundant groundfish stocks while protecting overfished and depleted stocks.