July 22, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of Commerce (the Department) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the Department is issuing a countervailing duty order on certain potassium phosphate salts (phosphate salts) from the People's Republic of China (PRC).

The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the renewal of an information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning an information collection titled, ``Record and Disclosure RequirementsFRB Regulations B, E, M, Z, CC, and DD.''

This proposed rule would revise the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on debt collection to conform to the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, the Federal Claims Collection Standards and other legal requirements applicable to the collection of non-tax debts owed to PBGC. This proposed rule would add salary offset and administrative wage garnishment to the collection methods allowed under the current regulation and make other changes to strengthen PBGC's debt collection program.

The OCC, 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 information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Currently, the OCC is soliciting comments concerning an information collection titled ``Guidance on Sound Incentive Compensation Practices.''

NMFS has received a complete and adequate application from the Exploratorium for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to pile driving during the Exploratorium's relocation project. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is proposing to issue an IHA to the Exploratorium to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, four species of marine mammals during the specified activity within a specific geographic area and is requesting comments on its proposal.

In response to requests from the M&B Metal Products Co., Inc. (``Petitioner''), the Department of Commerce (``Department'') is initiating an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether certain imports of steel wire garment hangers from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (``Vietnam'') are circumventing the antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers (``hangers'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 58111 (October 6, 2008) (``Hangers Order'').

This notice is published in accordance with the provisions of section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.) and advises of the renewal of the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Advisory Committee on Presidential Library-Foundation Partnerships. In accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-135, OMB approved the inclusion of the Advisory Committee on Presidential Library-Foundation Partnerships in NARA's ceiling of discretionary advisory committees.

The NRC is soliciting public comment on NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants,'' on a proposed Revision 1 to Standard Review Plan (SRP), Section 13.5.1.1 on ``Administrative ProceduresGeneral,'' (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML101340264). The Office of New Reactors (NRO) is revising SRP Section 13.5.1.1 (Enclosure 1), which updates the initial issuance of this section, dated March 2007, to reflect the changes as shown in the description of changes (ADAMS Accession No. ML101340272). The previous version of this SRP section was published in March 2007 as initial issuance (ADAMS Accession No. ML070550029).

Each year the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is required by the Write-Your-Own (WYO) Program Financial Assistance/ Subsidy Arrangement (Arrangement) to notify private insurance companies (Companies) and to make available to the Companies the terms for subscription or re-subscription to the Arrangement. In keeping with that requirement, this notice provides the terms to the Companies to subscribe or re-subscribe to the Arrangement.

The National Security Agency hereby gives notice of its intent to grant Doar, Pekuin, Sall Limited Liability Company a revocable, non- assignable, exclusive, license to practice the following Government- Owned inventions as described in the following: U.S. Patent No. 5,656,552 entitled ``Method of making a thin conformal high-yielding multi-chip module''; U.S. Patent No. 5,835,912 entitled ``Method of efficiency and flexibility storing, retrieving, and modifying data in any language representation''; U.S. Patent No. 6,005,986 entitled ``Method of identifying the script of a document irrespective of orientation''; U.S. Patent No. 6,070,175 entitled '' Method of file editing using framemaker enhanced by application programming interface clients''; U.S. Patent No. 6,144,189 entitled ``Device for and method of switching and monitoring batteries''; U.S. Patent No. 6,298,144 entitled ``Device for and method of detecting motion in an image''; U.S. Patent No. 6,391,744 entitled ``Method of fabricating a non-SOI device on an SOI starting wafer and thinning the same''; U.S. Patent No. 6,493,366 entitled ``Vertical cavity surface emitting laser with oxidized strain-compensated superlattice of group III-V semiconductor''; U.S. Patent No. 6,519,362 entitled ``Method of extracting text present in a color image''; U.S. Patent No. 6,531,414 entitled ``Method of oxidizing strain-compensated superlattice of group III-V semiconductor''; U.S. Patent No. 6,704,449 entitled ``Method of extracting text from graphical images''; U.S. Patent No. 6,941,013 entitled ``Method of image binarization using histogram modeling''; U.S. Patent No. 6,977,212 entitled ``Fabricating a semiconductor device using fully cured bisbenzocyclobutene''; U.S. Patent No. 7,232,740 entitled ``Method for bumping a thin wafer''; U.S. Patent No. 7,286,359 entitled ``Use of thermally conductive vias to extract heat from microelectronic chips and method of manufacturing''; U.S. Patent No. 7,320,937 entitled ``Method of reliably electroless-plating integrated circuit die,''; and U.S. Patent No. 7,351,608 entitled ``Method of precisely aligning components in flexible integrated circuit module.''

The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of three section 36(b)(1) arms sales notifications to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164, dated 21 July 1996.

The Department of the Air Force is proposing to amend a system of records notice in its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific sardine off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California. This action is necessary because the directed harvest allocation total for the second seasonal period (July 1 - September 14) is projected to be reached by the effective date of this rule. From the effective date of this rule until September 15, 2010, Pacific sardine can only be harvested as part of the live bait fishery or incidental to other fisheries; the incidental harvest of Pacific sardine is limited to 30-percent by weight of all fish per trip. Fishing vessels must be at shore and in the process of offloading at 12:01 am Pacific Daylight Time on date of closure.