July 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

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.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau requests public comments on standards that have been proposed to distinguish between pipe tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco for Federal excise tax purposes based upon certain physical characteristics of the two products. We also request comments on any other physical characteristics that may be used for such purposes.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is adopting as a final rule, with minor technical changes, temporary regulations that implemented certain provisions of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (the Act). The regulatory amendments involved increases in the Federal excise tax rates on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes, the floor stocks tax provisions of the Act, and the new statutory criteria for denial, suspension, or revocation of tobacco permits.

This action proposes to establish Class E Airspace at Lancaster, NH, to accommodate a new Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Special Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) serving the Weeks Medical Center. This action would enhance the safety and airspace management of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations within the National Airspace System.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a request by New Jersey to revise the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone involving the control of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The proposed SIP revision consists of two new rules, ``Subchapter 26, Prevention of Air Pollution From Adhesives, Sealants, Adhesive Primers and Sealant Primers,'' and ``Subchapter 34, TBAC Emissions Reporting,'' (TBAC means tertiary butyl acetate or t-butyl acetate) and revisions to ``Subchapter 23, Prevention of Air Pollution From Architectural Coatings,'' ``Subchapter 24, Prevention of Air Pollution From Consumer Products,'' and ``Subchapter 25, Control and Prohibition of Air Pollution by Vehicular Fuels,'' of the New Jersey Administrative Codes. The intended effect of this action is to approve control strategies that will result in VOC emission reductions that will help achieve attainment of the national ambient air quality standard for ozone.

The Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This notice announces the cancellation of Technical Standard Order (TSO) C-60, Airborne Area Navigation Equipment Using Loran-C inputs and all subsequent revisions. The effect of the cancelled TSOs will result in the revocation of all TSOAs issued for the production of those navigational systems. These actions are necessary because the Loran-C Navigation System ceased operation on February 8, 2010.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that the FAA has prepared, and approved on April 16, 2010, a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)/Record of Decision (ROD) based on the Final Environmental Assessment (Final EA) for a Proposed Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) with Associated Base Building at Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (AZO), Portage City, Michigan. The FAA prepared the Final EA in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and the FAA's regulations and guidelines for environmental documents and it was signed on April 9, 2010. Copies of the FONSI/ROD and/or Final EA are available by contacting Ms. Virginia Marcks through the contact information provided below.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that the FAA has prepared, and approved on May 16, 2010, a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)/Record of Decision (ROD) based on the Final Environmental Assessment (Final EA) for the Proposed Airport Development at Sawyer County Airport, Hayward, Wisconsin. The FAA prepared the Final EA in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and the FAA's regulations and guidelines for environmental documents. The Final EA was reviewed and evaluated by the FAA, and was accepted on February 16, 2010 as a Federal document by the FAA's Responsible Federal Official. Copies of the FONSI/ROD and/or Final EA are available by contacting Ms. Virginia Marcks through the contact information provided below.

Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or ``we''), advise the public that we intend to gather information necessary to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the proposed incidental take permit and associated Habitat Conservation Plan for the Beech Ridge Wind Energy Project (HCP). The proposed HCP is being prepared under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The incidental take permit is needed to authorize the incidental take of listed species as a result of implementing activities covered under the proposed HCP.