Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee #13883; Notice of Meeting, 5214-5215 [2011-1881]
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
What is a specialty station?
The FCC regulations in effect on June
24, 1981, defined a specialty station as
‘‘a commercial television broadcast
station that generally carries foreignlanguage, religious, and/or automated
programming in one-third of the hours
of an average broadcast week and onethird of the weekly prime-time hours.’’
47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981).
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How is a station deemed to be a
specialty station? 1
Under a procedure adopted by the
Copyright Office in 1989, see 54 FR
38461 (September 18, 1989), an owner
or licensee of a broadcast station files a
sworn affidavit attesting that the
station’s programming comports with
the 1981 FCC definition, and hence,
qualifies as a specialty station. A list of
the stations filing affidavits is then
published in the Federal Register in
order to allow any interested party to
file an objection to an owner’s claim of
specialty station status for the listed
station. Once the period to file
objections closes, the Office publishes a
final list which includes references to
the specific objections filed against a
particular station owner’s claim. In
addition, affidavits that are submitted
after the close of the filing period are
accepted and kept on file at the
Copyright Office.
The staff of the Copyright Office,
however, does not verify the specialty
station status of any station listed in an
affidavit.
1 Originally, the FCC identified whether a station
qualified as a specialty station, but after it deleted
its distant signal carriage rules, it discontinued this
practice. See Malrite T.V. of New York v. FCC, 652
F2d 1140 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1143
(1982).
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Why would a broadcast station seek
specialty station status?
Specialty station status is significant
in the administration of the cable
statutory license. 17 U.S.C. 111. A cable
operator may carry the signal of a
television station classified as a
specialty station at the base rate for
‘‘permitted’’ signals. See 49 FR 14944
(April 16, 1984); 37 CFR 256.2(c).
How does the staff of the Copyright
Office use the list?
Copyright Office licensing examiners
refer to the final annotated list in
examining a statement of account in the
case where a cable system operator
claims that a particular station is a
specialty station. If a cable system
operator claims specialty station status
for a station not on the final list, its
classification as a specialty station will
be questioned unless the examiner
determines that the owner of the station
has filed an affidavit since publication
of the list.
How often has the Copyright Office
published specialty station lists?
The Copyright Office compiled and
published its first specialty station list
in 1990, together with an announcement
of its intention to update the list
approximately every three years in order
to maintain as current a list as possible.
55 FR 40021 (October 1, 1990). Its
second list was published in 1995. 60
FR 34303 (June 30, 1995). Its third list
was published in 1998. 63 FR 67703
(December 8, 1998). Its fourth list was
published in 2007. 72 FR 60029
(October 23, 2007). With this notice, the
Copyright Office is initiating the
procedure for the compilation and
publication of the fifth specialty station
list.
Does this notice require action on the
part of an owner of a television
broadcast station?
Yes. We are requesting that the owner,
or a valid agent of the owner, of any
eligible television broadcast station
submit an affidavit to the Copyright
Office stating that he or she believes that
the station qualifies as a specialty
station under 47 CFR 76.5(kk) (1981),
the FCC’s former rule defining
‘‘specialty station.’’ The affidavit must be
certified by the owner or an official
representing the owner.
Affidavits are due within 60 days of
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. There is no specific
format for the affidavit; however, the
affidavit must confirm that the station
owner believes that the station qualifies
as a specialty station under the 1981
FCC rule.
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Notwithstanding the above, any
affidavit submitted to the Copyright
Office within the 45-day period prior to
publication of this notice need not be
resubmitted to the Office. Any affidavit
filed during this 45-day period shall be
considered timely filed for purposes of
this notice.
What happens after the affidavits are
filed with the Copyright Office?
Once the period for filing the
affidavits closes, the Office will compile
and publish in the Federal Register a
list of the stations identified in the
affidavits. At the same time, it will
solicit comment from any interested
party as to whether or not particular
stations on the list qualify as specialty
stations. Thereafter, a final list of the
specialty stations that includes
references to any objections filed to a
station’s claim will be published in the
Federal Register.
In addition, affidavits that, for good
cause shown, are submitted after the
close of the filing period will be
accepted and kept on file at the
Copyright Office. Affidavits received in
this manner will be accepted with the
understanding that the owners of those
stations will resubmit affidavits when
the Office next formally updates the
specialty station list. Any interested
party may file an objection to any latefiled affidavit. Such objections shall be
kept on file in the Copyright Office
together with the corresponding
affidavit.
Dated: January 24, 2011.
Maria Pallante,
Acting Register of Copyrights.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory
Committee #13883; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory
Committee (#13883) meeting:
Date and Time: February 22–23, 2011, 9
a.m.–5 p.m. Teleconference.
Place: National Science Foundation, Room
1235, Stafford I Building, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington, VA, 22230.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Dr. James S. Ulvestad,
Division Director, Division of Astronomical
Sciences, Suite 1045, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
VA 22230. Telephone: 703–292–8820.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and
recommendations to the National Science
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Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) and the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on issues
within the field of astronomy and
astrophysics that are of mutual interest and
concern to the agencies.
Agenda: To hear presentations of current
programming by representatives from NSF,
NASA, DOE and other agencies relevant to
astronomy and astrophysics; to discuss
current and potential areas of cooperation
between the agencies; to formulate
recommendations for continued and new
areas of cooperation and mechanisms for
achieving them.
Dated: January 25, 2011.
Susanne E. Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
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Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance,
Availability
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and
Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG–7007, ‘‘Administrative Guide for
Verifying Compliance with Packaging
Requirements for Shipment and Receipt
of Radioactive Material.’’
AGENCY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bernard White, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, Division
of Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, telephone: 1–301–492–3303 or email: Bernard.White@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency’s
‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series
was developed to describe and make
available to the public information such
as methods that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the NRC’s regulations,
techniques that the staff uses in
evaluating specific problems or
postulated accidents, and data that the
staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide (DG),
entitled ‘‘Administrative Guide for
Verifying Compliance with Packaging
Requirements for Shipment and Receipt
of Radioactive Material,’’ is temporarily
identified by its task number, DG–7007,
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which should be mentioned in all
related correspondence. DG–7007 is
proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory
Guide 7.7, dated August 1977.
This guide describes an approach that
the staff of the NRC considers
acceptable for meeting the
administrative requirements in Title 10,
of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part
71, ‘‘Packaging and Transportation of
Radioactive Material’’ (10 CFR Part 71).
The regulations in 10 CFR Part 71 apply
to NRC licensees that package,
transport, or receive licensed material.
The initial version of Regulatory
Guide 7.7 endorsed the guidance in the
American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) Standard N14.10.3–1975,
‘‘Administrative Guide for Verifying
Compliance with Packaging
Requirements for Shipments of
Radioactive Materials,’’ as an acceptable
process for complying with the
requirements of 10 CFR 71.5,
‘‘Transportation of Licensed Material.’’
The ANSI standard was withdrawn
without replacement; hence, this
proposed revision to Regulatory Guide
7.7 contains guidance on the
administrative requirements for
planning, packaging, transporting,
receiving, reporting, and record keeping
for shipments of radioactive materials.
The staff developed and published this
guidance to provide licensees with an
acceptable method to satisfy the
administrative requirements in 10 CFR
part 71.
II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments
on DG–7007. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or
supporting data and should mention
DG–7007 in the subject line. Comments
submitted in writing or in electronic
form will be made available to the
public in their entirety through the
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS).
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any one of the following methods.
Please include Docket ID NRC–2011–
0025 in the subject line of your
comments. Comments submitted in
writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC Web site and on the
Federal rulemaking website
Regulations.gov. Because your
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
the NRC cautions you against including
any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
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persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information, and therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
NRC–2011–0025. Address questions
about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher,
301–492–3668; e-mail:
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, or by fax to RADB at 301–492–
3446.
You can access publicly available
documents related to this notice using
the following methods:
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR):
The public may examine and copy for
a fee publicly available documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852–2738.
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS):
Publicly available documents created or
received at the NRC are available
electronically at the NRC’s Electronic
Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. From this page,
the public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of
NRC’s public documents. If you do not
have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s
PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209,
301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The Regulatory
Analysis is available electronically
under ADAMS Accession Number
ML101390333.
Comments would be most helpful if
received by March 30, 2011. Comments
received after that date will be
considered if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC is able to ensure consideration
only for comments received on or before
this date. Although a time limit is given,
comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in
guides currently being developed or
improvements in all published guides
are encouraged at any time.
Electronic copies of DG–7007 are
available through the NRC’s public Web
site under Draft Regulatory Guides in
the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of
the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also
available in ADAMS (https://
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee 13883;
Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-
463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the
following Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
(13883) meeting:
Date and Time: February 22-23, 2011, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Teleconference.
Place: National Science Foundation, Room 1235, Stafford I
Building, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, 22230.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Dr. James S. Ulvestad, Division Director,
Division of Astronomical Sciences, Suite 1045, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: 703-
292-8820.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations to the
National Science
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Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on issues within the
field of astronomy and astrophysics that are of mutual interest and
concern to the agencies.
Agenda: To hear presentations of current programming by
representatives from NSF, NASA, DOE and other agencies relevant to
astronomy and astrophysics; to discuss current and potential areas
of cooperation between the agencies; to formulate recommendations
for continued and new areas of cooperation and mechanisms for
achieving them.
Dated: January 25, 2011.
Susanne E. Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
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