March 16, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice details the application requirements and procedures for obtaining funding under FRA's High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) program. The funding opportunities described in this notice are available under Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 20.319. Notice to Applicants: FRA recommends applicants read this notice in its entirety prior to preparing application materials. There are several administrative prerequisites that applicants must comply with in order to submit an application (see Section 4 of this notice), which can take up to ten days to process.

NMFS announces that the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) proposes to amend its five fishery ecosystem plans (FEPs) to establish a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs), adopt the ecosystem component species classification described in the NMFS advisory guidelines for National Standard 1, and identify management unit species that have statutory exceptions to the ACL and AM requirements. The intent of the amendment is end and prevent overfishing, rebuild overfished stocks, and achieve optimum yield.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking comments from interested individuals and organizations on an extension with a revision of a currently approved information collection associated with transferring of farm records from one administrative county office to another.

In this document, the Commission adopted a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SFNPRM), in which it announced that it wished to develop a more comprehensive record regarding measures to assist Federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (Tribes) in obtaining commercial FM radio station authorizations. Specifically, the Commission sought comment on the use of threshold qualifications for Tribes applying for commercial FM radio channel allotments that were added to the Table of Allotments using the Tribal Priority adopted by the Commission in the First Report and Order (First R&O) in this proceeding. The Commission also sought further comment on whether a Tribal Bidding Credit would accomplish the goal of increasing Tribal ownership of commercial stations broadcasting to Tribal Lands, and sought comment on the financial and other barriers facing Tribes wishing to enter the commercial broadcast arena.

The Bureau of the Census (U.S. Census Bureau) is giving notice of a meeting of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee (C-SAC). The Committee will address policy, research, and technical issues relating to a full range of Census Bureau programs and activities, including communications, decennial, demographic, economic, field operations, geographic, information technology, and statistics. Last minute changes to the agenda are possible, which could prevent giving advance public notice of schedule adjustments.

The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment in the Federal Register preceding submission to OMB. We are conducting this process in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Title of Information Collection: Pre-Assignment for Overseas Duty Bon-Foreign Service Personnel. OMB Control Number: 1405-XXXX. Type of Request: New Collection. Originating Office: M/MED/CL. Form Number: DS 6561. Respondents: Overseas employees and family members, not in the Foreign Service. Estimated Number of Respondents: 8,000. Estimated Number of Responses: 8,000. Average Hours Per Response: 1 hour. Total Estimated Burden: 8,000. Frequency: Every 2-3 years. Obligation to Respond: Mandatory to retain medical clearance.

This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on September 16, 2010 (75 FR 56597), which informed the public that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering issuance of a renewed Facility License No. R-74 for the University of Wisconsin which would authorize continued operation of the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor. This action is necessary to add supplemental documentation and to correct dose equivalent values.

Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), this will serve to notify the public that the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to intellectual property broker ICAP Ocean Tomo to promote the utilization by the public of the inventions described in the following U.S. patents: 7,122,624 entitled ``PH2 Receptor Ligands'' (HHS Ref. No. E-123-1999/0), and 7,087,736 entitled ``Tyrosine DNA phosphodiesterases (TDP) and related polypeptides, nucleic acids, vectors, TDP producing host cells, antibodies and methods of use'' (HHS Ref. No. E-281-1999/0). The patent rights in this invention have been assigned to the United States of America. The prospective exclusive license territory may be worldwide and the field of use may be for the use of the Licensed Patent Rights in developing biopharmaceutical products.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of FNS to request revisions to currently approved information collections in the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Financial Report (Form FNS-683); WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Recipient Report (Form FNS-203); and WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Regulations.

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting of its Dolphin Wahoo Advisory Panel (AP) in North Charleston, SC.

This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.

Pursuant to the provisions of The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), notice is hereby given that the following meeting of the Subcommittee Meeting of the Board of Advisors (BOA) to The President, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) will be held. This meeting will be open to the public.

This notice provides information regarding MARAD's finding that a Buy America waiver, stated in 41 U.S.C. 10b, is appropriate for the purchase of foreign Mobile Harbor Cranes in the Federal-aid/TIGER II grant for the Port of Providence. The waiver for this project involves the purchase and use of specific items that are not produced in the United States and deemed necessary for the construction of the project. MARAD has reached out to industry on the domestic availability of these items. No domestic manufacturers have been located. The Port of Providence's TIGER II project is to expand and upgrade the Port of Providence in Rhode Island. TIGER II dollars in the amount of $10.5 million will help replace two aged diesel cranes, one of which is currently non-functional, with new electric, barge-based cranes that will enable the Port to handle container traffic. Replacing these cranes will allow the port to expand its container short sea shipping operation, help relieve bottlenecks along the I-95 corridor, and support jobs in and around the economically distressed are of Providence. This waiver is being requested because mobile harbor cranes are not produced in the United States. These cranes are considered to be specialized equipment and other types of cranes cannot be adapted to meet the mobility, lift, precision, and efficiency requirements necessary for marine cargo operations at the Port of Providence. MARAD has consulted and coordinated directly with appropriate industry associations and has determined that it has been more than 15 years since cranes of this type were manufactured in the United States. It should also be noted, the purchase of foreign built cranes to complete this, and other port development projects, is only one part of the overall port modernization and expansion effort. All other materials used in the construction of all port construction projects will be produced in the United States, and MARAD has been working with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, under the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to identify manufacturing opportunities for domestic harbor crane construction and repair.

OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to extend OMB approval of the information collection requirements specified by the Methylene Chloride Standard (29 CFR 1910.1052).