August 6, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The NHTSA announces a meeting of NEMSAC to be held in the Metropolitan Washington, DC, area. This notice announces the date, time, and location of the meeting, which will be open to the public. The purpose of NEMSAC is to provide a nationally recognized council of emergency medical services representatives and consumers to provide advice and recommendations regarding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to DOT's NHTSA and to the Federal Interagency Committee on EMS (FICEMS).

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requested comments on a proposed extension of approval, for a period of 3 years from the date of approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), of information collection requirements for manufacturers and importers of children's articles known as baby-bouncers and walker-jumpers. This document was published in the Federal Register of June 20, 2012, and contains an incorrect docket number.

EIA has submitted an information collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a three-year extension of its information collection, EIA-882T, ``Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and Research.'' The proposed collection will utilize qualitative and quantitative methodologies to pretest questionnaires and validate EIA survey forms data quality, including conducting pretest surveys, pilot surveys, respondent debriefings, cognitive interviews, usability interviews, and focus groups.

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) will meet as indicated below.

The Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Redding, California. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (Pub. L 110-343) (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act. The meeting is open to the public. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss monitoring of past projects and if authorized, vote on recommendation of project proposals, the Secure Rural Schools one-year extension to the 2008-2011 RAC authorization, and recruitment of new RAC Committee members.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold two public meetings to solicit input from stakeholders and interested members of the public on the scope of a proposed revision of ``Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants,'' NUREG-0654/FEMA-REP-1, Rev. 1.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the following final versions of documents that support making regulatory submissions in electronic format using the electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) specifications: ``The eCTD Backbone Files Specification for Module 1, version 2.0'' (which includes the U.S. regional document type definition (DTD), version 3.0) and ``Comprehensive Table of Contents Headings and Hierarchy, version 2.0.'' Supporting technical files are also being made available on the Agency Web site. These documents represent FDA's major updates to Module 1 of the eCTD, which contains regional information. FDA is not prepared at present to accept submissions utilizing this new version because eCTD software vendors need time to update their software to accommodate this information and because its use will require software upgrades within the Agency. FDA estimates it will be able to receive submissions utilizing Module 1 Specifications 2.0 by September 2013, but this is not a firm date and we will give 30 days advance notice to industry.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, in cooperation with the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and other Federal agencies, intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that evaluates a solar energy generation center on the Moapa River Indian Reservation. This notice announces the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and identify potential issues related to the EIS. It also announces that two public scoping meetings will be held in Nevada this summer to identify potential issues, alternatives, and mitigation to be considered in the EIS. ID30

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period on this information collection on April 11, 2012 (77 FR 21813). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension. 2. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 30Rules of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material. 3. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0017. 4. The form number if applicable: N/A. 5. How often the collection is required: Required reports are collected and evaluated on a continuing basis as events occur. There is a one-time submittal of information to receive a license. Renewal applications are submitted every 10 years. Information submitted in previous applications may be referenced without being resubmitted. In addition, recordkeeping must be performed on an on-going basis. 6. Who will be required or asked to report: All persons applying for or holding a license to manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, possess, or use radioactive byproduct material. 7. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 37,398 (4,999 NRC Licensee responses [2,040 responses + 2,959 recordkeepers] and (32,399 Agreement State Licensee responses [13,267 responses + 19,132 recordkeepers]). 8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 22,091 (2,959 NRC Licensees and 19,132 Agreement State Licensees). 9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 302,697 (NRC licensees 40,327 hours [18,258 reporting + 22,069 recordkeeping] and Agreement State licensees 262,370 hours [118,913 reporting + 143,457 recordkeeping]). 10. Abstract: Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 30, establishes requirements that are applicable to all persons in the United States governing domestic licensing of radioactive byproduct material. The application, reporting and recordkeeping requirements are necessary to permit the NRC to make a determination whether the possession, use, and transfer of byproduct material is in conformance with the Commission's regulations for protection of the public health and safety. The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly available documents, including the final supporting statement, at the NRC's Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC's Web site: https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc- comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice. Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer listed below by September 5, 2012. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given to comments received after this date.

The Federal Communications Commission has received the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collection(s) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (the ``agencies''), may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. On May 17, 2012, the Board, under the auspices of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and on behalf of the agencies, published a notice in the Federal Register (77 FR 29345) requesting public comment on the extension, without revision, of the Country Exposure Report for U.S. Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks (FFIEC 019; OMB No. 7100-0213), which is a currently approved information collection. The comment period for this notice expired on July 16, 2012. No comments were received. The Board hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to OMB on behalf of the agencies a request for approval of the FFIEC 019.

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene public meetings.

EPA is proposing a limited approval and a limited disapproval of a revision to the Michigan State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Michigan on November 5, 2010, that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period ending in 2018. EPA is proposing limited approval of this submittal for meeting requirements of the regional haze program relating to setting reasonable progress goals, providing reductions for meeting those goals, and for mandating best available retrofit technology (BART) for most sources in the State. EPA is proposing limited disapproval of the State's submittal for failing to satisfy BART for two sources. EPA is proposing a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) including nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission limits on these two sources to satisfy these requirements. EPA has already published a separate action in relation to Michigan's plan to address BART for electric generating units. In a June 7, 2012, action, EPA published a limited disapproval of the regional haze plans for Michigan and other states due to their reliance on the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), but EPA also promulgated a FIP relying on EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to address these requirements. EPA is also taking separate action on BART requirements for one source, a taconite plant owned by Tilden Mining, in conjunction with action on several taconite plants in Minnesota. These three actions combined represent complete action on Michigan's regional haze plan for the first implementation period.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) amends the requirements regarding brake readjustment limits in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). This rule amends the readjustment limits, clarifies their application, and corrects an error in cross-referencing a Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS). This rule responds to a petition for rulemaking from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA).

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) expands the scope of information that any party may cite in a patent file to include written statements of a patent owner filed in a proceeding before a Federal court or the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) regarding the scope of any claim of the patent, and provides for how such information may be considered in ex parte reexamination, inter partes review, and post grant review. The AIA also provides for an estoppel that may attach with respect to the filing of an ex parte reexamination request subsequent to a final written decision in an inter partes review or post grant review proceeding. The Office is revising the rules of practice to implement these post-patent provisions, as well as other miscellaneous provisions, of the AIA.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is proposing to amend the DLA Privacy Program Regulation. The DLA Privacy Offices have been repositioned under the DLA General Counsel; therefore, responsibilities have been updated to reflect the repositioning. In addition, DLA has adopted revisions to the DoD Privacy Program.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is amending its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Policy Directive. The purpose of these amendments is to implement those provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 affecting the program.