January 8, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Labor (we or the Department) is issuing this notice to announce new prevailing wage and piece rates covering the employment of temporary or seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers (H-2A workers) and corresponding employees to perform agricultural labor or services in certain occupations with special procedures established under 20 CFR 655.102 in the H-2A program, including open range production of livestock, itinerant animal shearing, sheepherding, goatherding, and custom combine operations. The new prevailing wages are based on surveys conducted by State Workforce Agencies (SWA) of employers and transmitted to the Department between May 1, 2012 and June 1, 2012 in accordance with the Department's Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) for these occupations. For open range production of livestock, sheepherding, and goatherding occupations, which are characterized by other than a reasonably regular workday or workweek, the prevailing wage results, reflected as monthly or daily prevailing wage rates, are deemed to be the Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for those occupations.

This rule amends the regulations governing noise certification standards for issuing type and airworthiness certificates for a new civil, hybrid airplane-rotorcraft known as the tiltrotor. This noise standard establishes new noise limits and procedures as the basis to ensure consistent aviation noise reduction technology is incorporated in tiltrotors for environmental protection. It provides uniform noise certification standards for tiltrotors certificated in the United States and harmonizes the U.S. regulations with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Annex 16.

This notice announces a teleconference call of the State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) published a document in the Federal Register on August 15, 2012, (77 FR 48970), as amended, September 7, 2012, (77 FR 55196). The publication concerned notice of a hearing and meeting on October 2, 2012, regarding safety- related aspects of the design and factors that could affect the timely execution of the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) project at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The Board stated in the August 15, 2012, hearing notice that the hearing record would remain open until November 2, 2012, for the receipt of additional materials. The Board subsequently extended the hearing record closure date to January 2, 2013 (77 FR 65871). Extension of Time: The Board now extends the period of time for which the hearing record will remain open to January 16, 2013, to further accommodate submission of answers to questions taken for the record during the course of the public hearing. Contact Person for Further Information: Debra H. Richardson, Deputy General Manager, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue NW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004-2901, (800) 788-4016. This is a toll-free number.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is notifying insured Federal depository institutions \1\ that are or may become swap dealers that the OCC is prepared to consider favorably requests for a transition period pursuant to section 716(f) of the Dodd-Frank Act, provided that such requests conform to the procedures and conditions established in this notice.

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 continuing 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. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning its information collection titled, ``Leasing.'' The OCC is also giving notice that it has sent the collection to OMB for review.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to reclassify the external cardiac compressor, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) aids, from class III devices into class II (special controls). FDA is proposing this reclassification on its own initiative based on new information. FDA is taking this action under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended.

The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010, signed into law in January 2011, authorizes HUD to provide Senior Preservation Rental Assistance Contracts (SPRACs) with 20-year terms to prevent displacement of elderly residents of certain projects assisted under HUD's Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program in the case of refinancing or recapitalization and to further preserve and maintain affordability of Section 202 Direct Loan projects. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, $16 million was made available for SPRAC funding. This notice advises of HUD's intent to award SPRACs through the proposed application process described in this notice. HUD is soliciting comments on the proposed process for awarding SPRACs and the associated criteria for establishing eligibility to apply for a SPRAC.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an initial determination (``ID'') (Order No. 18) granting a joint motion to terminate this investigation based on a settlement. The investigation is hereby terminated.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Allied Communications, LLC., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the United States, the Government- owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 7,685,207: Adaptive Web- Based Asset Control System, Navy Case No. 83634, issued March 23, 2010.//U.S. Patent application No. 12/650,413: Finite State Machine Architecture For Software Development, Navy Case No. 99,766, filed December 30, 2009.//U.S. Patent No. 8,238,924: Real-Time Optimization of Allocation of Resources, Navy Case No. 99956, issued August 7, 2012.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: Patent application 12/650,413: Finite State Machine Architecture for Software Development (a system for developing an application program having functionality that corresponds to a finite state machine model)//U.S. Patent No. 8,238,924: Real-Time Optimization of Allocation of Resources//U.S. Patent No. 7,685,207: Adaptive Web-Based Asset Control System.

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.

On September 7, 2012, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube (LWR pipe and tube) from Mexico. This review covers two respondent companies and the period of review is from August 1, 2010, through July 31, 2011. We invited interested parties to comment on the preliminary results but we received no such comments. Therefore, our final results remain unchanged from the preliminary results of review.