July 8, 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Alabama (FEMA-4176-DR), dated 05/02/ 2014. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding. Incident Period: 04/28/2014 through 05/05/2014. Effective Date: 06/30/2014. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 07/15/2014. EIDL Loan Application Deadline Date: 02/02/2015.

The United States Mint, a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information regarding the public's use of U.S. coins with special emphasis on low denomination coins. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information and to allow 30 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on a proposed information collection concerning U.S. coinage practices as required to determine the public's interest according to the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-302).

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening the comment period for the notice entitled ``Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Use of Innovative Packaging, Storage, and/or Disposal Systems to Address the Misuse and Abuse of Opioid Analgesics,'' which published in the Federal Register of April 9, 2014. FDA is reopening the comment period to allow interested persons additional time to submit comments.

New or modified Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, and/or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations) as shown on the indicated Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) for each of the communities listed in the table below are finalized. Each LOMR revises the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and in some cases the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, currently in effect for the listed communities. The flood hazard determinations modified by each LOMR will be used to calculate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and their contents.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense proposes to alter a system of records, DHRA 06 DoD, entitled ``Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database,'' in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system will be used to centralize case-level sexual assault data involving a member of the Armed Forces, in a manner consistent with DoD regulations for unrestricted and restricted reporting, including information, if available, about the nature of the assault (e.g., incident date and location, type of offense), the victim, the alleged perpetrator, investigative information, case outcomes in connection with the assault, and other information necessary to fulfill reporting requirements. Records may also be used as a management tool for statistical analysis, tracking, reporting, evaluating program effectiveness and conducting research. The system includes the capability for entering records and interfacing data; generating various level reports and queries; and conducting case and business management.

Pursuant to Section 189a. (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing this regular biweekly notice. The Act requires the Commission to publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration, notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person. This biweekly notice includes all notices of amendments issued, or proposed to be issued from June 12, to June 25, 2014. The last biweekly notice was published on June 24, 2014.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a document in the Federal Register of March 10, 2014 (79 FR 13263), providing notice of a petition filed by Kemin Industries, Inc., that proposed the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of chromium propionate as a source of chromium in broiler feed. That petition included an environmental assessment which was not noted in the March 10 notice of petition.

The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is issuing in final form an amendment to the regulations issued under the Government Securities Act of 1986, as amended (GSA), to replace references to credit ratings in the regulations with alternative requirements. Section 939A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) requires Federal agencies to remove from their applicable regulations any reference to or requirement of reliance on credit ratings and to substitute a standard of creditworthiness as the agency determines appropriate for such regulations. This final rule amendment provides a substitute standard of creditworthiness for use in the liquid capital rule required by GSA regulations. It also contains several non-substantive, technical amendments to Treasury's GSA regulations to update certain information or to delete certain requirements that are no longer applicable.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received and is considering approval of 11 amendment requests. The amendment requests are for River Bend Station, Unit 1; Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1; Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3; Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2 (two amendment requests); Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Cooper Nuclear Station; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 1; Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3; and Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2. For each amendment request, the NRC proposes to determine that they involve no significant hazards consideration. In addition, each amendment request contains sensitive unclassified non-safeguards information (SUNSI).