Agencies and Commissions March 15, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

At the request of Franklin Communications Inc., licensee of Station WJZA(FM), Lancaster, Ohio, Channel 278A is reallotted from Lancaster, Ohio, to Pickerington, Ohio, as the community's first local transmission service, and the license for Station WJZA(FM) is modified to reflect the new community. 68 FR 67390 (December 2, 2003). An application for construction permit for a minor change of facilities filed by North American Broadcasting Co., licensee of Station WTDA(FM), Westerville Ohio, was considered as a counterproposal and dismissed (File No. BPH-20040108ALM). Channel 278A is reallotted at Pickerington at a site 8.8 kilometers (5.4 miles) northeast of the community at coordinates 39-56-39 NL and 82-41-14 WL.

In response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 70 FR 17047 (April 4, 2005) this Report and Order grants a proposal to allot Channel 292A to Cuba, Illinois, as a first local aural transmission service to that community and denies two requests to allot a second FM channel to Knoxville, Illinois. The coordinates for Channel 292A at Cuba, Illinois are 40-25-50 North Latitude and 90-14-05 West Longitude, with a site restriction of 7.9 kilometers (4.9 miles) southwest of Cuba, Illinois.

In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved for three years the information collection requirements contained in the Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, Report and Order, Order on Reconsideration (Report and Order). The Report and Order states that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of the rules.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``Commission'') is issuing a flammability standard under the authority of the Flammable Fabrics Act. This new standard establishes performance requirements based on research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (``NIST''). Mattresses and mattress and foundation sets (``mattress sets'') that comply with the requirements will generate a smaller size fire with a slower growth rate, thus reducing the possibility of flashover occurring. These improved mattresses should result in significant reductions in deaths and injuries associated with the risk of mattress fires. The Commission estimates that the standard could limit the size of mattress fires to the extent that 240 to 270 deaths and 1,150 to 1,330 injuries could potentially be eliminated annually. As discussed in the preamble, this means that the standard could yield lifetime net benefits of $23 to $50 per mattress or aggregate lifetime net benefits for all mattresses produced in the first year of the standard of $514 million to $1,132 million.