Agencies and Commissions February 29, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Background. Notice is hereby given of the final approval of proposed information collections by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) under OMB delegated authority, as per 5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB Regulations on Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public). Board-approved collections of information are incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. Copies of the Paperwork Reduction Act Submission, supporting statements and approved collection of information instruments are placed into OMB's public docket files. The Federal Reserve may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List products to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete a service previously furnished by such agencies. Comments Must Be Received on or Before: March 30, 2008.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Tennessee (FEMA-1745-DR), dated 02/07/ 2008. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding. Incident Period: 02/05/2008 through 02/06/2008.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Arkansas (FEMA-1744-DR), dated 02/08/ 2008. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Incident Period: 02/05/2008 and continuing through 02/12/2008.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Indiana (FEMA-1740-DR), dated 01/30/ 2008. Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding. Incident Period: 01/07/2008 and continuing.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Alabama dated 02/21/2008. Incident: Severe storm and tornadoes. Incident Period: 02/05/2008 through 02/06/2008.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is amending its rules of practice to delegate authority to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission to issue orders requiring the use of certain procedures for access to sensitive unclassified information in adjudicatory proceedings. The NRC is also making available final procedures that would allow potential parties to NRC adjudications to gain access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI) or Safeguards Information (SGI).

This document adopts a rule prohibiting cable operators from owning or having an attributable interest in cable systems serving more than 30 percent of multichannel video programming subscribers nationwide. It also eliminates the overbuilder exception, which allowed cable operators to count against its horizontal limit only those cable subscribers served by its ``incumbent cable franchises'' and excluding new subscribers gained through overbuilding ``non-incumbent cable systems. Elimination of the exception prevents a cable operator near the horizontal limit from using the exception to exceed the 30 percent limit and thereby reduce the open field below the 70 percent necessary to ensure that no single operator can, by simply refusing to carry a video network, cause it to fail. The revised rule balances the need to ensure that cable operators cannot use their dominant position in the multichannel video programming distribution (MVPD) market to impede unfairly the flow of video programming to consumers with consideration of the efficiencies and other benefits that might be gained through increased ownership or control.