Agencies and Commissions December 2, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, this notice invites the public to comment on the collection of information by the Peace Corps and gives notice of the Peace Corps' intention to request Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the information collection. The Peace Corps' Office of Strategic Information, Research and Planning wishes to survey a sample of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers about their feelings about their in-country experience, post-service transition, post-service education and career, and their third core goal activities of promoting a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. The data collected will inform agency programming and help the Agency to assess, through updated and objective data, the extent of RPCVs' cross-cultural activities with their family, friends, and communities throughout the United States with whom RPCVs come in contact. The data will be used specifically by the Office of Domestic Programs to review the range and type of services and support available to RPCVs and by the Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning to support Agency level reporting.

NASA proposes to revise the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) to update Agency-level, property-related provisions, clauses, prescriptions and procedures to be consistent with changes made to Part 45 and clauses 52.245 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation in Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-17. FAC 2005-17 significantly rewrote FAR Part 45, Government Property, and changed property related definitions, provisions and clauses which are required to be used in all solicitations and contracts issued after the effective date of June 14, 2007.

The Commission grants a petition for rulemaking filed by Glendive Broadcasting Corp. (``Glendive''), permittee of station KXGN- DT, to substitute DTV channel 5 for post-transition DTV channel 10 at Glendive, Montana.

The Executive Director of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries gives notice of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations (portions of which will be open to the public) in Washington, DC at the Office of Professional Responsibility on January 8 and January 9, 2009.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Texas (FEMA- 1791-DR), dated 09/13/2008. Incident: Hurricane Ike. Incident Period: 09/07/2008 through 10/02/2008.

The FDIC is adopting a final rule to implement the assessment dividend requirements in the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (the Reform Act) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005 (the Amendments Act). The final rule will take effect on January 1, 2009. It is the follow-up to the temporary final rule on assessment dividends that the FDIC issued in October 2006, which expires on December 31, 2008.

NCUA is adopting a final rule implementing four modifications to its Chartering and Field of Membership Manual to update and clarify the process of approving credit union service to ``underserved areas.'' First, the rule clarifies the procedure for establishing that an ``underserved area'' qualifies as a local community. Second, it makes explicit the process for applying the economic distress criteria that determine whether an area combining multiple geographic units is sufficiently ``distressed'' to qualify as ``underserved.'' Third, it updates the documentation and clarifies the scope requirements for demonstrating that a proposed area has ``significant unmet needs'' for loans and financial services. Finally, the rule utilizes data provided by NCUA on the location of depository institution facilities to determine whether an area is ``underserved by other depository institutions'' according to the presence of their facilities within the area.