Agencies and Commissions August 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Kentucky (FEMA-1925-DR), dated 07/23/2010.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of South Dakota (FEMA-1929-DR), dated 07/29/2010.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is granting a class waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for Not-Portable, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (CS-MS) Systems, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Systems, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Systems, and, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) Systems under Product Service Code (PSC) 6640 (Laboratory Equipment and Supplies), under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing). The basis for waiver is that no small business manufacturers are supplying these classes of products to the Federal government. The effect of this waiver will be to allow otherwise qualified small businesses to supply the products of any manufacturer on a Federal contract set aside for small businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) small businesses or Participants in SBA's 8(a) Business Development (BD) Program.

The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 - 3520. Comments are requested concerning: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology, and (e) ways to further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.

Applicant seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. On January 22, 2010, applicant transferred its assets to John Hancock Small Cap Equity Fund, a series of John Hancock Investment Trust II, based on net asset value. Expenses of $130,204 incurred in connection with the reorganization were paid by applicant and the acquiring fund.

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add six Global Expedited Package Services 3 contracts to the

This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make appointments under Schedules A, B, and C in the excepted service as required by 5 CFR 213.103.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information collection. This information collection, ``Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions Civil Service Retirement System'' (OMB Control No. 3206- 0128; Standard Form 2802), is used to support the payment of monies from the Retirement Fund. It identifies the applicant for refund of retirement deductions. ``Current/Former Spouse's Notification of Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions'' (OMB Control No. 3206-0128; Standard Form 2802A), is used to comply with the legal requirement that any spouse or former spouse of the applicant has been notified that the former employee is applying for a refund.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'' or ``the Commission'') is proposing a new rule and rule amendments that would replace rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act, the rule that has permitted registered open-end management investment companies (``mutual funds'' or ``funds'') to use fund assets to pay for the cost of promoting sales of fund shares. The new rule and amendments would continue to allow funds to bear promotional costs within certain limits, and would also preserve the ability of funds to provide investors with alternatives for paying sales charges (e.g., at the time of purchase, at the time of redemption, or through a continuing fee charged to fund assets). Unlike the current rule 12b-1 framework, the proposed rules would limit the cumulative sales charges each investor pays, no matter how they are imposed. To help investors make better- informed choices when selecting a fund that imposes sales charges, the Commission is also proposing to require clearer disclosure about all sales charges in fund prospectuses, annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders, and in investor confirmation statements.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) proposes to add a system of records to its existing inventory of systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552(a)) (``Privacy Act''). In this notice, NARA publishes NARA 40, the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) Case Files.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Montana (FEMA-1922-DR), dated 07/10/2010.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the Commonwealth of MASSACHUSETTS dated 07/27/2010.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Iowa (FEMA-1928- DR), dated 07/27/2010.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Oklahoma (FEMA- 1926-DR), dated 07/26/2010.

Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on June 25, 2010, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Hewlett-Packard Company of Palo Alto, California and Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. of Houston, Texas. Letters supplementing the complaint were filed on July 15, 2010 and July 27, 2010. The complaint alleges violations of section 337 based upon the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, and the sale within the United States after importation of certain inkjet ink supplies and components thereof by reason of infringement of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,959,985 (``the `985 patent'') and U.S. Patent No. 7,104,630 (``the `630 patent''). The complaint further alleges that an industry in the United States exists as required by subsection (a)(2) of section 337.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).