Agencies and Commissions May 10, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (``OCC''), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``Board''), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (``FDIC'') are issuing this guidance to provide clarity regarding the effective date of section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') \1\ with respect to entities for which each is the prudential regulator.

The Chairmen of the SEC and CFTC, with the concurrence of the other SEC and CFTC Commissioners, respectively, intend to renew the charter of the Joint CFTC-SEC Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues (the ``Committee'').

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is announcing the availability of Revision 4.0 of the Improved Standard Technical Specifications, NUREG-1430, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Babcock and Wilcox Plants,'' NUREG-1431, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Westinghouse Plants,'' NUREG-1432, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Combustion Engineering Plants,'' NUREG-1433, ``Standard Technical Specifications, General Electric Plants, BWR/4,'' and NUREG-1434, ``Standard Technical Specifications, General Electric Plants, BWR/6.''

Summary of Application: Applicants request an order to permit certain unit investment trusts to: (a) Impose sales charges on a deferred basis and waive deferred sales charges in certain cases; (b) offer unitholders certain exchange and rollover options; (c) publicly offer units without requiring the Depositor to take for its own account $100,000 worth of units; and (d) distribute capital gains resulting from the sale of portfolio securities within a reasonable time after receipt.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The NRC published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period on this information collection on February 2, 2012 (77 FR 5279). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension. 2. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 62, ``Criteria and Procedures for Emergency Access to Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities.'' 3. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0143. 4. The form number if applicable: N/A. 5. How often the collection is required: The collection would only be required upon application for a Commission emergency access determination when access to a non-Federal or regional low-level waste disposal facility is denied, which results in an immediate public health and safety and/or common defense and security concern. 6. Who will be required or asked to report: Generators of low-level radioactive waste, or the Governor of a State on behalf of any generator or generators located in his or her State who are denied access to a non-Federal or regional low-level radioactive wastes and who wish to request emergency access for disposal at a non-Federal or regional LLW disposal facility pursuant to 10 CFR part 62. 7. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 1. 8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1. 9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 233. 10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 62 sets out the information which must be provided to the NRC by any low-level waste generator or Governor of a State on behalf of generators seeking emergency access to an operating low-level waste disposal facility. The information is required to allow the NRC to determine if denial of disposal constitutes a serious and immediate threat to public health and safety or common defense and security. 10 CFR part 62 also provides that the Commission may grant an exemption from the requirements in this Part upon application of an interested person or upon its own initiative. The public may examine and have copied for a fee, publicly available documents, including the final supporting statement, at the NRC's Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC's Web site: https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc- comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice. Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer listed below by June 11, 2012. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given to comments received after this date. Chad Whiteman, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0143), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. Comments can also be emailed to Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov or submitted by telephone at 202 395-4718. The NRC Clearance Officer is Tremaine Donnell, 301 415-6258.

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add a negotiated service agreement with Valassis Direct Mail, Inc. to the market dominant product list. This notice addresses procedural steps associated with this filing.

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to revise the threshold for applicability of cost accounting standards in order to implement a recent rule of the Cost Accounting Standards Board and statutory requirements.

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement a section of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, that prohibits the award of contracts using appropriated funds to any foreign incorporated entity that is treated as an inverted domestic corporation or to any subsidiary of such entity.