Agencies and Commissions July 12, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Sunshine Act Meetings; National Science Board
Document Number: 2012-17148
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Science Foundation, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-17126
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission, Agencies and Commissions
State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Policy Advisory Committee (SLTPS-PAC)
Document Number: 2012-17124
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration, Agencies and Commissions
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app 2) and implementing regulation 41 CFR 101-6, announcement is made for the committee meeting of the State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Policy Advisory Committee. To discuss the matters relating to the Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities.
Sunshine Act Meetings; National Science Board
Document Number: 2012-17122
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Science Foundation, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meetings
Document Number: 2012-17119
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Council on Disability, Agencies and Commissions
NASA International Space Station Advisory Committee; Meeting
Document Number: 2012-17037
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Agencies and Commissions
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces an open meeting of the NASA International Space Station (ISS) Advisory Committee. The purpose of the meeting is to assess NASA and Roscosmos continuing plans to support a six-person crew aboard the International Space Station, including transportation, and crew rotation; and, to assess the possibilities for using the ISS for future space exploration.
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License
Document Number: 2012-17017
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Agencies and Commissions
This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant an exclusive license in the United States to practice the invention described and claimed in U.S. Patent Nos. 7,113,820 entitled, ``Real- Time, High Frequency QRS Electrocardiograph,'' 7,539,535 entitled, ``Real-Time, High Frequency QRS Electrocardiograph with Reduced Amplitude Zone Detection,'' and 7,386,340 entitled, ``System for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Coronary Artery Disease, Acute Coronary Artery Syndromes, Cardiomyopathy and Other Cardiac Conditions,'' to Medcare Holdings, LTD, having its principal place of business at P.O. Box 3483, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
Notice of Intent to Co-Exclusive License.
Document Number: 2012-17016
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Agencies and Commissions
This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a co-exclusive license in the United States to practice the invention described and claimed in MFS-31303-1 Generalized Fluid Systems Simulation Program (GFSSP) Version 2.01, U.S. Patent No. 6,748,349 and MFS-32125-1 Method and Apparatus For Predicting Unsteady Pressure And Flow Rate Distribution In A Fluid Network Version 4, U.S. Patent No. 7,542,885, to MODE Technology Group, having its principal place of business in Denver, CO. The fields of use shall mean commercial off- the-shelf software products targeted to end users. The patent rights in these inventions as applicable have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective partially exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
Decommissioning Planning During Operations
Document Number: 2012-17014
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is seeking input from the public, licensees, Agreement States, non- Agreement States, and other stakeholders on revised draft regulatory guide (DG) 4014, ``Decommissioning Planning During Operations.'' This guide describes a method that the NRC staff considers acceptable for use in complying with the NRC's Decommissioning Planning Rule. The NRC will hold a public meeting and concurrent Webinar to facilitate the public's and other stakeholders' comments.
Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Licensing Applications for Instrumentation and Control Upgrades for Non-Power Reactors
Document Number: 2012-17011
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is requesting public comment on Chapter 7, Section 7.3, Reactor Control System, augmenting NUREG-1537, Part 1, ``Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Format and Content,'' for instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades and NUREG-1537, Part 2, ``Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Standard Review Plan and Acceptance Criteria,'' for instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades. This draft section of NUREG-1537 provides revised guidance for preparing and reviewing applications to amend a facility operating license for I&C upgrades.
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2012-17009
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
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 April 13, 2012 (77 FR 22360). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension. 2. The title of the information collection: Generic Customer Satisfaction Surveys and NRC Form 671, Request for Review of a Customer Satisfaction Survey under Generic Clearance. 3. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0197. 4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 671. 5. How often the collection is required: On occasion. 6. Who will be required or asked to report: NRC licensees and the public will be asked to report voluntarily. 7. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 3,988. 8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 3,884. 9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 1,614 hours. 10. Abstract: Voluntary customer satisfaction surveys will be used to contact users of NRC services and products to determine how the Commission can improve its services and products to better meet their needs. In addition, focus groups will be conducted to discuss questions concerning those services and products. Results from the surveys will provide insight into how NRC can make its services and products cost effective, efficient and responsive to customer needs. Each survey will be submitted to OMB for its review. 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 August 13, 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 S. Whiteman, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0197), 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.
Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company Correction
Document Number: 2012-16984
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Federal Reserve System, Agencies and Commissions
Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants
Document Number: 2012-16983
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Agencies and Commissions
On April 28, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking that would establish initial and variation margin requirements on uncleared swaps for swap dealers (``SDs'') and major swap participants (``MSPs'').\1\ In October 2011, the Basel Commission on Banking Supervision (``BCBS'') and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (``IOSCO'') established a Working Group on Margin Requirements (``WGMR'') to develop harmonized international standards for uncleared swaps. BCBS and IOSCO recently published a consultative paper prepared by the WGMR that outlines possible margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives (``consultative paper'').\2\ The Commission is extending the comment period for its proposed margin rules for uncleared swaps for swap dealers and major swap participants in order to give interested parties the opportunity to comment on the consultative paper and the CFTC's proposed rules concurrently.
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Document Number: 2012-16982
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Federal Reserve System, Agencies and Commissions
Rules of General Application, Adjudication, and Enforcement
Document Number: 2012-16603
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: International Trade Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The United States International Trade Commission (``Commission'') proposes to amend its Rules of Practice and Procedure concerning rules of general application, adjudication, and enforcement. The amendments are necessary to make certain technical corrections, to clarify certain provisions, to harmonize different parts of the Commission's rules, and to address concerns that have arisen in Commission practice. The intended effect of the proposed amendments is to facilitate compliance with the Commission's Rules and improve the administration of agency proceedings.
Exemptive Order Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations
Document Number: 2012-16498
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is proposing to grant, pursuant to section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA''), temporary exemptive relief in order to allow non-U.S. swap dealers and non-U.S. major swap participants to delay compliance with certain entity-level requirements of the CEA (and Commission regulations promulgated thereunder), subject to specified conditions. Additionally, with respect to transaction-level requirements of the CEA (and Commission regulations promulgated thereunder), the relief would allow non-U.S. swap dealers and non-U.S. major swap participants, as well as foreign branches of U.S. swap dealers and major swap participants, to comply only with those requirements as may be required in the home jurisdiction of such non-U.S. swap dealers and non-U.S. major swap participants (or in the case of foreign branches of a U.S. swap dealer or U.S. major swap participant, the foreign location of the branch) for swaps with non-U.S. counterparties. This relief would become effective concurrently with the date upon which swap dealers and major swap participants must first apply for registration and expire 12 months following the publication of this proposed order in the Federal Register. Finally, U.S. swap dealers and U.S. major swap participants may delay compliance with certain entity-level requirements of the CEA (and Commission regulations promulgated thereunder) from the date upon which swap dealers and major swap participants must apply for registration until January 1, 2013.
Cross-Border Application of Certain Swaps Provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act
Document Number: 2012-16496
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-07-12
Agency: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC) is publishing for public comment this proposed interpretive guidance and policy statement regarding the cross-border application of the swaps provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'') that were enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Commission's regulations promulgated thereunder. Specifically, this proposed interpretive guidance and policy statement describes the following: The general manner in which the Commission will consider whether a person's swap dealing activities or swap positions may require registration as a swap dealer or major swap participant, respectively, and the application of the related requirements under the CEA to swaps involving such persons; and the application of the clearing, trade execution, and certain reporting and recordkeeping provisions under the CEA, to cross-border swaps involving one or more counterparties that are not swap dealers or major swap participants. This proposed interpretive guidance and policy statement also generally describes the policy and procedural framework under which the Commission may permit compliance with a comparable regulatory requirement of a foreign jurisdiction to substitute for compliance with the requirements of the CEA.
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