Agencies and Commissions July 3, 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

Each applicant seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. On December 5, 2012, and April 13, 2012, respectively, applicants made liquidating distributions to their shareholders, based on net asset value. Expenses of approximately $785, and $608, respectively, incurred in connection with the liquidations were paid by The Dreyfus Corporation, applicants' Investment adviser. Filing Date: The applications were filed on June 12, 2014. Applicants' Address: c/o The Dreyfus Corporation, 200 Park Ave., New York, NY 10166.

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB) will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement concerning environmentally sound products. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 15591 on March 20, 2014. No comments were received.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing Regulatory Guide (RG) 10.1, ``Compilation of Reporting Requirements for Persons Subject to NRC Regulations.'' (ML003740185). This guide is being withdrawn because it is no longer accurate or current. Regulatory Guide 10.1 provides a summary of the reporting requirements in existence at the time of issuance and becomes outdated upon the first change to any NRC reporting requirement after issuance.

The FDIC, 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 the renewal of existing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). On March 31, 2014, (79 FR 18027), the FDIC requested comment for 60 days on a proposal to renew the following information collections: Recordkeeping and Disclosure Requirements in Connection with Regulation M (Consumer Leasing) (3064-0083), Recordkeeping and Disclosure Requirements in Connection with Regulation B (Equal Credit Opportunity) (3064-0085) & Flood Insurance (3064-0120). No comments were received. The FDIC hereby gives notice of its plan to submit to OMB a request to approve the renewal of these collections, and again invites comment on this renewal.

On December 12, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (the ``Position Limits Proposal'') to establish speculative position limits for 28 exempt and agricultural commodity futures and options contracts and the physical commodity swaps that are economically equivalent to such contracts. On November 15, 2013, the Commission published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (the ``Aggregation Proposal'') to amend existing regulations setting out the Commission's policy for aggregation under its position limits regime. In addition, the Commission directed staff to hold a public roundtable on June 19, 2014, to consider certain issues regarding position limits for physical commodity derivatives. In order to provide interested parties with an opportunity to comment on the issues to be discussed at the roundtable, the Commission published notice in the Federal Register on May 29, 2014, that the comment periods for the Position Limits Proposal and the Aggregation Proposal were reopened, starting June 12, 2014 (one week before the roundtable) and ending July 3, 2014 (two weeks following the roundtable). To provide commenters with a sufficient period of time to respond to questions raised and points made at the roundtable, the Commission is now further extending the comment period. Comments should be limited to the issues of hedges of a physical commodity by a commercial enterprise, including gross hedging, cross-commodity hedging, anticipatory hedging, and the process for obtaining a non-enumerated exemption; the setting of spot month limits in physical-delivery and cash-settled contracts and a conditional spot-month limit exemption; the setting of non-spot limits for wheat contracts; the aggregation exemption for certain ownership interests of greater than 50 percent in an owned entity; and aggregation based on substantially identical trading strategies.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) will revise its Schedule of Regulatory Fees in order to recover an amount of $339,844,000 that Congress has required the Commission to collect for fiscal year 2014.