Agencies and Commissions March 26, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issues a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2021 for SVOG, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 59.075. This notice relates to the approved information collection under OMB control number 4040-0004.

The U.S. Copyright Office is issuing a notification of inquiry regarding its implementation of the Copyright Alternative in Small- Claims Enforcement (``CASE'') Act. The CASE Act establishes the Copyright Claims Board (``CCB''), an alternative forum in which parties may voluntarily seek to resolve certain copyright infringement and other claims. The Office must establish regulations to govern the CCB and its procedures, including rules addressing service of notice and other documents, waiver of personal service, notifications that parties are opting out of participating in the forum, discovery, a mechanism for certain claims to be resolved by a single CCB Officer, review of CCB determinations by the Register of Copyrights, publication of records, certifications, and fees. The statute also allows the Office to adopt several optional regulations, including regulations addressing claimants' permissible number of cases, eligible classes of works, the conduct of proceedings, and default determinations. The statute vests the Office with general authority to adopt regulations to carry out its provisions. To assist in promulgating these regulations, the Office seeks public comment regarding the subjects of inquiry discussed in this notification.

Notice is hereby given of the appointment of new members to the GSA Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board. The Performance Review Board assures consistency, stability, and objectivity in the performance appraisal process.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an exemption and associated license amendment related to a request from Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC (WEC) from NRC regulations with respect to a request for alternate disposal and exemption for specified low-activity radioactive waste from the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility (CFFF) in Hopkins, South Carolina for waste containing byproduct material and special nuclear material (SNM) under License Number SNM-1107. Additionally, the NRC is taking the related action of approving exemptions to US Ecology, Inc. (USEI) from the applicable licensing requirements to allow USEI to receive and dispose the material from CFFF without an NRC license. The USEI disposal facility, located near Grand View, Idaho, is a Subtitle C Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste disposal facility permitted by the State of Idaho to receive low-level radioactive waste and is not licensed by the NRC. Approval of the alternate disposal request from WEC, the exemptions and license amendment requested by WEC and associated exemptions for USEI would allow WEC to transfer the specific waste from CFFF for disposal at USEI.

Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on February 19, 2021, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of Samsung Display Co., Ltd. of Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea and Intellectual Keystone Technology LLC of Wilmington, Delaware. A corrected complaint and supplement was filed on March 12, 2021. The complaint, as corrected and supplemented, 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 organic light-emitting diode displays, components thereof, and products containing same by reason of infringement of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,845,016 (``the '016 patent''); U.S. Patent No. 7,342,177 (``the '177 patent''); and U.S. Patent No. 7,230,593 (``the '593 patent''). The complaint further alleges that an industry in the United States exists as required by the applicable Federal Statute. The complainants request that the Commission institute an investigation and, after the investigation, issue a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders.

Notice of these web-based public meetings/conference calls is being provided according to the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This notice provides the schedule for a series of web- based meetings for two task groups of the Green Building Advisory Committee (Committee), as well as one full Committee meeting, which are all open to the public. Interested individuals must register to attend and provide public comment as instructed below under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference the 2019 Edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and the 2020 Edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants, Division 1: OM Code: Section IST, for nuclear power plants. The NRC is also proposing to incorporate by reference the 2011 Addenda to ASME NQA-1- 2008, Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications (ASME NQA-1b-2011), and the 2012 and 2015 Editions of ASME NQA-1, Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications. This action is in accordance with the NRC's policy to periodically update the regulations to incorporate by reference new editions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Codes and is intended to maintain the safety of nuclear power plants and to make NRC activities more effective and efficient.

This document contains proposed rules that would amend the regulations of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (Commission) to update the requirements and standards for review of projects, amend the rules dealing with groundwater withdrawals, and revise the regulatory triggers related to grandfathered sources. These rules are designed to enhance and improve the Commission's existing authorities to manage the water resources of the basin, add regulatory clarity, and to achieve efficiencies and reduced costs in the preparation and review of applications for groundwater renewals.