National Aeronautics and Space Administration March 23, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NASA hereby gives notice that the Modine Manufacturing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the NASA inventions disclosed in (1) Patent No. U.S. 6,399,020 B1, entitled Aluminum-Silicon Alloy Having Improved Properties at Elevated Temperatures and Articles Cast Therefrom; (2) Patent No. U.S. 6,419,769 B1, entitled Aluminum-Silicon Alloy Having Improved Properties at Elevated Temperatures and Process for Producing Cast Articles Therefrom; and (3) PCT International Application No. PCT/ US03/10372 entitled, High Strength Aluminum Alloy for High Temperature Application filed April 3, 2003, for European Patent Organizations (EPO), Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Columbia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, and Vietnam. All three inventions are assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Written objections to the prospective grant of a license should be sent to Mr. Jerry L. Seemann, Chief Patent Counsel/LS01, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812. NASA has not yet made a determination to grant the requested license and may deny the requested license even if no objections are submitted within the comment period.

This document is issued under the joint authority of the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General Services and the Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in accordance with Section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. It consists of a summary of the rule appearing in Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-02 which amends the FAR. An asterisk (*) next to a rule indicates that a regulatory flexibility analysis has been prepared. Interested parties may obtain further information regarding this rule by referring to FAC 2005-02, which precedes this document. These documents are also available via the Internet at http:/ /www.acqnet.gov/far.

This document summarizes the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule agreed to by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council in this Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-02. A companion document, the Small Entity Compliance Guide (SECG), follows this FAC. The FAC, including the SECG, is available via the Internet at https:// www.acqnet.gov/far.