Navy Department 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of the Navy published a document in the Federal Register of January 20, 2006, concerning the draft 2006 Supplemental Environmental Assessment to the 2002 Programmatic Environmental Assessment (Supplemental PEA) for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Hawaii exercise. The notice incorrectly identified the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce, as a cooperating agency.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,883,453: UNMANNED WATERCRAFT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM.// U.S. Patent No. 6,889,624: GRAPPLE ANCHOR DEVICE FOR UNDERWATER TOWING OF WATERCRAFT.//U.S Patent No. 6,895,371: GEOMETRICAL MODELING OF STRUCTURAL PRODUCTS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,898,584: MONITORING OF AIRCRAFT USAGE.//U.S Patent No. 6,921,898: BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DETERMINATION BY LARGE SCALE FIELD MEASUREMENT.// U.S Patent No. 6,926,567: DIRECTIONAL STEERING CONTROLLED JET PROPULSION.//U.S. Patent No. 6,930,311: LIGHTWEIGHT NEUTRON REMMETER.//U.S. Patent No. 6,932,013: MANEUVERING OF SUBMERGED WATERJET PROPELLED SEA CRAFT.//U.S. Patent No. 6,932,661: STEERING AND DIRECTIONAL REVERSING CONTROL FOR WATERJET PROPULSION.//U.S. Patent No. 6,953,003: WATERCRAFT LANDING CRADLE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,960,865: POLYURETHANE ELECTROSTRICTION.// U.S. Patent No. 6,961,597: STRIPS FOR IMPARTING LOW NONLINEARITY TO HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR MICROWAVE FILTERS.//U.S. Patent No. 6,964,738: BIOREACTOR PROCESSING OF WASTEWATER.//U.S Patent No. 6,965,505: SHIP DEGAUSSING SYSTEM AND ALGORITHM.//U.S Patent No. 6,968,802: BUOYANT RETRIEVAL OF UNMANNED SEAWATER VEHICLES.//U.S. Patent No. 6,976,599: MULTI-RAIL DUAL HOISTING CRANE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,981,400: SLIP METER FOR DETERMINATION OF SURFACE SLIP RESISTANCE.// U.S. Patent No. 6,981,673: WEAR RESISTING SLEEVE SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT LANDING ARRESTING CABLES.//U.S. Patent No. 6,981,598: TURN-TABLE DUAL HOISTING CRANE.//U.S. Patent No. 6,982,502: HYBRID ELECTRIC LINEAR ACTUATOR.//U.S Patent No. 6,983,710: HIGH SPEED BRAKING OF SUBMERGED PROPELLED SEA CRAFT.//U.S. Patent No. 6,991,468: FOLDED FOIL AND METAL FIBER BRAID ELECTRICAL CURRENT COLLECTOR BRUSH.

The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) will meet on February 16, 2006. The meeting will be an Executive Session and will discuss studies to be undertaken by NRAC.

Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), and the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental and Natural Resources Program Manual (OPNAV Instruction 5090.1B), the Department of the Navy, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the potential environmental impacts associated with using a more efficient shipping container system for spent nuclear fuel to support refueling and defueling U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (NNS) in Virginia, and the associated rail shipment of this spent nuclear fuel to the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) in Idaho for temporary storage.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are made available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Number 5,264,693, entitled ``Microelectronic Photomultiplier Device with Integrated Circuitry'', issue date November 23, 1993. U.S. Patent Number 5,272,476, entitled ``Data Acquisition System having novel, low power circuit for time-division-multiplexing sensor array signals'', issued December 21, 1993. U.S. Patent Number 5,276,695, entitled ``Multifrequency, rapidly sequenced or simultaneous tunable laser'', issued January 4, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,285,467, entitled ``Compact, efficient, scalable neodymium laser co-doped with activator ions and pumped by visible laser diodes'', issued February 8, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,306,904, entitled ``Multilayer microelectronic photomultiplier device with a stacked series of dynode and insulating layers'', issued April 26, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,310,989, entitled ``Method for laser-assisted etching of III-V and II-VI semiconductor compounds using chlorofluorocarbon ambients'', issued May 10, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,310,990, entitled ``Method of laser processing ferroelectric materials'', issued May 10, 1994. U.S. Patent Number 5,736,950, entitled ``Sigma-delta modulator with tunable signal passband'', issued April 7, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,737,347, entitled ``Laser with multiple gain elements'', issued April 7, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,757,867, entitled ``Digital mixing to baseband decimation filter'', issued May 26, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,760,722, entitled ``Distributed quantization noise transmission zeros in cascaded sigma-delta modulators'', issued June 2, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 5,764,677, entitled ``Laser diode power combiner'', issued June 9, 1998. U.S. Patent Number 6,342,866, entitled ``Wideband antenna system'', issued January 29, 2002. U.S. Patent Number 6,404,038, entitled ``Complementary vertical bipolar junction transistors fabricated of silicon-on-sapphire utilizing wide base PNP transistors'', issued June 11, 2002.