Department of Health and Human Services August 10, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license worldwide to practice the inventions embodied in: U.S. Patent Application Numbers 60/206,693 filed May 24, 2000, 10/ 296,423 filed November 22, 2002 and corresponding foreign applications entitled ``Method for Preventing Strokes by Inducing Tolerance to E- Selectin'' and U.S. Patent Application Numbers 60/828,732 filed October 9, 2006 and 60/905,741 filed March 8, 2007 entitled ``Treatment and Prevention of Inflammation'' to Novavax, Inc., having a place of business in Rockville, Maryland. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America. The contemplated exclusive license may be limited to the use of E- selectin for the prevention or treatment of stroke.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``Environmental Impact Considerations'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 60 days for public comment on proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) is publishing for comment a summary of a proposed information collection to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-0006, ``Application for Participation in the IHS Scholarship Program.'' Type of Information Collection Request: Three-year extension, without change of currently approved information collection, 0917-0006, ``Application for Participation in the IHS Scholarship Program.'' Form Number(s): IHS- 856, 856-2 through 856-8, IHS-815, IHS-816, IHS-817, IHS-818, D-02, F- 02, F-04, G-02, G-04, H-07, H-08, J-04, J-05, K-03, K-04, and L-03. Reporting formats are contained in an IHS Scholarship Program application booklet. Need and Use of Information Collection: The IHS Scholarship Branch needs this information for program administration and uses the information to solicit, process, and award IHS Pre- graduate, Preparatory, and/or Health Professions Scholarship grants and monitor the academic performance of awardees and to place awardees at payback sites. The IHS Scholarship Program is streamlining the application to reduce the time needed by applicants to complete and provide the information. The IHS Scholarship Program plans on using information technology to make the application electronically available on the internet. Affected Public: Individuals, not-for-profit institutions and State, local or tribal government. Type of Respondents: Students pursuing health care professions. The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments, Estimated number of respondents, Number of responses per respondent, Annual number of responses, Average burden hour per response, and Total annual burden hour(s).