Department of Health and Human Services May 11, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect the original approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Dechra, Ltd. The NADA provides for the veterinary prescription use of trilostane capsules in dogs for treatment of pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism and for treatment of hyperadrenocorticism due to adrenocortical tumor.

HHS gives notice concerning the final effect of the HHS decision to designate a class of employees at the Hood Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as an addition to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. On March 31, 2009, as provided for under 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b), the Secretary of HHS designated the following class of employees as an addition to the SEC:

The Department's semiannual Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions forecasts the rulemaking activities that we expect to undertake over the foreseeable future. We focus primarily on those areas of work anticipated to result in publication of Notices of Proposed Rulemaking or of Final Rules within the next 12 months. (Please note that the abstracts included below relate only to those prospective rulemakings that are likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities; the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 requires dissemination of this information in the paper edition of the Federal Register. The complete HHS Agenda is accessible online at www.reginfo.gov.)