Department of Health and Human Services July 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, U.S.C. Appendix 2, notice is hereby given that the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) will hold its twentieth meeting. The meeting will be open to the public.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing to revise the Part 34 regulation to remove ``Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection'' from the definition of ``communicable disease of public health significance.'' HHS/CDC is also proposing to remove references to ``HIV'' from the scope of examinations in its regulations. Aliens infected with a ``communicable disease of public health significance'' are inadmissible into the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2009, (Vol. 74, No. 83, p. 20320) and allowed 60 days for public comment. One public comment was received on May 1, 2009 requesting a copy of the data collection plans. An e-mail response was sent on May 5, 2009, which included the Supporting Statements and the screenshots of the surveys. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(l) and 37 CFR Part 404.7(a)(l)(i), that the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventions embodied in PCT Patent Application PCT/US2001/09425 [HHS Ref. E-109-2000/0-PCT-01], US Patent Application 10/472,874 [HHS Ref. E-109-2000/0-US-02], both entitled ``Molecular Neurochirurgerie for Pain Control Administering Locally Capsaicin or Resiniferatoxin'', and Canadian Patent Application 2442049 [HHS Ref. E-109-2000/0-CA-03] entitled ``Selective Ablation of Pain-Sensing Neurons by Administration of a Vanilloid Receptor Agonist'', and all continuing applications and foreign counterparts, to Sherrington Pharmaceuticals, which has offices in New York, N.Y. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to and/or exclusively licensed to the Government of the United States of America.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing a public docket to obtain information on the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. FDA is establishing this docket in order to provide an opportunity for all interested parties to provide information and share views on the implementation of the new law.