Department of the Navy 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The inventions listed below are those in which the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy has an ownership interest and are made available for licensing by the Department of the Navy.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (DAJAG) (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS JACKSON (LCS 6) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The Department of the Navy proposes to alter the system of records, N06150-5, entitled ``Millennium Cohort Study'' in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system will create a probability-based database of service members and veterans who have, or have not, deployed overseas so that various longitudinal health and research studies may be conducted over a 67-year period. The database will be used: a. To systematically collect population-based demographic and health data to evaluate the health of Armed Forces personnel throughout their careers and after leaving the service. b. To evaluate the impact of operational deployments on various measures of health over time including medically unexplained symptoms and chronic diseases to include cancer, heart disease and diabetes. c. To serve as a foundation upon which other routinely captured medical and deployment data may be added to answer future questions regarding the health risks of operational deployment, occupations, and general service in the Armed Forces. d. To examine characteristics of service in the Armed Forces associated with common clinician-diagnosed diseases and with scores on several standardized self-reported health inventories for physical and psychological functional status. e. To provide a data repository and available representative Armed Forces cohort that future investigators and policy makers might use to study important aspects of service in the Armed Forces including disease outcomes among an Armed Forces cohort. In addition to revealing changes in veterans' health status over time, the Millennium Cohort Study will serve as a data repository, providing a solid foundation upon which additional epidemiological studies may be constructed. f. To access the associations of military service on the health and well-being of military families, and to compare the adjusted probabilities of new onset diseases and conditions among military spouses.''

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) announces its intent to prepare a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (OEIS) for the Northwest Training and Testing (NWTT) Study Area. This Supplemental DEIS/OEIS will focus on substantial changes in the proposed action and significant new information relevant to environmental concerns per 40 Code of Federal Regulations CFR 1502.9. The Supplemental DEIS/OEIS will also provide additional updated information to further the purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The Department of the Navy, after carefully weighing the strategic, operational, and environmental consequences of the proposed action, announces its decision to provide facilities and functions to support homebasing of F-35C aircraft at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California, by accomplishing the proposed action as set out in Alternative 2 of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for U.S. Navy F-35C West Coast Homebasing. Under Alternative 2, a total of 100 F-35C aircraft in seven Navy Pacific Fleet squadrons (10 aircraft per squadron) and the Fleet Replacement Squadron (30 aircraft) will be homebased at NAS Lemoore beginning in 2016. The proposed action will be completed in the 2028 timeframe. The 100 F-35C aircraft will replace 70 aging FA-18 Hornet aircraft. As a result, aircraft loading at NAS Lemoore will gradually increase by a net of 30 aircraft over the 13- year period. There will be no changes in aircraft loading at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, California, under Alternative 2. Homebasing the F-35C at NAS Lemoore will result in an increase of approximately 68,400 operations per year at NAS Lemoore and an increase of approximately 800 operations per year at NAF El Centro.

The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary, into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy. The executive session of this meeting from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on December 1, 2014, will include discussions of new and pending administrative/ minor disciplinary infractions and non-judicial punishments involving the Midshipmen attending the U.S. Naval Academy to include but not limited to individual honor/conduct violations within the Brigade; the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. For this reason, the executive session of this meeting will be closed to the public.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Grey Matter, LLC a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the field of use of Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicate (PMO) material for use as wearable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Wearable PPE will be designed for use in job-related occupational safety, health purposes, and other recreational activities. The PMO material will be designed to help protect from the hazardous chemicals of chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen chloride, sulfuric acid, hydrogen fluoride, formalin (formaldehyde), mercury, nitric acid, sulfur dioxide, phosgene, hydrogen bromide, nitric oxide, octamethylpyrophosphoramide, boron trifluoride, methyl bromide, phosphoryl trichloride, chlorine dioxide, bromine, nitrogen dioxide, phosphorous trichloride, fluorotrichloromethane, hydrogen sulfide, molybdophosphoric acid, toluene-2, 4-diisocyanate, fluorine, malathion, parathion, acetylene tetrabromide, 0-anisidine, sulfur trioxide, phosphine arsine, ethlene dibromide, pentachlorophenol, azinphos- methyl, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, potassium cyanide, tetrafluoroboric acid, tetrachloroethylene, cadium, deltamethrin, ethylamine, methylamine, ethylene dibromide, aldicarb, dichloroethyl ether, and nitrogen trifluoride in the United States, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 7,754,145: Fluorphore Embedded/ Incorporating/Bridged Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas as Recognition Photo-Decontamination Catalysts, Navy Case No. 097,346//U.S. Patent Application No. 14/209,728: Microwave Initiation for Deposition of Porous Organosilicate Materials on Fabrics, Navy Case No. 102,325 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

The Board of Visitors of the Marine Corps University will meet to review, develop and provide recommendations on all aspects of the academic and administrative policies of the University; examine all aspects of professional military education operations; and provide such oversight and advice, as is necessary, to facilitate high educational standards and cost effective operations. The Board will be focusing primarily on the internal procedures of Marine Corps University. All sessions of the meeting will be open to the public.

Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, regulations implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 1500-1508), and Presidential Executive Order 12114, the Department of the Navy (DoN) has prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS). The DoN prepared this analysis to update the Gulf of Alaska Navy Training Activities Final EIS/OEIS, which was completed with community input in May 2011 (hereafter referred to as the 2011 GOA Final EIS/OEIS), and to renew federal regulatory permits and authorizations. In the Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS, the DoN uses a new acoustic modeling method and evaluates new, relevant information, such as new marine mammal density data and new scientific information, and updates environmental analyses, as appropriate. The DoN analyzes data using the Navy Acoustic Effects Model, not previously available for the 2011 GOA Final EIS/ OEIS, to evaluate potential effects on marine species from training activities. The National Marine Fisheries Service is a cooperating agency for this Supplemental EIS/OEIS. With the filing of the Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS, the DoN is initiating a 60-day public comment period and has scheduled five public meetings to inform the public and receive comments on the Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS. This notice announces the dates and locations of the public meetings and provides supplementary information about the environmental planning effort. Dates And Addresses: The 60-day Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS public review period will begin August 22, 2014, and end October 20, 2014. The DoN will hold five public meetings to inform the public about the Proposed Action and to provide an opportunity to comment on the adequacy and accuracy of the supplemental environmental analysis. Each of the public meetings will include an open house information session, followed by a short presentation by the DoN. DoN representatives will be available during the open house information sessions to provide information related to the Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS. Federal, state, and local agencies and officials, as well as interested organizations and individuals are encouraged to provide comments in writing during the public review period or in person at one of the scheduled public meetings. The public meetings will be held from 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., with a DoN presentation at 6:30 p.m., on the following dates and at the following locations:

The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary, into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy. The executive session of this meeting from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on September 8, 2014, will include new and pending administrative/minor disciplinary infractions and non-judicial punishments involving the Midshipmen attending the U.S. Naval Academy to include but not limited to individual honor/conduct violations within the Brigade, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. For this reason, the executive session of this meeting will be closed to the public.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to VIC Technology Venture Development, LLC a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the field of use of assistive devices for providing enhanced understanding of human speech for hearing-impaired individuals, for communication in acoustically noisy environments, for language interpretation, for voice control of other devices, and for security/surveillance applications in the United States, the Government-owned invention described in U.S. Patent Application No. 13/155,218: Radar Microphone Speech Recognition, Navy Case No. 100,567 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.

Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and regulations implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (DoN) has prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating the potential environmental effects of constructing, operating, and maintaining an academic campus on Naval Base Coronado (NBC) to support the operational readiness of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC) personnel. With the filing of the Draft EIS, the DoN is initiating a 60-day public comment period beginning on July 25, 2014 and ending on September 22, 2014. During this period, the DoN will conduct two public meetings to receive oral and written comments on the Draft EIS. This notice announces the dates and locations of the public meetings and provides supplementary information about this environmental planning effort. Dates and Addresses: Public information and comment meetings will be held in Imperial Beach and Coronado, California between 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the following dates and at the following locations: 1. August 13, 2014, Marina Vista Community Center, 1075 Eighth Street, Imperial Beach, California 91932. 2. August 14, 2014, Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, California 92118. Additional information concerning meeting times and locations is available on the EIS Web site (https://www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com) and through local news media. Federal, state, and local agencies and officials, and interested groups and individuals, are encouraged to provide comments during the public comment period, in person at the public meetings (orally or in writing), or in writing online at https://www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com or via the U.S. Postal Service. Comments will not be accepted through social media. Written comments on the Draft EIS should be postmarked or received (online) no later than September 22, 2014, to ensure they become part of the official record. Equal weight will be given to oral and written statements. For Mailing Written Comments and Further Information Contact: NBC Coastal Campus EIS Project Manager (Attn: Ms. Teresa Bresler), 2730 McKean Street, Building 291, San Diego, California 92136.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to INF Microsensors, LLC, a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license in the United States to practice the Government-Owned inventions described in U.S. Patent Application No. 14/037,546: Sensor signal processing using cascade coupled oscillators.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems Ltd. a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license to practice in the United States in the fields of Counter Piracy Application for Commercial Shipping and Counter UAV Systems, the Government-owned invention described below: Patent 8,367,991 (Navy Case 99,995, issued February 5, 2013, entitled ``Modulation Device For A Mobile Tracking Device.''

The Department of the Navy published a document in the Federal Register on December 10, 2012 and a revision on March 20, 2013, announcing an intent to grant to Fiber Optic Sensor Systems Technology Corporation, a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license. The scope of the intent to license has been revised.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant Unified Operations, LLC a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license, with exclusive fields of use in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, construction, wholesale trade, warehousing, retail estate and rental and leasing, administrative and support and waste management and remediation services, arts, entertainment, and recreation, accommodation and food services, ultra light & barriers/barricades, health care and social assistance, educational services, in the United States to practice the Government-owned inventions, U.S. Patent No. 7,156,249, issued January 2, 2007: Container and Related Methods//U.S. Patent No. 7,726,496, issued June 1, 2010: Shipping and Storage System/ /U.S. Patent No. 7,491,024, issued February 17, 2009: Interlocking Pallets, and Shipping and Storage Systems Employing the Same//U.S. Patent No. 7,739,965, issued June 22, 2010: Automatically Interlocking Pallets, and Shipping and Storage Systems Employing the Same.

The Department of the Navy proposes to alter the system of records, NM07010-1, entitled ``DON Non-Appropriated Funds Standard Payroll System'', in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system will be used to compute employees' pay entitlements and deductions and issue payroll checks for amounts due; to withhold amounts due for Federal, state, and city taxes, to remit withholdings to the taxing authorities, and to report earnings and tax collections; and upon request of employees, to deduct specified amounts from earnings for charity, union dues, and for allotments to financial organizations.

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. The following inventions are available for licensing: Navy Case No. 102004: Symmetric schema instantiation method for use in a case-based reasoning system//Navy Case No. 102005: Process of fabricating transparent interferometric visible spectrum modulator//Navy Case No. 102010: System and method for producing a sample having a monotonic doping gradient of a diffusive constituent or interstitial atom or molecule//Navy Case No. 102018: Transmission security method using random chirp rate modulation//Navy Case No. 102019: System and method for acceleration effect correction using turbo-encoded data with cyclic redundancy check//Navy Case No. 102027: Correlated GPS pseudo range error estimation method//Navy Case No. 102041: Automated process for synthesis of carbon nanotubes in air//Navy Case No. 102059: Surface sediment core catcher//Navy Case No. 102077: Reinforcement learning- based distributed network routing method utilizing integrated tracking and selective sweeping//Navy Case No. 102084: Method for creating free standing nano-perforated graphene filter//Navy Case No. 102095: Method for determining the rotation rate of a resonator using a periodic frequency comb//Navy Case No. 102144: Coherent wideband channel generation from multiple received channels//Navy Case No. 102146: Flexible, low profile kink resistant fiber optic spice tension sleeve//Navy Case No. 102148: Acoustic airspeed measurement system and method//Navy Case No. 102179: Dipole moment term for an electrically small antenna//Navy Case No. 102193: Method and apparatus for measurement of physical properties of matter under simultaneous control of radio frequency and variable temperatures//Navy Case No. 102215: Sensor signal processing using cascade coupled oscillators//Navy Case No. 102247: Ping control optimization method for multi-static active acoustic networks//Navy Case No. 102274: Reduced profile leaky wave antenna//Navy Case No. 102285: Bearing-only tracking for horizontal linear arrays with rapid, accurate initiation and a robust track accuracy threshold//Navy Case No. 102297: 2D arrays of diamond shaped cells having multiple Josephson junctions//Navy Case No. 102300: Composable situational awareness visualization system//Navy Case No. 102316: Non-data-aided joint time and frequency offset estimation method for OFDM systems using channel order based regression//Navy Case No. 102389: Steerable parasitic antenna array//Navy Case No. 102478: Beta voltaic semiconductor diode fabricated from a radioisotope//Navy Case No. 102533: Method of maintaining an ad hoc communications network between a base and a mobile platform//Navy Case No. 102552: Noise-assisted reprogrammable nanomechanical logic gate and method//Navy Case No. 102560: System for amplifying flow-induced vibration energy using boundary layer and wake flow control//Navy Case No. 102585: Magnetic microparticles used for extraction of chemical and biological agents//Navy Case No. 102591: Buoyancy assisted motor-generator//Navy Case No. 102601: Bacteria identification by phage induced impedance fluctuation analysis//Navy Case No. 102603: Method for bathymetric navigation chart validation// Navy Case No. 102604: Algorithm for extraction of atmospheric channel parameters based on imaging theory and image quality//Navy Case No. 102678: Variable buoyancy buoy and deployment methods//Navy Case No. 102679: Self-stabilizing buoy and deployment methods//Navy Case No. 102776: Device for maximizing packing density with cylindrical objects in cylindrical cavities//Navy Case No. 102777: Method of extrinsic camera calibration utilizing a laser beam//Navy Case No. 102778: Thermal stabilization method for silicon circuits//Navy Case No. 102786: Systems and methods for real-time horizon detection in images// Navy Case No. 102880: Communication assets survey and mapping tool// Navy Case No. 102901: Method for analyzing GUI design affordances//Navy Case No. 102903: Biased estimation of symbol timing offset in OFDM systems//Navy Case No. 102955: Layered superconductor device.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for domestic licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: Patent Application No: 13/998,207ASSEMBLE MODULE CHARGE SYSTEM// Patent Application No 13/998,208: MODULE CHARGE SYSTEM.

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the United States Naval Academy announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Department of the Navy announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Department of the Navy announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (DAJAG) (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS NORTH DAKOTA (SSN 784) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).