Department of Veterans Affairs June 11, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

As required by law, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hereby giving notice of cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) in certain benefit rates and income limitations. These COLAs affect the pension and parents' dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) programs, as well as the benefits VA pays to or for certain veterans' children with spina bifida or birth defects. These adjustments are based on the rise in the Consumer Price Index during the one-year period ending September 30, 2006. VA is also giving notice of the maximum amount of reimbursement that may be paid for headstones or markers purchased in lieu of Government-furnished headstones or markers in fiscal year 2007, which began on October 1, 2006.

Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, intends to grant to Bioceuticals, Inc., 26439 Birchfield Avenue, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 USA an exclusive license to practice the following patent application: U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/750,005 filed December 30, 2003 entitled ``Methods for Reducing Oxidative Stress in a Cell with a Sulfhydryl Protected Glutathione Prodrug.''