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Federal Management Regulation (FMR) - Utilization, Donation, and Disposal of Foreign Gifts and Decorations-Part 102-42

The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Utilization, Donation, and Disposal of Foreign Gifts and Decorations-Part 102-42 .This Part has four sub-parts as follows-

Subpart A—General Provisions
Subpart B—Utilization of Foreign Gifts and Decorations
Subpart C—Donation of Foreign Gifts and Decorations
Subpart D—Sale or Destruction of Foreign Gifts and Decorations

Federal Management Regulation (FMR) -Disposition of Seized, Forfeited, Voluntarily Abandoned, and Unclaimed Personal Property  - Part 102-41

The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Disposition of Seized, Forfeited, Voluntarily Abandoned, and Unclaimed Personal Property  - Part 102-41 .This Part has five sub-parts as follows-

Subpart A—General Provisions
Subpart B—Seized or Forfeited Personal Property
Subpart C—Voluntarily Abandoned Personal Property
Subpart D—Unclaimed Personal Property
Subpart E—Personal Property Requiring Special Handling

Federal Management Regulation (FMR) - Replacement of Personal Property Pursuant to the Exchange/Sale Authority  - Part 102-39

The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Replacement of Personal Property Pursuant to the Exchange/Sale Authority  - Part 102-39. This Part has three sub-parts as follows-

Subpart A—General
Subpart B—Exchange/Sale Considerations
Subpart C—Exchange/Sale Methods and Reports

Federal Management Regulation (FMR) - Sale of Personal Property  - Part 102-38

The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Sale of Personal Property - Part 102-38. This Part 102-38 has eight sub-parts as follows-

Subpart A—General Provisions
Subpart B—Sales Process
Subpart C—Bids
Subpart D—Completion of Sale
Subpart E—Other Governing Statutes
Subpart F—Reporting Requirements
Subpart G—Provisions for State and Local Governments
Subpart H—Implementation of the Federal Asset Sales Program

Federal Management Regulation (FMR) - Donation of Surplus Personal Property - Part 102-37

The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Donation of Surplus Personal Property - Part 102-37. This part 102-37 has

eight sub-parts and three appendixes as follows -

Subpart A—General Provisions

Subpart B—General Services Administration (GSA)

Subpart D—State Agency for Surplus Property (SASP)

Subpart E—Donations to Public Agencies, Service Educational Activities (SEAs), and Eligible Nonprofit Organizations

Subpart F—Donations to Public Airports

Subpart G—Donations to the American National Red Cross

Subpart H—Donations to Public Bodies in Lieu of Abandonment/Destruction

Appendix A—Miscellaneous Donation Statutes

Appendix B—Elements of a State Plan of Operation

Appendix C—Glossary of Terms for Determining Eligibility of Public Agencies and Nonprofit Organizations

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The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR). It contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that described how to do business with the GSA. Its Subchapter B—Personal Property talks about Disposition of Excess Personal Property in Part 102-36. This part 102-36 has six sub-parts as follows

Subpart A—General Provisions
Subpart B—Acquiring Excess Personal Property For Our Agency
Subpart C—Acquiring Excess Personal Property for Non-Federal Recipients
Subpart D—Disposition of Excess Personal Property
Subpart D—Disposition of Excess Personal Property
Subpart F—Miscellaneous Disposition

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An advocacy group representing users of psychiatric service dogs has petitioned the Department to eliminate a provision of the Department of Transportation's Air Carrier Access regulation. The provision in question permits air carriers to require documentation and 48 hours' advance notice for users of psychiatric service animals. In this document, the Department is seeking comment on the group's petition and related questions. This document is not a notice of proposed rulemaking. The Department has not decided whether to grant the petition by initiating rulemaking action or to deny the petition and retain the provisions without change. The Department will publish a document in [[Page 47903]] the Federal Register regarding the determination of the petition.

DATES: Comments in response to this request must be received by December 17, 2009.

This guidance represents the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) current thinking on this topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if the approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. If you want to discuss an alternative approach, contact the appropriate FDA staff. If you cannot identify the appropriate FDA staff, call the appropriate number listed on the title page of this guidance

EPA is taking direct final action to amend the Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) to provide for automatic withdrawal of the CAIR FIPs in a State upon the effective date of EPA’s approval of a full State implementation plan (SIP) revision meeting the CAIR requirements. All CAIR States are required to revise their SIPs to include control measures to reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) and/or sulfur dioxide (SO2). The EPA issued the CAIR FIPs on April 28, 2006 as a backstop to implement the CAIR in each CAIR State until that State has an EPA-approved CAIR SIP in place to achieve the required reductions. In the FIP rulemaking, EPA stated it would withdraw the FIPs in a State in coordination with the approval of the CAIR SIP for that State.
In this action EPA makes the FIP withdrawal in a State automatic upon approval of the State’s full CAIR SIP and to the extent of that approval. EPA believes it is appropriate for the FIP withdrawal to be automatic because to the extent EPA approves the State’s full CAIR SIP, this corrects that deficiency that provided the basis for EPA’s promulgation of the FIPs in that State.

This guidance represents the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) current thinking on this topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if the approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. If you want to discuss an alternative approach, contact the appropriate FDA staff. If you cannot identify the appropriate FDA staff, call the appropriate number listed on the title page of this guidance.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled ``Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Use in Medical Product Development to Support Labeling Claims.'' This guidance describes how FDA reviews and evaluates patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments used to measure treatment benefit in medical product clinical trials. It also provides recommendations on how sponsors can use study results measured by PRO
instruments to support claims in approved medical product labeling.

This guidance finalizes the draft guidance published on February 3, 2006.
 

The purpose of this Directive is, as a first priority, the prevention of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), and in addition, the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of such wastes so as to reduce the disposal of waste. It also seeks to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers, distributors and consumers and in particular those operators directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment

‘© European Communities, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/’

The purpose of this Directive is to approximate the laws of the Member States on the restrictions of the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment and to contribute to the protection of human health and the environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment

‘© European Communities, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/’

This draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) current thinking on this topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if the approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. If you want to discuss an alternative approach, contact the appropriate FDA staff. If you cannot identify the appropriate FDA staff, call the appropriate number listed on the title page of this guidance

The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), CAIR Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs), and Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) each include an exemption for cogeneration units that meet certain criteria. In light of information concerning biomass-fired cogeneration units that may not qualify for the exemption due to their particular combination of fuel and technical design characteristics, EPA is changing the cogeneration unit definition in CAIR, the CAIR model cap-and-trade rules, the CAIR FIPs, CAMR, and the CAMR model cap-and-trade rule. Specifically, EPA is revising the calculation methodology for the efficiency standard in the cogeneration unit definition to exclude energy input from biomass making it more likely that units co-firing biomass will be able to meet the efficiency standard and qualify for exemption. Because this change will only affect a small number of relatively low emitting units, it will have little effect on the projected emissions reductions and the environmental benefits of these rules. If EPA finalizes the proposed CAMR Federal Plan, it intends to make the definitions in that rule conform to the CAMR model capand- trade rule and thus, with today’s action. This action also clarifies the term ‘‘total energy input’’ used in the efficiency calculation and makes minor technical corrections to CAIR, the CAIR FIPs, CAMR, and the Acid Rain Program rules

Effective Date:This rule is effective November 19, 2007

EPA is taking direct final action to amend the Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) to provide for automatic withdrawal of the CAIR FIPs in a State upon the effective date of EPA’s approval of a full State implementation plan (SIP) revision meeting the CAIR requirements. All CAIR States are required to revise their SIPs to include control measures to reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) and/or sulfur dioxide (SO2). The EPA issued the CAIR FIPs on April 28, 2006 as a backstop to implement the CAIR in each CAIR State until that State has an EPA-approved CAIR SIP in place to achieve the required reductions. In the FIP rulemaking, EPA stated it would withdraw the FIPs in a State in coordination with the approval of the CAIR SIP for that State.
In this action EPA makes the FIP withdrawal in a State automatic upon approval of the State’s full CAIR SIP and to the extent of that approval. EPA believes it is appropriate for the FIP withdrawal to be automatic because to the extent EPA approves the State’s full CAIR SIP, this corrects that deficiency that provided the basis for EPA’s promulgation of the FIPs in that State.

Effective Date:This rule is effective January 16, 2008

Pursuant to section 183(e)(3)(C) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA has determined that control technique guideline (CTG) documents will be substantially as effective as national regulations in reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) nonattainment areas from the following Group II product categories: Lithographic printing materials, letterpress printing materials, flexible packaging printing materials, flat wood paneling coatings, and industrial cleaning solvents. EPA is taking final action to list these product categories pursuant to CAA section 183(e). Based on this determination, EPA is issuing final CTGs in lieu of national regulations for the control of VOC emissions from each of these product categories. These CTGs provide guidance to the States concerning EPA(s recommendations for reasonably available control technology (RACT)- level controls for the product categories

Effective Date:This rule is effective  October 5, 2006

Pursuant to section 183(e)(3)(C) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that control techniques guidelines will be substantially as effective as national regulations in reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in ozone national ambient air quality standard nonattainment areas from the following three Group III product categories: paper, film, and foil coatings; metal furniture coatings; and large appliance coatings. Based on this determination, EPA is issuing control techniques guidelines in lieu of national regulations for these product categories. These control techniques guidelines will provide guidance to the States concerning EPA’s recommendations for reasonably available control technologylevel controls for these product categories. EPA further takes final action to list the three Group III consumer and commercial product categories VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:15 Oct 05, 2007 Jkt 214001 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\09OCR1.SGM 09OCR1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with RULES 57216 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 194 / Tuesday, October 9, 2007 / Rules and Regulations addressed in this notice pursuant to Clean Air Act section 183(e).

Effective Date:This rule is effective  October 9, 2007
 

Pursuant to Section 183(e)(3)(C) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that control techniques guidelines will be substantially as effective as national regulations in reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in ozone national ambient air quality standard nonattainment areas from the following five Group IV product categories: miscellaneous metal products coatings, plastic parts coatings, auto and light-duty truck assembly coatings, fiberglass boat manufacturing materials, and miscellaneous industrial adhesives. Based on this determination, EPA is issuing control techniques guidelines in lieu of national regulations for these product categories. These control techniques guidelines will provide guidance to the States concerning EPA’s recommendations for reasonably available control technologylevel controls for these product categories. EPA further takes final action to list the five Group IV consumer and commercial product categories addressed in this notice pursuant to CAA Section 183(e).

Effective Date:This rule is effective  October 7, 2008

The Department of Labor (‘‘Department’’ or ‘‘DOL’’) is amending its regulations to extend the transition period of the application filing procedures currently in effect for all H– 2A employers with a date of need on or before July 1, 2009, as established in the H–2A Final Rule published on December 18, 2008 and in effect as of January 17, 2009. The transition period is extended to include all employers with a date of need on or before January 1, 2010

Effective Date:This rule is effective  April 16, 2009