Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.
Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has issued a notice extending the comment period of its July 2007 proposed rule to consider new labeling requirements for wine, distilled spirits, and malt beverages (alcoholic beverages) to provide consumers with adequate information about such products.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule that amends 16 CFR Part 1211, Safety Standards for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators, to reflect the revised garage door entrapment provisions of Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. (UL) standard UL 325.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a notice which extends the comment period on its August 24, 2007 interim final rule that established an alternative to its requirement of 100% identity testing of dietary ingredients in supplements1.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective November 19, 2007, that will amend 9 CFR Parts 93-96 to establish conditions for the importation of live bovines and certain bovine products from regions that present a minimal risk of introducing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, aka mad cow disease). Currently only Canada qualifies.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice requesting written comments on its "Special 301" out-of-cycle reviews (OCRs) of Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Pakistan regarding their intellectual property rights protection and enforcement.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Revenue Division Bond Team (Bond Team) has posted to its Web site its August 20, 2007 version of its Current Issues which has been updated to add a section on riders and termination requests for all CBP Form 301 continuous bonds.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule which amends its regulations at 7 CFR Parts 319, 330, and 340 regarding the importation of nursery stock, effective September 5, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Port of Chicago has issued a Pipeline announcing that it will reject customs bonds (CBP Form 301) with pre-printed or handstamped facsimile signatures of the attorney-in-fact under certain conditions.