BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
*Oral presentation Special Topic B - 02*

**Biomass as a Strategy in Winning the Oil Endgame**

Joel N. Swisher, Rocky Mountain Institute, 1739 Snowmass Creek Road\
Snowmass,  CO  81654-9199

Phone: (303) 245-1003 email: <jswisher@rmi.org>

Liquid fuels made from farming and forestry wastes, or perhaps from
energy crops, are normally considered to offer only a small potential at
high cost. For example, classic ethanol production from corn, which now
provides ethanol oxygenate equivalent to 2% of U.S. gasoline, could
expand by only about half by 2025 if not subsidized. Modern plants of
this type can yield net energy, but need favorable resale prices for
their byproducts (mainly electricity and distiller's dried grains) to
compete with gasoline.

However, that perspective is outdated. *State of the Art* technologies
now permit biofuels in 2025 to provide 4.3 Mbbl/d of crude-oil
equivalent at under \$35/bbl (\$0.75/gal gasoline-equivalent). This
potential amounts to 15% of EIA's projected 2025 oil demand, or 31% of
net demand after fully applying oil's end-use efficiency potential.

Of this potential, 99% is from ethanol, largely from lignocellulosic
feedstocks. The new technologies whose roughly doubled yields, much
lower energy inputs, and often lower capital costs make this potential
so large and cost-effective include the Pearson Gasification Process,
which is being demonstrated in pilot plants. The other 1% is biodiesel,
an ester made by reacting an alcohol with vegetable oil.

Besides replacing transportation fuels with bio-based fuels,
biomaterials offer a further 1 Mbbl/d of crude-oil displacement from
petrochemical feedstocks, after petrochemical feedstock savings via
plastics recycling, and a variety of biolubricants now emerging.

The main energy crops we examine are switchgrass and short-rotation
woody crops such as hybrid willow and poplar, grown on the 35 million
acres of arable land in the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays
farmers to grow resource-conserving non-crop vegetation rather than
traditional crops. Biofuels' domestic and largely rural production could
benefit both the national economy and distressed rural economy, culture,
and communities.
I am emailing you to express my dismay at the comments made by some on
the panel that there is not \"political will\" to replace the income
tax! I\'ve been speaking to people for 12 years about replacing the fed
income tax system with a national sales tax and every person I have ever
spoken to agrees that it should be done. However, most also believe that
the politicians are being \"influenced\" by the major tax accounting
firms, the IRS and the tax attorneys; therefore they have little faith
that their representatives will address the issue and do what\'s in the
people\'s best interest.

Therefore, if you mean the \"politicians will,\" you may be right, if
you mean the \"people\'s will,\" you are absolutely incorrect. The
supporters of the national sales tax to replace the income tax system
are growing in numbers every day.

Also, if you want to keep from bankrupting this country you will have to
abolish income taxes and enact a sales tax eventually. Therefore, it\'s
really just a choice (i) to continue down the road to bankruptcy or (ii)
to abolish the income system and enact a national sales tax to free the
American people to compete in the world market place by rewarding
production and exports, instead of hindering them.

Gary Clayton

405-262-8555 Office

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**DA 01-1548**

June 29, 2001

**WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU APPROVES WITHDRAWAL**

**OF PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION**

On June 9, 2000, Rayfield Communications, Inc. (Rayfield) filed a
Petition for Reconsideration regarding the incumbent flexibility
modification of station KNRS787 by CMRS Systems, Inc., File No.
9804C002408. On June 26, 2001, Nextel Communications, Inc. (Nextel), as
the successor-in-interest to Rayfield, filed a Withdrawal of Petition
for Reconsideration. Nextel indicated that, in an effort to reduce the
Commission's backlog of proceedings, it no longer wished to pursue the
matter against CMRS Systems, Inc., which is controlled by Chadmoore
Wireless Group, Inc. We accordingly grant consent to Nextel's Withdrawal
of Petition for Reconsideration.

Action taken by Deputy Chief, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.

For further information, contact Katherine M. Harris at (202) 418-0609,
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Commercial Wireless Division.
Books

[PostgreSQL]{.underline} (2^nd^ Edition) by Korry Douglas, July 2005,
Sams Publishing

\- updated for Version 8.0

[Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL]{.underline} by N. Matthew and R.
Stones, 2005, Apress

\- Updated for Version 8.0

\- Technical Reviewer: Robert Treat

[PostgreSQL]{.underline} by K. Douglas and S. Douglas, Feb 2003, Sams
Publishing

\- lists features through 7.2

[Practical PostgreSQL,]{.underline} Jan 2002, O'Reilly

Reader Review: "My god, does this book suck \..." - poor index and table
of contents make finding topics difficult

\- book is available online

\- current through version 7.1.3

\- good discussion on using reserved words

[PostgreSql: Introduction and Concepts]{.underline} by B. Momjian, Dec
2000, Addison Wesley

\- web site
[www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html)

\- lists corrections and new features for 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
**Applications of Microarray Technology to the**

**Study of Mineral-Molecule Interactions**

Robert M. Hazen

*Geophysical Laboratory*

*Carnegie Institution of Washington*

*5251 Broad Branch Road, NW*

*Washington, DC 20015 USA*

<r.hazen@gl.ciw.edu>

Andrew Steele

*Geophysical Laboratory*

*Carnegie Institution of Washington*

*Washington, DC 20015 USA*

Jake Maule

*Geophysical Laboratory*

*Carnegie Institution of Washington*

*Washington, DC 20015 USA*

Rebecca Martin

*Geophysical Laboratory*

*Carnegie Institution of Washington*

*Washington, DC 20015 USA*

Edward Vicenzi

*Department of Mineral Sciences*

*Smithsonian Institution*

*Washington, DC 20560 USA*

Adsorption of organic molecules on mineral surfaces has long been
studied in connection with scenarios for life's origin. Many minerals
have thus been studied as possible templates for organic adsorption. A
conclusion of numerous studies of mineral-molecule interactions is that
such interactions are idiosyncratic -- that is, dependent on specific
geometrical aspects of the mineral-molecule pair under consideration.
This situation results in a problem of combinatorics: 100s of plausible
mineral surfaces may interact with 1000s of organic species, both singly
and in combination, and with varying behaviors depending on pH, ionic
strength, different solutes, concentration, temperature, and other
variables.

We have developed microarray procedures to decorate mineral surfaces
with an array of liquid dots. Originally designed for high throughput
data mining of genomes, microarrays can fit 10^6^ separate tests on a
2x4-cm surface. This technology is thus ideal for combinatorial
screening of mineral-molecule interactions. We have developed protocols
for adsorbing molecules on mineral surfaces. Standard microarray
techniques employ tagged DNA or peptide sequences, yet most molecules
essential to life's origins are not fluorescent. Consequently, we have
applied time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry as an analytical
tool coupled with microarray techniques. We have demonstrated analysis
of amino acids and pentose sugars adsorbed onto crystalline surfaces,
and we have imaged arrays of these molecules on quartz, calcite, and
feldspar. Our results demonstrate that microarray technology holds the
promise for reproducible screening of chiral interactions of thousands
of combinations of molecules and mineral surfaces in a fraction of the
time currently taken.
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**NOTIFICATION**

[Corrigendum]{.underline}

The following communication, dated 17 January 2006, is being circulated
at the request of the Delegation of the [United States]{.underline}.

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[Phenylpropanolamine-Containing Drug Products for Over-the-Counter Human
Use; Tentative Final Monographs]{.underline}

In proposed rule document E5-7646 beginning on page 75988 in the issue
of Thursday, 22 December 2005, make the following corrections:

Sec. 310.545 \[Corrected\]

1\. On page 75997, in the third column, in Sec. 310.545(a)(6)(ii)(D),
\"Approved as of 23 January 2006\" should read:

\"Approved as of \[date 30 days after date of publication in the Federal
Register\].\"

2\. On the same page, in the same column, in Sec. 310.545(a)(20)(ii),
\"Approved as of 23 January 2006\" should read:

\"Approved as of \[date 30 days after date of publication in the Federal
Register\].\"

3\. On the same page, in the same column, in Sec. 310.545(d)(35), in the
first line, \"23 January 2006\" should read:

\"\[Date 30 days after date of publication in the Federal Register\]\".

Full Text of this Notification is available on the Internet at URLs:

<http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/Z5-7646.htm>

<http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/Z5-7646.pdf>

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EXECUTIVE ORDER

CONFISCATING AND VESTING CERTAIN IRAQI PROPERTY

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and

the laws of the United States of America, including the International

Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the

National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of

title 3, United States Code, and in order to take additional steps with

respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12722 of

August 2, 1990,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America,

hereby determine that the United States and Iraq are engaged in armed

hostilities, that it is in the interest of the United States to

confiscate certain property of the Government of Iraq and its agencies,

instrumentalities, or controlled entities, and that all right, title,

and interest in any property so confiscated should vest in the

Department of the Treasury. I intend that such vested property should

be used to assist the Iraqi people and to assist in the reconstruction

of Iraq, and determine that such use would be in the interest of and

for the benefit of the United States.

I hereby order:

Section 1. All blocked funds held in the United States in

accounts in the name of the Government of Iraq, the Central Bank of

Iraq, Rafidain Bank, Rasheed Bank, or the State Organization for

Marketing Oil are hereby confiscated and vested in the Department of

the Treasury, except for the following:

\(a\) any such funds that are subject to the Vienna Convention on

Diplomatic Relations or the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, or

that enjoy equivalent privileges and immunities under the laws of the

United States, and are or have been used for diplomatic or consular

purposes, and

\(b\) any such amounts that as of the date of this order are subject

to post-judgment writs of execution or attachment in aid of execution

of judgments pursuant to section 201 of the Terrorism Risk Insurance

Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-297), provided that, upon satisfaction of

the judgments on which such writs are based, any remainder of such

excepted amounts shall, by virtue of this order and without further

action, be confiscated and vested.

Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to perform,

without further approval, ratification, or other action of the

President, all functions of the President set forth in section

203(a)(1)(C) of IEEPA with respect to any and all property of the

Government of Iraq, including its agencies, instrumentalities, or

controlled entities, and to take additional steps, including the

promulgation of rules and regulations as may be necessary, to carry out

the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may

redelegate such functions in accordance with applicable law. The

Secretary of the Treasury shall consult the Attorney General as

appropriate in the implementation of this order.

Sec. 3. This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and

published in the Federal Register.
**Public** Dennis Robinson Robert Geddes Gary Zarker

Chainnan Vice-Chainnan Treasurer

c/o Cowlitz County PUD c/o Pend Oreille County PUD c/o Seattle City
Light

**Generating** Box No 3007 PQ Box 190 700 Fifth Ave., Ste 3254

Longview, WA 98632 Newport, WA 99156 Seattle, WA 98104

360\) 577-7515 (509) 447-3137 (206) 684-3200

**Pool** Fax (360) 577-7559 Fax (509) 447-5824 Fax (206) 684-3198

February 22, 2001

Dear Congressperson/Commissioner,

As you are well aware, the electricity consumers on the West Coast are
facing a crisis of immense proportions. Created by the combination of
the California \"deregulation experiment,\" transmission constraints
within California, high natural gas prices, and relatively low
precipitation in the Northwest, wholesale prices have recently spiked to
unheard-of levels, and retail rates at many Northwest utilities are
rising rapidly as a result.

The current power supply shortage in the West is a problem that requires
the priority attention of all concerned. In such a climate, we do not
wish to be distracted by unfounded and expensive new initiatives. Thus,
we are asking for your support in asking FERC to suspend its
consideration of transmission restructuring in the Northwest.
Transmission systems in the Northwest are already characterized by
open-access and our customers do not need to be further burdened by
costly new institutions and rules for doing wholesale business.

We strongly believe that the projected expense of setting up and running
an RTO in the Northwest would be better directed to fixing specific and
real transmission problems, as well as mal(ing investments in new
generation capacity and conservation programs. The Northwest is already
addressing many transmission reliability issues now in a productive
manner. For example, BPA and other parties are now involved in (a)
planning and construction ofanew 500 kV line in the Mid-Columbia area,
and (b) transmission additions (new lines and substation improvements)
to meet load growth and relieve congestion in the Puget Sound region,
and to support the return of energy to Canada. The effort to form an R
TO will distract managers and policymakers from more pressing problems,
and will clearly limit the amount of funding that will be available to
help address these more immediate issues.

\[second page\]

We do not believe that formation of an RTO will lead to any significant
improvements in transmission access in the Northwest. FERC\'s
initiatives in this area are a source of continuing regulatory
uncertainty, which could delay needed investments in transmission. We do
not wish to see our customer-owners forced to pay for yet another
experiment in restructuring this industry .We are at a point where
postponing new regulatory institutions is likely to be more helpful than
the new institutions themselves.

Sincerely,

\~p\~..

Dennis P. Robinson

Chair, Administrative Committee

bjmlpgp. Gen. Energy Ltr.

CC: Members of Congress from the Northwest

FERC Commissioners

Steven Wright, Acting Administrator, BPA

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The Color of Healthy

You're in the produce aisle at the supermarket. Which fruits and
vegetables are healthiest?

Here's a simple way to tell: Look at the color. More and more research
shows that the more colorful and flavorful foods are, the more they
contain phytochemicals \-- plant compounds that help fight disease and
maintain good health.

**Here's a guide:**

ORANGE ...

Pumpkins, carrots and oranges contain beta-carotene, which may help
fight cancer.

RED ...

Foods such as tomatoes, watermelon and pink grapefruit contain lycopene,
which may aid in cancer prevention.

YELLOW AND GREEN ...

The squash family and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and kale
aid in the prevention of cancer and vision problems.

BLUE AND WHITE ...

Foods such as onions, garlic and leeks have been shown to help prevent
heart disease and cancer.

**Remember:** The deeper the color, the healthier the food probably is.

(Source: American Dietetic Association)
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[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]{.underline}

PRODUCTION OF EISENHOWER SILVER DOLLARS

TO START MARCH 31, 1971

The first strike of the Eisenhower silver dollar coins takes place at
11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 1971, at the United States Assay
Office, 155 Hermann Street, San Francisco, California.

The Treasury Department's Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Operations, Eugene T. Rossides, and the Director of the Mint, Mary T.
Brooks, will launch the first strike of the 150 million silver dollar
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Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the start of
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> March 5, 2002

**Item:** **Confusion between Oxygen and Compressed Air Wall Outlet**

**General Information:** Most patient-care rooms in VHA facilities are
supplied with 100% oxygen (green) and medical air (yellow) outlets and
flowmeters are identical in design and only differentiated by color and
sometimes labeling. The outlets are usually located within inches of
each other. The flowmeters usually have adapters connected to allow
clear plastic tubing to be readily connected. These so-called "Christmas
Tree" adapters should match the color of the outlets, but green oxygen
adapters are sometimes erroneously attached to the yellow air flow
meter. Unlike oxygen, compressed air is rarely used in urgent
situations. The compressed air flow meter is often not removed from the
wall, because it is used for frequent nebulized medication treatments on
patients with pulmonary disease.

> ![](media/image2.png){width="3.102777777777778in"
> height="1.8465277777777778in"}

Specific Incidents: Close calls have occurred when low oxygen saturation
on pulse oximeters revealed that patients who inadvertently had their
oxygen tubing hooked up to air regulators with green adapters instead of
oxygen. Staff were quickly able to move the oxygen tubing to the oxygen
regulator. Respiratory technicians in hospitals outside the VA have also
reported this confusion. Some facilities removed all air flowmeters when
they are not used during nebulizer treatment; but others considering
this have met resistance due to lack of convenience. There has been
limited success with ensuring proper use of yellow versus green
adapters; and some facilities have run out of yellow adapters.

Suggestions: **1. Purchase [clear adapters](../clear_adaptors.doc) and
avoid green-yellow confusion.**

**2. When appropriate purchase compressed air tubing that does not
require "Christmas Tree" adapters, so adapters are not needed for air.**

**3. Consider removing air flowmeters when not in use; this may require
addressing informal norms through training, incentives.**

4.  **More prominently label air and oxygen outlets.**

5.  **Respiratory Therapy, Nursing, and Pharmacy must work together for
    the smoothest implementation of any redesign or training.**

Resources: National Center for Patient Safety "Compressed Gas Cylinder
Hazard Supplement" for further information.
[vaww.ncps.med.va.gov]{.underline}

Contact: For additional information, please contact National Center for
Patient Safety (NCPS)

> Phone: (734) 930 5890. Fax: (734) 930 5877. E-mail:
> <John.Gosbee@med.va.gov>
January 31, 2007

**Make the Adoption Tax Credit Permanent**

Dear Colleague:

I recently introduced H.R. 471, the "Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act
of 2007." This legislation makes permanent the \$10,000 child adoption
tax credit, which is set to expire in 2010. Senator Jim Bunning of
Kentucky is introducing a companion bill in the Senate.

If enacted, this legislation would provide a tax credit up to \$10,000
for qualified expenses relating to the adoption of a child for both
domestic and international adoptions. In addition, an employer may offer
up to \$10,000 in qualified adoption expenses that will be excluded from
income. Costs that may be covered include attorney's fees, reasonable
and necessary adoption fees, court costs, traveling costs, and other
costs directly relating to the legal adoption of an eligible child.
Eligible children are those under the age of 18 that are physically and
mentally incapable of caring for themselves.

The current law (enacted in the 107^th^ Congress in H.R. 1836, PL
107-16) that grants adoptive parents a \$10,000 child adoption tax
credit will sunset in 2010. As a member of the Congressional Coalition
on Adoption, and the father of an adopted son, I respectfully request
your support of this important legislation.

I urge you to join me in ensuring that America's adopting parents better
afford the costs of adoption by cosponsoring the "Adoption Tax Relief
Guarantee Act of 2007." If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate contact me or my Legislative Assistant, Melissa Chandler, at
202-225-2452 or by email at <Melissa.Chandler@mail.house.gov>.

Very truly yours,

JOE WILSON

Member of Congress
Full Plague Citation List

ROCKE, T.E., J. Mencher, S.R. SMITH, A.M. Friedlander, G.P. Andrews, and
L.A. Baeten. 2004. Recombinant F1-V fusion protein protects black-footed
ferrets (Mustela nigripes) against virulent Yersinia pestis infection.
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 35(2):142-146.

ROCKE, T.E., P. NOL, P. MARINARI, J. KREEGER, S. SMITH, G. ALEXANDER,
and A. FRIEDLANDER. 2004. Immunization of black-footed ferrets against
plague. Page 71 in Proceedings of the American Association of Zoo
Veterinarians. Media, Pennsylvania. USA.

ROCKE, T.E., P. Nol, P.E. Marinari, J.S. Kreeger, S.R. SMITH, G.P.
Andres, A.W. Friedlander. 2006. Vaccination as a potential means to
prevent plague in black-footed ferrets:progress and continuing
challenges. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report
2005-5293.

ROCKE, T. E., S. SMITH, P. Marinari, J. Kreeger, J. T. Enama and B. S.
Powell. 2008. Vaccination with F1-fusion protein protects black-footed
ferrets (Mustela nigripes) against plague upon oral challenge with
Yersinia pestis. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44(1):1-7.

CREEKMORE, T.E., T.E. ROCKE, and J. Hurley. 2002. A baiting system for
delivery of an oral plague vaccine to black-tailed prairie dogs. Journal
of Wildlife Diseases 38(1):32-39.

Mencher, J.S., S.R. SMITH, T.D. Powell, D.T. Stinchcomb, J.E. Osorio,
and T.E. ROCKE. 2004. Protection of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys
ludovicianus) against plague after voluntary consumption of baits
containing recombinant raccoon poxvirus vaccine. Infection and Immunity
72(9):5502-5505.

BRAND, C.J. 2000. Landscape ecology of plague in the American
Southwest - September 19-20, 2000. Fort Collins, Colorado. Proceedings
of an American Southwest Workshop. September 19-20, 2000. U.S.
Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.

BRAND, C.J. 2002. Landscape ecology of plague in the American southwest,
September 19-20, 2000, Fort Collins, Colorado: Proceedings of an
American Southwest Workshop. U.S. Geological Survey Information and
Technology Report 2002-0001. 24 pages.

Osario, J.E., T.D. Powell, R.S. Frank, K. Moss, E.J. Haanes, S.R. SMITH,
T.E. ROCKE, and D.T. Stinchcomb. 2003. Recombinant raccoon pox vaccine
protects mice against lethal plague. Vaccine 3505:1-7.

ROCKE, T.E. 2005. The immunology of plague infection. Invited oral
presentation. 3rd Annual International Ecology and Evolution of
Infectious Diseases Conference and Workshop. May 19-21, 2005. Fort
Collins, Colorado, USA.

ROCKE, T. E. 2005. The impact of plague on the conservation of
threatened and endangered species. Invited oral presentation. 12th
Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society. September 25-29, 2005.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

ROCKE, T.E. and M. Antolin. 2005. The ecology of plague as an introduced
disease and its impact on conservation of threatened and endangered
species. Invited oral presentation. The Annual Conference of the
International Wildlife Disease Association. June 24-July 3, 2005.
Cairns, Australia.
WIRELINE COMPETITION BUREAU NETWORK CHANGE NOTIFICATION

FILED BY BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.

**Report No. NCD-1386 March 12, 2007**

Re: NETWORK CHANGE CERTIFICATION RECEIVED

BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. an incumbent local exchange carrier
(LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change has
been provided through its publicly accessible Internet site, as required
by section 51.329(a) of the rules of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). *See* 47 C.F.R. § 51.329(a). Specific network change
information can be obtained on the Internet at:

[**http://www.interconnection.bellsouth.com/notifications/network/index.html**](http://www.interconnection.bellsouth.com/notifications/network/index.html)

The incumbent LEC\'s certification refers to the changes shown below.

  ----------------------- ----------------------- -----------------------
  **Number**              **Type of Change**      **Location of Change**

  20070013                Replace Copper          Chalmette, LA
                          Facilities with Fiber   
                          Optic Cable and Digital 
                          Loop Carrier Systems    

  20070014                Replace Copper          Chalmette, LA
                          Facilities with Fiber   
                          Optic Cable and Digital 
                          Loop Carrier Systems    
  ----------------------- ----------------------- -----------------------

The network change identified herein shall not be implemented within six
months of the date it was filed with the Commission. *See* 47 C.F.R. §
51.331.

Incumbent LEC contact:

Steven D. Long

Assistant Manager/Federal Regulatory

AT&T Services Inc.

1133-21^st^ Street, N.W., Suite 900

Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 463-4107

The original filing is available for inspection and copying at the FCC
Public Reference Room, Portals II, 445 12th Street, S.W., Suite CY‑A257,
Washington, DC 20554.

For further information, contact Carmell Weathers, (202) 418-2325
(voice), or
[**carmell.weathers@fcc.gov**](mailto:carmell.weathers@fcc.gov) (email),
of the Competition Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau. The TTY
number is (202) 418-0484.

**-FCC-**
OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS

VA NPC Meets In Portland

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VA's National Partnership Council conducted its quarterly meeting in
Portland, Oregon, from August 28-29, 2002. New members to the Council
were introduced to the other members. They are Michael J. Boucher, MSN,
R.N., President, National VA Council, United American Nurses and Cathy
Rick, R.n., VA's Chief Nursing Officer.

Discussions and presentations included the centralization of information
technology, the realignment of finance, acquisition, and capital asset
management, competitive sourcing, the One VA employee survey, Employee
Express, 360 degree assessments, veterans canteen service initiatives,
nursing issues, and emerging issues in the Administrations.

A highlight of the meeting in Portland involved meeting with labor and
management representatives from the medical center, regional office, and
national cemetery where they shared their experiences in serving
employees and veterans. These exchanges have been a hallmark of the
NPC's field based meetings and serve as one way for the Council to
fulfill its responsibility as an advocate for cooperative
labor-management relations.

In addition, work was completed on a new partnership agreement and a new
Secretarial Award Program for labor-management achievements was
endorsed. The new agreement which will be submitted to the Secretary for
approval, emphasizes the Council's role as an advisor on new policies,
programs, and initiatives that effect employees and customer services
and as an advocate for achieving a positive work environment,
cooperative labor-management relations, using alternate dispute
resolution, and employee training.

The Council, at its next meeting scheduled for December 17 & 18, 2002,
will be developing a strategic plan on specific actions it will take in
support of its responsibility as an advisor and advocate.
**FOIA Search and Review Fees**

**The following is the Department's fee schedule for FOIA search and
review fees. The cost for duplication is \$.13 per standard page. See
Interior's FOIA regulations at 43 CFR Part 2, Appendix C, for details.**

+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **Fee Schedule   | **Clerical**  | *               | **Managerial,  |
| for requests     |               | *Professional** | GS-14, Step    |
| rec'd**          | **GS-6, Step  |                 | 2\***          |
|                  | 5\***         | **GS-11, Step   |                |
|                  |               | 7\***           |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **On/after       | **\$5.60**    | **\$9.75**      | **\$14.10**    |
| 8/1/08**         |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **On/after       | **\$5.35**    | **\$9.30**      | **\$13.50**    |
| 8/1/07**         |               |                 |                |
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| **On/after       | **\$5.20**    | **\$9.05**      | **\$13.15**    |
| 8/1/06**         |               |                 |                |
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| **On/after       | **\$5.00**    | **\$8.75**      | **\$12.70**    |
| 8/1/05**         |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **10/1/04 --     | **\$4.85**    | **\$8.45**      | **\$12.25**    |
| 7/31/05**        |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **4/11/03 -      | **\$4.65**    | **\$8.10**      | **\$11.70**    |
| 9/30/04**        |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **1/12/03 -      | **\$4.60**    | **\$8.00**      | **\$11.60**    |
| 4/10/03**        |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **11/20/02 -     | **\$4.45**    | **\$7.75**      | **\$11.25**    |
| 1/11/03**        |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+
| **Before         | **\$2.30**    | **\$4.65**      | **\$4.65**     |
| 11/20/02**       |               |                 |                |
+------------------+---------------+-----------------+----------------+

**\*Fees charged per quarter hour.**

**Clerical = All employees at GS-7 and below.**

**Professional = All employees at GS-8 thru 12.**

**Managerial = All employees at GS-13 and above.**
Niles Tape Collection \-- Contents

Tape 1

UREP86 8-8-86 Duncan Williamson

Tape 2

Festival & Pageant: Singing & Musical Competitions

8-9-86 UREP86

Tape 3a

Storytelling: Duncan Williamson & Betsy Whyte

8-10-86 UREP86

Tape 4

86. UREP86 Weavers House -- Ceilidh\
    Duncan Williamson and Betsy Whyte

Tape 5a

Duncan Williamson: Stories and Songs

UREP86

Tape 5b (with tape 3b DW? 18')

Duncan Williamson: Stories and Songs

UREP86 Holley.T. Song \[3b Storytellers DW? 8-10-86\]

7-10-86

Tape 6

8-13-86 Betsy Whyte Storytelling UREP86

at home

Tape 7a

Lizzie Higgins

Tape 7b

UREP86 8-14-86 Lizzie Higgins Singing

Tape 8

86. UREP86 Lizzie Higgins Sings & Talks And

Stanley Robertson visits Travellers Sites and Sings

Tape 9

UREP86 8-15-86 Travellers Sites tarvit??

Travellers Family & Travelelrs Sites (cupar) (tarvit)
***DISASTER NEWS***![](media/image1.png){width="1.5847222222222221in"
height="0.7277777777777777in"}

***Economic Injury Loans for Small Businesses***

SBA Disaster Assistance--Field Operations Center East-One Baltimore
Place, Suite 300-Atlanta, GA 30308

**Release Date:** July 20, 2007 **Contact:** Michael Lampton

**Release Number:** 07-557, FL 10714 **Phone:** 404-347-3771

**SBA Deadline To Apply**

**For Economic Injury Disaster Loans Is August 16**

**TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -** The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is
reminding businesses in the counties of Franklin, Gulf, Liberty and
Wakulla in the State of Florida that Economic Injury Disaster Loans
(EIDLs) are still available to small businesses economically impacted by
the severe storms and tornadoes of October 27, 2006.

"Small businesses that suffered economic losses as a result of the
disaster and want to apply for\
low-interest loans from the SBA are urged to do so before the August 16
deadline," said Frank Skaggs, Director of SBA Field Operations Center
East**.**

Small businesses may apply for loans up to \$l.5 million if they
suffered substantial economic injury from the disaster. These working
capital loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable,
and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred.
These loans are not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

The interest rate on these loans is 4 percent, with a maximum term of 30
years. The SBA determines the amount of economic injury and the terms of
each loan based on the financial circumstances of each borrower.

To obtain a loan application, interested business owners should contact
SBA's Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-659-2955 (1-800-877-8339
for the hearing-impaired) Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT. Business disaster loan
applications can also be downloaded from the SBA's website at
[*www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance*](http://www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance).
Completed applications should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.

**The application deadline for economic injury applications is [August
16, 2007]{.underline}**

*\# \# \#*

***For more information about the SBA's Disaster Loan Programs, visit
our website at**
[www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance](http://www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance).*
**PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE**

**MEETING SUMMARY**

1\. Name of Commissioner: James A. Johnson

2\. Date of Meeting: January 14, 2003

3\. Location of Meeting (City and State): Washington, DC

4\. Individual(s) with whom Commissioner Met: Jonathan Linen, Vice
Chairman; Thomas Schick, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and
Communications; Laurel Kamen, Vice President, Government Affairs. The
meeting was also attended by Dennis Shea, Executive Director of the
Commission staff, and Randall Lewis of the Commission staff.

5\. Any Organizational Affiliation(s): American Express Company

6\. Brief Summary of Meeting (including subject(s) discussed):

Commissioner Johnson provided his views regarding what the Commission
hopes to accomplish, and discussed the schedule for future public
meetings. Mr. Linen,

Mr. Schick, and Ms. Kamen provided background on American Express
Company's use of the postal system, and offered their views on the
issues before the Commission. Specific subjects discussed included
on-line bill payment, the rate-making process, the USPS business model,
the USPS governance structure, and the postal system infrastructure.
**MK~ATP~ PROBE-BASE Biochip for LPLC DETECTION SYSTEM AND MITOCHONDRIAL
FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS**

Dr. Petr Paucek and Dr. Rajendra Solanki

Portland State University, Dept. of Biology and Physics, 1719 SW 10^th^
Avenue, Portland, OR 07201

This project seeks to develop a biodevice that will help detect
low-abundance membrane proteins of cardiac or brain mitochondria. A
highly sensitive antibodies-based biochip for mK~ATP~ is used for
identification of trace amounts of a specific protein, sample screening
and enabling new drug discoveries eventually this may lead to develop
cardiac / cerebral ischemia diagnosis tools. In our studies of the
mitochondrial K^+^ cycle (MKC) of cardiac mitochondria, with emphasis on
the mitochondrial K~ATP~ channel (mK~ATP~); we have demonstrated that
mK~ATP~ is important for heart and brain physiology; especially in
protection against ischemia. We predicted that the low-abundance mK~ATP~
protein to be an assembly of 55 kDa pore-forming inwardly rectifying
mKir and 63 kDa receptor subunits, mSUR. A new anti_mK~ATP~ probe was
developed as the primary component of our current effort to identify the
molecular structure of mK~ATP~; the anti-peptide probe was created from
the signature homology of the same gene family, using a combination of
bioinformatics, peptide synthesis and immunochemistry. We validated the
probe through a combination of immunoprecipitation and protein kinetics
experiments. Currently, we are designing the mK~ATP~-based biochip as an
effective tool for further analytical studies: The probe-antigen
interaction on the on the biochip is an essential tool in hi-resolution
LC purification, to further differential proteomics and MALDI MS/MS
analysis. With biofabrication, the sample is concentrated in the
specific semiconductor cells within the chip matrix and the surface
conductivity is measured for various experimental conditions. The
mechanism of this phenomenon is due to charging and/or discharging at
the interface between different layers adsorbed on the BioChip surface.
The mK~ATP~ probe attached to the surface of the low cell biochip can
successfully recognize the presence of small quantities of mK~ATP~
antigens during LC purification and may permit the study of specific
ligand-protein interactions or ligand-drug-protein interactions.
Task Description:

Firm shall issue one paper check in the amount of \$3270.29 to be issued
and delivered no later than 12/8/06.

Funds are in support of the Clinical Research Training Program at the
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Funds will support
subsistence payments for a students sponsored by this program.

It is required that each check be accompanied by a letter identifying
the student and the ID to ensure that the funds are properly credited.
This identifying information will be given at the time of the award.

[1 check shall be made payable to:]{.underline} University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

[Checks shall be mailed to:]{.underline}

University of North Carolina, Cashier's Office

Campus Box 1400

103 Bynum Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

\[Preparer: Fran Wagstaff, NIH/NIEHS, 919-541-4182\]
**§20.707 Rule 707. Designation of Member or Members to conduct the
hearing.**

The Member or panel to whom a proceeding is assigned under §19.3 of this
part shall conduct any hearing before the Board in connection with that
proceeding. Where a proceeding has been assigned to a panel, the
Chairman, or the Chairman's designee, shall designate one of the Members
as the presiding Member. The Member or Members who conduct the hearing
shall participate in making the final determination of the claim,
subject to the exception in §19.11(c) of this part (relating to
reconsideration of a decision). (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7102, 7107)

\[57 FR 4109, Feb. 3, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 20451, May 7, 1996\]

**Supplement *Highlights* reference**: 14(3)

**§20.708 Rule 708. Prehearing conference.**

An appellant's authorized representative may request a prehearing
conference with the presiding Member of a hearing to clarify the issues
to be considered at a hearing on appeal, obtain rulings on the
admissibility of evidence, develop stipulations of fact, establish the
length of argument which will be permitted, or take other steps which
will make the hearing itself more efficient and productive. With respect
to hearings to be held before the Board at Washington, DC, arrangements
for a prehearing conference must be made through: Director, Management
and Administration (01E), Board of Veterans' Appeals, 810 Vermont
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Requests for prehearing conferences
in cases involving hearings to be held before the Board at Department of
Veterans Affairs field facilities must be addressed to the office of the
Department of Veterans Affairs official who signed the letter giving
notice of the time and place of the hearing. (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7102,
7105(a), 7107)

\[57 FR 4109, Feb. 3, 1992, as amended at 58 FR 27936, May 12, 1993; 61
FR 20452, May 7, 1996; 67 FR 16023, Apr. 4, 2002\]

**Supplement *Highlights* references**: 3(2), 14(3).