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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

2002 Reopened—Previously Denied 

Determinations; Notice of Revised 

Denied Determinations On 

Reconsideration Under the Trade 

Adjustment Assistance Extension Act 

of 2011 Regarding Eligibility To Apply 

for Worker Adjustment Assistance 

In accordance with Section 223 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 

U.S.C. 2273) (Act) the Department of 

Labor (Department) herein presents 

summaries of revised determinations on 

reconsideration regarding eligibility to 

apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance 

for workers by case (TA–W–) number 

regarding negative determinations 

issued during the period of February 13, 

2011 through October 21, 2011. Notices 

of negative determinations were 

published in the Federal Register and 

on the Department’s Web site, as 

required by Section 221 of the Act (19 

U.S.C. 2271). As required by the Trade 

Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 

2011 (TAAEA), all petitions that were 

denied during this time period were 

automatically reconsidered. The 

reconsideration investigation revealed 

that the following workers groups have 

met the certification criteria under the 

provisions of TAAEA. 

After careful review of the additional 

facts obtained, the following revised 

determinations on reconsideration have 

been issued. 

TA–W–80,215; Dex One, Cary, NC: June 

2, 2010. 

TA–W–80,215A; Dex One, Morrisville, 

NC: February 19, 2013. 

TA–W–80,215B; Dex One, Phoenix, AZ: 

July 8, 2012. 

TA–W–80,215C; Dex One, Santa 

Monica, CA: June 2, 2010. 

TA–W–80,215D; Dex One, Englewood, 

CO: February 19, 2013. 

TA–W–80,215E; Dex One, Lone Tree, 

CO: June 2, 2010. 

TA–W–80,215F; Dex One, Chicago, IL: 

June 2, 2010. 

TA–W–80,215G; Dex One, Overland 

Park, KS: June 2, 2010. 

TA–W–80,215H; Dex One, Dunmore, 

PA: February 19, 2013. 

TA–W–80,215I; Dex One, Bellevue, WA: 

July 8, 2012. 

I hereby certify that the aforementioned 

revised determinations on reconsideration 

were issued on January 9, 2012. These 

determinations are available on the 

Department’s Web site at tradeact/taa/ 

taa_search_form.cfm under the searchable 

listing of determinations or by calling the 

Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance tollfree at (888) 365–6822. 

Dated: January 10, 2012. 

Del Min Amy Chen, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2012–1325 Filed 1–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

2002 Reopened—Previously Denied 

Determinations; Notice of Negative 

Determinations on Reconsideration 

Under the Trade Adjustment 

Assistance Extension Act of 2011 

Regarding Eligibility To Apply for 

Worker Adjustment Assistance 

In accordance with Section 223 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 

U.S.C. 2273) (Act) the Department of 

Labor (Department) herein presents 

summaries of negative determinations 

on reconsideration regarding eligibility 

to apply for Trade Adjustment 

Assistance for workers by case 

(TA–W–) number regarding negative 

determinations issued during the period 

of February 13, 2011 through October 

21, 2011. Notices of negative 

determinations were published in the 

Federal Register and on the 

Department’s Web site, as required by 

Section 221 of the Act (19 U.S.C. 2271). 

As required by the Trade Adjustment 

Assistance Extension Act of 2011 

(TAAEA), all petitions that were denied 

during this time period were 

automatically reopened. The 

reconsideration investigation revealed 

that the following workers groups have 

not met the certification criteria under 

the provisions of TAAEA. 

After careful review of the additional 

facts obtained, the following negative 

determinations on reconsideration have 

been issued. 

TA–W–80,114; CEVA Logistics, East 

Liberty, OH. 

TA–W–80,114A; CEVA Logistics, Van 

Wert, OH. 

I hereby certify that the 

aforementioned negative determinations 

on reconsideration were issued on 

January 9, 2012. These determinations 

are available on the Department’s Web 

site at tradeact/taa/taa_search_form.cfm 

under the searchable listing of 

determinations or by calling the Office 

of Trade Adjustment Assistance toll-free 

at (888) 365–6822. 

Dated: January 10, 2012. 

Del Min Amy Chen, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2012–1326 Filed 1–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

[Docket No. 2012–1] 

Copyright Office Fees 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry; Fees. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Copyright Office is 

in the process of reviewing its fees for 

services and will publish a proposed 

revised fee schedule in the spring. As 

part of the process of formulating that 

fee schedule, the Office seeks the views 

of interested parties on two particular 

issues: (1) With respect to the basic 

registration fee, should special 

consideration be provided to individual 

author-claimants registering a single 

work, and (2) are there any special 

services and corresponding fees the 

Office should expand, improve or add to 

its offerings at this time, including, for 

example, additional expedited services 

and fee options. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than February 23, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The Copyright Office 

strongly prefers that comments be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

page containing a comment form is 

posted on the Office Web site at 

http://www.copyright.gov/docs/ 

newfeeservices. The Web site interface 

requires submitters to complete a form 

specifying name and organization, as 

applicable, and to upload comments as 

an attachment via a browser button. To 

meet accessibility standards, submitters 

must upload comments in a single file 

not to exceed six megabytes (MB) in one 

of the following formats: the Adobe 

Portable Document File (PDF) format 

that contains searchable, accessible text 

(not an image); Microsoft Word; 

WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 

ASCII text file format (not a scanned 

document). The form and face of the 

comments must include both the name 

of the submitter and organization. The 

Office will post all comments publicly 

on the Office’s Web site exactly as they 

are received, along with names and 

organizations. If electronic submission 

of comments is not feasible, please 

contact the Office at 202–707–8380 for 

special instructions. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher S. Reed, Senior Advisor for 

Policy and Special Projects, Office of the 

Register of Copyrights, or David O. 

Carson, General Counsel, at (202) 707– 

8350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Copyright Act (the ‘‘Act’’) 

provides that the Register of Copyrights 

may adjust certain fees based upon a 

study of the costs incurred by the 

Copyright Office for the registration of 

claims, the recordation of documents, 

and the provision of services. 17 U.S.C. 

708(b). Since the Act was amended to 

provide for such adjustments, the Office 

has undertaken fee studies 

approximately every three years and 

made adjustments accordingly. The 

Office last adjusted fees in 2009. It is 

currently analyzing costs and 

corresponding fees and intends to 

propose a new fee schedule for public 

comment in the spring of this year. 

At this time, the Office seeks public 

comment on two issues. First, with 

respect to the basic registration fee, 

should special consideration be 

provided to individual author-claimants 

registering a single work that is not a 

work made for hire? Second, are there 

any special services and corresponding 

fees the Office should expand, improve 

or add to its offerings at this time, 

including, for example, additional 

expedited services and fee options for 

copyright owners and their 

representatives? 

II. Discussion 

A. Applications by Individual AuthorClaimants 

The Copyright Office is committed to 

maintaining an affordable copyright 

registration system. No author or 

copyright owner should be deterred 

from registering a copyright because the 

cost of registration is too high. On the 

other hand, much of the Office’s budget 

comes from the collection of fees for 

costs of services rendered, and Congress 

has mandated that the Office 

periodically study and adjust fees as 

necessary. But some copyright 

registration applications are less 

expensive to process than others. 

Logically, an application by a single 

author, who also happens to be the sole 

copyright claimant, to register a single 

work should take less time and cost less 

to examine than an application 

involving multiple authors or works. At 

a time when the Copyright Office, like 

other agencies of the federal 

government, has a responsibility to 

provide greater fiscal stewardship (and 

is being called upon to be more selfsustaining), fees in general are likely to 

increase, raising possible policy issues. 

Individual authors may find higher fees 

an impediment to submitting 

applications, yet many of the works that 

come from authors are critical to the 

nation’s economy and the Library of 

Congress’ mint record and collection of 

American creativity. The copyright law 

itself is designed to promote and protect 

authorship and this includes facilitating 

registration for the establishment of a 

public record of copyright claims and to 

enable the copyright owner to seek all 

the remedies available in the Copyright 

Act. Similarly, users of copyrighted 

works rely on the Copyright Office 

registration records to identify copyright 

owners when they require licenses. If 

individual authors do not register and 

are therefore not part of the public 

database, they more than any other 

group of copyright owners may be 

difficult to find. 

The Copyright Office therefore seeks 

comment from authors, copyright 

owners and the public in general as to 

whether, in its proposed new fee 

schedule, the Office should set a lower 

fee for an application to register a single 

work when the application is submitted 

by a person who is the sole author and 

the sole copyright owner of the work, 

the work is not a work made for hire, 

and the work does not contain material 

that was previously published or 

registered. The fee would be lower than 

the registration fee for other 

applications in recognition of the lower 

cost in processing such simple 

applications as well as the need to 

encourage individual authors to register 

their copyrights. More complex 

registrations, such as those involving 

groups, collections, multiple titles, etc., 

require greater attention of Copyright 

Office staff (e.g., to ensure that the 

public database contains sufficient 

index terms and information) and 

therefore incur greater costs. 

There is some precedent for special 

treatment for simple basic applications 

by individual authors. Since 1995, Short 

Forms PA, TX and VA have been 

available to register a copyright claim by 

a living author who is the sole author 

of his or her work and is the sole owner 

of copyright in the work. Additional 

requirements for use of the short form 

are that the work must be completely 

new in the sense that it does not contain 

material that has been previously 

published or registered or that is in the 

public domain, and that the work must 

not be a work made for hire—i.e., a 

work prepared by an employee within 

the scope of his or her employment; or 

a work specially ordered or 

commissioned for certain uses, if the 

parties expressly state in a written 

agreement signed by them that the work 

shall be considered a work made for 

hire. See Instructions for Short Form 

PA, http://www.copyright.gov/forms/ 

formpas.pdf, Instructions for Short 

Form TX, http://www.copyright.gov/ 

forms/formtxs.pdf, and Instructions for 

Short Form VA, http:// 

www.copyright.gov/forms/formvas.pdf. 

The short form applications are onesided, one-page applications which are 

simple to complete and simple to 

process. 

To be clear, the Office is not 

necessarily proposing a lower fee for 

short form paper applications. It may 

well make sense, in the interests of cost 

savings and efficiency, to restrict any 

lower-fee option to qualifying 

applications that are submitted online. 

Moreover, in some cases the short forms 

may be used to register collections of 

works by the same author-claimant, a 

situation that requires more 

examination and that may well not 

warrant a lower fee. And while there is 

currently no online equivalent of the 

short form applications, an online 

application by a single author/claimant 

of a single work will be much simpler 

to complete and to examine than a more 

complicated application. Thus, the 

apparent reduced cost of processing 

such applications would appear to 

justify a reduced fee vis-a`-vis other 

kinds of registrations. 

The Office welcomes comments on 

not only whether, but also under what 

circumstances, a lower fee for 

individual authors may be justified and 

prudent. Among other issues, the Office 

is interested in hearing whether such an 

accommodation, if it adopted, should be 

offered only to qualifying applications 

that are submitted online, or whether it 

should also be offered to paper 

applications submitted using one of the 

short forms. Although the Office has 

outlined some particular scenarios 

above, it welcomes comments on other 

fact patterns, if not for immediate 

consideration this spring, for its ongoing 

analysis. 

B. Other Special Services 

The Office seeks public comment on 

whether it should offer additional 

special services on a fee-for-service 

basis. For example, the Office has heard 

informal suggestions that some 

applicants wish to seek expedited 

registration and would be willing to pay 

a premium for such accommodation. 

The Office already offers expedited 

processing in the form of ‘‘Special 

Handling’’ for a higher fee (currently 

$760 per claim, in addition to the 


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regular filing fee), but such a service is 

available only in cases where a 

compelling need for the service exists 

due to pending or prospective litigation, 

customs matters, or contract or 

publishing deadlines that necessitate 

the expedited issuance of a certificate of 

registration. See 37 CFR 201.15. In 

Special Handling cases, ‘‘every attempt 

is made to process the claim or 

recordation within five working days,’’ 

see Circular 10, ‘‘Special Handling,’’ 

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/ 

circ10.pdf, although Special Handling 

applications are often processed in a 

shorter period of time. 

Some applicants appear to be willing 

to pay a higher fee in order to receive 

expedited processing in cases that do 

not qualify for Special Handling. 

Assuming that those requests could be 

accommodated without impact on the 

processing of ordinary applications for 

registration, the Office seeks comments 

as to whether offering such a service 

would be desirable. Presumably, the fee 

would be higher than the fee for Special 

Handling, since the policy justifications 

for Special Handling would be absent 

and the service would be offered as a 

premium service for those who are 

willing to pay more for expedited 

service. It should be noted that 

expedited services would not be 

available until all elements of the claim 

were fully received (application, 

deposit, fees); there could not be any 

unusual or complex issues with the 

claim, or issues requiring 

correspondence with the applicant, and 

paper claims would most likely take 

longer to process than those filed 

electronically, even under expedited 

circumstances. 

The Office also welcomes proposals 

for other special services that should be 

offered on a fee-for-service basis. The 

Office will consider all suggestions as it 

develops and seeks comments on its 

proposed fee schedule in the months to 

come. 

Dated: January 13, 2012. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

[FR Doc. 2012–1340 Filed 1–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2012–0011] 

Biweekly Notice; Applications and 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses Involving No Significant 

Hazards Considerations 

Background 

Pursuant to Section 189a(2) of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission or NRC) 

is publishing this regular biweekly 

notice. The Act requires the 

Commission publish notice of any 

amendments issued, or proposed to be 

issued and grants the Commission the 

authority to issue and make 

immediately effective any amendment 

to an operating license upon a 

determination by the Commission that 

such amendment involves no significant 

hazards consideration, notwithstanding 

the pendency before the Commission of 

a request for a hearing from any person. 

This biweekly notice includes all 

notices of amendments issued, or 

proposed to be issued from December 

29, 2011, to January 11, 2012. The last 

biweekly notice was published on 

January 10, 2012 (77 FR 1514). 

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2012–0011 in the subject line of 

your comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC Web site and on the 

Federal Rulemaking Web site http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

You may submit comments by any 

one of the following methods. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2012–0011. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

(301) 492–3668; email 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RADB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

• NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR): The public may examine and 

have copied for a fee publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1– 

F21, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC are 

accessible electronically through 

ADAMS in the NRC Library at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

From this page, the public can gain 

entry into ADAMS, which provides text 

and image files of the NRC’s public 

documents. If you do not have access to 

ADAMS or if there are problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC’s PDR 

reference staff at 1–(800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–(800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: 

Public comments and supporting 

materials related to this notice can be 

found at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching on Docket ID: NRC–2012– 

0011. 

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses, Proposed No Significant 

Hazards Consideration Determination 

and Opportunity for a Hearing 

The Commission has made a 

proposed determination that the 

following amendment requests involve 

no significant hazards consideration. 

Under the Commission’s regulations in 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) 50.92, this means 

that operation of the facility in 

accordance with the proposed 

amendment would not (1) Involve a 

significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated; (2) create the possibility of a 

new or different kind of accident from 

any accident previously evaluated; or 

(3) involve a significant reduction in a 


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