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under Executive Order 12866 and is not 

likely to have a significant adverse effect 

on the supply, distribution, or use of 

energy. The Administrator of the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs 

has not designed it as a significant 

energy action. Therefore, it does not 

require a Statement of Energy Effects 

under Executive Order 13211. 

Technical Standards 

The National Technology Transfer 

and Advancement Act (NTTAA) (15 

U.S.C. 272 note) directs agencies to use 

voluntary consensus standards in their 

regulatory activities unless the agency 

provides Congress, through the Office of 

Management and Budget, with an 

explanation of why using these 

standards would be inconsistent with 

applicable law or otherwise impractical. 

Voluntary consensus standards are 

technical standards (e.g., specifications 

of materials, performance, design, or 

operation; test methods; sampling 

procedures; and related management 

systems practices) that are developed or 

adopted by voluntary consensus 

standards bodies. 

This proposed rule does not use 

technical standards. Therefore, we did 

not consider the use of voluntary 

consensus standards.

List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 650

Government procurement, Grant 

programs—science and technology, 

Inventions and patents, Nonprofit 

organizations, Small businesses.

Lawrence Rudolph, 

General Counsel.

Accordingly, Title 45 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations part 650 is 

proposed to be amended as follows:

PART 650—PATENTS 

1. The authority citation for Part 650 

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 35 U.S.C. 200–212; 42 U.S.C. 

1870(e) and 1871; and the Presidential 

Memorandum entitled ‘‘Government Patent 

Policy’’, issued February 18, 1983.

§ 650.4 [Amended] 

2. The Patent Rights clause set forth 

in § 650.4(a) is amended: 

A. By removing ‘‘SEPTEMBER, 1997’’

in its heading and adding in its place, 

‘‘FEBRUARY, 2005’’. 

B. By removing the words ‘‘shall be in 

the form of a written report’’ in 

paragraph (c)(1) and adding in its place, 

‘‘will be submitted via the iEdison 

Invention Information Management 

System maintained by the National 

Institutes of Health’’; 

C. By removing the words ‘‘forward to 

NSF’’ in paragraph (f)(5) and adding in 

its place, ‘‘submit electronically to NSF 

via the iEdison Invention Information 

Management System maintained by the 

National Institutes of Health’’; and 

D. By revising paragraph (l) to read: 

(l) Communications. All 

communications required by this 

Patents Rights clause must be submitted 

through the iEdison Invention 

Information Management System 

maintained by the National Institutes of 

Health unless prior permission for 

another form of submission is obtained 

from the Patent Assistant at 

patents@nsf.gov or at Office of the 

General Counsel, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230. 

3. Section 650.19 is revised to read:

§ 650.19 Electronic invention handling. 

(a) Grantees must use the iEdison 

Invention Information Management 

System maintained by the National 

Institutes of Health to disclose NSF 

subject inventions. Detailed instructions 

for use of that system are provided at 

https://s-edison.info.nih.gov/iEdison/

and should be followed for NSF subject 

inventions except that: 

(1) All communications required must 

be provided electronically as a PDF or 

TIFF file through iEdison unless prior 

permission for another form of 

submission is obtained from the Patent 

Assistant. 

(2) NSF does not require either an 

Annual Utilization Report or a Final 

Invention Statement and Certification. 

(b) Questions on use of iEdison and 

requests for persmission to submit 

material in other forms may be sent to 

the NSF Patent Assistant at 

patents@nsf.gov or at Office of the 

General Counsel, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230.

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COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73

[DA 04–3612; MB Docket No. 04–287, RM–

11044] 

Radio Broadcasting Services; 

Booneville, KY

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule; dismissal.

SUMMARY: The Audio Division dismisses 

a Petition for Rule Making filed by 

Eastern Kentucky Educational Radio, 

requesting the allotment of Channel 

227A at Booneville, Kentucky as that 

community’s first local aural 

transmission service. See 69 FR 48443, 

August 10, 2004. Eastern Kentucky 

Educational Radio nor any other party, 

filed comments in support of the 

allotment of Channel 227A to 

Booneville, Kentucky. It is the 

Commission’s policy to refrain from 

making a new allotment to a community 

absent a bona fide expression of 

interest.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victoria M. McCauley, Media Bureau, 

(202) 418–2180.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s Report 

and Order, MB Docket No. 04–287, 

adopted November 17, 2004, and 

released November 22, 2004. The full 

text of this Commission decision is 

available for inspection and copying 

during regular business hours at the 

FCC’s Reference Information Center, 

Portals II, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., 

Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554. 

The complete text of this decision may 

also be purchased from the 

Commission’s duplicating contractor, 

Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th 

Street, SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20054, telephone 1–

800–378–3160 or http://

www.BCPIWEB.com.

Federal Communications Commission. 

John A. Karousos, 

Assistant Chief, Audio Division, Media 

Bureau.

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