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Dated: August 11, 2006. 

James P. Burgess, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–C–2006–0044] 

Notice of Roundtable on the World 

Intellectual Property Organization 

(WIPO) Treaty on the Protection of the 

Rights of Broadcasting Organizations 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice announcing public 

forum. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) and United 

States Copyright Office (USCO) 

announce a public roundtable 

discussion concerning the work at the 

World Intellectual Property 

Organization (WIPO) in the Standing 

Committee on Copyright and Related 

Rights (SCCR) on a proposed Treaty On 

the Protection of the Rights of 

Broadcasting Organizations. Members of 

the public are invited to attend the 

roundtable, or to participate in the 

roundtable discussion, on the topics 

outlined in the supplementary 

information section of this notice. 

DATES: The roundtable will be held on 

Tuesday, September 5, 2006, beginning 

at 1 p.m. and ending at 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held 

in the Atrium Conference Room at the 

USPTO, 600 Dulany Street, Madison 

West, 10th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22313. 

Requests for participation as a member 

of the roundtable are required and 

should be directed to the USPTO, 600 

Dulany Street, Madison West, 10th 

Floor, Alexandria, VA 22313, marked to 

the attention of Jill Taylor. You may also 

submit requests by facsimile at 571–

273–0085 or by electronic mail through 

the Internet to Jill.Taylor@USPTO.gov. 

Requests for participation as a member 

of the roundtable should indicate the 

following information: 

1. The name of the person desiring to 

participate; 

2. The organization or organizations 

represented by that person, if any; 

3. Contact information (address, 

telephone, and e-mail); 

4. Information on the specific focus or 

interest of the participant (or his or her 

organization) and any questions or 

issues the participant would like to 

raise. 

The deadline for receipt of requests to 

participate in the roundtable is 5 p.m. 

on Thursday, August 31, 2006. 

Attendance is limited to the first 40 

respondents. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Taylor by telephone at 571–272–8083, 

by facsimile at 571–273–0085, by 

electronic mail at 

Jill.Taylor@USPTO.gov, or by mail 

addressed to the USPTO, 600 Dulany 

Street, Madison West, 10th Floor, 

Alexandria, VA 22313, marked to the 

attention of Jill Taylor. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

For the past eight years and since the 

first meeting of the Standing Committee 

on Copyright and Related Rights in 

November 1998, WIPO has been 

addressing the topic of updating the 

protection of the rights of broadcasting 

organizations. Although broadcasters 

rights are protected under some existing 

international agreements, such as under 

the 1961 Convention for the Protection 

of Performers, Producers of Phonograms 

and Broadcasting Organizations and the 

World Trade Organization’s Agreement 

on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual 

Property Rights, there has been 

increasing concern that changes in 

technology and the opening up of much 

of the world to commercial 

broadcasting, have made the protection 

provided in those agreements ineffective 

to protect broadcast signals against 

piracy. 

At the September 2005 WIPO General 

Assembly, the decision was taken to 

hold additional meetings of the SCCR to 

permit further discussion of the possible 

treaty and to invite the 2006 WIPO 

General Assembly to convene a 

Diplomatic Conference in December 

2006 or at an appropriate time in 2007. 

WIPO posts various documents from 

their meetings, such as reports, member 

state submissions, meeting agendas, and 

[official] texts prepared by the Chair of 

the SCCR. The most recent text available 

from July 31, 2006—‘‘Revised Draft 

Basic Proposal for The WIPO Treaty on 

the Protection of Broadcasting 

Organizations’’ can be found at http:// 

www.wipo.int/meetings/en/ 

doc_details.jsp?doc_id=64712. On 

August 1, 2006, the United States made 

a submission to WIPO addressing the 

issue of ‘‘netcasting’’ which is available 

at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ 

dcom/olia/ and will shortly be available 

on the WIPO Web site. 

Throughout this process in WIPO, 

many points of view have been 

represented, including those of 

developed and developing countries, 

and many non-governmental 

organizations (NGOs), and numerous 

industry, creator and content owner 

groups. The USPTO and USCO have 

participated in several informal 

meetings with interested parties such as 

broadcasters, netcasters, telecom 

companies, Internet service providers, 

content industries, creators and other 

NGOs, in order to obtain views and 

information relevant to the deliberations 

in the SCCR on this proposed treaty. 

In order to allow further opportunity 

for interested parties to comment, 

USPTO and USCO are convening this 

roundtable to provide another forum for 

such parties to provide their views of 

and additional information related to 

the proposed treaty. In particular, the 

participants should be prepared to 

identify and discuss more fully the 

issues and problems associated with the 

recent text available from July 31, 2006, 

the ‘‘Revised Draft Basic Proposal for 

The WIPO Treaty on the Protection of 

Broadcasting Organizations.’’

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

Stephen M. Pinkos, 

Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property and Acting Director of 

the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[DOD–2006–OS–0177] 

Manual for Courts-Martial; Proposed 

Amendments 

AGENCY: Joint Service Committee on 

Military Justice (JSC), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed 

Amendments to the Manual for CourtsMartial, United States (2005 ed.) and 

Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice extends the 

comments period and changes the 

address to send the comment on the 

Manual for Courts-Martial; Proposed 

Amendments notice which was 

published on August 10, 2006 (71 FR 

45780). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lieutenant Colonel L. Peter Yob, 703–

588–6744. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

10, 2006 (71 FR 45780), the Department 

of Defense published a notice on 

Proposed Amendments to the Manual 

for Courts-Martial, United States (205 


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ed.) and Notice of Public Meeting. The 

comment period was published with a 

30 day limit. The address to forward the 

comments were not in compliance with 

the Federal Docket Management System. 

This notice extends the comment period 

and identifies where the commentors 

should forward their comments. 

The following changes to the August 

10th notice are as follows: 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

changes must be received no later than 

October 10, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and or RIN 

number and title, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 1160 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–1160. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number or Regulatory 

Information Number (RIN) for this 

Federal Register document. The general 

policy for comments and other 

submissions from members of the public 

is to make these submissions available 

for public viewing on the Internet at 

http://www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

All other information remains 

unchanged. 

Dated: August 10, 2006. 

L.M. Bynum, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, DoD. 

[FR Doc. 06–6980 Filed 8–16–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of advisory board 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Threat Reduction 

Agency (DTRA) and the Department of 

Veterans Affairs (VA) will hold the 

fourth public meeting of the Veterans’

Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction 

(VBDR). The VBDR was established at 

the recommendation of the National 

Research Council report, entitled 

‘‘Review of the Dose Reconstruction 

Program of the Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency.’’ The report 

recommended the need to establish an 

advisory board that will provide 

suggestions for improvements in dose 

reconstruction and claim adjudication 

procedures. The goal of VBDR is to 

provide guidance and oversight of the 

dose reconstruction and claims 

compensation programs for veterans of 

U.S.-sponsored atmospheric nuclear 

weapons tests from 1945–1962; veterans 

of the 1945–1946 occupation of 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; and 

veterans who were prisoners of war in 

those regions at the conclusion of World 

War II. In addition, the advisory board 

will assist VA and DTRA in 

communicating with the veterans. 

Radiation dose reconstruction has 

been carried out by the Department of 

Defense under the Nuclear Test 

Personnel Review (NTPR) program since 

the 1970s. DTRA is the executive agent 

for the NTPR program which provides 

participation data and actual or 

estimated radiation dose information to 

veterans and the VA. 

Board members were selected to the 

fulfill the statutory requirements 

mandated by Congress in Section 601 of 

Public Law 108–183. The Board was 

appointed on June 3, 2005, and is 

comprised of 16 members. Board 

members were selected to provide 

expertise in historical dose 

reconstruction, radiation health matters, 

risk communications, radiation 

epidemiology, medicine, quality 

management, decision analysis and 

ethics in order to appropriately enable 

the VBDR to represent and address 

veterans’ concerns. 

The Board is governed by the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), Public Law 92–

463, which sets forth standards for the 

formation and conduct of government 

advisory committees. 

DATES: Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 

from 8 a.m.–12 p.m., 1:30–2:30 p.m., 

and 4–5 p.m. with a public comment 

session from 2:30–3:30 p.m., and 

Thursday, November 9, 2006, from 8:30 

a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 3:30–3:35 p.m., 

with a public comment session from 2–

3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Hampton VA Medical 

Center, 100 Emancipation Drive, 

Hampton, Virginia 23667. 

Agenda: On Wednesday, the meeting 

will open with an introduction of the 

Board. The following briefings will be 

presented: ‘‘Recent Activities and 

Actions of the Advisory Board on 

Radiation and Worker Health’’ by Dr. 

Paul Ziemer; ‘‘Activities and Actions of 

the Veterans’ Advisory Committee on 

Environmental Hazards’’ by Dr. Henry 

Royal; ‘‘Radiation Exposure 

Compensation Act: Adjudication of 

Onsite Participant Claims’’ by Mrs. 

Dianne Spellberg; ‘‘How Fears Affect 

Our Standing of Radiation and Risks’’

by Mr. Raymond Johnson; ‘‘An Update 

on NTPR Dose Reconstruction Program’’

by Dr. Paul Blake; and ‘‘An Update on 

VA Radiation Claims Compensation 

Program for Veterans’’ by Mr. Thomas 

Pamperin. 

On Thursday, the four subcommittees 

established during the inaugural VBDR 

session will report on their activities 

since June 2006. The subcommittees are 

the ‘‘Subcommittee on DTRA Dose 

Reconstruction Procedures,’’ the 

‘‘Subcommittee on VA Claims 

Adjudication Procedures,’’ the 

‘‘Subcommittee on Quality Management 

and VA Process Integration with DTRA 

Nuclear Test Personnel Review 

Program,’’ and the ‘‘Subcommittee on 

Communication and Outreach.’’ The 

Board will close with a discussion of the 

Subcommittee reports, future business 

and meeting dates. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction hotline at 1–866–657–

VBDR (8237). 

Supplemental Information may be 

found at http://vbdr.org. 

Dated: August 11, 2006. 

L.M. Bynum, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 06–6984 Filed 8–16–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board 

Task Force on Defense Industrial 

Structure for Transformation will meet 

in closed session on August 30, 2006, at 

Science Applications International 

Corporation (SAIC), 4001 N. Fairfax 

Drive, Arlington, VA. This meeting will 

characterize the degree of changes 

needed in industry due to the changing 

nature of DoD and the industrial Base. 

It will also examine the effectiveness of 

existing mitigation measures and make 

recommendations to ensure future 

competition and innovation throughout 

all tiers of the defense industrial base. 

The briefings will contain proprietary 

material and ensuing discussions will 

be at the collateral secret level. 

The mission of the Defense Science 

Board is to advise the Secretary of 


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