77040 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 246 / Friday, December 22, 2006 / Notices 

Texas, as a commercial gauger and 

laboratory. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that, 

pursuant to 19 CFR 151.I2 and 151.I3, 

SGS North America, Inc., 2759 

Battleground Road, Deer Park, Texas 

77536, has been re-approved to gauge 

petroleum and petroleum products, 

organic chemicals and vegetable oils, 

and to test petroleum and petroleum 

products for customs purposes, in 

accordance with the provisions of 19 

CFR 151.12 and 151.13. 

DATES: The re-approval of SGS North 

America, Inc., as a commercial gauger 

and laboratory became effective on 

January 4, 2005. The next triennial 

inspection date will be scheduled for 

January 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eugene J. Bondoc, Ph.D, or Randall 

Breaux, Laboratories and Scientific 

Services, Bureau of Customs and Border 

Protection, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Suite 1500N, Washington, DC 

20229, 202–344–1060. 

Dated: December 19, 2006. 

Ira S. Reese, 

Executive Director, Laboratories and 

Scientific Services. 

[FR Doc. E6–21928 Filed 12–21–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR—5045–N–51] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

To Assist the Homeless 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 22, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, Room 7262, 

451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; 

TTY number for the hearing- and 

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (there 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 1–800–927–7588. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week. 

Dated: December 14, 2006. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Acting Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Special 

Needs. 

[FR Doc. 06–9768 Filed 12–2–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5074–N–03] 

Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests 

Granted for the Third Quarter of 

Calendar Year 2006 

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, 

HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 106 of the Department 

of Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform 

Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly 

Federal Register notices of all 

regulatory waivers that HUD has 

approved. Each notice covers the 

quarterly period since the previous 

Federal Register notice. The purpose of 

this notice is to comply with the 

requirements of section 106 of the HUD 

Reform Act. This notice contains a list 

of regulatory waivers granted by HUD 

during the period beginning on July 1, 

2006, and ending on September 30, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information about this notice, 

contact Aaron Santa Anna, Assistant 

General Counsel for Regulations, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room 10276,Washington, DC 20410–

0500, telephone (202) 708–3055 (this is 

not a toll-free number). Persons with 

hearing-or speech-impairments may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

For information concerning a 

particular waiver that was granted and 

for which public notice is provided in 

this document, contact the person 

whose name and address follow the 

description of the waiver granted in the 

accompanying list of waivers that have 

been granted in the third quarter of 

calendar year 2006. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act added a 

new section 7(q) to the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development Act 

(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides 

that: 

1. Any waiver of a regulation must be 

in writing and must specify the grounds 

for approving the waiver; 

2. Authority to approve a waiver of a 

regulation may be delegated by the 

Secretary only to an individual of 

Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank, 

and the person to whom authority to 

waive is delegated must also have 

authority to issue the particular 

regulation to be waived; 

3. Not less than quarterly, the 

Secretary must notify the public of all 

waivers of regulations that HUD has 

approved, by publishing a notice in the 

Federal Register. These notices (each 

covering the period since the most 

recent previous notification) shall: 

a. Identify the project, activity, or 

undertaking involved; 

b. Describe the nature of the provision 

waived and the designation of the 

provision; 

c. Indicate the name and title of the 

person who granted the waiver request; 

d. Describe briefly the grounds for 

approval of the request; and 

e. State how additional information 

about a particular waiver may be 

obtained. 

Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act 

also contains requirements applicable to 

waivers of HUD handbook provisions 

that are not relevant to the purpose of 

this notice. 

This notice follows procedures 

provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy 

on Waiver of Regulations and Directives 

issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337). 

In accordance with those procedures 

and with the requirements of section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of 

regulations are granted by the Assistant 

Secretary with jurisdiction over the 

regulations for which a waiver was 

requested. In those cases in which a 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

granted the waiver, the General Deputy 

Assistant Secretary was serving in the 

absence of the Assistant Secretary in 

accordance with the office’s Order of 

Succession. 

This notice covers waivers of 

regulations granted by HUD from July 1, 

2006, through September 30, 2006. For 

ease of reference, the waivers granted by 

HUD are listed by HUD program office 

(for example, the Office of Community 

Panning and Development, the Office of 

Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, 


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