White House issues executive order to revamp commercial space regulations. SpaceNews.com article. Pull quote: “The order calls on the secretary of transportation to “reevaluate, amend, or rescind, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law,” Part 450. It cites specific issues such as what regulations are not needed for vehicles with flight termination or automated flight safety systems as well as “hybrid vehicles” for which the FAA has issued airworthiness certificates.” Link to EO.
Pipeline Safety: Information Collection Activities. Federal Register PHMSA 30-day ICR notice. Summary: “PHMSA is again proposing to revise to the instructions for Form PHMSA F 7100.2 to clarify how operators should treat the reporting of intentional gas releases. The current instructions state that the intentional and controlled release of gas for the purpose of maintenance or other routine operating activities is not to be reported. However, the instructions for Section A7, specify “When ESDs or relief valves are activated as the result of a safety condition that has occurred, the volume released should be included in the “unintentional” category, even if safety equipment performed as designed . . .” In the December 2020 notice, PHMSA proposed to revise the instructions to indicate that when gas is released through a relief valve or a compressor station during an ESD event, and devices open and close at the specified set points, the release of gas is considered intentional.”
How the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S. ScientificAmerican.com article. Pull quote: “[No antivirals available] There are, however, two effective and Food and Drug Administration–approved vaccines that get the body to produce antibodies against chikungunya, Jones says, and these lower the risk of infection. One, called IXCHIQ, uses a weakened, noninfective form of the virus. The other vaccine, VIMKUNYA, is based on viruslike particles.”
CDC Shooting Marks Latest in a String of Hostility Directed at Health Workers. MedPageToday.com article. Pull quote: “Kennedy, who toured the CDC campus on Monday, said no one should face violenceopens in a new tab or window while working to protect the health of others and called political violence wrong. But he went on to criticize the agency's pandemic response.”
EO 14333: Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District
of Columbia. Federal
Register.
EO 14334: Further Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates to
Reflect Ongoing Discussions with the People's Republic of China. Federal
Register.
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