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This week's topics:
Economic Stimulus
527 Political Organizations
Agriculture Outlook
Alternative Minimum Tax - AMT (January 2007)
Alternative Minimum Tax
Amtrak
Antibiotic Use in Animals and its Impact on Human Resistance to Bacteria
Asbestos: Litigation and Legislation
Avian Flu and Emergency Preparedness (November 2005)
Aviation Industry Issues
Aviation Security
Bankruptcy Law May 2005
Bank Tying
Basel II
Biofuels (October 2007)
Biotechnology and Food Safety
Bioterrorism
Broadband Infrastructure (December 2007)
Broadband
Broadcast Flag
Business Activity Taxes
Budget Deficits
BSE/Mad Cow Disease
Campaign Finance Tools
California Greenhouse Gases and CAFE (September 2005)
CAFE Standard
CAFTA
Chemical Plant Security (April 2007)
Chemical Plant Security
China's Currency
Clean Water Act: Water Quality (October 2007)
Climate Change 2007
Clinical Drug Trials
Community-Owned Networks
Competitive Sourcing
Congestion Pricing
Consumer Credit: Credit Reports and Credit Scoring
Consumer Safety/ Food Safety/Import Safety
Corporate Taxes
Country-of-Origin Food Labeling
Cyber Security January 2006
Cyber Security
Data Mining
Data Quality Final Rules
Data Security
Data Security Breaches
Digital Software Piracy
Digital Television
Disability Insurance
Drinking Water Safety & Infrastructure
Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising
Drug Re-Importation
Drug Safety
E-Health/Information Technology
Earmarks
Economic Stimulus January 2008
Economic Stimulus Proposals
Education and Economic Growth
E-Health Information Technology
Election 2008: Democratic Presidential Candidates
Election 2008: Republican Presidential Candidates
Electronic Voting (September 2006)
Eminent Domain (August 2005)
Employee Monitoring/Workplace Privacy
Endangered Species (2005)
Employer-Based Health Care
Endangered Species
Electronic Voting
Emergency National Preparedness
Energy Efficiency/Conservation October 2005
Energy Efficiency
Energy Issues
Ergonomics
Estate Tax
Ethanol, MTBE
European Union Chemicals Policy
European Union Resources
Executive Compensation (January 2006)
Executive Order: 13422 (November 2007)
Farm Bill and Conservation
Farm Credit and the Horizon's Project
FDA Regulation of Tobacco
FERC - Standards Market Design and Structure
Financial Privacy
FOIA
Economic Costs of Flu Pandemic (April 2006)
Farm Labor (November 2007)
Food Safety and Security Post 911
Food Quality Protection Act (August 2006)
Foreign-Controlled American Debt (July 2006)
Foreign Workers: H-1B Visas
Forest Management Issues
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Free Trade Agreements - Economic Value of (January 2006)
Fuel Cells
Fuel Economy
The Future of Employer-Based Health Benefits (December 2005)
G8 Summit June 1-3, 2003
G8 Summit Gleneagles, Scotland July 6-8, 2005
GASB 45: State and Local Governments: Post Employment Benefits (March 2006)
GSEs - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Generic Drugs
Global Warming 2005
Global Warming
Government Contractors (October 2007)
Government Contractors and Role in Federal Government
Government Contracts and Katrina (February 2006)
Government Openness
Hague Convention
Health Care Costs for Employers, Governments, Private Consumers(September 2005)
Health Care Informatics/Health Care Information Technology
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) (February 2006)
Health Care Quality
Highway Safety
Homeland Security and the Federal Workforce
Human Research Subjects
ICANN - Internet Governance (November 2005)
Identity Theft December 2007
Identity Theft Update 2005
Identity Theft
Immigration: Guest Worker Program
Immigration and the United States Economy (November 2005)
Immigration Reform Issues (March 2006)
Income Inequality and Tax Reform (June 2007)
Income Inequality
Induce Act
Intellectual Property
International Trade Agreements: Textiles
Internet Gambling
Internet Privacy
Internet Radio
Internet Sales Tax
Invasive Species
Jobless Recovery
Job Safety
Liquid Natural Gas
Lobbying Reform (November 2007)
Lobbying Reform (May 2006)
Managed Care, Hospitals, & Physicians Contracts
Mass Transit
Meat and Poultry Inspections
Media Ownership Regulations (July 2006)
Media Ownership
Medical Errors
Medical Malpractice April 2007
Medical Malpractice December 2004 Updated
Medical Malpractice
Medicare
Medicare Part D
Mercury Emissions
Minimum Wage
Multi-Pollutant Emissions
Mutual Fund Trading Practices Scandal and Fee Issues
NAFTA
Nanotech News
Nanotechnology and Safety (December 2005)
Nanotechnology
News Source Review (March 2007)
National Flood Insurance Reform
Net Neutrality (Updated June 2006)
Net Neutrality (February 2006)
New Source Review (March 2007)
New Source Review Pending Investigations
New Source Review
Nuclear Waste/Yucca Mountain (October 2006)
Obesity and Public Policy
Occupational Safety and Literacy
Offshore Oil Drilling
Oil Royalties Program
OMB and Federal Regulations
Organic Pesticides
Outsourcing Issues
Overtime Rules
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Overtime Pay
Ozone Issues
Particulate Pollution
Patent Reform (June 2007)
Patent Reform (March 2007)
Patent Reform (June 2005)
Peak Oil Debate (December 2005)
Patent Reform (August 2006)
Pension Security Issues
Phishing
Pipeline safety (Septebmer 2006)
Pipelines
Port Security (March 2006)
Postal Reform
Presidential Candidates 2004
Prescription Drug Costs
Privacy & Surveillance
Productivity
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification (April 2006)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Reauthorizing a Federal Job Training Program - Workforce Investment Act
Regional Economies
Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH)
Regulatory Accounting
Reports and Studies on the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
R & D
Sarbanes-Oxley and Small Business May 2006
Sarbanes-Oxley: Section 404 (May 2005)
SCHIP - State Children's Health Insurance Program
Science Ethics
Sentencing Guidelines
Shareholder Activism and Corporate Responsibility
Small Business Disaster Relief and SBA Loans
Social Security - Individual Retirement Accounts
Social Security Reform - Price Indexing
Software Piracy (June 2006)
Software Piracy
SPAM - Unsolicited E-mails
Spyware (April 2006)
Stock Option Expensing
Spectrum Management
State/Regional Economies
Steel Tariff Issues
Sub Prime Mortgages
Stem Cells, Cloning
Student Loans
Superfund Sites
Supreme Court Nominee: Harriet Miers
Supreme Court Nominee: John Roberts
Supreme Court Nominee: Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Tax Gap / Tax Compliance (April 2006)
Tax Payer's Bill of Rights
Tax Shelters
Tax Reform/Tax Simplification February 2005
Technology Transfer
Terror Financing
Terrorism Insurance
Tort Reform
Total Maximum Daily Loads
Toxic Release Inventory (May 2006)
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines
Transportation Infrastructure (August 2007)
U.S. Competitiveness (March 2006)
Vaccination/Public Health
VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
Voter Identification Laws
Water Infrastructure/Water Security
Wetlands
Workplace Safety May 2006
Workplace Safety
Yucca Mountain

Nanotechnology News

May 2008

BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura Gordon-Murnane. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics always welcome. If you would like to be notified when new materials have been posted, send me an email with your contact information.

May 8, 2008

DEFRA has published a summary of work underway to help ensure the responsible development of nanotechnologies. The summary notes of 140 organizations contacted only nine facilities have volunteered to provide information about the nanomaterials they make.

DEFRA
Nanotechnology Research Coordination Group (NRCG)
Note of the 14th Meeting
The fourteenth meeting of the NRCG was held on 7 April 2008. It was
attended by representatives from across Government Departments,
Regulatory Agencies and the Research Councils. (May 8, 2008)

HEAL Factsheet
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH RISKS

Committee on Science and Technology
Full Committee Markup - H.R. 5940 [Scheduled]
National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008

Bill Number HR 5940


May 1, 2008

The European Commisson is proposing to upate the approvals process for novel foods, and includes foods made with nanotechnology or cloning to be novel. The Agency has issued a consultation on the proposals.

NIOSH Publication No. 2008-120:
The Nanotechnology Field Research Team Update

Too much nanotechnology may be killing beneficial bacteria.

Governance and Ethics of Nanotechnology
First conference on the Recommendation of the European Commission 
on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences 
and Nanotechnologies Research


April 29, 2008

DEFRA
An Assessment of Regulatory Testing Strategies and Methods for Characterizing the Ecotoxicological Hazards of Nanomaterials (Expanded Report)

Senate Committee - Science, Technology, and Innovation Hearing
National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization
Science, Technology, and Innovation
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Project on Emerging Technologies
New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week
Nanotechnology Consumer Products Are in Your Mouth and On Your Face

International Council on Nanotechnology
Launches Global Research Needs Assessment Thursday May 1, 2008 - 2 to 3 PM

Environmental Defense (Blog)
EPA Nano Authority under TSCA, Part 1: It All Depends on What “New” Means April 22, 2008
Richard Denison

GAO Report
Nanotechnology: Accuracy of Data on Federally Funded Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Could be Improved

The Nanoethics Group
Publishes nanotechnology anthology with Springer


April 21, 2008

Europe Spends Nearly Twice as Much as U.S. on Nanotech Risk Research
Assessment of 2006 Funding Shows U.S. Lags in Highly Relevant Nano Risk Research Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN)

National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization Science, Technology, and Innovation
Thursday, April 24, 2008 02:30 PM

Joint Meeting of the Chemicals Committee and the Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology
Current Developments/ Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials/ Nanotechnologies

House Science & Technology Committee
Committee Moves Forward On Nanotechnology Reauthorization
(April 16, 2008)

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
THE NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: Second Assessment and Recommendations of the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel (April 2008)

1 PEN 1 - Room at the Bottom?
Potential State and Local Strategies for Managing the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology  Suellen Keiner (March 2008)

Manufactured Buckyballs Don't Harm Microbes That Clean The Environment, Study Shows

Nanotechnology in The Environment: Making Sure Wonder Materials Don't Become Wonder Pollutants


April 4, 2008

VCI (German Chemical Industry Association). (February 2008). Requirements of the REACH Regulation on Substances which are Manufactured or Imported also as Nanomaterials. Report

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Regulating Emering Technologies in Silicon Valley and Beyond
 (April 2008)

Lewinski, N; Colvin, V; Drezek, R. (January 2008). Cytotoxicity of nanoparticles. Small, 4(1): 26-49. Abstract

Helland, A., Scheringer, M. et al. (2008). Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials: A Survey of Industrial Approaches. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(2): 640–646. Abstract.

Hannah, W; Thompson, PB. (2008). Nanotechnology, risk and the environment: a review. Journal of environmental m