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Volume 37 Number 39 Saturday, September 29, 2007 • Harrisburg, PA Pages 5237—5364 Agencies in this issue The Courts Department of Agriculture Department of Banking Department of Community and Economic Development Department of Environmental Protection Department of General Services Department of Health Department of Labor and Industry Department of Public Welfare Department of Revenue Department of State Game Commission Health Care Cost Containment Council Independent Regulatory Review Commission Insurance Department Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission State Board of Cosmetology State Board of Funeral Directors State Board of Pharmacy State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors State Conservation Commission State Employees’ Retirement System Detailed list of contents appears inside. 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Church Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-3198. 5239 CONTENTS THE COURTS Chronic Renal Disease Advisory Committee meet- ing.............................................5322 LOCAL COURT RULES Preventive Health And Health Services Block Grant Lebanon County Advisory Committee meeting ....................5322 Rule 52-1362: board of viewers ....................5253 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE Notices Amendment of rule 1311.1 governing an appeal Pennsylvania Conservation Corps; grants for from the award of arbitrators in compulsory arbi- tration; proposed recommendation no. 229 ........5250 projects ........................................5323 Amendment of rules 4003.1 and 4005 governing DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE written interrogatories to a party; proposed recommendation no. 228 ........................5252 Notices Amendments to the rules of civil procedure relating Payments to county nursing facilities; final rates for to domestic relations matters; recommendation State Fiscal Year 2006-2007 .....................5323 90.............................................5251 Payments to nonpublic nursing facilities; final rates Proposed amendment of rules 1042.1 et seq. govern- for State Fiscal Year 2006-2007 ..................5325 ing the certificate of merit in professional liability Payment for nursing facility services provided actions; proposed recommendation no. 227........5248 by county nursing facilities; notice of change in RULES OF EVIDENCE methods and standards of setting payment Order approving amendments to Pennsylvania rule rates ...........................................5326 of evidence 606; no. 424; Supreme Court Rules Peer groups, peer group medians and peer group doc. no. 1.......................................5247 prices for general nursing facilities, county nurs- ing facilities, hospital-based nursing facilities and special rehabilitation facilities ...................5327 EXECUTIVE AGENCIES Supplemental payments for burn center services ....5346 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Supplemental payments to certain academic medical Notices centers .........................................5346 Dog Control Facility Bill Reimbursement Grant pro- DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE gram...........................................5270 Pennsylvania approved dairy laboratories ..........5272 Notices DEPARTMENT OF BANKING Public Utility Realty Tax Act (PURTA) surcharge rate notice for the tax year beginning January 1, Notices 2008 ...........................................5347 Actions on applications............................5273 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEVELOPMENT Notices Statements of Policy Bid opportunities .................................5347 Community revitalization program .................5266 GAME COMMISSION Notices Rules and Regulations 2008 Action Plan .................................5275 Hunting and trapping; firearms....................5255 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Special permits; deer control ......................5255 Notices HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT COUNCIL Applications, actions and special notices............5276 Availability of technical guidance ..................5320 Notices Mandated benefits ................................5347 DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES Meetings scheduled ...............................5348 Notices Real estate for sale ...............................5321 INDEPENDENT REGULATORY REVIEW COMMISSION DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Notices Notices Application for exception: Notice of comments issued ........................5348 DSI of Bucks County............................5321 Notice of filing of final rulemakings ................5354 Doylestown Hospital ............................5321 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT SmartHealth Norwin Hills Outpatient Center ....5321 Surgery Center at Brinton Lake .................5322 Notices The Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring List of approved guide source method vendors; Ridge ........................................5322 notice no. 2007-04 ..............................5354 Now Available Online at http://www.pabulletin.com PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN, VOL. 37, NO. 39, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007 5240 PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY AUTHORITY Proposed Rulemaking Notices Revisions regarding current pharmacy practice .....5260 Board meeting....................................5355 STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION AND FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS Notices Proposed Rulemaking Service of notice of motor carrier applications.......5355 Biennial renewal fees .............................5264 STATE BOARD OF COSMETOLOGY STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Notices Notices Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs v. Approval of interim guidelines for facility odor Dorothea A. Smaller, t/d/b/a Tana’D Hair Studio, management ...................................5359 doc. no. 2104-45-2006 ...........................5359 STATE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM STATE BOARD OF FUNERAL DIRECTORS Notices Proposed Rulemaking Deferred Compensation Program; plan administra- tion services for the State Employees’ Retirement Preneed activities of unlicensed employee ..........5257 System.........................................5359 PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN, VOL. 37, NO. 39, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007 5241 READER’S GUIDE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA BULLETIN AND PENNSYLVANIA CODE Pennsylvania Bulletin Bulletin before it can take effect. If the agency The Pennsylvania Bulletin is the official gazette of wishes to adopt changes to the Notice of Proposed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is published Rulemaking to enlarge the scope, they must re- every week and includes a table of contents. 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