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without first submitting a petition for
rulemaking. All applicants using this
one-step process must demonstrate that
a suitable site exists which would
comply with allotment standards with
respect to minimum distance separation
and city-grade coverage and which
would be suitable for tower
construction. To receive authorization
for commencement of Digital Television
(‘‘DTV’’) operation, commercial
broadcast licensees must file FCC Form
301 for a construction permit. This
application may be filed anytime after
receiving the initial DTV allotment but
must be filed before mid-point in a
particular applicant’s required
construction period. The Commission
will consider these applications as
minor changes in facilities. Applications
will not have to supply full legal or
financial qualification information.
On June 24, 2004, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit (the
‘‘Court’’) issued an Opinion and
Judgment (‘‘Remand Order’’) in which it
upheld certain aspects of the
Commission’s new media ownership
rules adopted on June 2, 2003 (See 18
FCC Rcd 13620 (2003)), specifically
those dealing with local radio
ownership, while requiring further
explanation for all other aspects of the
new rules. In particular, the Court held
that the use of Arbitron Metro markets,
the inclusion of noncommercial stations
in determining radio market size, the
attribution of joint sale agreements, and
certain transfer restrictions are
consistent with the Administrative
Procedure Act. The Court stated that its
prior stay of all new ownership rules
would remain in effect pending the
outcome of the remand proceeding. The
Commission filed a petition for
rehearing requesting that the Court lift
the stay partially—i.e., with respect to
the radio ownership rules which the
Court’s Remand Order upheld. On
September 3, 2004, the Court granted
the Commission’s petition, thus
partially lifting the stay (‘‘Rehearing
Order’’). As a result of the Rehearing
Order, the new radio ownership rules
took effect September 3, 2004.
Under the new radio ownership rules,
radio Joint Sales Agreements (JSAs) are
attributable and radio applicants are
required to submit as a part of the FCC
Form 301 a copy of any attributable JSA
or time brokerage agreement.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0920.
Title: Application for Construction
Permit for a Low Power FM Broadcast
Station.
Form Number: FCC Form 318.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection
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Respondents: Not-for-profit
institutions; State, local or tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 2,283.
Estimated Time Per Response: 45
minutes to 6 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 6,315 hours.
Total Annual Cost: None.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: FCC Form 318 is
required to apply for a construction
permit for a new Low Power FM station,
to make changes in the existing facilities
of such a station, or to amend a pending
FCC Form 318 application. The data is
used by FCC staff to determine whether
an applicant meets basic statutory and
regulatory requirements to become a
Commission licensee and to ensure that
the public interest would be served by
grant of the application.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0932.
Title: Application for Authority to
Make Changes in a Class A TV
Broadcast Station.
Form Number: FCC Form 301–CA.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, local or tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 650.
Estimated Time per Response: 7
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement.
Total Annual Burden: 4,550 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $3,703,700.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Needs and Uses: The FCC Form 301–
CA is to be used in all cases by Class
A television station licensees seeking to
make changes in the authorized
facilities of such station. The FCC Form
301–CA requires applicants to certify
compliance with certain statutory and
regulatory requirements. Detailed
instructions provide additional
information regarding Commission rules
and policies.
On September 9, 2004, the
Commission adopted a Report and
Order, In the Matter of Parts 73 and 74
of the Commission’s Rules to
Established Rules for Digital Low Power
Television, Television Translator, and
Television Booster Stations and to
Amend Rules for Digital Class A
Television Stations, FCC 04–220, MB
Docket Number 03–185. To implement
these rules, the Commission is revising
FCC Form 301–CA to allow licensees to
use the revised FCC Form 301–CA to
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file for digital broadcast stations or
conversion of their existing analog
stations to digital stations.
Class A applicants are also subject to
third party disclosure requirement of
Section 73.3580 which requires local
public notice in a newspaper of general
circulation of the filing of all
applications for major changes in
facilities. This notice must be completed
within 30 days of the tendering of the
application. This notice must be
published at least twice a week for two
consecutive weeks in a three-week
period. A copy of this notice must be
placed in the public inspection file
along with the application.
The FCC Form 301–CA is designed to
track the standards and criteria which
the Commission applies to determine
compliance and to increase the
reliability of applicant certifications.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank
Holding Companies
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank
holding company. The factors that are
considered in acting on the notices are
set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12
U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the office of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than April 18,
2005.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant Vice
President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. Joel H. Wiens, Cheyenne, Wyoming;
to acquire voting shares of Union Bank
Corporation, and thereby indirectly
acquire voting shares of Union State
Bank, both of Upton, Wyoming.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, March 29, 2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05–6524 Filed 4–1–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Genetics, Health, and Society; Office of
the Secretary, HHS; Request for Public
Comment
Request for public comment on
a draft report on coverage and
reimbursement of genetic tests and
services.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Secretary’s Advisory
Committee on Genetics, Health, and
Society (SACGHS) is requesting public
comment on a draft report on coverage
and reimbursement of genetic tests and
services.
DATES: Written or electronic comments
should be submitted by May 6, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Comments can be sent by
mail to the following address:
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Genetics, Health, and Society, attn:
Suzanne Goodwin, NIH Office of
Biotechnology Activities, 6705
Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda,
MD, 20892. Comments also can be sent
via e-mail to Suzanne Goodwin at
goodwins@od.nih.gov or via facsimile to
301–496–9839.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Goodwin, NIH Office of
Biotechnology Activities, 6705
Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda,
MD 20892, 301–496–9838,
goodwins@od.nih.gov.
The
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) established SACGHS to
serve as a public forum for deliberations
on the broad range of human health and
societal issues raised by the
development and use of genetic
technologies and, as warranted, to
provide advice on these issues. For
more information about the Committee,
please visit its Web site: https://
www4.od.nih.gov/oba/sacghs.htm.
In its first year, SACHGS identified
coverage and reimbursement of genetic
tests and services as a high priority
because there are significant barriers to
coverage and reimbursement as well as
unmet data needs that are currently
limiting appropriate access and clinical
integration.
Its report, Coverage and
Reimbursement of Genetic Tests and
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Services, describes the current state of,
and problems associated with, coverage
and reimbursement for genetic tests and
services and offers recommendations on
how current mechanisms for coverage
and reimbursement for genetic tests and
services might be improved. Once
finalized, the report and
recommendations will be transmitted to
the Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
SACGHS proposing to make the
following recommendations in its report
to the Secretary:
1. The Secretary should task an
appropriate group or body to develop a
set of principles to guide coverage
decision making for genetic tests. The
principles should identify criteria to
help determine which types or
categories of genetic tests should be
covered, which should not be covered,
and which fall into an uncertain gray
zone. The group’s guiding principles
should address the issues of economic
evaluation/cost-effectiveness,
prevention, rare disease tests, and
therapeutic versus informational
benefit. The Committee also
recommends that the existing evidence
for specific tests be assessed in order to
determine whether the evidence is
adequate in type, quality, and quantity
to establish analytical validity, clinical
validity and clinical utility as well as to
identify any gaps in evidence.
This body should include both
relevant HHS agencies and private
organizations and utilize resources of
models in the public and private sector.
The Evaluation of Genomic
Applications in Practice and Prevention
Work Group organized by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
involves such a diverse range of
stakeholders and is performing similar
work and, thus, is an example of such
a body to be tasked to develop these
principles and address these issues.
The Committee also recommends a
mechanism be established that would
specifically promote and fund studies to
address any identified gaps in the
evidence base.
2. Genetic tests and services in
pediatrics and those with a prevention
component should be considered
specifically with respect to the benefits
they can offer the populations they
serve. Although standardization of
coverage decisions using best scientific
evidence across public and private
payers is ideal (see Recommendation 1),
private payers should be supported with
necessary information to make their
own coverage determinations about
these tests and services relative to the
populations they serve.
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3. Although a mixed national-local
coverage decision-making process is a
reasonable approach to making
Medicare coverage decision for genetic
tests and services, there are several
aspects of the current national-local
decision-making process that limit its
utility. While not suggesting changes to
the current system, SACGHS
recommends that the Secretary
encourage the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) to move
forward with the implementation of
Section 731 of the Medicare
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and
Modernization Act of 2003, which
requires the development of a plan to
evaluate new local coverage decisions to
determine which should be adopted
nationally and to what extent greater
consistency in Medicare coverage policy
can be achieved.
4. Medicare beneficiaries who lack
current signs, symptoms, or personal
histories of illness stand to clinically
benefit from predictive and
predispositional genetic tests and
services. As such, SACGHS
recommends that preventive services,
including predispositional genetic tests
and services, meeting evidence
standards should be covered under
Medicare.
The Secretary should urge Congress to
add a benefit category for preventive
services that would enable CMS to
determine through its national coverage
decision-making process, which
includes an assessment of existing
evidence, whether an item or service is
reasonable and necessary for the
prevention or early detection of an
illness or disability and, thus, ought to
be covered. Such action would allow
CMS to consider covering many more
genetic tests and services that are used
for preventive purposes.
More immediately, the Secretary
should direct CMS to clarify, through
appropriate guidance, that in certain
circumstances and where scientific
evidence warrants, ‘‘personal history’’
may include family history of a
particular disease for purposes of
establishing that a genetic test is
‘‘reasonable and necessary’’ and,
therefore, covered under Medicare. CMS
should specify the circumstances and
criteria required to make such a
determination.
5. The Secretary should broadly
disseminate to all states information
about the existing evidence base and
other supporting information, such as
guiding principles that serve as the basis
for coverage decision-making, on
genetic tests and services. This
information could be utilized by the
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[Notices]
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisition of Shares of Bank or
Bank Holding Companies
The notificants listed below have applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and Sec. 225.41 of the Board's
Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank holding company.
The factors that are considered in acting on the notices are set forth
in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices also will be available for
inspection at the office of the Board of Governors. Interested persons
may express their views in writing to the Reserve Bank indicated for
that notice or to the offices of the Board of Governors. Comments must
be received not later than April 18, 2005.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. Joel H. Wiens, Cheyenne, Wyoming; to acquire voting shares of
Union Bank Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of
Union State Bank, both of Upton, Wyoming.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 29,
2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-6524 Filed 4-1-05; 8:45 am]
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