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holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
Web site at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than March 10,
2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
(Cindy West, Manager) 1455 East Sixth
Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
1. Enterprise Financial Services
Group, Inc., Allison Park, Pennsylvania;
to become a bank holding company by
acquiring 100 percent of the voting
shares of Enterprise Bank, Allison Park,
Pennsylvania; and Enterprise Employee
Stock Ownership Trust, Allison Park,
Pennsylvania to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 22 percent of the
voting shares of Enterprise Financial
Services Group, Inc., Allison Park,
Pennsylvania.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(W. Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 752012272:
1. Texas Independent Bancshares,
Inc., Texas City, Texas, and T.I.B.
Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware;
to merge with Southeast Bancorp of
Texas, Inc., Winnie, Texas, and
indirectly acquire SEBOT,Inc., and Gulf
Coast Bank, Winnie, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 10, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT
INVESTMENT BOARD
Sunshine Act Meeting; Notice
9 a.m. (e.d.t.); February
21, 2006.
PLACE: 4th Floor Conference Room,
1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC.
STATUS: Parts will be open to the public
and parts closed to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
TIME AND DATE:
Parts Open to the Public
1. Approval of the minutes of the
January 17, 2006, Board member
meeting.
2. Thrift Savings Plan activity report
by the Executive Director.
3. Review of DOL audit reports for FY
2005:
Employee Benefits Security
Administration Review of the Thrift
Savings Plan Parallel Call Center at
Spherix Incorporated, May 27, 2005
(updated with additional information
received through August 17, 2005) and
Executive Director’s comments.
Employee Benefits Security
Administration Review of the Thrift
Savings Plan Withdrawals Process,
dated August 24, 2005, and Executive
Director’s comments.
Employee Benefits Security
Administration Post Implementation
Review of the Thrift Savings Plan
Mainframe Operations, dated October 7,
2005, and Executive Director’s
comments.
4. Investment policy.
Parts Closed to the Public
5. Internal personnel matters.
6. Procurement matters.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of
External Affairs, (202) 942–1640.
Dated: February 13, 2006.
Thomas K. Emswiler,
Acting General Counsel, Federal Retirement
Thrift Investment Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: OS–0937–0198; 30day notice]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Office of the Secretary; HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of the Secretary (OS), Department
of Health and Human Services, is
publishing the following summary of
proposed collections for public
comment. Interested persons are invited
to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of Currently
Approved Collection;
Title of Information Collection: Pubic
Health Service Policies on Research
Misconduct (42 CFR Part 93);
Form/OMB No.: OS–0937–0198;
Use: Section 493 of the Public Health
Service Act and 42 CFR part 93 require
each institution that applies for research
and research-related grants to establish
policies and procedures for
investigation and reporting instances of
alleged or apparent misconduct.
Frequency: Recordkeeping, reporting,
annually;
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, not-for-profit institutions; and
individuals or households, Federal
government, State, local or tribal
government;
Annual Number of Respondents:
4,000;
Total Annual Responses: 3,800;
Average Burden Per Response: Six
minutes;
Total Annual Hours: 400.
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access the HHS Web
site address at https://www.hhs.gov/
oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-mail your
request, including your address, phone
number, OMB number, and OS
document identifier, to
naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (202) 690–6162.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collections must be mailed
within 30 days of this notice directly to
the Desk Officer at the address below:
OMB Desk Officer: John Kraemer, OMB
Human Resources and Housing Branch,
Attention: (OMB #0937–0198),New
Executive Office Building, Room
10235,Washington, DC 20503.
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Dated: January 17, 2006.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction
Act Reports Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health; Changes to the
Dose Reconstruction Target Organ
Selection for Lymphoma Under the
Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000
Authority: 42 CFR 82.32, 67 FR 22335–
22336.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of a Change to a
Scientific Element Underlying Radiation
Dose Reconstructions under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) has changed the selection of
target organs used in dose
reconstructions NIOSH produces under
the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000 (EEOICPA) for energy employees
with lymphoma cancers. This change
responds to an evaluation by NIOSH of
current scientific data on lymphoma,
which revealed that the site of the
radiation injury can differ from the site
of the tumor or cancer origin
documented in the medical files of a
lymphoma cancer patient. The new
process for selecting dose reconstruction
target organs for energy employees with
lymphoma cancers includes selecting
the target organ that would have
received the highest radiation dose from
among relevant, possibly irradiated
organs, as determined through the dose
reconstruction process, when the
identity of the target organ is in
question. This change may result in the
Department of Labor calculating higher
probability of causation determinations
for select lymphoma cases among
previously decided and current
EEOICPA cancer claims.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larry Elliott, Director, Office of
Compensation Analysis and Support,
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia
Parkway, Mailstop C–46, Cincinnati, OH
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is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Summary of Public Comments
NIOSH accepted public comments on
this proposed change to NIOSH dose
reconstruction methods from January
19, 2006, through February 3, 2006.
NIOSH received 15 comments from
individuals.
Nine comments expressed support for
the new lymphoma procedure,
predicated on the condition that it
improves chances of compensation
being granted.
One comment objected to the different
treatment of ‘‘structural’’ lymphomas
(i.e., Hodgkin’s disease,
lymphosarcoma, reticulosarcoma, etc.)
versus non-Hodgkin’s and other
lymphomas. A NIOSH scientist
contacted the commenter and explained
the technical basis for these
distinctions, which in summary is that
tumor location is informative of the site
of radiation injury for such structural
lymphomas. Upon this explanation, the
commenter concurred with the
procedure as proposed by NIOSH.
Five comments concerned individual
claims for compensation rather than the
new lymphoma procedure.
II. Summary of Recommendations of
the ABRWH
The Advisory Board on Radiation and
Worker Health (ABRWH) discussed the
change and voted unanimously to
support it during a teleconference
meeting of the Board on January 9, 2006.
III. Summary of the Changes to the
Dose Reconstruction Target Organ
Selection for Lymphoma
NIOSH conducts radiation dose
reconstructions under EEOICPA in
compliance with the dose
reconstruction methods specified in
HHS regulations at 42 CFR part 82.
These regulations provide for NIOSH to
update its dose reconstruction methods
as necessary on the basis of improved
scientific understanding and specify a
process for deciding and implementing
such updates. 42 CFR 82.30–82.33.
Accordingly, NIOSH has updated its
method for reconstructing radiation
doses in cases involving certain
lymphoma cancers. Specifically, NIOSH
has changed its method for identifying
the target organ for which radiation
doses will be reconstructed in these
cases, for the reasons described below.
As required for certain updates in dose
reconstruction methods, NIOSH
presented the proposed change to the
ABRWH prior to implementation.
NIOSH has also considered all public
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comments concerning this change that
were received prior to the comment
deadline, as specified above.
NIOSH has re-examined the
appropriateness of the current method
of selecting dosimetry target organs for
lymphoma cases in light of the current
scientific knowledge on the diagnosis
and etiology of the various forms of
lymphoma.1 This re-examination has
revealed that for many non-Hodgkin’s
lymphomas, there were two problems
with NIOSH’s previous target organ
selection method. First, the site of
occurrence of the tumor is not
necessarily the site of the original
radiation injury. Second, the site listed
in the diagnosis may not actually be the
site of primary involvement. Rather, it is
common to list the site of the biopsy,
which may be selected on the basis of
medical considerations in terms of the
clinical symptoms and condition of the
patient and the ease of surgical access.
Both of these problems contributed to
the possibility that under the previous
method for select lymphoma cases,
NIOSH could not be certain its dose
reconstruction was based on the
biologically plausible organ with the
highest radiation dose.
As a result of this re-evaluation,
NIOSH has modified the selection of
target organs in select lymphoma cases
so that the organ that would have
received the highest radiation dose from
among relevant, possibly irradiated
organs, as determined through the dose
reconstruction process, is used in the
dose reconstruction. For the subset of
lymphomas where tumor location is
informative about the probable site of
original radiation injury (e.g. Hodgkin’s
disease, lymphosarcoma, etc.), the
information related to the site of
diagnosis will be considered in target
organ selection.
This change pertains only to the
selection of the appropriate target organ
as the site of radiation injury (i.e., for
calculation of effective radiation dose
during the dose reconstruction process).
It has no bearing on the selection of the
appropriate Interactive Radiological
Epidemiology Program (IREP) cancer
risk model for determining probability
1 Crowther, M. Consultant’s Report, Dose
Reconstruction Project. Prepared for the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Office
of Compensation Analysis and Support. 2005;
Eckerman, K.F. Target Organs for Lymphatic and
Hematopoietic Cancers Comments/Suggestions.
Prepared for the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health Office of Compensation Analysis
and Support. 2005. Available online at: https://
www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/ocasdose.html (1.
Evaluation of Target Organ for Lymphomas; note,
this information can be found under the
‘‘Miscellaneous Items’’ section on this page).
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: OS-0937-0198; 30-day notice]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary; HHS.
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS),
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following
summary of proposed collections for public comment. Interested persons
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection
burden.
Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of Currently
Approved Collection;
Title of Information Collection: Pubic Health Service Policies on
Research Misconduct (42 CFR Part 93);
Form/OMB No.: OS-0937-0198;
Use: Section 493 of the Public Health Service Act and 42 CFR part
93 require each institution that applies for research and research-
related grants to establish policies and procedures for investigation
and reporting instances of alleged or apparent misconduct.
Frequency: Recordkeeping, reporting, annually;
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, not-for-profit
institutions; and individuals or households, Federal government, State,
local or tribal government;
Annual Number of Respondents: 4,000;
Total Annual Responses: 3,800;
Average Burden Per Response: Six minutes;
Total Annual Hours: 400.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access the HHS
Web site address at https://www.hhs.gov/oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-
mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number,
and OS document identifier, to naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be mailed
within 30 days of this notice directly to the Desk Officer at the
address below: OMB Desk Officer: John Kraemer, OMB Human Resources and
Housing Branch, Attention: (OMB 0937-0198),New Executive
Office Building, Room 10235,Washington, DC 20503.
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Dated: January 17, 2006.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance
Officer.
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