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supplement recipients’ environmental
management capacity.
When funding solid and hazardous
waste activities under GAP, AIEO
expects the Regions to implement the
following principles and funding
priorities for FY 2006.2
A. Principles
When making funding decisions for
solid and hazardous waste
implementation activities, the following
principles must be addressed:
• The availability of funding.
• The risk of compromising the
development of tribal environmental
capacity and overall in program
effectiveness areas other than solid and
hazardous waste management.
• The reasonableness of costs cited
for the proposed activities.
• Whether the proposed activities
supplement or improperly duplicate
activities funded by the Federal Tribal
Solid Waste Management Assistance
Project (formerly known as the ‘‘Tribal
Open Dumps Cleanup Project’’).
• The proposed activities will have
technical review by EPA RCRA regional
staff.
• There are no guarantees, either
implicit or explicit of future funding for
long term projects.
• Higher priority is given to selfsustaining programs, prevention
programs and one time cleanups, as
environmental outcome based work.
• Use of GAP funding for operations
and maintenance activities is given the
lowest priority.
B. Priorities
The following are the recommended
priorities for use of GAP funding for
solid and hazardous waste activities:
1. Expansion for Interagency
Coordination
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Several Regions have used GAP funds
to participate in interagency in efforts to
coordinate solid and hazardous waste
projects in Indian Country. We
encourage those efforts and are
supporting similar initiatives at the
national level through the Tribal Solid
Waste Interagency Work Group, which
includes HUD, IHS, BIA, Rural Utility
Service, DoD and FAA. AIEO promotes
2 The funding principles and priorities for solid
and hazardous waste implementation activities
were derived from Memorandum from the
American Indian Environmental Office on
Guidance for Implementation of Solid and
Hazardous Waste Activities under the Indian
General Assistance Program to Regional Indian
Coordinators, Regional Solid Waste Program
Managers, Office of Solid Waste, OSWER Tribal
Coordinator, and National Indian Work Group (June
7, 2001) (on file with AIEO’s GAP National Program
Manager).
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the use of GAP funds in tandem with
other (EPA and non-EPA) Agency
resources.
2. Targeted Procedures
The unique status of solid and
hazardous waste implementation
activities under GAP requires different
internal Regional procedures than with
GAP capacity building activities.
Several Regions are developing
procedures for working with their
Regional solid and hazardous waste
counterparts to review and approve
implementation activities. We
recommend that all Regions establish
such procedures.
3. Continued Review of Implementation
Costs
Funding implementation activities
under GAP continues to represent a new
and potentially resource-intensive area
of investment. Regional data has greatly
assisted EPA in understanding the
impact of this new grant flexibility.
Several Regions have indicated that they
expect an increase in the number and
variety of projects.
Each Region should therefore
continue to track and report separately
on investments in solid and hazardous
waste implementation for FY 2006. The
information tracked should include
name of recipient, a brief description of
the project, and the amount of GAP
funding allocated to that specific grant
activity. Estimated amounts are
acceptable, but should be stated as such.
Please contact Rodges Ankrah at
ankrah.rodges@epa.gov before March 7,
2006, if you have any question about
data collection.
7. GAP Tracking Electronic Data Entry
AIEO is continuing to develop and
define the GAP Tracking System to
enable EPA to track environmental
tribal activities supported by EPA
grants. The GAP Tracking System is for
program management, a tool that will
allow EPA to better manage the GAP
program. To avoid duplication of
information, the GAP Tracking System
will eventually be linked to other grant
and financial reporting systems. When
the System becomes operational,
grantees will be required to use the
system in order to receive GAP funding.
The GAP Tracking System is designed
to do the following:
• Allow regional officers to access
GAP-related records for their region.
• Wherever possible, read data from
existing databases that are a part of the
larger Tribal Information Management
project.
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• Allow regional officers to enter and
store GAP-related information in a
central GAP-specific database.
• Generate common reports for use by
EPA regional officers, tribal officials,
EPA programs, and the U.S. Congress
and OMB.
• Integrate features that will allow the
GAP Tracking Tool to be efficient to use.
• Avoid duplication of information
into multiple grant and financial
reporting systems.
The GAP Tracking System was NOT
designed for the following:
• Allow the entry of records into the
Tribal Information Management System
(TIMS) databases.
• Allow editing information
submitted in previous fiscal years.
The screens, located in Appendix 2 at
https://www.epa.gov/Indian/pdfs/
gap2006.pdf, are a proposed update to
the GAP Tracking System. EPA may
impose additional requirements to
integrate into the current system. Please
send your comments on the proposed
updates to the GAP Tracking System to
Rodges Ankrah at
ankrah.rodges@epa.gov by March 7,
2006.
Dated: January 9, 2006.
Benjamin H. Grumbles,
Assistant Administrator for Water.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
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
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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
website 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 23,
2006.
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A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Community State Bank Employee
Stock Ownership Plan and Trust, Union
Grove, Wisconsin; to increase its
ownership to 33.95 percent of the voting
shares of Union Bancorporation, Inc.,
Union Grove, Wisconsin, and thereby
indirectly acquire Community State
Bank, Union Grove, Wisconsin.
2. Gerber Bancshares, Inc., Argenta,
Illinois; to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 100 percent of
the voting shares of Gerber State Bank,
Argenta, Illinois.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166-2034:
1. First Banks, Inc., Hazelwood,
Missouri, and its subsidiary bank, The
San Francisco Company, San Francisco,
California; to acquire 80 percent of the
voting shares of First Independent
National Bank, Plano, Texas.
2. First Banks, Inc. , Hazelwood,
Missouri, and its subsidiary bank
holding company, The San Francisco
Company, San Francisco, California; to
acquire 100 percent of Pittsfield
Community Bancorp, Inc., Pittsfield,
Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire
Community Bank of Pittsfield, Pittsfield,
Illinois.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 21, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
beneficiary satisfaction; and program
administration.
Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation; Medicaid Program;
Meeting of the Medicaid Commission—
March 13–15, 2006
Procedure and Agenda
This meeting is open to the public.
There will be a public comment period
at the meeting. The Commission may
limit the number and duration of oral
presentations to the time available. We
will request that you declare at the
meeting whether or not you have any
financial involvement related to any
services being discussed.
After the presentations and public
comment period, the Commission will
deliberate openly. Interested persons
may observe the deliberations, but the
Commission will not hear further
comments during this time except at the
request of the Chairperson. The
Commission will also allow an open
public session for any attendee to
address issues specific to the topic.
Assistant Secretary for
Planning & Evaluation (ASPE), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
public meeting of the Medicaid
Commission. Notice of this meeting is
given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section
10(a)(1) and (a)(2)). The Medicaid
Commission will advise the Secretary
on ways to modernize the Medicaid
program so that it can provide highquality health care to its beneficiaries in
a financially sustainable way.
DATES: The Meeting: March 13–15, 2006.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on
March 13, 9 a.m. on March 14, and 8:30
a.m. on March 15.
Special Accommodations: Persons
attending the meeting who are hearing
or visually impaired, or have a
condition that requires special
assistance or accommodations, are
asked to notify the Medicaid
Commission by March 3, 2006 (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
ADDRESSES: The Meeting: The meeting
will be held at the following address:
Crowne Plaza-Atlanta-Perimeter N.W.,
6345 Powers Ferry Road, NW., Atlanta,
GA 30339, United States, telephone: 1
(770) 955–1700, fax: 1 (770) 850–0444.
Web site: You may access up-to-date
information on the Medicaid
Commission at https://aspe.hhs.gov/
medicaid/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Margaret Reiser, (202) 205–8255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
24, 2005, we published a notice (70 FR
29765) announcing the Medicaid
Commission and requesting
nominations for individuals to serve on
the Medicaid Commission. This notice
announces a public meeting of the
Medicaid Commission.
Topics of the Meeting
The Commission will discuss options
for making longer-term
recommendations on the future of the
Medicaid program that ensure long-term
sustainability. Issues to be addressed
may include, but are not limited to:
Eligibility, benefit design, and delivery;
expanding the number of people
covered with quality care while
recognizing budget constraints; long
term care; quality of care, choice, and
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Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a)(1)
and (a)(2).
Dated: February 16, 2006.
Mary M. McGeein,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, Office of Disability, Aging and
Long-Term Care.
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Office of the Secretary
Debarment
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
Office of Acquisition Management and
Policy of the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) has taken final
agency action in the following case:
Paul H. Kornak, Stratton VA Medical
Center, Albany, New York: Upon
recommendations from the Office of
Research Integrity (ORI), Acting
Assistant Secretary for Health for the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), the Office of Research
Oversight (ORO), and the Under
Secretary for Health, Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), that were based
on the criminal convictions of making
and using a materially false statement,
in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001(a)(3); mail
fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341 and
1346; and criminally negligent
homicide, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 13
and New York Penal Law § 125.10, the
HHS debarring official has permanently
debarred Mr. Paul Kornak, former
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding
Companies
The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C.
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank 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
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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 website 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 23, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Community State Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust,
Union Grove, Wisconsin; to increase its ownership to 33.95 percent of
the voting shares of Union Bancorporation, Inc., Union Grove,
Wisconsin, and thereby indirectly acquire Community State Bank, Union
Grove, Wisconsin.
2. Gerber Bancshares, Inc., Argenta, Illinois; to become a bank
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Gerber
State Bank, Argenta, Illinois.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
1. First Banks, Inc., Hazelwood, Missouri, and its subsidiary bank,
The San Francisco Company, San Francisco, California; to acquire 80
percent of the voting shares of First Independent National Bank, Plano,
Texas.
2. First Banks, Inc. , Hazelwood, Missouri, and its subsidiary bank
holding company, The San Francisco Company, San Francisco, California;
to acquire 100 percent of Pittsfield Community Bancorp, Inc.,
Pittsfield, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire Community Bank of
Pittsfield, Pittsfield, Illinois.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 21,
2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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