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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 49 / Tuesday, March 14, 2006 / Notices
Dated: March 9, 2006.
Roland E. Smith,
Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board.
[FR Doc. 06–2460 Filed 3–9–06; 4:20 pm]
BILLING CODE 6705–01–P
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection
Renewal (0028); Comment Request
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
Currently, the FDIC is soliciting
comments concerning the following
continuing collection of information
titled: Recordkeeping and Confirmation
Requirements for Securities
Transactions (3064–0028).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments by
any of the following methods. All
comments should refer to the name and
number of the collection:
• https://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/
laws/federal/notices.html.
• E-mail: comments@fdic.gov.
Include the name and number of the
collection in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Gary A. Kuiper
(202.942.3824), Counsel, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, Suite
2100, 550 17th Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20429.
• Hand Delivery: Comments may be
hand-delivered to the guard station at
the rear of the 550 17th Street Building
(located on F Street), on business days
between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
A copy of the comments may also be
submitted to the OMB desk officer for
the FDIC: Mark Menchik, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 3208,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary
A. Kuiper, at the address identified
above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposal To Renew the Following
Currently Approved Collection of
Information
Title: Recordkeeping and
Confirmation Requirements for
Securities Transactions.
OMB Number: 3064–0028.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Affected Public: All financial
institutions.
Previous Estimated Number of
Respondents: 4,732.
Current Estimated Number of
Respondents: 4,606.
Average annual burden hours per
Respondent: 27.91.
Previous Estimated Total Annual
Burden: 132,070 hours.
Current Estimated Total Annual
Burden: 128,553 hours.
Reduction in Burden: 3517 hours.
General Description of Collection: The
information collection requirements are
contained in 12 CFR part 344. The
regulation’s purpose is to ensure that
purchasers of securities in transactions
effected by insured state nonmember
banks are provided with adequate
information concerning the transactions.
The regulation is also designed to
ensure that insured state nonmember
banks maintain adequate records and
controls with respect to the securities
transactions they effect.
Request for Comment
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the FDIC’s functions, including whether
the information has practical utility; (b)
the accuracy of the estimates of the
burden of the information collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
At the end of the comment period, the
comments and recommendations
received will be analyzed to determine
the extent to which the collection
should be modified prior to submission
to OMB for review and approval.
Comments submitted in response to this
notice also will be summarized or
included in the FDIC’s requests to OMB
for renewal of these collections. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated at Washington, DC, this 8th day of
March, 2006.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–3539 Filed 3–13–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6714–01–P
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Sunshine Act; Notice of Meeting
Federal Election Commission.
Previously Scheduled Date & Time:
Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 10 a.m.
PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington,
DC (Ninth Floor).
STATUS: This meeting will be open to the
public.
The Following Item was Added to the
Agenda:
Draft Explanation and Justification for
Interim Final Rule on Definition of
‘‘Federal Election Activity’’ (11 CFR
100.24(a)(1)(iii)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Biersack, Press Officer.
Telephone: (202) 694–1220.
AGENCY:
Mary W. Dove,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 06–2525 Filed 3–10–06; 2:28 pm]
BILLING CODE 6715–01–M
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
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
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(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 https://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 April 7, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant Vice
President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. Freedom Bancshares, Inc. Overland
Park, Kansas; to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 100 percent of
the voting shares of Freedom Bank,
Overland Park, Kansas (in organization).
B. Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director,
Regional and Community Bank Group)
101 Market Street, San Francisco,
California 94105-1579:
1. Placer Sierra Bancshares,
Sacramento, California; California
Community Financial Institutions Fund
LP, San Francisco, California, and
Belvedere Capital Partners LLC, San
Francisco, California; to acquire
Southwest Community Bancorp,
Carlsbad, California, and thereby
indirectly acquire Southwest
Community Bank, Encinitas, California.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, March 9, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6–3579 Filed 3–13–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210–01–S
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[File No. 061 0031]
Allergan, Inc. and Inamed Corporation;
Analysis of Agreement Containing
Consent Orders To Aid Public
Comment
Federal Trade Commission.
Proposed consent agreement.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this
matter settles alleged violations of
Federal law prohibiting unfair or
deceptive acts or practices or unfair
methods of competition. The attached
Analysis to Aid Public Comment
describes both the allegations in the
draft complaint and the terms of the
consent order—embodied in the consent
agreement—that would settle these
allegations.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before April 7, 2006.
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Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments.
Comments should refer to ‘‘Allergan,
Inc. and Inamed Corp., File No. 061
0031,’’ to facilitate the organization of
comments. A comment filed in paper
form should include this reference both
in the text and on the envelope, and
should be mailed or delivered to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission/Office of the Secretary,
Room 135–H, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.
Comments containing confidential
material must be filed in paper form,
must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’
and must comply with Commission
Rule 4.9(c). 16 CFR 4.9(c) (2005).1 The
FTC is requesting that any comment
filed in paper form be sent by courier or
overnight service, if possible, because
U.S. postal mail in the Washington area
and at the Commission is subject to
delay due to heightened security
precautions. Comments that do not
contain any nonpublic information may
instead be filed in electronic form as
part of or as an attachment to e-mail
messages directed to the following email box: consentagreement@ftc.gov.
The FTC Act and other laws the
Commission administers permit the
collection of public comments to
consider and use in this proceeding as
appropriate. All timely and responsive
public comments, whether filed in
paper or electronic form, will be
considered by the Commission, and will
be available to the public on the FTC
Web site, to the extent practicable, at
https://www.ftc.gov. As a matter of
discretion, the FTC makes every effort to
remove home contact information for
individuals from the public comments it
receives before placing those comments
on the FTC Web site. More information,
including routine uses permitted by the
Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s
privacy policy, at https://www.ftc.gov/
ftc/privacy.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James E. Southworth, Bureau of
Competition, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–
2822.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to section 6(f) of the Federal Trade
Commission Act, 38 Stat. 721, 15 U.S.C.
46(f), and § 2.34 of the Commission
Rules of Practice, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is
ADDRESSES:
1 The comment must be accompanied by an
explicit request for confidential treatment,
including the factual and legal basis for the request,
and must identify the specific portions of the
comment to be withheld from the public record.
The request will be granted or denied by the
Commission’s General Counsel, consistent with
applicable law and the public interest. See
Commission Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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hereby given that the above-captioned
consent agreement containing a consent
order to cease and desist, having been
filed with and accepted, subject to final
approval, by the Commission, has been
placed on the public record for a period
of thirty (30) days. The following
Analysis to Aid Public Comment
describes the terms of the consent
agreement, and the allegations in the
complaint. An electronic copy of the
full text of the consent agreement
package can be obtained from the FTC
Home Page (for March 8, 2006), on the
World Wide Web, at https://www.ftc.gov/
os/2006/03/index.htm. A paper copy
can be obtained from the FTC Public
Reference Room, Room 130–H, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20580, either in person
or by calling (202) 326–2222.
Public comments are invited, and may
be filed with the Commission in either
paper or electronic form. All comments
should be filed as prescribed in the
ADDRESSES section above, and must be
received on or before the date specified
in the DATES section.
Analysis of Agreement Containing
Consent Order To Aid Public Comment
The Federal Trade Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to
final approval, an Agreement
Containing Consent Orders (‘‘Consent
Agreement’’) from Allergan, Inc.
(‘‘Allergan’’) and Inamed Corporation
(‘‘Inamed’’), which is designed to
remedy the anticompetitive effects of
the proposed acquisition of Inamed by
Allergan. Under the terms of the
proposed Consent Agreement, the
companies would be required to return
the development and distribution rights
to Reloxin, a botulinum toxin type A
product, to Ipsen Ltd. (‘‘Ipsen’’), its
manufacturer.
The proposed Consent Agreement has
been placed on the public record for
thirty (30) days for receipt of comments
by interested persons. Comments
received during this period will become
part of the public record. After thirty
(30) days, the Commission will again
review the proposed Consent Agreement
and the comments received and will
decide whether it should withdraw from
the proposed Consent Agreement,
modify it, or make final the Decision
and Order (‘‘Order’’).
Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of
Merger dated December 20, 2005,
Allergan proposes to acquire all of the
outstanding common shares of Inamed
in a transaction valued at approximately
$3.2 billion (‘‘Acquisition’’). The
Commission’s complaint alleges that the
proposed acquisition, if consummated,
would violate Section 7 of the Clayton
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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 includes whether
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards
in section 4 of the BHC Act
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(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 https://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 April 7, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. Freedom Bancshares, Inc. Overland Park, Kansas; to become a bank
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of
Freedom Bank, Overland Park, Kansas (in organization).
B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director,
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco,
California 94105-1579:
1. Placer Sierra Bancshares, Sacramento, California; California
Community Financial Institutions Fund LP, San Francisco, California,
and Belvedere Capital Partners LLC, San Francisco, California; to
acquire Southwest Community Bancorp, Carlsbad, California, and thereby
indirectly acquire Southwest Community Bank, Encinitas, California.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 9, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-3579 Filed 3-13-06; 8:45 am]
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