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National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations.
Dated: May 25, 2006.
Norman Niedergang,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. E6–9080 Filed 6–9–06; 8:45 am]
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Correction; Sunshine Act Meeting
Notice; Announcing a Partially Open
Meeting of the Board of Directors
The open meeting of the
Board of Directors is scheduled to begin
at 10 am on Wednesday, June 14, 2006.
The closed portion of the meeting will
follow immediately the open portion of
the meeting.
PLACE: Board Room, First Floor, Federal
Housing Finance Board, 1625 Eye
Street, NW., Washington DC 20006.
STATUS: The first portion of the meeting
will be open to the public. The final
portion of the meeting will be closed to
the public.
TIME AND DATE:
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE OPEN
PORTION: Financing Corporation 2006
Supplemental Budget Request.
Consideration of the Financing
Corporation (FICO) request to increase
its 2006 budget to cover unanticipated
legal expenses.
Data Reporting Reorganization.
Consideration of a final rule that would
move certain data reporting
requirements from regulation to the Data
Reporting Manual.
MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE CLOSED
PORTION: Periodic Update of
Examination Program Development and
Supervisory Findings.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Shelia Willis, Paralegal Specialist,
Office of General Counsel, at 202–408–
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Dated: June 7, 2006.
By the Federal Housing Finance Board.
John P. Kennedy,
General Counsel.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Agency information collection
activities: Announcement of Board
approval under delegated authority
and submission to OMB
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System
SUMMARY: Background.
Notice is hereby given of the final
approval of proposed information
AGENCY:
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collections by the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System (Board)
under OMB delegated authority, as per
5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB Regulations on
Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the
Public). Board–approved collections of
information are incorporated into the
official OMB inventory of currently
approved collections of information.
Copies of the OMB 83–Is and supporting
statements and approved collection of
information instrument(s) are placed
into OMB’s public docket files. The
Federal Reserve may not conduct or
sponsor, and the respondent is not
required to respond to, an information
collection that has been extended,
revised, or implemented on or after
October 1, 1995, unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer
Michelle Long––Division of Research
and Statistics, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, Washington,
DC 20551 (202–452–3829).
OMB Desk Officer Mark Menchik––
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, or
e-mail to mmenchik@omb.eop.gov.
Final approval under OMB delegated
authority of the extension for three
years, without revision of the following
reports:
1. Report title: Senior Loan Officer
Opinion Survey on Bank Lending
Practices.
Agency form number: FR 2018.
OMB control number: 7100–0058.
Frequency: Up to six times a year.
Reporters: Large U.S. commercial
banks and large U.S. branches and
agencies of foreign banks.
Annual reporting hours: 1,008 hours.
Estimated average hours per response:
2 hours.
Number of respondents: 84.
General description of report: This
information collection is voluntary (12
U.S.C. §§ 248(a), 324, 335, 3101, 3102,
and 3105) and is given confidential
treatment (5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(4)).
Abstract: The FR 2018 is conducted
with a senior loan officer at each
respondent bank, generally through a
telephone interview. The purpose of the
survey is to provide qualitative
information with respect to current
price and flow developments and
evolving techniques and practices in the
U.S. loan markets. Consequently, a
significant portion of the questions in
each survey consists of unique
questions on topics of timely interest.
The respondents’ answers provide
crucial information for monitoring and
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understanding the evolution of lending
practices at banks and developments in
credit markets.
2. Report title: Senior Financial
Officer Survey.
Agency form number: FR 2023.
OMB control number: 7100–0223.
Frequency: Up to four times a year.
Reporters: Commercial banks, other
depository institutions, corporations or
large money–stock holders.
Annual reporting hours: 232 hours.
Estimated average hours per response:
1 hour.
Number of respondents: 58.
General description of report: This
information collection is voluntary
(U.S.C. §§ 225a, 248(a), and 263);
confidentiality will be determined on a
case–by–case basis.
Abstract: The 2023 requests
qualitative and limited quantitative
information about liability management,
the provision of financial services, and
the functioning of key financial markets
from a selection of up to sixty large
commercial banks (or, if appropriate,
from other depository institutions or
major financial market participants).
Responses are obtained from a senior
officer at each participating institution
through a telephone interview
conducted by Reserve Bank or Board
staff. The survey does not have a fixed
set of questions; each survey consists of
a limited number of questions directed
at topics of timely interest.
Final approval under OMB delegated
authority of the extension for three
years, with revision of the following
reports:
1. Report titles: Quarterly Report of
Interest Rates on Selected Direct
Consumer Installment Loans and
Quarterly Report of Credit Card Plans.
Agency form numbers: FR 2835 and
FR 2835a.
OMB control number: 7100–0085.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Reporters: Commercial banks.
Annual reporting hours: FR 2835: 132
hours; and FR 2835a: 100 hours.
Estimated average hours per response:
FR 2835: 13 minutes; and FR 2835a: 30
minutes
Number of respondents: FR 2835: 150;
and FR 2835a: 50.
General description of report: These
information collections are voluntary
(12 U.S.C. 248(a)(2)). The FR 2835a
individual respondent data are given
confidential treatment.
Abstract: The FR 2835 collects
information from a sample of
commercial banks on interest rates
charged on loans for new vehicles and
loans for other consumer goods and
personal expenses. The FR 2835a
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collects information on two measures of
credit card interest rates from a sample
of commercial banks with $1 billion or
more in credit card receivables and a
representative of smaller issuers.
Current Actions: The Federal Reserve
will add a new data item, New
automobiles (60–month), to the FR
2835. This item will collect the most
common interest rate on 60–month
loans for new automobiles. The Federal
Reserve will also decrease the
authorized sample size for the FR 2835a
from 80 to 50 commercial banks.
The Federal Reserve received one
general comment letter from a federal
agency. The commenter described its
use of the data to prepare monthly,
quarterly, and annual estimates of
personal interest payments, a
component of personal outlays in the
national income and product accounts.
The revisions will be implemented as
originally proposed.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, June 7, 2006.
Jennifer J. Johnson
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6–9075 Filed 6–9–06; 8:45 am]
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 July 7, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. First Community Financial
Partners, Inc., Joliet, Illinois; to become
a bank holding company by acquiring
100 percent of the voting shares of First
Community Bank of Joliet, Joliet,
Illinois.
In connection with this application,
Applicant also has applied to engage de
novo in lending activities, pursuant to
section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, June 7, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6–9069 Filed 6–9–06; 8:45 am]
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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
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
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Federal Open Market Committee;
Domestic Policy Directive of May 10,
2006
In accordance with § 271.25 of its
rules regarding availability of
information (12 CFR part 271), there is
set forth below the domestic policy
directive issued by the Federal Open
Market Committee at its meeting held
on May 10, 2006.1
The Federal Open Market Committee
seeks monetary and financial conditions
that will foster price stability and
promote sustainable growth in output.
To further its long-run objectives, the
Committee in the immediate future
seeks conditions in reserve markets
consistent with increasing the federal
funds rate to an average of around 5
percent.
The vote encompassed approval of the
paragraph below for inclusion in the
statement to be released shortly after the
meeting:
‘‘The Committee judges that some further
policy firming may be needed to keep the
risks to the attainment of both sustainable
1 Copies of the Minutes of the Federal Open
Market Committee Meeting on May 10, 2006, which
includes the domestic policy directive issued at the
meeting, are available upon request to the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
Washington, DC 20551. The minutes are published
in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and in the Board’s
annual report.
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economic growth and price stability roughly
in balance. In any event, the Committee will
respond to changes in economic prospects as
needed to foster these objectives.’’
By order of the Federal Open Market
Committee, June 2, 2006.
Vincent R. Reinhart,
Secretary, Federal Open Market Committee.
[FR Doc. E6–9047 Filed 6–9–06; 8:45 am]
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HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Cooperative
Agreement With Morehouse School of
Medicine
Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Office of Public Health and Science,
Office of Minority Health.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Funding Title: Cooperative Agreement
with Morehouse School of Medicine.
Announcement Type: Initial
Announcement.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Number: 93.004.
DATES: July 1, 2006.
SUMMARY: This announcement is made
by the United States Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS or
Department), Office of Minority Health
(OMH) located within the Office of
Public Health and Science (OPHS), and
working in a ‘‘One-Department’’
approach collaboratively with
participating HHS agencies and
programs (entities). The mission of the
OMH is to improve the health of racial
and ethnic minority populations
through the development of policies and
programs that address disparities and
gaps. OMH serves as the focal point in
the HHS for leadership, policy
development and coordination, service
demonstrations, information exchange,
coalition and partnership building, and
relation efforts to address the health
need of racial and ethnic minorities.
This announcement supports the
Healthy People 2010 overarching goal to
eliminate health disparities.
As part of a continuing HHS effort to
improve the health and well being of
racial and ethnic minorities, the
Department announces a sole source
umbrella cooperative agreement award
to the Morehouse School of Medicine.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: This program is authorized
under 42 U.S.C. 300 u–6, section 1707 of the
Public Health Service Act, as amended.
1. Recipient: Morehouse School of
Medicine.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Agency information collection activities: Announcement of Board
approval under delegated authority and submission to OMB
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
SUMMARY: Background.
Notice is hereby given of the final approval of proposed
information collections by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System (Board) under OMB delegated authority, as per 5 CFR
1320.16 (OMB Regulations on Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the
Public). Board-approved collections of information are incorporated
into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of
information. Copies of the OMB 83-Is and supporting statements and
approved collection of information instrument(s) are placed into OMB's
public docket files. The Federal Reserve may not conduct or sponsor,
and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information
collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after
October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Federal Reserve Board Clearance
Officer Michelle Long--Division of Research and Statistics, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551 (202-452-
3829).
OMB Desk Officer Mark Menchik--Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office
Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, or e-mail to
mmenchik@omb.eop.gov.
Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three
years, without revision of the following reports:
1. Report title: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending
Practices.
Agency form number: FR 2018.
OMB control number: 7100-0058.
Frequency: Up to six times a year.
Reporters: Large U.S. commercial banks and large U.S. branches and
agencies of foreign banks.
Annual reporting hours: 1,008 hours.
Estimated average hours per response: 2 hours.
Number of respondents: 84.
General description of report: This information collection is
voluntary (12 U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 248(a), 324, 335, 3101, 3102, and 3105)
and is given confidential treatment (5 U.S.C. Sec. 552 (b)(4)).
Abstract: The FR 2018 is conducted with a senior loan officer at
each respondent bank, generally through a telephone interview. The
purpose of the survey is to provide qualitative information with
respect to current price and flow developments and evolving techniques
and practices in the U.S. loan markets. Consequently, a significant
portion of the questions in each survey consists of unique questions on
topics of timely interest. The respondents' answers provide crucial
information for monitoring and understanding the evolution of lending
practices at banks and developments in credit markets.
2. Report title: Senior Financial Officer Survey.
Agency form number: FR 2023.
OMB control number: 7100-0223.
Frequency: Up to four times a year.
Reporters: Commercial banks, other depository institutions,
corporations or large money-stock holders.
Annual reporting hours: 232 hours.
Estimated average hours per response: 1 hour.
Number of respondents: 58.
General description of report: This information collection is
voluntary (U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 225a, 248(a), and 263); confidentiality
will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Abstract: The 2023 requests qualitative and limited quantitative
information about liability management, the provision of financial
services, and the functioning of key financial markets from a selection
of up to sixty large commercial banks (or, if appropriate, from other
depository institutions or major financial market participants).
Responses are obtained from a senior officer at each participating
institution through a telephone interview conducted by Reserve Bank or
Board staff. The survey does not have a fixed set of questions; each
survey consists of a limited number of questions directed at topics of
timely interest.
Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three
years, with revision of the following reports:
1. Report titles: Quarterly Report of Interest Rates on Selected
Direct Consumer Installment Loans and Quarterly Report of Credit Card
Plans.
Agency form numbers: FR 2835 and FR 2835a.
OMB control number: 7100-0085.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Reporters: Commercial banks.
Annual reporting hours: FR 2835: 132 hours; and FR 2835a: 100
hours.
Estimated average hours per response: FR 2835: 13 minutes; and FR
2835a: 30 minutes
Number of respondents: FR 2835: 150; and FR 2835a: 50.
General description of report: These information collections are
voluntary (12 U.S.C. 248(a)(2)). The FR 2835a individual respondent
data are given confidential treatment.
Abstract: The FR 2835 collects information from a sample of
commercial banks on interest rates charged on loans for new vehicles
and loans for other consumer goods and personal expenses. The FR 2835a
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collects information on two measures of credit card interest rates from
a sample of commercial banks with $1 billion or more in credit card
receivables and a representative of smaller issuers.
Current Actions: The Federal Reserve will add a new data item, New
automobiles (60-month), to the FR 2835. This item will collect the most
common interest rate on 60-month loans for new automobiles. The Federal
Reserve will also decrease the authorized sample size for the FR 2835a
from 80 to 50 commercial banks.
The Federal Reserve received one general comment letter from a
federal agency. The commenter described its use of the data to prepare
monthly, quarterly, and annual estimates of personal interest payments,
a component of personal outlays in the national income and product
accounts. The revisions will be implemented as originally proposed.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 7, 2006.
Jennifer J. Johnson
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-9075 Filed 6-9-06; 8:45 am]
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