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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 23, 2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Federal Open Market Committee; Rules
of Organization
Federal Open Market
Committee.
ACTION: Notice; Amendment to Rules of
Organization.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Federal Open Market
Committee (the ‘‘Committee’’) has
amended its Rules of Organization to
allow for the appointment of a
temporary manager of the System Open
Market Account in certain
circumstances.
The amendments to the Rules of
Organization became effective on
January 30, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kieran J. Fallon, Assistant General
Counsel (202–452–5270), April Snyder,
Senior Attorney (202–452–3099), Legal
Division; Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System; Deborah J.
Danker, Deputy Secretary (202–452–
3253), or Matthew Luecke, Senior
Financial Analyst, (202–452–2576);
Federal Open Market Committee, 20th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20551. Users of
Telecommunication Device for Deaf
(TTD) only, call (202) 263–4869.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee is composed of the members
of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and five representatives
of the Federal Reserve Banks, selected
in the manner set forth in section 12A
of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C.
263(a)). The Committee’s Rules of
Organization provide for the Committee
to select a manager of the System Open
Market Account, which is the account
through which open market transactions
are conducted on behalf and under the
direction of the Committee.1 The
manager keeps the Committee informed
on market conditions and on
transactions made for the System Open
Market Account and renders such
reports as the Committee may specify.
The Rules of Organization also provide
that the manager selected by the
Committee shall be satisfactory to the
Federal Reserve Bank selected by the
Committee to execute transactions for
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the System Open Market Account
(‘‘executing Reserve Bank’’).
The manager serves at the pleasure of
the Committee. The Committee has
amended its Rules of Organization to
also provide that if the President of the
executing Reserve Bank determines that
the manager is not able to perform the
duties of the position, the Chairman of
the Committee may select, with the
concurrence of such President, another
person to serve temporarily as manager
until the Committee and the executing
Reserve Bank select a replacement
manager in accordance with the
Committee’s Rules of Organization. This
provision is designed to facilitate the
smooth and uninterrupted operation of
the System Open Market Account in the
event that a manager becomes unable to
serve in the position.
The Committee has incorporated the
amendments into the Committee’s Rules
of Organization. The Committee’s Rules
of Organization are uncodified
regulations for use by the Committee
and are issued pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552.
Because the amendments relate solely to
the internal organization, procedure, or
practice of the Committee, the public
notice, public comment, and delayed
effective date provisions of the
Administrative Procedure Act do not
apply.2
For the reasons discussed above, the
Committee has amended its Rules of
Organization as follows:
1. The following sentence is added at
the end of § 5 of the Rules of
Organization:
Section 5—Manager
* * * In the event that the President
of the Federal Reserve Bank selected by
the Committee determines that the
manager is not able to perform the
duties of the position, the Chairman
may select a person satisfactory to such
President to serve as manager until the
Committee and the designated Reserve
Bank select a replacement manager in
accordance with this section.
By order of the Federal Open Market
Committee, February 23, 2007.
Vincent R. Reinhart,
Secretary, Federal Open Market Committee.
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Federal Open Market Committee;
Domestic Policy Directive of January
30–31, 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 January 30–31, 2007.1
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 maintaining the federal
funds rate at an average of around 51⁄4
percent.
By order of the Federal Open Market
Committee, February 22, 2007.
Vincent R. Reinhart,
Secretary, Federal Open Market Committee.
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GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
Privacy Act of 1974; Cancellation of a
System of Records
General Services
Administration
ACTION: Cancellation of a system of
records
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The General Services
Administration (GSA) is providing
notice of a cancelled record system,
Parties Excluded from Federal
Procurement and Nonprocurement
Program (GSA/OAP–1). The system was
replaced by the new system of records
GSA/Govt–8 (Excluded Parties List
System) which became effective on
January 4, 2007.
DATES: Effective: March 1, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Call or e-mail
the GSA Privacy Act Officer: telephone
202–208–1317; e-mail
gsa.privacyact@gsa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted to the Program Manager,
Integrated Acquisition Environment
Program, Office of the Chief Acquisition
1 Copies of the Minutes of the Federal Open
Market Committee meeting on January 30–31, 2007,
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, D.C. 20551. The minutes are published
in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and in the Board’s
annual report.
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12549) engage in covered transactions
involving Federal financial or
nonfinancial assistance programs and
benefits; and (3) individual sureties for
bid and performance bonds in Federal
procurement programs are responsible.
Officer, General Services
Administration, 2011 Crystal Drive,
Suite 911, Arlington, VA 22202.
Dated: February 21, 2007
Cheryl M. Paige
Acting Director, Office of Information
Management
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
GSA/OAP–1
SYSTEM NAME:
Parties Excluded from Federal
Procurement and Nonprocurement
Programs.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
This system of records is located in
the Office of Acquisition Policy, General
Services Administration, 18th and F
Streets NW, Washington, DC.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
Individuals covered by the system are:
a. Individuals excluded from the
Federal procurement or
nonprocurement programs by any
Federal executive agency, or individual
sureties excluded from bid and
performance bond activity;
b. Individuals, firms, sureties, or other
parties referred to the Office of
Acquisition Policy by General Services
Administration offices for consideration
for debarment or suspension from
Federal procurement programs or from
acting as individual sureties in
procurement programs.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
Records include correspondence from
Federal agencies identifying excluded
individuals, firms, or parties, and the
cause for exclusion from Federal or
nonprocurement programs; and case
files on individuals, firms, or parties
referred to the Office of Acquisition
Policy, General Services
Administration, to consider for
suspension, debarment, or exclusion as
a Federal contractor, subcontractor, or
an individual surety.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949, as amended, 41
U.S.C. 235b; Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) 9.4 and 28.2; Office of
Federal Procurement Policy letter 82–1,
June 24, 1982; EO 12549, February 18,
1986; and EO 12689, August 16, 1989.
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PURPOSE(S):
To assemble in one system
information to insure that: (1) Federal
contracts and designated subcontracts
are awarded to responsible firms,
individuals, and other parties; (2)
responsible persons (as defined in
agency regulations implementing EO
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a. To disclose records contracting
officers and other Federal, State, and
local employees involved in procuring
goods and services with Federal funds
and/or administering Federal financial
or nonfinancial assistance programs or
benefits.
b. To disclose records to a Federal,
State, local, or foreign agency
responsible for investigating,
prosecuting, enforcing, or carrying out a
statute, rule, regulation, or order, where
the records indicate on their face or in
conjunction with other records a
violation of civil or criminal law and
regulation.
c. To disclose records to another
Federal agency, a State or local agency
that administers Federal financial or
nonfinancial assistance programs or
benefits, and the records are relevant
and necessary to an eligibility
determination.
d. To disclose records for the purpose
of performing a Federal duty to an
expert, consultant, contractor, State or
local agency, or financial institution.
e. To disclose information to an
appeal, grievance, or formal complaints
examiner; equal employment
opportunity investigator; arbitrator;
exclusive representative; or other
official engaged in investigating or
settling a grievance, complaint, or
appeal filed by an employee, when
these records are relevant and necessary
to a determination of the issue.
f. To disclose records to a requesting
Federal agency in connection with
hiring or retaining an employee; issuing
a security clearance; reporting an
employee investigation; clarifying a job;
letting a contract; or issuing a license,
grant, or other benefit by the requesting
agency where the information is
relevant and necessary for a decision on
a Federal financial or nonfinancial
assistance program or benefit.
g. To disclose records to a member of
Congress or a congressional staff
member in response to an inquiry from
that congressional office made in behalf
of a constituent, for information
pertaining to that constituent.
h. To disclose records to the
Department of Justice when the agency,
any agency employee, or the United
States is party to or has interest in
litigation, and using the records is
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relevant and necessary for furtherance
of the litigation.
i. To disclose information to a court
or adjudicative body when the agency,
any agency employee, or the United
States is party to or has interest in
litigation, and using the records is
relevant and necessary for the
furtherance of the litigation.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,
RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND
DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
STORAGE:
Paper records and machine listings in
file folders; disc storage in automated
electronic system.
RETRIEVABILITY:
General Services Administration case
files are retrieved by case number and
name of individual or firm.
Correspondence from Federal agencies
relating to entries on the ‘‘Lists of
Parties’’ (Lists) is retrieved by agency.
Information from the Lists automated
data base is retrieved by name and
address, Taxpayer Identification
Number, Dun and Bradstreet Number,
and by action agency.
SAFEGUARDS:
Paper records stored in lockable filing
cabinets or secured rooms.
Computerized records protected by I.D./
password security system.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:
Disposal of records is described in the
HB, GSA Records Maintenance and
Disposition System (OAD P 1820.2).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:
Director, Office of GSA Acquisition
Policy, General Services Administration
(VP), 18th and F Streets NW,
Washington, DC 20405.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:
Inquiries from firms, individuals, or
parties should be addressed to the
system manager.
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
Requests from firms and individuals
should be addressed to the system
manager as noted above. For
identification requirements see the
agency regulations outlined in 41 CFR
part 105–64.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
General Services Administration rules
for contesting the contents and
appealing initial decisions are issued in
41 CFR part 105–64.
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RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Federal agencies and State and local
law enforcement officials.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Change in meeting location to
California.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
12th meeting of the American Health
Information Community in accordance
with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Pub. L. No. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.).
The American Health Information
Community will advise the Secretary
and recommend specific actions to
achieve a common interoperability
framework for health information
technology (IT).
March 13, 2007, from 8 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. (Pacific time).
DATES:
Computer History
Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard,
Mountain View, California 94043.
NEW ADDRESS:
Visit https://
www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
The
meeting will include presentations by
the Quality Workgroup; Population
Health/Clinical Care Connections
Workgroup; Consumer Empowerment
Workgroup; and Confidentiality, Privacy
and Security Workgroup. It will also
feature a panel presentation on Privacy
and Security issues.
The general public is invited to
participate in person at the Computer
History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Alternatively, the public may
participate remotely via the Web. The
Community meeting will be available on
the NIH Web site at: https://
www.videocast.nih.gov/.
If you have special needs for the
meeting, please contact (202) 690–7151.
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Dated: February 21, 2007.
Judith Sparrow,
Director, American Health Information
Community, Office of Programs and
Coordination, Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology.
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Notice of Availability: Secretarial
Acceptance and Planned Recognition
of Certain Healthcare Information
Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
Interoperability Specifications for
Health Information Technology
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC), DHHS.
Authority: Executive Order 13335
(‘‘Incentives for the Use of Health
Information Technology and
Establishing the Position of the National
Health Information Technology
Coordinator’’), Executive Order 13410
(‘‘Promoting Quality and Efficient
Health Care in Federal Government
Administered or Sponsored Health Care
Programs’’), and Public Law 109–149
(‘‘Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2006’’).
SUMMARY: By publication of this
document, we are informing the public
of the Secretary’s acceptance and
planned recognition of certain
Healthcare Information Technology
Standards Panel (HITSP)
Interoperability Specifications for health
information technology as
interoperability standards. The
Secretary accepted these standards,
version 1.2, in December of 2006, and
intends to recognize them in the version
2.0 form in December of 2007,
presuming that changes from version 1.2
to version 2.0 are minor and of a
technical nature. This list of accepted
HITSP standards is available at https://
www.hitsp.org and click on ‘‘HITSP
Interoperability Specifications HERE’’
box.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Healthcare Information Technology
Standards Panel (HITSP) was created in
2005 to serve as a cooperative
partnership between the public and
private sectors for the purpose of
achieving a widely accepted and useful
set of standards specifically to enable
and support widespread interoperability
among healthcare software systems, as
they will interact in a local, regional,
and national health information
network in the United States.
Under a contract with the Department
of Health and Human Services, the
American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) established HITSP, following a
neutral and inclusive governance
model. HITSP is a multi-stakeholder
organization involving more than 265
different healthcare industry
organizations whose activities on these
AGENCY:
Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology;
American Health Information
Community Meeting
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Interoperability Specifications were
supported by more than 12,000
volunteer hours of effort. On October 31,
2006, HITSP presented three sets of
‘‘Interoperability Specifications’’ to the
American Health Information
Community (AHIC). The
Interoperability Specifications were
developed to advance the national
agenda for secure, interoperable health
information systems.
The AHIC is a Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) advisory body,
chartered in 2005 to make
recommendations to the Secretary on
methods for accelerating the
development and adoption of health
information technology. At the October
31, 2006, AHIC meeting, the members
discussed the first three sets of health
data and technical standards. Following
that discussion, the AHIC reached
consensus and recommended that the
Interoperability Specifications be
recognized by the Secretary.
We recognize that certain legal
obligations may flow from the
recognition of these Interoperability
Specifications. First, pursuant to
Executive Order 13410 (EO 13410)
dated August 22, 2006, recognition of
Interoperability Specifications would
require each Federal health agency, as it
implements, acquires, or upgrades
health information technology systems
used for the direct exchange of health
information between agencies and with
non-Federal entities, to ‘‘utilize, where
available, health information technology
systems and products that meet
recognized interoperability standards.’’
Therefore, Federal agencies would be
required to properly consider health
information technology systems and
products that comply with these
Interoperability Specifications when
purchasing, implementing, or upgrading
such items. Similarly, the EO 13410
directs Federal agencies to contractually
require, to the extent permitted by law,
certain entities with whom they do
business, to use, where available, health
information technology systems and
products that meet recognized
interoperability standards.
In addition, the regulations
promulgated on August 8, 2006 (see 71
FR 45140 and 71 FR 45110) established
exceptions and safe harbors to the
physician self-referral law and the antikickback statute, respectively, for
certain arrangements involving the
donation of electronic prescribing and
electronic health records (EHR)
technology and services. The EHR
exception and safe harbor require that
the software be ‘‘interoperable’’ as
defined in the regulations. The rules
also provide that certain software will
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Privacy Act of 1974; Cancellation of a System of Records
AGENCY: General Services Administration
ACTION: Cancellation of a system of records
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SUMMARY: The General Services Administration (GSA) is providing notice
of a cancelled record system, Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement
and Nonprocurement Program (GSA/OAP-1). The system was replaced by the
new system of records GSA/Govt-8 (Excluded Parties List System) which
became effective on January 4, 2007.
DATES: Effective: March 1, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Call or e-mail the GSA Privacy Act Officer:
telephone 202-208-1317; e-mail gsa.privacyact@gsa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to the Program Manager,
Integrated Acquisition Environment Program, Office of the Chief
Acquisition
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Officer, General Services Administration, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite
911, Arlington, VA 22202.
Dated: February 21, 2007
Cheryl M. Paige
Acting Director, Office of Information Management
GSA/OAP-1
System name:
Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement
Programs.
System location:
This system of records is located in the Office of Acquisition
Policy, General Services Administration, 18th and F Streets NW,
Washington, DC.
Categories of individuals covered by the system:
Individuals covered by the system are:
a. Individuals excluded from the Federal procurement or
nonprocurement programs by any Federal executive agency, or individual
sureties excluded from bid and performance bond activity;
b. Individuals, firms, sureties, or other parties referred to the
Office of Acquisition Policy by General Services Administration offices
for consideration for debarment or suspension from Federal procurement
programs or from acting as individual sureties in procurement programs.
Categories of records in the system:
Records include correspondence from Federal agencies identifying
excluded individuals, firms, or parties, and the cause for exclusion
from Federal or nonprocurement programs; and case files on individuals,
firms, or parties referred to the Office of Acquisition Policy, General
Services Administration, to consider for suspension, debarment, or
exclusion as a Federal contractor, subcontractor, or an individual
surety.
Authority for maintenance of the system:
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as
amended, 41 U.S.C. 235b; Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 9.4 and
28.2; Office of Federal Procurement Policy letter 82-1, June 24, 1982;
EO 12549, February 18, 1986; and EO 12689, August 16, 1989.
Purpose(s):
To assemble in one system information to insure that: (1) Federal
contracts and designated subcontracts are awarded to responsible firms,
individuals, and other parties; (2) responsible persons (as defined in
agency regulations implementing EO 12549) engage in covered
transactions involving Federal financial or nonfinancial assistance
programs and benefits; and (3) individual sureties for bid and
performance bonds in Federal procurement programs are responsible.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories
of users and the purposes of such uses:
a. To disclose records contracting officers and other Federal,
State, and local employees involved in procuring goods and services
with Federal funds and/or administering Federal financial or
nonfinancial assistance programs or benefits.
b. To disclose records to a Federal, State, local, or foreign
agency responsible for investigating, prosecuting, enforcing, or
carrying out a statute, rule, regulation, or order, where the records
indicate on their face or in conjunction with other records a violation
of civil or criminal law and regulation.
c. To disclose records to another Federal agency, a State or local
agency that administers Federal financial or nonfinancial assistance
programs or benefits, and the records are relevant and necessary to an
eligibility determination.
d. To disclose records for the purpose of performing a Federal duty
to an expert, consultant, contractor, State or local agency, or
financial institution.
e. To disclose information to an appeal, grievance, or formal
complaints examiner; equal employment opportunity investigator;
arbitrator; exclusive representative; or other official engaged in
investigating or settling a grievance, complaint, or appeal filed by an
employee, when these records are relevant and necessary to a
determination of the issue.
f. To disclose records to a requesting Federal agency in connection
with hiring or retaining an employee; issuing a security clearance;
reporting an employee investigation; clarifying a job; letting a
contract; or issuing a license, grant, or other benefit by the
requesting agency where the information is relevant and necessary for a
decision on a Federal financial or nonfinancial assistance program or
benefit.
g. To disclose records to a member of Congress or a congressional
staff member in response to an inquiry from that congressional office
made in behalf of a constituent, for information pertaining to that
constituent.
h. To disclose records to the Department of Justice when the
agency, any agency employee, or the United States is party to or has
interest in litigation, and using the records is relevant and necessary
for furtherance of the litigation.
i. To disclose information to a court or adjudicative body when the
agency, any agency employee, or the United States is party to or has
interest in litigation, and using the records is relevant and necessary
for the furtherance of the litigation.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining,
and disposing of records in the system:
Storage:
Paper records and machine listings in file folders; disc storage in
automated electronic system.
Retrievability:
General Services Administration case files are retrieved by case
number and name of individual or firm. Correspondence from Federal
agencies relating to entries on the ``Lists of Parties'' (Lists) is
retrieved by agency. Information from the Lists automated data base is
retrieved by name and address, Taxpayer Identification Number, Dun and
Bradstreet Number, and by action agency.
Safeguards:
Paper records stored in lockable filing cabinets or secured rooms.
Computerized records protected by I.D./password security system.
Retention and disposal:
Disposal of records is described in the HB, GSA Records Maintenance
and Disposition System (OAD P 1820.2).
System manager(s) and address:
Director, Office of GSA Acquisition Policy, General Services
Administration (VP), 18th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC 20405.
Notification procedure:
Inquiries from firms, individuals, or parties should be addressed
to the system manager.
Record access procedures:
Requests from firms and individuals should be addressed to the
system manager as noted above. For identification requirements see the
agency regulations outlined in 41 CFR part 105-64.
Contesting record procedures:
General Services Administration rules for contesting the contents
and appealing initial decisions are issued in 41 CFR part 105-64.
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Record source categories:
Federal agencies and State and local law enforcement officials.
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