Board of Scientific Counselors, Ecological Research Program Mid-Cycle Review Meetings-Spring 2007, 14276-14277 [E7-5581]

Download as PDF sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES 14276 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 58 / Tuesday, March 27, 2007 / Notices and displayed either by publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. Abstract: The EPA is required under section 183(e) of the Clean Air Act to regulate volatile organic compound emissions from the use of consumer and commercial products. Pursuant to section 183(e)(3), the EPA published a list of consumer and commercial products and a schedule for their regulation (60 FR 15264). Automobile refinish coatings were included on the list, and the standards for such coatings are codified at 40 CFR part 59, subpart B. The reports required under the standards enable EPA to identify all coating and coating component manufacturers and importers in the United States and to determine which coatings and coating components are subject to the standards, based on dates of manufacture. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 3.5 hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Respondents/Affected Entities: Manufacturers and importers of automobile refinish coatings and coating components. Estimated Number of Respondents: 4. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 14. Estimated Total Annual Cost: $940 including $0 in capital or O&M costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:38 Mar 26, 2007 Jkt 211001 Dated: March 12, 2007. Oscar Morales, Director, Collection Strategies Division. [FR Doc. E7–4927 Filed 3–26–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0243; FRL–8292–2] Board of Scientific Counselors, Ecological Research Program MidCycle Review Meetings—Spring 2007 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of meetings. AGENCY: SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92–463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of three meetings of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Eco Mid-Cycle Subcommittee. The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The second meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on Tuesday, May 8, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The third meeting (face-to-face meeting) will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. All times noted are eastern time. The meetings may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meetings will be accepted up to 1 business day before each meeting. ADDRESSES: Participation in the conference calls will be by teleconference only—meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the public may obtain the call-in number and access code for the calls from Heather Drumm, whose contact information is listed under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The face to face meeting will be held at the Newport Harbor Hotel and Marina, 49 America’s Cup Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island 02840. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0243, by one of the following methods: • https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments. • E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0243. • Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566– 0224, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– HQ–ORD–2007–0243. DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 • Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific Counselors, Ecological Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting—Spring 2007 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– ORD–2007–0243. • Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket Center (EPA/ DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0243. Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only accepted during the docket’s normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007– 0243. EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at https:// www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as E:\FR\FM\27MRN1.SGM 27MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 58 / Tuesday, March 27, 2007 / Notices copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific Counselors, Ecological Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting—Spring 2007 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and the telephone number for the ORD Docket is (202) 566–1752. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via mail at: Heather Drumm, Mail Drop 8104–R, Office of Science Policy, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: (202) 564–8239; via fax at: (202) 565– 2911; or via e-mail at: drumm.heather@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES General Information Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC agenda or making a presentation at either meeting may contact Heather Drumm, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to a total of three minutes. Proposed agenda items for the meetings include, but are not limited to: Teleconference #1: the objectives of the review; an overview of ORD’s ecological research program; a summary of major changes in the ecological research program since 2005; Teleconference #2: an update on the revised Ecological Multi-Year Plan; face-to-face meeting: the ecological research program’s progress in response to recommendations from its 2005 BOSC review and other activities, subcommittee discussions. The meetings are open to the public. Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, please contact Heather Drumm at (202) 564– 8239 or drumm.heather@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:38 Mar 26, 2007 Jkt 211001 Dated: March 19, 2007. Rebecca Calderon, Acting Director, Office of Science Policy. [FR Doc. E7–5581 Filed 3–26–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 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 (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 April 20, 2007. A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (David Tatum, Vice President) 1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309: 1. First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc., Hammond, Louisiana; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of First Guaranty Bank, Hammond, Louisiana. 2. Independent Bancshares, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, to become a bank holding company by retaining 25.76 percent of the voting shares of Independent Bancshares, Inc., and Community Spirit Bank, all of Red Bay, Alabama, and Spirit Bancshares, PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 14277 Inc., and Spirit Bank, both of Belmont, Mississippi. B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198–0001: 1. BOK Financial Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; to acquire, through its subsidiary BOKF Merger Corporation Number Twelve, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 100 percent of the voting shares of Worth Bancorporation, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Worth National Bank, both in Lake Worth, Texas. Immediately thereafter, BOKF Merger Corporation Number Twelve, Tulsa, Oklahoma, will merge into Worth Bancorporation, Inc., Lake Worth, Texas. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 22, 2007. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E7–5553 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; The Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting (BSC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the following meeting of the aforementioned committee: Time and Date: 9 a.m.–3 p.m., May 10, 2007. Place: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20001. Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people. Purpose: The Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and by delegation, the Director, CDC, are authorized under Sections 301 and 308 of the Public Health Service Act to conduct directly or by grants or contracts, research, experiments, and demonstrations relating to occupational safety and health and to mine health. The BSC shall provide guidance to the Director, NIOSH, on research and prevention programs. Specifically, the Board shall provide guidance on the Institute’s research activities related to developing and evaluating hypotheses, and systematically documenting findings and disseminating results. The Board shall evaluate the degree to which the activities of NIOSH: (1) Conform to appropriate scientific E:\FR\FM\27MRN1.SGM 27MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14276-14277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-5581]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0243; FRL-8292-2]


Board of Scientific Counselors, Ecological Research Program Mid-
Cycle Review Meetings--Spring 2007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of three meetings of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Eco Mid-Cycle Subcommittee.

DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on 
Thursday, April 26, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The second meeting (a 
teleconference call) will be held on Tuesday, May 8, from 12 p.m. to 2 
p.m. The third meeting (face-to-face meeting) will be held on 
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. All times noted are 
eastern time. The meetings may adjourn early if all business is 
finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral 
presentations at the meetings will be accepted up to 1 business day 
before each meeting.

ADDRESSES: Participation in the conference calls will be by 
teleconference only--meeting rooms will not be used. Members of the 
public may obtain the call-in number and access code for the calls from 
Heather Drumm, whose contact information is listed under the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The face to face 
meeting will be held at the Newport Harbor Hotel and Marina, 49 
America's Cup Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island 02840. Submit your 
comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0243, by one of 
the following methods:
     https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0243.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0243.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Ecological Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--Spring 2007 
Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0243.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0243. Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0243. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to 
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, 
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information 
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, 
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part 
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available 
on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends 
that you include your name and other contact information in the body of 
your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read 
your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic 
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as

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copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Ecological Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--Spring 2007 
Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone 
number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone 
number for the ORD Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 
mail at: Heather Drumm, Mail Drop 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice mail 
at: (202) 564-8239; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
drumm.heather@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

    Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC 
agenda or making a presentation at either meeting may contact Heather 
Drumm, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact methods 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In 
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to 
a total of three minutes.
    Proposed agenda items for the meetings include, but are not limited 
to: Teleconference #1: the objectives of the review; an overview of 
ORD's ecological research program; a summary of major changes in the 
ecological research program since 2005; Teleconference #2: an update on 
the revised Ecological Multi-Year Plan; face-to-face meeting: the 
ecological research program's progress in response to recommendations 
from its 2005 BOSC review and other activities, subcommittee 
discussions. The meetings are open to the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Heather Drumm at (202) 564-8239 or 
drumm.heather@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please 
contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least 10 days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: March 19, 2007.
Rebecca Calderon,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. E7-5581 Filed 3-26-07; 8:45 am]
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