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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 August 27,
2007.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of New
York (Anne MacEwen, Bank
Applications Officer) 33 Liberty Street,
New York, New York 10045-0001:
1. Allied Irish Banks, plc, Dublin,
Ireland; to acquire additional shares of
M&T Bank Corporation, Buffalo, New
York, for a total of 29 percent, and
thereby indirectly control M&T Bank,
National Association, Oakfield, New
York, and M&T Trust Company, Buffalo,
New York.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice
President) 701 East Byrd Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
1. Blue Ridge Financial Corporation;
to become a bank holding company by
acquiring 100 percent of the voting
shares of Blue Ridge Bank of Walhalla,
both of Walhalla, South Carolina.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(David Tatum, Vice President) 1000
Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30309:
1. FBC Bancorp, Inc., Orlando,
Florida; to acquire 100 percent of the
voting shares of Prime Bank, Melbourne,
Florida.
D. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Sidney Bancorp.; to become a bank
holding company by acquiring 100
percent of the voting shares of Sidney
State Bank, both of Sidney, Michigan.
E. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W.
Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 752012272:
1. Mineola Community Mutual
Holding Company, and Mineola
Community Financial Group, Inc., to
become bank holding companies by
acquiring 100 percent of the voting
shares of Mineola Community Bank,
S.S.B., all of Mineola, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 30, 2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: OS–0990–0000; 30day notice]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of the Secretary (OS), Department
of Health and Human Services, is
publishing the following summary of a
proposed collection for public
comment. Interested persons are invited
to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection
Title of Information Collection:
Homelessness Data for Health and
Human Services Mainstream Programs
Form/OMB No.: 0990–0000
Use: The Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
will study data collection practices by
Temporary Assistant for Needy Families
(TANF) and Medicaid state programs
regarding homelessness and housing
status. Telephone interviews will be
conducted with state officials from all
50 states and the District of Columbia
who administer the TANF and Medicaid
programs to collect information about
the type and quality of data related to
homelessness and housing status that
are collected from and recorded about
TANF and Medicaid applicants. This
information will be used to determine
whether these two HHS mainstream
programs are collecting information
from program applicants and/or
participants regarding their housing
status.
Frequency: One time
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal Government
Annual Number of Respondents: 102
Total Annual Responses: 102
Average Burden per Response: 60
minutes
Total Annual Hours: 102
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To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, e-mail your request,
including your address, phone number,
OMB number, and OS document
identifier, to
Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call
the Reports Clearance Office on (202)
690–6162. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collections must be
received within 30 days of this notice
directly to the Desk Officer at the
address below: OMB Desk Officer: John
Kraemer, OMB Human Resources and
Housing Branch, Attention: (OMB
#0990–0000), New Executive Office
Building, Room 10235, Washington DC
20503.
Date: July 25, 2007.
Seleda Perryman,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction
Act Reports Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology;
American Health Information
Community; Announcement of Public
Comment Period About the Design and
Implementation of the American Health
Information Community Successor
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
public comment period, from August 6,
2007 to August 31, 2007, to collect input
about ideas for the design and
implementation of a successor entity for
the American Health Information
Community (AHIC) as described in the
American Health Information
Community Successor White paper, July
2007 (available on the Web at https://
www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/
background/AHICsuccessor. html on or
after July 31, 2007).
The ANIC is a federally-chartered
advisory committee that provides input
and recommendations to the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) on how to make health
records digital and interoperable, and
how to assure that the privacy and
security of those records are protected.
The charter of the AHIC requires that its
responsibilities be transferred to a
successor entity. Therefore, HHS and
the AHIC are embarking upon a project
that will take the AHIC to the next level.
The successor entity will be an
independent, sustainable public-private
partnership that brings together the best
of the public and private sectors. This
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new public-private partnership will
develop a unified approach to realize an
effective, interoperable nationwide
health information system that supports
the health and well-being of the people
of this country. The input from this
public comment period will be used to
inform the plans for transitioning the
locus of activity from a Federal advisory
committee to a independent publicprivate partnership.
HHS and the AHIC are eager to hear
the thoughts of your organization with
respect to the AHIC successor entity. To
facilitate your participation in this
process, you are encouraged to provide
your comments organized by the
following concepts:
• Purpose and scope of the successor
entity
• Membership, including classes and
sectors
• Governing body and decisionmaking process
• Protections, incorporation,
management, and staffing
• Value of participation in the
successor entity for stakeholders
All comments in any format will be
accepted.
Comments should be received by
the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology,
Department of Health and Human
Services, on or before 5 p.m. EST on
August 31, 2007.
DATES:
electronic responses are
preferred and may be recorded via the
Web site at https://www.hhs.gov/
healthit/commhnity/background/
AHICsuccessor.html or may be sent via
e-mail addressed to
AHICsuccessor@hhs.gov in the Office of
the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology, Department of
Health and Human Services. Please
include ‘‘AHIC Successor White Paper
Comments’’ in the subject line.
Paper-based responses will also be
accepted. Please send to: Office of the
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology, Department of
Health and Human Services, Attention:
AHIC Successor White Paper
Comments, Mary C. Switzer Building,
330 C Street, SW., Room 4080,
Washington, DC 20201, or fax to (202)
690–6079, Attention: AHIC Successor
White Paper Comments.
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ADDRESSES:
Visit https://
www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/
background/AHICsuccessor.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
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Dated: July 27, 2007.
Michelle Murray,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office
of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60–Day–07–07BN]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and
send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar,
CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Pilot Project to Estimate the Incidence
of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection
Among Young Injection Drug Users
(IDUs) Using Serial Cross-Sectional
Seroprevalence Surveys—New—
National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
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Background and Brief Description
Hepatitis C is the most prevalent
bloodborne infection in the United
States; approximately 3.2 million
persons are chronically infected with
HCV. National recommendations for
prevention and control of HCV infection
emphasize primary prevention activities
to reduce the risk of HCV transmission.
Identifying and reaching persons at risk
for HCV infection to provide riskreduction counseling is thus critical to
prevent infection. Currently the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) monitors the national incidence
of acute hepatitis C through passive
surveillance of acute, symptomatic cases
of laboratory confirmed hepatitis C.
However, only a minority of people
with acute infection have symptoms at
all (<25%) and passive surveillance
only captures a small fraction of acutely
infected people, i.e., those who have
symptoms and receive medical attention
and appropriate laboratory testing
during the acute phase of the disease.
Injection drug users (IDUs), who are the
primary risk group for acute hepatitis C
(70% of identified acute cases), have
additional barriers to health care access
and/or utilization resulting in the
potential for a further underestimation
of overall incidence. Thus, it is
necessary to consider strategies other
than passive surveillance for incidence
monitoring. One such strategy is to
conduct Serial Cross-Sectional
Seroprevalence Surveys (SCSS) among
populations at increased risk of
infection such as IDUs.
For the proposed pilot project,
funding will be awarded to selected U.S.
sites that will develop and test different
methods to recruit a sample of young
IDUs that is most representative of the
population of young IDUs at risk for
HCV infection. These sampling methods
will be compared and contrasted to
identify a methodology to be used in
ongoing SCSSs among young IDUs.
Better methods of identification of
persons at risk will enhance current
surveillance efforts to monitor the
incidence of HCV infection which in
turn are the best means to direct and
assess primary prevention strategies,
determine new transmission patterns,
and identify and control outbreaks.
Moreover, methods developed in this
study can be used in other areas to
gather representative data on incidence
of acute disease and the burden of
disease caused by HCV infection.
In addition, instruments for collecting
behavioral/risk factor data from IDUs
will be developed and pilot tested. It is
estimated that data will be collected
over 15 months from a total of 2000
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology; American Health Information Community; Announcement of
Public Comment Period About the Design and Implementation of the
American Health Information Community Successor
SUMMARY: This notice announces a public comment period, from August 6,
2007 to August 31, 2007, to collect input about ideas for the design
and implementation of a successor entity for the American Health
Information Community (AHIC) as described in the American Health
Information Community Successor White paper, July 2007 (available on
the Web at https://www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/background/
AHICsuccessor. html on or after July 31, 2007).
The ANIC is a federally-chartered advisory committee that provides
input and recommendations to the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) on how to make health records digital and interoperable,
and how to assure that the privacy and security of those records are
protected. The charter of the AHIC requires that its responsibilities
be transferred to a successor entity. Therefore, HHS and the AHIC are
embarking upon a project that will take the AHIC to the next level. The
successor entity will be an independent, sustainable public-private
partnership that brings together the best of the public and private
sectors. This
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new public-private partnership will develop a unified approach to
realize an effective, interoperable nationwide health information
system that supports the health and well-being of the people of this
country. The input from this public comment period will be used to
inform the plans for transitioning the locus of activity from a Federal
advisory committee to a independent public-private partnership.
HHS and the AHIC are eager to hear the thoughts of your
organization with respect to the AHIC successor entity. To facilitate
your participation in this process, you are encouraged to provide your
comments organized by the following concepts:
Purpose and scope of the successor entity
Membership, including classes and sectors
Governing body and decision-making process
Protections, incorporation, management, and staffing
Value of participation in the successor entity for
stakeholders
All comments in any format will be accepted.
DATES: Comments should be received by the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and
Human Services, on or before 5 p.m. EST on August 31, 2007.
ADDRESSES: electronic responses are preferred and may be recorded via
the Web site at https://www.hhs.gov/healthit/commhnity/background/
AHICsuccessor.html or may be sent via e-mail addressed to
AHICsuccessor@hhs.gov in the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services.
Please include ``AHIC Successor White Paper Comments'' in the subject
line.
Paper-based responses will also be accepted. Please send to: Office
of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,
Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: AHIC Successor
White Paper Comments, Mary C. Switzer Building, 330 C Street, SW., Room
4080, Washington, DC 20201, or fax to (202) 690-6079, Attention: AHIC
Successor White Paper Comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Visit https://www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/
background/AHICsuccessor.html.
Dated: July 27, 2007.
Michelle Murray,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
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