Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules, 64952-64954 [E8-26037]

Download as PDF 64952 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 212 / Friday, October 31, 2008 / Notices Staff believes that there are no current start-up costs or other capital costs associated with the Regulations. Because the labeling of textile products has been an integral part of the manufacturing process for decades, manufacturers have in place the capital equipment necessary to comply with the Regulations’ labeling requirements. Industry sources indicate that much of the information required by the Textile Act and its implementing rules would be included on the product label even absent their requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping, invoicing, and advertising disclosures are tasks performed in the ordinary course of business so that covered firms would incur no additional capital or other nonlabor costs as a result of the Regulations. 4. The Care Labeling Rule, 16 CFR Part 423 (OMB Control Number: 3084-0103). The Care Labeling Rule, 16 CFR Part 423, requires manufacturers and importers to attach a permanent care label to all covered textile clothing in order to assist consumers in making purchase decisions and in determining what method to use to clean their apparel. Also, manufacturers and importers of piece goods used to make textile clothing must provide the same care information on the end of each bolt or roll of fabric. Estimated annual hours burden: 7,566,000 hours, rounded to the nearest thousand (solely relating to disclosure10). Staff estimates that approximately 26,647 manufacturers or importers of textile apparel, producing about 20.1 billion textile garments annually, are subject to the Rule’s disclosure requirements. The burden of developing proper care instructions may vary greatly among firms, primarily based on the number of different lines of textile garments introduced per year that require new or revised care instructions. Staff estimates the burden of determining care instructions to be 43 Task Estimated annual cost burden: $61,407,000, rounded to the nearest thousand (solely relating to labor costs). Hourly Rate Burden Hours Labor Cost $22.00 $16.27 $5.5512 1,145,821 53,294 6,366,667 $25,205,062 $867,093 $35,335,002 $61,407,157 Determine care instructions Draft and order labels Attach labels TOTAL 12 hours each year per respondent, for a cumulative total of 1,145,821 hours. Staff further estimates that the burden of drafting and ordering labels is 2 hours each year per respondent, for a total of 53,294 hours. Staff believes that the process of attaching labels is fully automated and integrated into other production steps for about 40 percent of the approximately 19.1 billion garments that are required to have care instructions on permanent labels.11 For the remaining 11.46 billion items (60 percent of 19.1 billion), the process is semi-automated and requires an average of approximately two seconds per item, for a total of 6,366,667 hours per year. Thus, the total estimated annual burden for all respondents is 7,565,782 hours (1,145,821 hours to determine care instructions + 53,294 hours to draft and order labels + 6,366,667 hours to attach labels). See note 5. Staff believes that there are no current start-up costs or other capital costs associated with the Rule. Because the labeling of textile products has been an integral part of the manufacturing process for decades, manufacturers have in place the capital equipment necessary to comply with the Rule’s labeling requirements. Based on knowledge of the industry, staff believes that much of the information required by the Rule would be included on the product label even absent those requirements. David C. Shonka, Acting General Counsel [FR Doc. E8–26058 Filed 10–30–08: 8:45 am] [BILLING CODE: 6750–01–S] Trans No. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual cases, to terminate this Acquiring waiting period prior to its expiration and requires that notice of this action be published in the Federal Register. The following transactions were granted early termination of the waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period. Acquired Entities Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/01/2008 ebenthall on PROD1PC60 with NOTICES 20081732 ......................... 20081805 ......................... Robert B. Cohen ............................... GTEL Holding LLC ............................ 10 The Care Labeling Rule imposes no specific recordkeeping requirements. Although the Rule requires manufacturers and importers to have reliable evidence to support the recommended care instructions, companies may provide as support VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:31 Oct 30, 2008 Jkt 217001 Dufry AG ............................................ GTEL Holdings, Inc ........................... current technical literature or rely on past experience. 11 About 1 billion of the 20.1 billion garments produced annually are either not covered by the PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Dufry AG. GTEL Holdings, Inc. Care Labeling Rule (gloves, hats, caps, and leather, fur, plastic, or leather garments) or are subject to an exemption that allows care instructions to appear on packaging (hosiery). E:\FR\FM\31OCN1.SGM 31OCN1 64953 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 212 / Friday, October 31, 2008 / Notices Trans No. Acquiring Acquired Entities Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/03/2008 20081590 ......................... Donald E. Graham ............................ General Electric Company ................ 20081749 20081804 20081807 20081808 20081810 20081813 20081826 Arch Chemicals, Inc .......................... EPCOR Power L.P ............................ Opnext, Inc ........................................ Rock Hill Telephone Company ......... ES Media Works Fund I, LP ............. DSMUS Trust .................................... Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc Rockwood Holdings, Inc .................... Mitsubishi Corporation ....................... StrataLight Communications, Inc ...... Citizens Telephone Company ........... Commonwealth Bank of Australia ..... Robert C. McNair .............................. Morgan Stanley ................................. ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... NBC Stations Management II, Inc., NBC Subsidiary, (WTVJ–TV), Inc., NBC Universal, Inc. Advantis Technologies, Inc. Morris Cogeneration, LLC. StrataLight Communications, Inc. Citizens Telephone Company. First State Media Group Limited. Stonerside Stable LLC. Morgan Stanley. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/06/2008 20081747 ......................... H&R Block, Inc .................................. Michael Dean Trust. Merriman 1965–A 20081748 ......................... H&R Block, Inc .................................. Pamela Jo Merriman 1965–A Trust .. 20081754 ......................... 20081761 ......................... H&R Block, Inc .................................. John K. Delaney ................................ H&R Block of Houston, LLC ............. CapitalSource Inc .............................. Block Management, LLC, Block, LLC, HRBO III, HRBO, LLC. Block Management, LLC, Block, LLC, HRBO III, HRBO, LLC. Houston Block, L.C. CapitalSource Inc. H&R LLC, H&R LLC, Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/07/2008 20081792 ......................... 20081799 ......................... 20081818 ......................... USPF III Leveraged Feeder, L.P ...... IHS Inc ............................................... William S. Morris III and Mary Sue Ellis Morris. Peter H. Zeliff, Sr .............................. Joseph E. Kasputys .......................... Rocco B. Commisso .......................... Innovative Energy Systems, LLC. Global Insight, Inc. SplitCo. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/09/2008 20081786 20081789 20081816 20090021 ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... Inversion Corporativa I.C., S.A ......... Zimmer Holdings, Inc ........................ ASP IV Alternative Investments, L.P Wells Fargo & Company ................... DTN Holding Company, Inc .............. Abbott Laboratories ........................... Liberty Tire Services, LLC ................. Wachovia Corporation ....................... DTN Holding Company, Inc. Abbott Spine, Inc. Liberty Tire Services, LLC. Wachovia Corporation. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/10/2008 20081830 20081831 20081832 20090013 ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... Sappi Limited ..................................... Foot Locker, Inc ................................ Enterprise Products Partners L. P .... GHL Acquisition Corp ........................ Metsaliitto Cooperative ...................... dELIA’s, Inc ....................................... EnCana Corporation .......................... Iridium Holdings LLC ......................... M-real Corporation. dELIA’s, Inc. Great Divide Gathering, LLC. Iridium Holdings LLC. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/14/2008 20081763 ......................... 20081822 ......................... 20081827 ......................... GDF SUEZ ........................................ Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation. Bank of America Corporation ............ FirstLight Power Enterprises, Inc ...... Russell Enterprises, Inc .................... FirstLight Power Enterprises, Inc. Standard Car Truck Company. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc ..................... Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/15/2008 20081800 ......................... 20081823 ......................... Kuwait Petroleum Corporation .......... Cameron International Corporation ... K-Dow Petrochemicals C.V ............... Kenneth L. Bums, II .......................... 20090006 ......................... McAfee, Inc ....................................... Secure Computing Corporation ......... K-Dow Petrochemicals C.V. Burnsco Blowout Preventer Sales & Service, Inc., Hitech, Inc. Kencoy, Inc., Melco Blowout Preventer Specialties, Inc., Townsend International BOPs, Inc. Secure Computing Corporation. Transactions Granted Early Termination—10/16/2008 ebenthall on PROD1PC60 with NOTICES 20081793 ......................... 20081794 ......................... 20090012 ......................... Altria Group, Inc ................................ The Voting Trust ................................ Equity Investor Acquisition LLC ........ UST Inc ............................................. Morgan Stanley ................................. Estate of Anthony A. Martino ............ 20090020 ......................... BTG plc ............................................. Protherics plc ..................................... For Further Information Contact: Sandra M. Peay, Contact Representative, VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:31 Oct 30, 2008 Jkt 217001 or Renee Hallman, Contact Representative, Federal Trade PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 UST Inc. Cournot Financial Products LLC. Hatboro Cosmollision, Inc., Maaco Enterprises, Inc. Protherics plc. Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room H– E:\FR\FM\31OCN1.SGM 31OCN1 64954 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 212 / Friday, October 31, 2008 / Notices 303, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326– 3100. By Direction of the Commission. Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. E8–26037 Filed 10–30–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–M DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. AGENCY: ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ‘‘AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator Interview and AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator E-mail Submission Guidelines.’’ In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August 2008 and allowed 60 days for public comment. One comment was received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. Comments on this notice must be received by December 1, 2008. DATES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer. ebenthall on PROD1PC60 with NOTICES ADDRESSES: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:31 Oct 30, 2008 Jkt 217001 Proposed Project Method of Collection ‘‘AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator Interview and AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator E-mail Submission Guidelines’’ Approximately 825 innovators associated with innovations selected for consideration will either submit their innovation through e-mail for consideration or be contacted by telephone and asked to participate. Once their agreement to participate is secured, the innovators will be interviewed by telephone as needed (email submitters will be instructed to provide specific information about their innovation in their initial submissions and may require only abbreviated telephone interviews) about the following aspects of their innovation: health care problem addressed, impetus for the innovation, goals of the innovation, description of the innovation, evaluation results for the innovation, setting for the innovation, history of planning and implementation for the innovation, and lessons learned concerning the implementation of the innovation. If the innovation is approved, a draft profile will be developed based on the information and sent by e-mail to the innovator for review and approval to publish. After the profile is published, on a yearly basis, innovators will be asked to review and update their profiles. No assurances of confidentiality will be made to the innovator. To support its objective of accelerating the diffusion and adoption of innovative health care delivery changes, see, e,g, 42 U.S.C. 299b–5(a), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is launching the AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange web site (Innovations Exchange). The Innovations Exchange will make profiles of health care service innovations accessible to the public. These innovations must meet the following six criteria: (1) The innovation focuses directly or indirectly on patient care; (2) the innovation is intended to improve one or more domains of health care quality; (3) the activity is truly innovative in the context of its setting or target population; (4) information about the innovation is publicly available; (5) the innovator (or a representative) is willing and able to contribute information to the Health Care Innovations Exchange; and (6) there is reason to believe that the innovation will be effective. These are minimum requirements. The ultimate decision to publish a detailed profile of the innovation will depend on several factors, including an evaluation by AHRQ, AHRQ’s priorities, and the number of similar ideas in the Innovations Exchange. AHRQ’s priorities include identifying and highlighting innovations that will help reduce disparities in health care and health status, that will have significant impact on the overall value of health care, where the innovators have a strong interest in participating, and that have received support from AHRQ. A purposively selected group of 825 health care innovations will be selected to be considered for the profiles that will be published on the Innovations Exchange. These 825 innovations will be selected to ensure that innovations included in the Innovations Exchange cover a broad range of health care settings, care processes, priority populations, and clinical conditions. To collect the information required for these profiles, approximately 825 health care innovators associated with these innovations will submit information on their innovation using the AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange E-mail Submission Guidelines or be contacted by project staff. Innovators will be interviewed by telephone about their innovative activities. PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Estimated Annual Respondent Burden Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the respondents. Approximately 275 innovators will participate in the initial data collection each year for a total of 825 over the three year period. Of the 275 respondents per year we estimate that approximately 15% (41) will submit information via e-mail and will thus be interviewed for a shorter period of time. The remaining 234 respondents that did not submit information via email will be interviewed more extensively to capture the information required. The estimated annualized hours for the respondents’ time to participate in the project is 401 hours. Based on a review of materials from potential innovations we estimate that approximately 10% of the candidate innovations either will not meet the inclusion criteria or their innovators will decide not to continue their participation. Therefore, about 90% (750) of the original 825 profiles will move into the publication stage. For the 750 published profiles, annual follow-up interviews will be conducted to update the information about the innovation, which will average 30 minutes. Because the profiles will be prepared on a rolling basis over three E:\FR\FM\31OCN1.SGM 31OCN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 212 (Friday, October 31, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64952-64954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-26037]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period 
Under the Premerger Notification Rules

    Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II 
of the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires 
persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the 
Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance 
notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such 
plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual 
cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and 
requires that notice of this action be published in the Federal 
Register.
    The following transactions were granted early termination of the 
waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. 
The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of 
Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to 
these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.

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              Trans No.                       Acquiring                 Acquired                 Entities
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/01/2008
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20081732.............................  Robert B. Cohen........  Dufry AG...............  Dufry AG.
20081805.............................  GTEL Holding LLC.......  GTEL Holdings, Inc.....  GTEL Holdings, Inc.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/03/2008
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20081590.............................  Donald E. Graham.......  General Electric         NBC Stations Management
                                                                 Company.                 II, Inc., NBC
                                                                                          Subsidiary, (WTVJ-TV),
                                                                                          Inc., NBC Universal,
                                                                                          Inc.
20081749.............................  Arch Chemicals, Inc....  Rockwood Holdings, Inc.  Advantis Technologies,
                                                                                          Inc.
20081804.............................  EPCOR Power L.P........  Mitsubishi Corporation.  Morris Cogeneration,
                                                                                          LLC.
20081807.............................  Opnext, Inc............  StrataLight              StrataLight
                                                                 Communications, Inc.     Communications, Inc.
20081808.............................  Rock Hill Telephone      Citizens Telephone       Citizens Telephone
                                        Company.                 Company.                 Company.
20081810.............................  ES Media Works Fund I,   Commonwealth Bank of     First State Media Group
                                        LP.                      Australia.               Limited.
20081813.............................  DSMUS Trust............  Robert C. McNair.......  Stonerside Stable LLC.
20081826.............................  Mitsubishi UFJ           Morgan Stanley.........  Morgan Stanley.
                                        Financial Group, Inc.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/06/2008
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20081747.............................  H&R Block, Inc.........  Michael Dean Merriman    Block Management, LLC,
                                                                 1965-A Trust.            H&R Block, LLC, HRBO
                                                                                          III, LLC, HRBO, LLC.
20081748.............................  H&R Block, Inc.........  Pamela Jo Merriman 1965- Block Management, LLC,
                                                                 A Trust.                 H&R Block, LLC, HRBO
                                                                                          III, LLC, HRBO, LLC.
20081754.............................  H&R Block, Inc.........  H&R Block of Houston,    Houston Block, L.C.
                                                                 LLC.
20081761.............................  John K. Delaney........  CapitalSource Inc......  CapitalSource Inc.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/07/2008
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20081792.............................  USPF III Leveraged       Peter H. Zeliff, Sr....  Innovative Energy
                                        Feeder, L.P.                                      Systems, LLC.
20081799.............................  IHS Inc................  Joseph E. Kasputys.....  Global Insight, Inc.
20081818.............................  William S. Morris III    Rocco B. Commisso......  SplitCo.
                                        and Mary Sue Ellis
                                        Morris.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/09/2008
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20081786.............................  Inversion Corporativa    DTN Holding Company,     DTN Holding Company,
                                        I.C., S.A.               Inc.                     Inc.
20081789.............................  Zimmer Holdings, Inc...  Abbott Laboratories....  Abbott Spine, Inc.
20081816.............................  ASP IV Alternative       Liberty Tire Services,   Liberty Tire Services,
                                        Investments, L.P.        LLC.                     LLC.
20090021.............................  Wells Fargo & Company..  Wachovia Corporation...  Wachovia Corporation.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/10/2008
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20081830.............................  Sappi Limited..........  Metsaliitto Cooperative  M-real Corporation.
20081831.............................  Foot Locker, Inc.......  dELIA's, Inc...........  dELIA's, Inc.
20081832.............................  Enterprise Products      EnCana Corporation.....  Great Divide Gathering,
                                        Partners L. P.                                    LLC.
20090013.............................  GHL Acquisition Corp...  Iridium Holdings LLC...  Iridium Holdings LLC.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/14/2008
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20081763.............................  GDF SUEZ...............  FirstLight Power         FirstLight Power
                                                                 Enterprises, Inc.        Enterprises, Inc.
20081822.............................  Westinghouse Air Brake   Russell Enterprises,     Standard Car Truck
                                        Technologies             Inc.                     Company.
                                        Corporation.
20081827.............................  Bank of America          Merrill Lynch & Co.,     Merrill Lynch & Co.,
                                        Corporation.             Inc.                     Inc.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/15/2008
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20081800.............................  Kuwait Petroleum         K-Dow Petrochemicals     K-Dow Petrochemicals
                                        Corporation.             C.V.                     C.V.
20081823.............................  Cameron International    Kenneth L. Bums, II....  Burnsco Blowout
                                        Corporation.                                      Preventer Sales &
                                                                                          Service, Inc., Hitech,
                                                                                          Inc. Kencoy, Inc.,
                                                                                          Melco Blowout
                                                                                          Preventer Specialties,
                                                                                          Inc., Townsend
                                                                                          International BOPs,
                                                                                          Inc.
20090006.............................  McAfee, Inc............  Secure Computing         Secure Computing
                                                                 Corporation.             Corporation.
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                               Transactions Granted Early Termination--10/16/2008
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20081793.............................  Altria Group, Inc......  UST Inc................  UST Inc.
20081794.............................  The Voting Trust.......  Morgan Stanley.........  Cournot Financial
                                                                                          Products LLC.
20090012.............................  Equity Investor          Estate of Anthony A.     Hatboro Cosmollision,
                                        Acquisition LLC.         Martino.                 Inc., Maaco
                                                                                          Enterprises, Inc.
20090020.............................  BTG plc................  Protherics plc.........  Protherics plc.
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    For Further Information Contact: Sandra M. Peay, Contact 
Representative, or Renee Hallman, Contact Representative, Federal Trade 
Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room 
H-

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    By Direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-26037 Filed 10-30-08; 8:45 am]
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