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of 1977 (CRA), 12 U.S.C. 2901, et seq.,
and record of lending to first-time
homebuyers. 12 U.S.C. 1430(g)(2). 12
CFR part 944 implements section 10(g)
of the Bank Act. See 12 CFR part 944.
The rule provides uniform community
support standards all Bank members
must meet and review criteria FHFA
staff must apply to determine
compliance with section 10(g). More
specifically, § 944.2 of the rule (12 CFR
944.2) implements the statutory
community support requirement and
requires each member selected for
review to submit a completed
Community Support Statement Form to
the FHFA. The community support
standards for the two statutory factors
are found in § 944.3 (12 CFR 944.3)—
CRA and first-time homebuyer
performance—this provision also
provides guidance to a respondent on
how it may satisfy the standards . The
procedures and criteria FHFA uses in
determining whether Bank members
satisfy the statutory and regulatory
community support requirements are
found in §§ 944.4 and 944.5 (12 CFR
944.4 through 944.5)
The information collection contained
in the Community Support Statement
Form and §§ 944.2 through 944.5 of the
rule are necessary to enable and are
used by the FHFA to determine whether
Bank members satisfy the statutory and
regulatory community support
requirements. Only Bank members that
meet these requirements may maintain
continued access to long-term Bank
advances. See 12 U.S.C. 1430(g).
The OMB number for the information
collection is 2590–0005. The OMB
clearance for the information collection
expires on September 30, 2009. The
likely respondents are institutions that
are Bank members.
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B. Burden Estimate
The FHFA estimates the total annual
average number of respondents at 4100
Bank members, with 1 response per
member. The estimate for the average
hours per response is one hour. The
estimate for the total annual hour
burden is 4100 hours (4100 members ×
1 response per member × 1 hour).
C. Comment Request
The FHFA requests written comments
on the following: (1) Whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of FHFA
functions, including whether the
information has practical utility; (2) The
accuracy of the FHFA estimates of the
burdens of the collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collected;
and (4) Ways to minimize the burden of
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the collection of information, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Dated: August 13, 2009.
James B. Lockhart III,
Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank
Holding Companies
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank
holding company. The factors that are
considered in acting on the notices are
set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12
U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the office of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than
September 2, 2009.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice
President, Applications and
Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San
Francisco, California 94105–1579:
1. Alan Isaac Rothenberg, Beverly
Hills, California; to acquire at least 10
percent of the voting shares of 1st
Century Bancshares, Inc., and thereby
indirectly acquire voting shares of 1st
Century Bank, N.A., both of Los
Angeles, California.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 13, 2009.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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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 applications 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 September 11,
2009.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414:
1. Artisan Financial Corporation,
Barrington, Illinois; to become a bank
holding company by acquiring 100
percent of the voting shares of Valley
Community Bancorp, Inc., and thereby
indirectly acquire voting shares of
Valley Community Bank, both of St.
Charles, Illinois.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 13, 2009.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Delegations of Authority
Notice is hereby given that I have
delegated to the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology
(National Coordinator) the authority
vested in the Secretary under Title XXX
of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 201 et seq.), as amended, to
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administer Subtitle B, ‘‘Incentives for
the Use of Health Information
Technology,’’ sections 3011 through
3017, with the exception of 3012(c)(5),
the Financial Support subsection.
These authorities may be redelegated.
The delegations authorize the National
Coordinator to administer the Incentives
for the Use of Health Information
Technology as provided in Subtitle B.
I hereby affirm and ratify any actions
taken by the National Coordinator or by
any other officials of the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology, which, in
effect, involved the exercise of this
authority prior to the effective date of
this delegation.
This delegation is effective upon date
of signature.
Dated: August 7, 2009.
Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Findings of Research Misconduct
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
and the Assistant Secretary for Health
have taken final action in the following
case:
Ryan M. Wolfort, M.D., Ph.D.,
Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center—Shreveport : Based on
the report of an investigation conducted
by Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center—Shreveport (LSUHSC–
S) and additional analysis conducted by
ORI in its oversight review, the U.S.
Public Health Service (PHS) found that
Dr. Ryan M. Wolfort, who was a House
Officer in the Department of Surgery,
and a former graduate student,
Department of Molecular and Cellular
Physiology, LSUHSC–S, engaged in
research misconduct in the reporting of
research supported by National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
grants R01 HL26441 and P01 HL55552.
Respondent’s research misconduct
related to his dissertation research as a
graduate student, which he undertook at
the same time that he also was serving
as a House Officer at LSUHSC–S. ORI
acknowledges Dr. Wolfort’s cooperation
with the LSUHSC–S misconduct
proceedings.
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PHS found that Dr. Wolfort engaged
in research misconduct by falsifying and
fabricating data reported in three
publications 1 and one manuscript 2 that
had been submitted for publication,
reviewed, and returned for revision.
Specifically, Dr. Wolfort falsified and
fabricated data reported in research
examining the contribution of immune
mechanisms to early oxidative stress
and endothelial dysfunction in mice
with induced dietary
hypercholesterolemia by:
1. Admittedly fabricating tabulations
and the associated statistical analyses of
RT–PCR data on Nox-2 mRNA
expression in the three publications and
the manuscript;
2. Falsifying data and the associated
statistical claims, specifically by (a)
Admittedly falsifying the measurements
of endothelial function by myographic
recordings of aortic ring dilation in
reaction to vasoactive substances in the
three papers and manuscript, (b)
admittedly falsifying the measurement
of cytokine by cytometric bead assay in
paper 3, and (c) falsifying the
measurement of superoxide production
by cytochrome c reduction in papers 1
and 2, for which the underlying
spreadsheet data the Respondent claims
were unintentionally misrepresented,
massaged, and improperly collated, but
for which Respondent acknowledges
that the raw data were missing for all
three papers, admittedly because he
intentionally erased files and discarded
notebooks.
Dr. Wolfort has entered into a
Voluntary Exclusion Agreement in
which he has voluntarily agreed, for a
period of two (2) years, beginning on
July 13, 2009:
1 Wolfort, R.M., Stokes, K.Y., & Granger, D.N.
‘‘CN4+ T lymphocytes mediate
hypercholesterolemia-induced endothelial
dysfunction via a NAD(P)H oxidase-dependent
mechanism.’’ Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
294:H2619–H2626, 2008; hereafter referred to as
‘‘paper 1.’’ Identified for retraction.
Wolfort, R.M., Manriquez, R., Stokes, K.Y., &
Granger, D.N. ‘‘Platelet-derived RANTES mediates
hypercholesterolemia-induced superoxide
production and endothelial dysfunction.’’
Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. Vol. 28 (pages
unavailable), as Epub 2008, July 17; hereafter
referred to as ‘‘paper 2.’’ Identified for retraction.
Wolfort, R.M., Stokes, K.Y., & Granger, D.N.
‘‘Immune cell-mediated endothelial cell
dysfunction during hypercholesterolemia involves
interferon-g dependent signaling.’’ Am J Physiol
Heart Circ Physiol, as Epub 2008, September 5;
hereafter referred to as ‘‘paper 3.’’ Retracted in Am
J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 295(5):H2219, 2008
November.
2 Manuscript submitted to the journal Free
Radicals in Biology and Medicine, by Ryan M.
Wolfort, Katherine C. Wood, Robert P. Hebbel, and
Neil Granger, ‘‘Mechanisms underlying the
vasomotor dysfunction in sickle transgenic mice,’’
Ms Number FRBM–D–08–00454; hereafter referred
to as the ‘‘FRBM’’ manuscript.
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(1) To exclude himself from any
contracting or subcontracting with any
agency of the United States Government
and from eligibility or involvement in
nonprocurement programs of the United
States pursuant to HHS’ Implementation
(2 CFR part 276 et seq.) of OMB
Guidelines to Agencies on Government
wide Debarment and Suspension (2
CFR, part 180); and
(2) To exclude himself from serving in
any advisory capacity to PHS, including
but not limited to service on any PHS
advisory committee, board, and/or peer
review committee, or as a consultant.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director, Division of Investigative
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity,
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750,
Rockville, MD 20852. (240) 453–8800.
John Dahlberg,
Director, Division of Investigative Oversight,
Office of Research Integrity.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Interest Rate on Overdue
Debts
Section 30.18 of the Department of
Health and Human Services’ claims
collection regulations (45 CFR Part 30)
provides that the Secretary shall charge
an annual rate of interest as fixed by the
Secretary of the Treasury after taking
into consideration private consumer
rates of interest prevailing on the date
that HHS becomes entitled to recovery.
The rate generally cannot be lower than
the Department of Treasury’s current
value of funds rate or the applicable rate
determined from the ‘‘Schedule of
Certified Interest Rates with Range of
Maturities.’’ This rate may be revised
quarterly by the Secretary of the
Treasury and shall be published
quarterly by the Department of Health
and Human Services in the Federal
Register.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
certified a rate of 111⁄4% for the quarter
ended June 30, 2009. This interest rate
will remain in effect until such time as
the Secretary of the Treasury notifies
HHS of any change.
Dated: August 6, 2009.
Molly P. Dawson,
Director, Office of Financial Policy and
Reporting.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Delegations of Authority
Notice is hereby given that I have delegated to the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (National Coordinator)
the authority vested in the Secretary under Title XXX of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), as amended, to
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administer Subtitle B, ``Incentives for the Use of Health Information
Technology,'' sections 3011 through 3017, with the exception of
3012(c)(5), the Financial Support subsection.
These authorities may be redelegated. The delegations authorize the
National Coordinator to administer the Incentives for the Use of Health
Information Technology as provided in Subtitle B.
I hereby affirm and ratify any actions taken by the National
Coordinator or by any other officials of the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which, in effect,
involved the exercise of this authority prior to the effective date of
this delegation.
This delegation is effective upon date of signature.
Dated: August 7, 2009.
Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary.
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