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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 162 / Monday, August 22, 2011 / Notices
Dated: August 17, 2011.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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[FR Doc. 2011–21324 Filed 8–19–11; 8:45 am]
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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
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.
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 16,
2011.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice
President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198–0001:
1. American State Bancshares, Inc.,
Great Bend, Kansas; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of Rose Hill
Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly
acquire voting shares of Rose Hill Bank,
both in Rose Hill, Kansas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 17, 2011.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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Office of Policy and Planning
(OPP), Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Preparedness and Response (ASPR),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
In FY2011, HHS/ASPR/OPP
plans to provide a Single Source
Cooperative Agreement Award to GMI
to strengthen Panama’s laboratory
diagnostic capacity for emerging
infectious disease threats including
select bio-terrorism agents and novel
influenza viruses. The amount of Single
Source award is $200,000. The project
period is: September 30, 2011 to
September 29, 2012.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ASPR will exercise sole
administrative oversight of this
cooperative agreement. ASPR will also
collaborate with HHS–Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to
coordinate the provision of technical
expertise needed for GMI to become a
member of the LRN. GMI will then
implement critical laboratory diagnostic
capacities, including personnel training
and infrastructure improvement to meet
the standards to become an
international affiliate of LRN.
This collaboration seeks to expand the
laboratory diagnostic capacity of
Panama and the Central American
Region as GMI is a national and regional
reference laboratory for several
infectious diseases. The work will be
performed to support the
implementation of the World Health
Organization (WHO)’s International
Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] in
Panama and in the context of Article 44
of the IHR (2005), which directs State
Parties to collaborate with each other to
detect, assess, and respond to events,
and to develop, strengthen, and
maintain core capacities for disease
surveillance and response to public
health emergencies.
SUMMARY:
Single Source Justification
GMI is a public health institution
within the Ministry of Health of Panama
which provides research, public health
services and advice on public health
policy development. It was created in
1928 and was primarily funded by the
United State Government (USG) until
1991. GMI was named after General
William Crawford Gorgas, the U.S.
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Army physician who managed control
efforts of yellow fever, malaria and other
diseases during the building of the
Panama Canal. GMI contributes to
improve the health of the population of
Panama and Central America by acting
as a national reference public health
laboratory to diagnose diseases like
yellow fever, malaria, measles,
tuberculosis, arbovirus febrile illness,
viral encephalitidies, influenza, dengue,
hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome,
and all endemic viral and bacterial
diseases. Most recently GMI became a
World Bank-Pan-American Health
Organization reference laboratory for
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
for the Central American region. GMI
has well-established laboratories of
virology, parasitology, immunology,
genomics, entomology and food and
water chemistry. GMI also has
departments of epidemiology and
biostatistics, chronic disease studies,
health policy, and health and human
reproduction studies. This
infrastructure positions GMI as a key
institution in Panama’s national
research and public health systems.
In 2006, GMI signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) with HHS to
identify joint opportunities to improve
preparedness for and response to
infectious diseases, placing specific
emphasis on influenza and other
respiratory diseases. To further the goals
of the MOU, GMI was awarded two
cooperative agreements by HHS–ASPR
to increase its virology diagnostic
capacity and strengthen the surveillance
of influenza virus in Panama and
Central American, and to develop a
Regional Health Care Training Center
(RHCTC) for health care workers of the
Central American and Caribbean region.
These cooperative agreements helped to
establish the first country-wide sentinel
influenza surveillance network, and a
BSL–3 laboratory virology suite that was
built and inaugurated in 2010. In
addition, complementary
epidemiological and laboratory training
efforts took place at the RHCTC
benefitting more than 5,000
professionals from Panama, Belize,
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua, and
Dominican Republic. Based on the
capacities developed under these
projects, the GMI was designated as
Panama’s ‘‘National Influenza Center’’
by the World Health Organization
(WHO).
By supporting GMI to become a
qualified member of the LRN, the USG
will increase its international network
of laboratories that are fully equipped to
detect, assess and report the outbreak of
emerging infectious diseases including
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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.
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 16, 2011.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. American State Bancshares, Inc., Great Bend, Kansas; to acquire
100 percent of the voting shares of Rose Hill Bancorp, Inc., and
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Rose Hill Bank, both in
Rose Hill, Kansas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 17,
2011.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2011-21339 Filed 8-19-11; 8:45 am]
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