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the Board believes this obviates the
need for notarization. The second
recommendation was to use a website
for submissions to minimize burden.
The Board currently allows submission
of the FR Y–12 and FR Y–12A by mail
or electronically via the Federal Reserve
System’s Reporting Central application,
so the Board does not believe an
additional electronic submission
mechanism is necessary. The third
recommendation was to ensure that
respondents are aware of exactly which
information must be reported, and the
reasons that this information is
required. Board staff has strived to draft
instructions for the FR Y–12 and FR Y–
12A reports that are as clear as possible
and will continue to explore ways to
increase the clarity of those instructions.
The Board’s public OMB supporting
statements and Federal Register notices
regarding the FR Y–12 and FR Y–12A
reports explain that the information
collected by the reports is necessary for
the Board to carry out its
responsibilities of supervising holding
companies and maintaining U.S.
financial stability.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414:
1. Noel A. Radcliffe, Hillsboro,
Wisconsin; Richard A. Radcliffe, Sparta,
Wisconsin; Robin W. Radcliffe,
Brooktondale, New York; and Rolfe M.
Radcliffe, Berkshire, New York, each
individually and acting in concert; to
acquire voting shares of BRAD, Inc., and
thereby indirectly acquire shares of
Black River Country Bank, both of Black
River Falls, Wisconsin.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice
President) 2200 North Pearl Street,
Dallas, Texas 75201–2272:
1. City Bank and Kendra B. Lane, both
of Lubbock, Texas, as Trustees of the
South Plains Financial, Inc., Employee
Stock Ownership Plan, Lubbock, Texas
(‘ESOP’) and Robert C. Dean, and
Kendra B. Lane, all of Lubbock, Texas,
as members of the ESOP Investment
Committee; to acquire voting shares of
the ESOP and thereby indirectly acquire
South Plains Financial, Inc., and City
Bank, both of Lubbock, Texas.
The revisions to the FR Y–12 and FR
Y–12A will be implemented as
proposed.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 27, 2019.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 26, 2019.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James F. Mongoven (202–326–2879),
Bureau of Competition, Office of Policy
and Coordination.
(Authority: 15 U.S.C. § 19(a)(5))
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for
Section 7a of the Clayton Act
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Federal Trade Commission.
Notice.
The Federal Trade
Commission announces the revised
thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976
required by the 2000 amendment of
Section 7A of the Clayton Act.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
April 3, 2019.
Nora Whitehead (202–326–3100),
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of
Competition, Premerger Notification
Office, 400 7th Street SW, Room 5301,
Washington, DC 20024.
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the offices 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 March
19, 2019.
DATES:
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The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (‘‘Act’’) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j))
and § 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation
Y (12 CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of
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)).
Section 8(a)(1), and $3,656,400 for
Section 8(a)(2)(A).
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Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
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The Federal Trade
Commission announces the revised
thresholds for interlocking directorates
required by the 1990 amendment of
Section 8 of the Clayton Act. Section 8
prohibits, with certain exceptions, one
person from serving as a director or
officer of two competing corporations if
two thresholds are met. Competitor
corporations are covered by Section 8 if
each one has capital, surplus, and
undivided profits aggregating more than
$10,000,000, with the exception that no
corporation is covered if the competitive
sales of either corporation are less than
$1,000,000. Section 8(a)(5) requires the
Federal Trade Commission to revise
those thresholds annually, based on the
change in gross national product. The
new thresholds, which take effect
immediately, are $36,564,000 for
SUMMARY:
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Section
7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as
added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,
Public Law 94–435, 90 Stat. 1390 (‘‘the
Act’’), requires all persons
contemplating certain mergers or
acquisitions, which meet or exceed the
jurisdictional thresholds in the Act, to
file notification with the Commission
and the Assistant Attorney General and
to wait a designated period of time
before consummating such transactions.
Section 7A(a)(2) requires the Federal
Trade Commission to revise those
thresholds annually, based on the
change in gross national product, in
accordance with Section 8(a)(5). Note
that while the filing fee thresholds are
revised annually, the actual filing fees
are not similarly indexed and, as a
result, have not been adjusted for
inflation in over a decade. The new
thresholds, which take effect 30 days
after publication in the Federal
Register, are as follows:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Original
threshold
(million)
Subsection of 7A
7A(a)(2)(A) ...............................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(i) ............................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(i) ............................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i) ........................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i) ........................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II) .......................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II) .......................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III) ......................................................................................................................................................
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III) ......................................................................................................................................................
Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees 1 (3)(b)(1) .................................................................
Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2) ....................................................................
Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2) ....................................................................
Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(3) ....................................................................
1 Public
$200
50
200
10
100
10
100
100
10
100
100
500
500
Adjusted
threshold
(million
$359.9
90
359.9
18
180
18
180
180
18
180
180
899.8
899.8
Law 106–553, Sec. 630(b) amended Sec. 18a note.
Any reference to these thresholds and
related thresholds and limitation values
in the HSR rules (16 CFR parts 801–803)
and the Antitrust Improvements Act
Notification and Report Form (‘‘the HSR
Form’’) and its Instructions will also be
adjusted, where indicated by the term
‘‘(as adjusted)’’, as follows:
Original threshold
Adjusted
threshold
(million)
$10 million ............................
$50 million ............................
$100 million ..........................
$110 million ..........................
$200 million ..........................
$500 million ..........................
$1 billion ...............................
$18
90
180
198
359.9
899.8
1,799.5
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
Proposed Project
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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.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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: ‘‘Online
Application Order Form for Products
from the Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project (HCUP).’’
SUMMARY:
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This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on December 18, 2018 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
AHRQ received no substantive
comments from members of the public.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by April 3, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk
officer).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Online Application Order Form for
Products From the Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project (HCUP)
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization
Project (HCUP, pronounced ‘‘H-Cup’’) is
a vital resource helping the Agency
achieve its research agenda, thereby
furthering its goal of improving the
delivery of health care in the United
States. HCUP is a family of health care
databases and related software tools and
products developed through a FederalState-Industry partnership and
sponsored by AHRQ. HCUP includes
the largest collection of longitudinal
hospital care data in the United States,
with all-payer, encounter-level
information beginning in 1988. The
HCUP databases are annual files that
contain anonymous information from
hospital discharge records for inpatient
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care and certain components of
outpatient care, such as emergency care
and ambulatory surgeries. The project
currently releases seven types of
databases created for research use on a
broad range of health issues, including
cost and quality of health services,
medical practice patterns, access to
health care programs, and outcomes of
treatments at the national, State, and
local market levels. HCUP also produces
a large number of software tools to
enhance the use of administrative health
care data for research and public health
use. Software tools use information
available from a variety of sources to
create new data elements, often through
sophisticated algorithms, for use with
the HCUP databases.
HCUP’s objectives are to:
• Create and enhance a powerful
source of national, state, and all-payer
health care data.
• Produce a broad set of software
tools and products to facilitate the use
of HCUP and other administrative data.
• Enrich a collaborative partnership
with statewide data organizations (that
voluntarily participate in the project)
aimed at increasing the quality and use
of health care data.
• Conduct and translate research to
inform decision making and improve
health care delivery.
This project is being conducted by
AHRQ through its primary contractor
and subcontractor, IBM Watson Health
and Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.,
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct and support research on
health care and on systems for the
delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to the outcomes,
cost, cost-effectiveness, and use of
health care services and access to such
services. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(3).
Method of Collection
The HCUP releases seven types of
databases for public research use:
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7a of the Clayton
Act
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission announces the revised thresholds
for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 required
by the 2000 amendment of Section 7A of the Clayton Act.
DATES: April 3, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Whitehead (202-326-3100), Federal
Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, Premerger Notification Office,
400 7th Street SW, Room 5301, Washington, DC 20024.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
18a, as added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976, Public Law 94-435, 90 Stat. 1390 (``the Act''), requires all
persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions, which meet or
exceed the jurisdictional thresholds in the Act, to file notification
with the Commission and the Assistant Attorney General and to wait a
designated period of time before consummating such transactions.
Section 7A(a)(2) requires the Federal Trade Commission to revise those
thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product, in
accordance with Section 8(a)(5). Note that while the filing fee
thresholds are revised annually, the actual filing fees are not
similarly indexed and, as a result, have not been adjusted for
inflation in over a decade. The new thresholds, which take effect 30
days after publication in the Federal Register, are as follows:
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Original Adjusted
Subsection of 7A threshold threshold
(million) (million
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7A(a)(2)(A)............................. $200 $359.9
7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 50 90
7A(a)(2)(B)(i).......................... 200 359.9
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 10 18
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(i)...................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 10 18
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II)..................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 100 180
7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III).................... 10 18
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 180
Collection of Filing Fees \1\ (3)(b)(1)
Section 7A note: Assessment and 100 180
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 899.8
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2)....
Section 7A note: Assessment and 500 899.8
Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(3)....
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\1\ Public Law 106-553, Sec. 630(b) amended Sec. 18a note.
Any reference to these thresholds and related thresholds and
limitation values in the HSR rules (16 CFR parts 801-803) and the
Antitrust Improvements Act Notification and Report Form (``the HSR
Form'') and its Instructions will also be adjusted, where indicated by
the term ``(as adjusted)'', as follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adjusted
Original threshold threshold
(million)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$10 million............................................. $18
$50 million............................................. 90
$100 million............................................ 180
$110 million............................................ 198
$200 million............................................ 359.9
$500 million............................................ 899.8
$1 billion.............................................. 1,799.5
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By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
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