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**NATIONAL FORUM** 5/14/07

**Function, Form, and Meaning: Design Excellence in Federal
Courthouses**

June 1, 2007 from 8:30 am -- 5:00 pm

Amphitheater

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

**PROGRAM SESSIONS**

**Welcome and Statement of Purpose** David L. Winstead, Commissioner

Public Buildings Service

**History of Design Excellence Program** Les Shepherd, GSA Chief
Architect

**and Courthouse Construction Program**

**Design Excellence Courthouse Portfolio** Robert Campbell, Architecture
Critic

*The* *Boston Globe*

**The Contemporary Federal Courthouse:** Judge Michael R. Hogan, U.S.

**An Architecture of Our Time** District Court for the District of
Oregon

> Thomas Gordon Smith,
>
> GSA Architecture Fellow

**Break**

**New Voices/Emerging Talent** *Co-moderators*

Hugh Hardy, H3 Collaboration Architecture

Robert A.M. Stern, Robert A.M. Stern

Architects

*Panelists*

Karen Bausman, Karen\
Bausman + Associates

> Braulio Casas, Opticos Architecture
>
> James C. McCrery II, McCrery Architects
>
> Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture,
> Planning and Preservation

**Lunch** *Atrium Ballroom*

**Keynote Address** Justice Stephen Breyer,

> Supreme Court of the United States

**Special Recognition Award** Lurita Doan, Administrator, U.S.

General Services Administration

**Successful Courthouses: Design Quality** *Moderator\
***Survey Results** Les Shepherd

> *Panelists*
>
> Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, Chair of Committee on Space and Facilities,
> Judicial Conference of the United States
>
> Susan T. Rodriguez, Polshek Partnership Architects

Michael Stanton, Michael

Stanton Architecture

**Reality Check: Cost Implications** *Moderator*

> Robert Fraga, Assistant Commissioner,\
> Capital Construction Programs

*Panelists*

> Robert Andrukonis, Director, Center for\
> Courthouse Programs
>
> Ross Eisenman, Assistant Director, Facilities and Security,
> Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
>
> Joan Goody, Goody Clancy & Associates
>
> Kenneth M. Grunley, Grunley Construction

**Break**

**What Next: Future Directions for the** *Moderator*

**Design Excellence Program** Anthony E. Costa, Deputy Commissioner

Public Buildings Service

> *Discussion Facilitators*
>
> Allan Greenberg, Allan Greenberg\
> Architecture
>
> M. David Lee, Stull and Lee
>
> Karen Van Lengen, Dean, School of
>
> Architecture, University of Virginia

David L. Winstead

Les Shepherd

**Wrap Up and Closing** David L. Winstead

Les Shepherd

***8.5 hours of AIA Continuing Education Credits will be offered for
attendance at all sessions.***
**BIBLIOGRAPHY**

**Tabernacle Drum Dump**

EPA-HQ-SFUND-2005-0011

[Decision Document]{.underline}s

http://cfpub.epa.gov/superrods/index.cfm?fuseaction=data.siterods&siteid=0200790

[Records of Decision]{.underline}

EPA, June 30, 1988

[Five-Year Reviews]{.underline}

http://cfpub.epa.gov/fiveyear/index.cfm?fuseaction=fyrsearch.showSitePage&id=0200790

EPA, September 10, 1998

[Site File Information]{.underline}

U.S. EPA Records Center

290 Broadway -- 18th Floor

New York, New York 10007-1866

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone: 212-637-4308

Tabernacle Municipal Building

163 Carranza Road

Tabernacle, New Jersey 08088
# SN-03 BPA Data Response

**Request No.:** CR&YA/BPA:115

**Request:** Witnesses: Hirsch, *et al.*,

> Exhibit: SN-03-E-BPA-05, page 3, line 2-4

Is there a price-elasticity effect between the amount of an SN CRAC rate
increase and the amount of BPA's augmentation load? If BPA has not
analyzed a price elasticity effect please explain why.

**Response:**

BPA has not analyzed a price elasticity effect between the SN CRAC and
the level of BPA's augmentation load. There are several reasons why BPA
decided to not analyze price elasticity effects. First, only about 2200
aMW of BPA firm sales are provided by contracts under which the load
that BPA serves would decline if the utility load declines. The
remainder is sold as take-or-pay Blocks, Slice or pre-Subscription
contracts. The Block and Slice sales will remain constant regardless of
the elasticity effects experienced by the serving utility. The
pre-subscription sales would not be expected to experience any price
elasticity effects because they are not subject to the SN CRAC rate
increase. Second, any power that is freed up due to elasticity effects
will be sold in the market as surplus. Therefore the additional revenue
will be the difference between market and PF times the MWh freed up, not
market times MWh. Third, price elasticity effects are dependent upon the
retail rates, not the wholesale power costs. BPA has no way of knowing
the extent to which its rate increases will be passed through to the
retail rates. Some utilities may use reserves or other tools to
forestall or moderate a retail rate increase. Fourth, for FY2002 actual
sales for the load following Public Agencies exceeded weather adjusted
forecasts by 1.2%. This was during a time when LB CRACs of 46.22 percent
and 39.08 percent, for Oct 2001-Mar2002 and April 2002-Sep2001,
respectively, were in place. This suggests very little, if any, price
elasticity. An additional rate increase would, therefore, not be
expected to produce much of a load response. Fifth, the forecasts for
utilities served by the Western Power Business Area used FY2002 as the
base year to which growth rates were applied. To the extent that loads
in this year were lower due to rate increases than they would otherwise
have been price elasticity responses have been implicitly incorporated.
Sixth, loads can vary for a variety of reasons, including weather,
economic activity, price, available substitutes, income levels and
others. Attempting to isolate the price elasticity effects would require
controlling for these other factors. Obtaining data at county or
sub-county levels, if possible at all, would be costly and resource
consuming. BPA subjectively determined that the price elasticity effects
would be of insufficient value to warrant the cost of extensive data
collection and modeling efforts.

# April 8, 2003

### Cc: Hearing Clerk and BPA service list.
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  Department of Health and Human Services

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**Background**

The Office of AIDS Research (OAR) is requesting a check for \$90,000 to
support the *20^th^ International Conference on Antiviral Research
(ICAR)* sponsored by the International Society for Antiviral Research
(ISAR). This meeting will convene in Palm Springs, California on April
29 -- May 3, 2007. These funds will assist with transportation cost for
key conference speakers and young investigators to meet with colleagues
to exchange new information and establish potential collaborations.

**Description of Work**

The Contractor will perform the following tasks:

1.  Issue a check for \$90,000

2.  Make check Payable to: ISAR -- ICAR
Department of Veterans Affairs

Washington, DC

Worklife and Benefits Service (058)

FLYER

Benefits 05-61

November 4, 2005

### TO: Chief, HRMS

### SUBJ: (UPDATED) 2005 Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program Open Season: Significant Plan Changes \*Note changes that occurred after October 13, 2005

############   {#section .unnumbered}

This flyer announces the issuance of the Office of Personnel
Management's (OPM) **Updated** Benefits Administration Letter (BAL)
[05-405](http://www.opm.gov/retire/asd/htm/2005/05-405.asp), concerning
significant plan changes for the 2005 Federal Employee Health Benefits
(FEHB) Open Season. Note that the original BAL 05-405, **without** these
latest updates, is on OPM's Web site at
<http://www.opm.gov/retire/asd/htm/2005/05-405.asp>.

**BAL 05-405 (Updated version)** transmits significant corrections and
changes that occurred **after** **October 13, 2005**, affecting certain
FEHB Plans during the upcoming FEHB Open Season.

Human Resources Offices (HR) are advised to carefully review **BAL
05-405** and notify those employees whose FEHB plans are terminating
that they must select a new plan this open season. **Employees not
selecting another FEHB plan will not have coverage in 2006**. Likewise,
employees who are enrolled in a FEHB plan that is **dropping an option**
must also choose a new plan or they will be automatically transferred to
the plan's remaining option. Employees whose FEHB plan is **reducing
their service area,** who do not choose a new FEHB plan will have to
travel to their plan's remaining service area to receive full benefits.
HR offices are strongly encouraged to remind employees to check their
FEHB plan brochure carefully to see if there have been any changes to
their plan coverage that may affect them.

HR offices are encouraged to visit OPM's Web site at
<http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/bal/2005.asp> for the most up-to-date
FEHB information. **OPM urges HR offices to accept belated FEHB
enrollments from employees affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.**

If you have questions regarding this flyer, you may email or call
Elizabeth A. White at (202) 273-9801, Christopher Morris at (202)
273-9886, Therese M. Kilgore at (202) 273-8258, Donna Taylor at

\(202\) 273-7668, or Deborah Brodbeck via email.

**Office of Human Resources and Administration**

**Office of Human Resources Management and Labor Relations**
September 5, 2003

Honorable Wanda Barrs\
Chair

Georgia State Board of Education

2035 Twin Towers East\
Atlanta, GA 30334

Honorable Kathy Cox\
State Superintendent of Schools

Georgia Department of Education\
2062 Twin Towers East\
Atlanta, GA 30334

Dear Ms. Barrs and Ms. Cox:

I am writing to follow up on Under Secretary Hickok's letter of July 1,
2003, in which he outlined the conditions of approval for Georgia's
accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
(NCLB).

Georgia indicated in Element 4.1 of its accountability plan its intent
to compare the current year assessment results with an average of the
most recent two or three years' results (including the current year) and
to use the most favorable results to make school and subgroup AYP
determinations. As

Dr. Hickok's letter indicated, Georgia may use this procedure but, as a
condition of approval, must provide us information on the impact and
implications of this approach. This letter provides guidance on the
information to be provided.

There are three critical questions that should guide your collection and
analysis of the data with respect to this issue: 1) How many schools and
districts made AYP because this procedure was applied? 2) How many years
(one, two or three) of data were used to determine whether schools or
districts made AYP? Our understanding of this approach is that each
subgroup, within a particular school, will possibly be judged upon
different numbers of years of data in making AYP decisions. This
approach is of particular concern. 3) How many schools were given an AYP
decision that reflected the use of different years of data within the
school?

If you have a data collection format that provides this data already,
please let us know. If not, please visit with your State contact to
identify a format that will facilitate your providing the needed data.

Please note that we may find it necessary to collect this information
for two school years; we will notify you about this possibility, if
needed, during the 2003-04 school year. If you have any questions about
this issue, please contact Kerri Briggs at (202) 205-2540 or Valeria
Ford at (202) 205-2213. Please provide this first year of data to us no
later than November 1, 2003.

Page 2 -- Ms. Barrs & Ms. Cox

The Secretary has stated repeatedly that States should be granted
maximum flexibility in the implementation of NCLB provided this
flexibility does not undermine the goals of NCLB. I appreciate your
efforts to ensure that this balance is appropriately achieved in
Georgia.

Sincerely,

Ronald J. Tomalis

Acting Assistant Secretary

cc: Stuart N. Bennett
Workshop Title: DNA REPAIR DEFICIENT SYNDROMES: MOLECULAR AND CLINICAL
ABNORMALITIES

**Background**

This meeting will bring together a group of clinicians and basic
scientists working on a rare DNA repair deficient syndromes. This
meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area on September 5-8, 2006.

We need to have checks written to cover some travel costs for
non-government attendees (please see attached list)

16 checks for foreign travel @ \$500 ea

12 checks for domestic travel @ \$300 ea
**DA 07-1076**

**March 7, 2007**

**SUSPENSION OF USE OF RECENTLY RECALCULATED PRESUNRISE AND POSTSUNSET
SERVICE AUTHORIZATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR CONTINUED PRESUNRISE AND
POSTSUNSET OPERATION DURING MARCH 2007 BY AM STATIONS**

**IN AREAS WITH DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME**

On March 1, 2007, the Media Bureau (the "Bureau") released a Public
Notice, necessitated by the enactment of the US Energy Policy Act of
2005, which increased the effective period for Daylight Saving Time
("DST"), commencing the period earlier and terminating it later than
before. The Bureau announced that, with these changes in local time, it
was revising its AM station Presunrise Service Authorizations ("PSRAs")
and Postsunset Service Authorizations ("PSSAs").[^1] As a result of an
unanticipated computer problem that produced erroneous power levels on
certain of these recalculated authorizations, the Bureau hereby SUSPENDS
use of its recalculated PSRAs and PSSAs until the Bureau corrects the
computer errors and calculates the correct power levels.

In order to permit AM stations currently operating with PSRAs and PSSAs
to continue to do so in communities with DST, for the period March 11
(the date on which DST will commence) through March 31, 2007, licensees
should use the April DST "Advanced" powers and time periods shown on
their current PSRAs and PSSAs for their presunrise and postsunset
operations.

The Bureau is in the process of correcting the computer problem that
resulted in the erroneous PSRAs and PSSAs. After the problem has been
corrected, the Bureau will recalculate and publish permissible PSRA and
PSSA operating parameters for all eligible AM stations and will issue a
Public Notice advising when this process has been completed.

For additional information, or for any AM station experiencing
interference they believe to be the result of PSRA or PSSA operation by
another station during the month of March 2007, contact Charles Miller,
Susan Crawford or Son Nguyen of the Audio Division at (202) 418-2700.

By: Chief, Media Bureau

**-FCC-**

[^1]: *See* "Media Bureau Modifies Presunrise and Postsunset
    Authorizations for AM Radio Stations," Public Notice, DA 07-938,
    dated March 1, 2007.
Report No. 2568 August 9, 2002

###  PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION OF ACTION IN RULEMAKING PROCEEDING

> Petitions for Reconsideration have been filed in the Commission\'s
> rulemaking proceeding listed in
>
> this Public Notice and published pursuant to 47 CFR Section 1.429(e).
> The full text of this document
>
> is available for viewing and copying in Room CY-A257, 445 12th Street,
> S.W., Washington, D.C.
>
> or may be purchased from the Commission\'s copy contractor, Qualex
> International (202) 863-2893.
>
> Oppositions to these petitions must be filed within 15 days of the
> date of public notice of the
>
> petitions in the Federal Register. See Section 1.4(b)(1) of the
> Commission\'s rules (47 CFR 1.4(b)(1)).
>
> Replies to an opposition must be filed within 10 days after the time
> for filing oppositions has
>
> expired.

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> **Subject:** IN THE MATTER OF AMENDMENT OF PARTS OF THE COMMISSION\'S
> RULES
>
> TO PERMIT OPERATION OF NGSO FSS SYSTMES CO-FREQUENCY WITH GSO AND
> TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS IN THE KU-BAND FREQUENCY RANGE (ET Docket No.
> 98-206, RM-9147, RM-9245)
>
> **Filed By** -For MDS America, Incorporated on 06/24/2002\*

-Tony Lin, Attorney for Pegasus Broadband Corporation on 06/24/2002

-For MDS America, Incorporated on 07/19/2002\*

-Steven Reed for EchoStar Satellite Corporation on 07/26/2002

-Margaret L. Tobey for the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications

Association on 07/26/2002

-Diane C. Gaylor, Attorney for SES Americom, Inc. on 07/26/2002

-Jeffrey H. Olson, Attorney for SkyBridge, L.L.C. on 07/26/2002

\*This petition was subsequently filed on June 24, 2002, and July 19,
2002.

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FCC
**[GENERAL POST FUND (GPF) ACCOUNTS]{.underline}**

**VA Western New York Healthcare System**

**222 Richmond Avenue**

**Batavia, NY 14020**

**GPF 1831 [GENERAL PURPOSE ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- For purchase of
items to enhance the stay

of veterans, earmarked and unearmarked donations for veteran needs.

**GPF 1838 [PATIENT WELFARE ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- Provides for
indigent patients and

Patient/Family Dining Program

**GPF 1840 [HOLIDAY ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- To provide holiday gifts
for residents and activities

**GPF 1841 [TV ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- To provide television sets for
resident rooms and patient areas

**GPF 1848 [NATIONAL GAMES ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- Provides funding
assistance for veterans

attending National Games events

**GPF 1930 [BATAVIA RECREATION ACCOUNT]{.underline}** -- Funding for
resident social activities

and refreshments.

**GPF 1933 [WOMEN VETERANS RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM (WVRP)]{.underline}** --
For purchase

of items for support of program, to include recreational activities and
off-station

trips.

**GPF 1935 [PRRP -- MEN]{.underline}** -- For purchase of items to
support the Post Traumatic Stress

Disorder Residential Treatment Program, to include recreational
activities and

off-station trips.

Checks should be sent to: Voluntary Service (135)

VA WNY Healthcare System

222 Richmond Avenue

Batavia, NY 14020-1288

> Phone (585) 297-1196

Toll-free 1-888-798-2302

*The Internal Revenue Service has announced that, under the Tax Code,
donations to the Department of Veterans Affairs General Post Fund for
exclusively public purposes are deductible from federal income taxes in
the manner and to the extent allowable. The announcement reflects the
tax law provision with donations deductible as "donations to the United
States".*

*Donations to support any of the Department's programs are deductible,
whether the donor directs that the donated funds be used for a specific
purpose or allows the Department to decide how the donated funds will be
used.*