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from 9 a.m. until such time as the Board 

concludes its business. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale 

L. Aultman, Secretary to the Farm 

Credit Administration Board, (703) 883– 

4009, TTY (703) 883–4056. 

ADDRESSES: Farm Credit 

Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, 

McLean, Virginia 22102–5090. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting of the Board will be open to the 

public (limited space available). In order 

to increase the accessibility to Board 

meetings, persons requiring assistance 

should make arrangements in advance. 

The matters to be considered at the 

meeting are: 

Open Session 

A. Approval of Minutes 

• February 10, 2011. 

B. Reports 

• Frequently Asked Questions on 

Borrowers Rights—Part II. 

• Update on Dodd-Frank Rulemaking 

Projects. 

Dated: March 2, 2011. 

Dale L. Aultman, 

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5233 Filed 3–3–11; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6705–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Notice of Proposals To Engage in 

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or 

To Acquire Companies That Are 

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking 

Activities 

The companies listed in this notice 

have given notice under section 4 of the 

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y (12 

CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to 

acquire or control voting securities or 

assets of a company, including the 

companies listed below, that engages 

either directly or through a subsidiary or 

other company, in a nonbanking activity 

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y 

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 

determined by Order to be closely 

related to banking and permissible for 

bank holding companies. Unless 

otherwise noted, these activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Each notice is available for inspection 

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. 

The notice also will be available for 

inspection at the offices of the Board of 

Governors. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

question whether the proposal complies 

with the standards of section 4 of the 

BHC Act. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding the applications must be 

received at the Reserve Bank indicated 

or the offices of the Board of Governors 

not later than March 22, 2011. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 

President, Applications and 

Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 

Francisco, California 94105–1579: 

1. Bridge Capital Holdings; to engage 

through its subsidiary, Bridge Asset 

Management, Inc., both in San Jose, 

California, in extending credit and 

servicing loans, pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 2, 2011. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5037 Filed 3–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0113; 

Docket 2011–0079; Sequence 5] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Information Collection; Acquisition of 

Helium 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments 

regarding an extension to an existing 

OMB clearance. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB) will be submitting to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) a 

request to review and approve an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection requirement 

concerning acquisition of helium. 

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of functions of the FAR, 

and whether it will have practical 

utility; whether our estimate of the 

public burden of this collection of 

information is accurate, and based on 

valid assumptions and methodology; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways in which we can 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, through the use of appropriate 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

May 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

identified by Information Collection 

9000–0113 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Submit comments via the Federal 

eRulemaking portal by inputting 

‘‘Information Collection 9000–0113’’ 

under the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or 

ID’’ and selecting ‘‘Search’’. Select the 

link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that 

corresponds with ‘‘Information 

Collection 9000–0113’’. Follow the 

instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a 

Comment’’ screen. Please include your 

name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘Information Collection 9000–0113’’ on 

your attached document. 

• Fax: 202–501–4067. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), 1275 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada 

Flowers/IC 9000–0113. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Information Collection 

9000–0113, in all correspondence 

related to this collection. All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal and/or business 

confidential information provided 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Debbie Lague, Procurement Analyst, 

Contract Policy Branch, GSA (202) 694– 

8149 or debbie.lague@gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

The Helium Act (Pub. L. 86–777) (50 

U.S.C. 167a, et seq.) and the Department 

of the Interior’s implementing 

regulations (30 CFR parts 601 and 602) 

require Federal agencies to procure all 

major helium requirements from the 

Bureau of Land Management, 

Department of the Interior. 

The FAR requires offerors responding 

to contract solicitations to provide 

information as to their forecast of 

helium required for performance of the 

contract. Such information will 

facilitate enforcement of the 

requirements of the Helium Act and the 

contractual provisions requiring the use 

of Government helium by agency 

contractors, in that it will permit 

corrective action to be taken if the 

Bureau of Land Management, after 

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helium requirement forecasts, discovers 

apparent serious discrepancies. 

The information is used in 

administration of certain Federal 

contracts to ensure contractor 

compliance with contract clauses. 

Without the information, the required 

use of Government helium cannot be 

monitored and enforced effectively. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 26. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Responses: 26. 

Hours Per Response: 1. 

Total Burden Hours: 26. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 1st 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20417, 

telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite 

OMB Control No. 9000–0113, 

Acquisition of Helium, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: February 24, 2011. 

Millisa Gary, 

Acting Director, Office of Governmentwide 

Acquisition Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4770 Filed 3–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Common Formats for Patient Safety 

Data Collection and Event Reporting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of availability—new 

Common Format. 

SUMMARY: The Patient Safety and 

Quality Improvement Act of 2005, 42 

U.S.C. 299b–21 to b–26, (Patient Safety 

Act) provides for the formation of 

Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), 

which collect, aggregate, and analyze 

confidential information regarding the 

quality and safety of healthcare 

delivery. The Patient Safety Act (at 42 

U.S.C. 299b–23) authorizes the 

collection of this information in a 

standardized manner, as explained in 

the related Patient Safety and Quality 

Improvement Final Rule, 42 CFR part 3 

(Patient Safety Rule), published in the 

Federal Register on November 21, 2008: 

73 FR 70731–70814. As authorized by 

the Secretary of HHS, AHRQ 

coordinates the development of a set of 

common definitions and reporting 

formats (Common Formats) that allow 

healthcare providers to voluntarily 

collect and submit standardized 

information regarding patient safety 

events. The purpose of this notice is to 

announce the availability of a new beta 

version of the Common Format for 

Skilled Nursing Facilities for public 

review and comment. 

DATES: Ongoing public input. 

ADDRESSES: The new beta version of the 

Ski/led Nursing Facilities format 

(version dated February 2011) and the 

remaining Common Formats, can be 

accessed electronically at the following 

HHS Web site: http://

www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/index.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Deborah Perfetto, Center for Quality 

Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, 

540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850; 

Telephone (toll free): (866) 403–3697; 

Telephone (local): (301) 427–1111; TTY 

(toll free): (866) 438–7231; ITY (local): 

(301) 427–1130; E-mail: 

PSO@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Patient Safety Act and Patient 

Safety Rule establish a framework by 

which doctors, hospitals, skilled 

nursing facilities, and other healthcare 

providers may voluntarily report 

information regarding patient safety 

events and quality of care. Information 

that is assembled and developed by 

providers for reporting to PSOs and the 

information received and analyzed by 

PSOs—called ‘‘patient safety work 

product’’—is privileged and 

confidential. Patient safety work 

product is used to identify events, 

patterns of care, and unsafe conditions 

that increase risks and hazards to 

patients. Definitions and other details 

about PSOs and patient safety work 

product are included in the Patient 

Safety Rule. 

The Patient Safety Act and Patient 

Safety Rule require PSOs, to the extent 

practical and appropriate, to collect 

patient safety work product from 

providers in a standardized manner in 

order to permit valid comparisons of 

similar cases among similar providers. 

The collection of patient safety work 

product allows the aggregation of 

sufficient data to identify and address 

underlying causal factors of patient 

safety problems. Both the Patient Safety 

Act and Patient Safety Rule, including 

any relevant guidance, can be accessed 

electronically at: http:// 

www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/regulations/ 

regulations.htm. 

In order to facilitate standardized data 

collection, the Secretary of HHS 

authorized AHRQ to develop and 

maintain the Common Formats to 

improve the safety and quality of 

healthcare delivery. In August 2008, 

AHRQ issued the initial release of the 

formats, Version 0.1 Beta, developed for 

acute care hospitals. The second release 

of the Common Formats, Version 1.0, 

was announced in the Federal Register 

on September 2, 2009: 74 FR 45457– 

45458. This release was later replaced 

by Version 1.1, as announced in the 

Federal Register on March 31, 2010: 75 

FR 16140–16142. Version 1.1 includes 

updated event descriptions, forms, and 

technical specifications for software 

developers. As an update to this release, 

AHRQ developed the beta version of an 

event-specific format—Device or 

Supply, including Health Information 

Technology—to capture information 

about patient safety events that are 

related to health information 

technology. This update was announced 

in the Federal Register on October 22, 

2010: 75 FR 65359–65360. With the 

release of the beta version of the Skilled 

Nursing Facilities format, AHRQ has 

made available Common Formats for 

two settings of care—acute care 

hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. 

Definition of Common Formats 

The term ‘‘Common Formats’’ refers to 

the common definitions and reporting 

formats, specified by AHRQ, that allow 

health care providers to collect and 

submit standardized information 

regarding patient safety events. The 

Common Formats are not intended to 

replace any current mandatory reporting 

system, collaborative/voluntary 

reporting system, research-related 

reporting system, or other reporting/ 

recording system; rather the formats are 

intended to enhance the ability of health 

care providers to report information that 

is standardized both clinically and 

electronically. 

The scope of Common Formats 

applies to all patient safety concerns 

including: 

• Incidents—patient safety events 

that reached the patient, whether or not 

there was harm, 

• Near misses or close calls—patient 

safety events that did not reach the 

patient, and 

• Unsafe conditions—circumstances 

that increase the probability of a patient 

safety event. 

The Common Formats include two 

general types of formats, generic and 

event-specific. The generic Common 

Formats pertain to all patient safety 

concerns. The three generic formats are: 

Healthcare Event Reporting Form, 

Patient Information Form, and Summary 

of Initial Report. The event-specific 

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