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the formation of public-private 

partnerships. This program is designed 

specifically to encourage greater 

leveraging of public transportation 

funds and attract private investment to 

transportation projects by providing 

credit assistance in the form of direct 

loans, loan guarantees, and standby 

lines of credit. 

Little use has been made of the loan 

authority provided by 23 U.S.C. 

129(a)(7). The FHWA welcomes 

proposals to use this ‘‘129(a)(7)’’

authority, which allows highway 

apportionments to be used for low cost 

loans to projects with dedicated revenue 

sources, as part of a three-way financing 

partnership between the State, the 

private venture partner, and the FHWA. 

By coupling ‘‘129(a)(7) authority’’ with 

TIFIA, tax-exempt bond financing, and 

Federal-aid grant funding as an 

integrated financing package, FHWA 

believes that this kind of partnership 

will serve as a catalyst for moving 

public-private partnerships quickly 

from concept to construction. When the 

State makes a 129(a)(7) loan to an 

eligible public or private entity, the 

State receives reimbursement from 

FHWA and is repaid the loan amount 

plus applicable interest by the borrower, 

which the State may then use for any 

eligible title 23 U.S.C. purpose; thus, 

assisting the State to establish a 

revolving loan fund for future projects. 

The FHWA will devote the internal 

resources necessary to evaluate the 

financing package, offer alternative 

financing solutions, and establish 

financial feasibility in order to move the 

project from concept to commitment of 

Federal funds (where applicable) and 

construction. 

Joint Development Agreements 

In addition to the transportation 

project itself, significant benefit and 

revenue potential may be realized from 

joint use of the transportation facility. 

Thus, the ROW may be used both for 

transportation purposes and other uses 

that are compatible with the 

transportation use, such as airspace 

development. Even joint use of the 

airspace of Interstate and other limited 

access highways is favored, so long as 

the transportation purpose is not 

impaired. States are encouraged to enter 

into joint development agreements with 

private parties by current Federal law, 

23 U.S.C. 156. Under this provision, if 

FHWA participates in the cost of 

acquiring real property needed for a 

proposed project, there are specific 

requirements that apply to the sale or 

lease of the real property acquired with 

Federal funds (such as air rights). These 

requirements may include such things 

as ensuring that the amount realized by 

sale or lease represents the fair market 

value of the interest at issue. The net 

realized must be dedicated to 

transportation purposes. Waivers of the 

requirement to charge the fair market 

value are available in limited 

circumstances. 

Application Process 

A State DOT should submit SEP–15 

proposals to the appropriate FHWA 

Division Office. Proposals may include 

localities and private transportation 

ventures as project sponsors. SEP–15 

applications should provide a brief 

description of the project, including the 

innovative techniques proposed and the 

expected value of those techniques. 

Upon the completion of major 

milestones, the public-private sponsors 

will be responsible for submitting an 

independently prepared report that 

summarizes lessons learned from the 

SEP–15 process. These reports shall 

include the experiment undertaken, the 

lessons learned, evaluate the success of 

the process and its impact on the 

project, and recommend statutory and 

regulatory changes with an explanation 

of how the changes will improve the 

delivery of the Federal-aid highway 

program. 

Conclusion 

The Secretary has identified publicprivate partnerships as being an 

important element of the Department’s 

ability to reduce congestion and 

maintain the highway system. To this 

end, SEP–15 is designed to encourage a 

broad range of innovations in project 

planning, project development, finance, 

design, construction, maintenance, and 

operations. This notice outlines some 

areas in which States may experiment 

and innovate in order to help provide 

some framework for experimentation. 

Project proponents applying under SEP–

15, however, are encouraged to propose 

innovations in all areas of title 23, 

U.S.C.

(Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315 and 502).

Issued on: September 23, 2004. 

Mary E. Peters, 

Federal Highway Administrator.

[FR Doc. 04–21975 Filed 10–5–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Senior Executive Service Departmental 

Performance Review Board

AGENCY: Treasury Department.

ACTION: Notice of members of the 

Departmental Performance Review 

Board (PRB). 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

4314(c)(4), this notice announces the 

appointment of members of the 

Departmental PRB. The purpose of this 

PRB is to review and make 

recommendations concerning proposed 

performance appraisals, ratings, bonuses 

and other appropriate personnel actions 

for incumbents of SES positions for 

which the Secretary or Deputy Secretary 

is the appointing authority. These 

positions include SES bureau heads, 

deputy bureau heads and certain other 

positions. The Board will perform PRB 

functions for other key bureau positions 

if requested. 

Composition of Departmental PRB:

The Board shall consist of at least three 

members. In the case of an appraisal of 

a career appointee, more than half the 

members shall consist of career 

appointees. The names and titles of the 

PRB members are as follows:

Wayne A. Abernathy, Assistant Secretary 

(Financial Institutions); Rebecca A. 

Contreras, Deputy Assistant Secretary 

(Human Resources) and Chief Human Capital 

Officer; Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary (Management and 

Budget); John M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary 

(Legislative Affairs); James H. Fall III, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary (Technical Assistance 

Policy); Reese H. Fuller, Advanced 

Counterfeit Deterrence Program Director 

(Domestic Finance); Geraldine A. Gerardi, 

Director for Business Taxation; Donald V. 

Hammond, Fiscal Assistant Secretary; Ira L. 

Hobbs, Chief Information Officer; Gregory F. 

Jenner, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax 

Policy); Jeffrey F. Kupfer, Deputy Chief of 

Staff; Robert Nichols, Assistant Secretary 

(Public Affairs); Patricia J. Pointer, Deputy for 

Human Resources; Randal K. Quarles, 

Assistant Secretary (International Affairs); 

Brian C. Roseboro, Under Secretary 

(Domestic Finance); Mary Beth Shaw, 

Executive for DC Pensions Policy and 

Oversight; Christopher A. Smith, Chief of 

Staff; Juan C. Zarate, Assistant Secretary 

(Terrorist Financing); Marla A. Freedman, 

Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Office; 

William H. Pugh, Deputy Assistant Inspector 

General for Audit (Financial Management); 

Dennis S. Schindel, Deputy Inspector 

General; Arthur J. Libertucci, Administrator, 

Tax and Trade Bureau; John J. Manfreda, 

Deputy Administrator, Tax and Trade 

Bureau; Marcia H. Coates, Senior Advisor, 

United States Mint; Henrietta H. Fore, 

Director, United States Mint; Jerry W. Horton, 

Chief Information Officer, United States 

Mint; David A. Lebryk, Deputy Director, 

United States Mint; Nancy Coto Fleetwood, 

Assistant Commissioner, Information 

Resources, Financial Management Service; 

Richard L. Gregg, Commissioner, Financial 

Management Service; Scott Johnson, 

Assistant Commissioner, Management (Chief 

Financial Officer), Financial Management 

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Service; Kerry Lanham, Assistant 

Commissioner, Agency Services, Financial 

Management Service; Kenneth R. Papaj, 

Deputy Commissioner, Financial 

Management Service; Gregory D. Carper, 

Associate Director (Chief Financial Officer), 

Bureau of Engraving and Printing; Ronald W. 

Falter, Associate Director (Chief Information 

Officer), Bureau of Engraving and Printing; 

Thomas A. Ferguson, Director, Bureau of 

Engraving and Printing; Joel C. Taub, 

Associate Director (Management), Bureau of 

Engraving and Printing; Beverly O. Babers, 

Chief Human Capital Officer, Internal 

Revenue Service; Helen Bolton, Director, 

Management Services, Modernization and 

Information Technology Services, Internal 

Revenue Service; John M. Dalrymple, Deputy 

Commissioner for Operations Support, 

Internal Revenue Service; Cecil T. Hua, 

Director, Systems Engineering and 

Integration, Business Modernization and 

Information Technology Services, Internal 

Revenue Service; Henry O. Lamar, 

Commissioner, Wage and Investment 

Division, Internal Revenue Service; Deborah 

M. Nolan, Commissioner, Large and MidSized Business Division, Internal Revenue 

Service; Kathy K. Petronchak, Director, PreFiling and Technical Guidance, Large and 

Mid-Sized Business Division, Internal 

Revenue Service; Evelyn A. Petschek, Chief 

of Staff, Internal Revenue Service; Estelle R. 

Tunley, Deputy Director, Submission 

Processing, Wage and Investment Division, 

Internal Revenue Service; Anne M. Meister, 

Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of the Public 

Debt; Frederick Van Zeck, Commissioner, 

Bureau of the Public Debt; James W. Carroll, 

Deputy General Counsel; Roberta K. 

McInerney, Assistant General Counsel 

(Banking & Finance); Kenneth R. 

Schmalzbach, Assistant General Counsel 

(General Law & Ethics); Carol A. Campbell, 

Division Counsel, Wage and Investment; 

Edward L. Patton, Deputy Associate Chief 

Counsel; William F. Baity, Deputy Director, 

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. 

Additional Member: William J. Fox, Director, 

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

DATES: Membership is effective on the 

date of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis Cannon, Department of the 

Treasury, Director, Human Resources 

Strategy and Solutions, 1500 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Attention: 

Suite 12105, 1750 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20220, 

telephone: (202) 622–1109. 

This notice does not meet the 

Department’s criteria for significant 

regulations.

Dennis Cannon, 

Director, Human Resources Strategy and 

Solutions.

[FR Doc. 04–22429 Filed 10–5–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4811–16–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Lending and Investment

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on the proposal.

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before December 6, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518; or send 

an e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov.

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

publicinfo@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from William Magrini, Senior 

Project Manager, Supervision Policy, 

(202) 906–5744, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use information 

technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Lending and 

Investment. 

OMB Number: 1550–0078. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Regulation requirement: 12 CFR parts 

560 and 564; and §§ 562.1, 563.41, 

563.170, and 590.4. 

Description: This information 

collection requires savings associations 

to maintain adequate documentation to 

support their lending and investment 

activities. OTS staff may request the 

information during examinations. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Affected Public: Savings Associations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

902. 

Estimated Frequency of Response:

Event-generated. 

Estimated Total Burden: 327,968 

hours. 

Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, 

(202) 906–6467, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

OMB Reviewer: Mark D. Menchik, 

(202) 395–3176, Office of Management 

and Budget, Room 10236, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503.

Dated: September 30, 2004.

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Richard M. Riccobono, 

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 04–22380 Filed 10–5–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Advisory Committee for CARES 

Business Plan Studies; Notice of 

Establishment 

As required by section 9(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the