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52This option applies to test systems or 

contingency systems that are located at separate 

facilities, including another bank office or a thirdparty contingency site. Prices shown are for fullcircuit backup only located at the customer site. 

Multiple customers sharing a single disasterrecovery connection at a third-party provider 

require custom implementations.

53This option applies to test systems or 

contingency systems that are located at separate 

facilities. The institution uses a frame relay link 

connection with no ISDN dial-up backup. Prices 

shown are for frame connection only located at the 

customer site. Multiple customers sharing a single 

disaster recovery connection at a third-party 

provider require custom implementations.

54 Includes a Cisco router, a digital service unit, 

and a link encryptor.

55FedPhone and FedMail e-mail are free options.

56Some large computer interface customers may 

be required to ensure that their contingency 

connections to the Federal Reserve are diversely 

routed, and they will be expected to defray the costs 

incurred by the Federal Reserve of providing this 

network diversity. Depending on the cost of 

providing specific circuits, one of five tiered price 

points would apply: $250/$500/$1,000/$2,000/

$2,500 per month. Additionally, a group of the 

Reserve Banks’ largest frame relay customers will 

incur a $1,000 per circuit supplemental fee to 

recover the additional costs associated with this 

effort. The Reserve Banks began charging this select 

group on September 30, 2004.

FEDERAL RESERVE ELECTRONIC ACCESS FEE SCHEDULE

[Effective January 3, 2005. Bold indicates changes from 2004 prices] 

FedLine

FedLine Select Package (monthly) ................................................................................................................................................... $200.00

Includes: 

One dial—DOS-based FedLine 

One FedLine Web institution fee 

Three individual subscriptions 

Additional FedLine Web individual subscriber fee (monthly) ....................................................................................................... 15.00

Additional DOS-based FedLine—Dial (monthly) .......................................................................................................................... 100.00

Additional DOS-based FedLine—Frame Relay less than 56 kbps (monthly) ............................................................................. 825.00

Test and Contingency Options for Frame Relay: 

Full Circuit Backup 52—less than 56 kbps (monthly) ............................................................................................................ 825.00

Frame Connection Only 53—less than 56 kbps (monthly) .................................................................................................... 693.00

Redundant Component Set 54—less than 56 kbps (monthly) .............................................................................................. 155.00

FedLine Web (monthly) ..................................................................................................................................................................... 50.00

Set-up fee (one time) ................................................................................................................................................................... 50.00 

Individual subscriber fee (monthly) .............................................................................................................................................. 15.00

FedLine Advantage (monthly) ........................................................................................................................................................... 250.00

Includes: 

One FedLine Advantage institution fee 

Three FedLine Advantage individual subscriber digital certificates 

Set-up fee (one time) ................................................................................................................................................................... 400.00

VPN (monthly) .............................................................................................................................................................................. 50.00

Individual subscriber fee beyond first three (one time) ................................................................................................................ 100.00

Individual subscriber fee (monthly) .............................................................................................................................................. 20.00

FedPhone & FedMail

FedMail Fax (monthly per fax line) 55 ................................................................................................................................................ 15.00 

Computer Interface 56

Frame Relay-Computer Interface (CI) @ 56 kbps (monthly) .............................................................................................................. 1,000.00 

Frame Relay-CI @ 256 kbps (monthly) .............................................................................................................................................. 2,000.00 

Frame Relay-CI T1 (monthly) .............................................................................................................................................................. 2,500.00 

TEST AND CONTINGENCY OPTIONS FOR

FRAME RELAY

Connection type Full circuit 

backup 52

Frame connection 

only 53

CI @ 56 kbps ... $845 $765 

CI @ 256 kbps 1,750 1,585 

CI T1 ................. 2,230 2,010 

By order of the Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System, November 4, 2004.

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 04–24967 Filed 11–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (e.s.t.), November 

15, 2004.

PLACE: SI International, 12012 Sunset 

Hills Road, Suite 800, Reston, VA 

20190.

STATUS: Parts will be open to the public 

and parts closed to the public.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Parts Open to the Public 

1. Approval of the minutes of the 

October 18, 2004, Board member 

meeting. 

2. Thrift Savings Plan activity report 

by the Executive Director. 

Parts Closed to the Public 

3. Procurement. 

4. Personnel matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640.

Dated: November 5, 2004. 

Elizabeth S. Woodruff, 

Secretary to the Board, Federal Retirement 

Thrift Investment Board.

[FR Doc. 04–25139 Filed 11–5–04; 3:54 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Public Meeting of the President’s 

Council on Bioethics on December 2–

3, 2004

AGENCY: The President’s Council on 

Bioethics, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The President’s Council on 

Bioethics (Leon R. Kass, M.D., 

chairman) will hold its nineteenth 

meeting, at which, among other things, 

it will continue its discussion of ethical 

issues relating to the treatment of the 

aged, and end-of-life care. Subjects 

discussed at past Council meetings 

(though not on the agenda for the 

present one) include: cloning, stem cell 

research, embryo research, assisted 

reproduction, reproductive genetics, 

IVF, ICSI, PGD, sex selection, 

inheritable genetic modification, 

patentability of human organisms, aging 

retardation, lifespan-extension, and 

organ procurement for transplantation. 

Publications issued by the Council to 

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 216 / Tuesday, November 9, 2004 / Notices 64955

date include: Human Cloning and 

Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 

2002); Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology 

and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 

2003); Being Human: Readings from the 

President’s Council on Bioethics

(December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell 

Research (January 2004), and 

Reproduction and Responsibility: The 

Regulation of New Biotechnologies

(March 2004).

DATES: The meeting will take place 

Thursday, December 2, 2004, from 9 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET; and Friday, 

December 3, 2004, from 8:30 a.m. to 

12:30 p.m. ET.

ADDRESSES: The Stephen Decatur 

House, 1610 H Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20002. Phone 202–842–0920. 

Agenda: The meeting agenda will be 

posted at http://www.bioethics.gov.

Public Comments: The Council 

encourages public input, either in 

person or in writing. At this meeting, 

interested members of the public may 

address the Council, beginning at 11:30 

a.m., on Friday, December 3. Comments 

are limited to no more than five minutes 

per speaker or organization. As a 

courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane 

Gianelli, Director of Communications, 

in advance of your intention to make a 

public statement, and give your name 

and affiliation. To submit a written 

statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. 

Gianelli at one of the addresses given 

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Diane Gianelli, Director of 

Communications, The President’s 

Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801 

Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 

20006. Telephone: 202/296–4669. Email: info@bioethics.gov. Web site: 

http://www.bioethics.gov.

Dated: November 3, 2004. 

Yuval Levin, 

Acting Executive Director, The President’s 

Council on Bioethics.

[FR Doc. 04–24945 Filed 11–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–03–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–04–0012] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of 

information collection requests under 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance 

Officer at (404) 498–1210 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 

395–6974. Written comments should be 

received within 30 days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

National Nosocomial Infections 

Surveillance (NNIS) System—

Reinstatement with change—National 

Center for Infectious Disease (NCID), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

The NNIS system, which was 

instituted in 1970, is an ongoing 

surveillance system currently involving 

345 hospitals that voluntarily report 

nosocomial infections data to CDC, who 

aggregate the data into a national 

database. The data are collected using 

surveillance protocols developed by 

CDC for high risk patient groups (ICU, 

high-risk nursery, and surgical patients). 

Instructional manuals, training of 

surveillance personnel and computer 

surveillance software are among the 

support that CDC provides without cost 

to participating hospitals to ensure the 

reporting of accurate and uniform data. 

In the very near future this data 

collection will be merged with two 

other collections to form the National 

Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). 

This network will be a computer-based 

system. Since this system will be 

phased in over time, CDC will need to 

continue using the forms within this 

clearance request until the 

transformation has been completed. 

The purpose of the NNIS system is to 

provide national data on the incidence 

of nosocomial infections and their risk 

factors, and on emerging antibiotic 

resistance. The data are used to 

determine: (1) The magnitude of various 

nosocomial infection problems; (2) 

trends in infection rates among patients 

with similar risks; and (3) changes in 

the epidemiology of nosocomial 

infections resulting from new medical 

therapies and changing patient risks. 

New to the NNIS system is the 

monitoring of antibiotic resistance and 

antimicrobial use in groups of patients. 

Data from the monitoring of antibiotic 

resistance and antimicrobial use in the 

NNIS system will be used to describe 

the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance 

and understand the role of antimicrobial 

therapy to the growing problem of 

antibiotic resistance. The NNIS system 

can also serve as a sentinel system for 

the detection of nosocomial infection 

outbreaks in the event of national 

distribution of a contaminated medical 

product or device. 

The respondent burden is not the 

same in each hospital since the 

hospitals can select from a wide variety 

of surveillance options. A typical 

hospital will monitor patients for 

infections in two ICUs and surgical site 

infections following three surgical 

operations. The respondent burden 

includes the time and cost to: (1) Collect 

data on nosocomial infections in 

patients in these groups and the 

denominator data to characterize risk 

factors in the patients who are being 

monitored; (2) to enter the data as well 

as a surveillance plan into the 

surveillance software; (3) send the data 

to CDC by electronic transmission; and 

(4) complete a short annual survey and 

administrative forms. The total 

annualized burden is 66,775 hours.

Form title Number of

respondents 

Number of

responses/

respondent 

Average

burden per

response

(in hrs.) 

Hospital Personnel List .............................................................................................................. 297 1 15/60 

Annual Participating Institution Survey ...................................................................................... 297 1 45/60 

NNIS Infection Worksheet: 

Hospitals with High Risk Nursery ....................................................................................... 100 240 (20×12) 25/60 

Hospitals without High Risk Nursery .................................................................................. 197 180 (15×12) 25/60 

Adult & Pediatric ICU Monthly Report ....................................................................................... 235 12 6 

High Risk Nursery Surveillance Monthly Report ....................................................................... 100 12 4 

Surgical Patient Surveillance-Operative Procedure Daily Report ............................................. 205 12 2 

Monthly Surveillance Plan ......................................................................................................... 277 12 25/60 

Supplementary Data Collection, Cesarean Patient Report ....................................................... 29 240 27/60