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observed reproductive effects on birds 

and other wildlife. However, a number 

of scientific and technical issues are 

involved in performing the needed 

assessments such as the proper 

treatment of mixtures, identification of 

the critical effects, and proper exposure 

metrics. This report explains the proper 

use of data for individual congeners and 

identifies developmental effects from in 

ovo exposures as the proper endpoint. It 

also deals with the problem of 

evaluating a large and heterogeneous 

literature by identifying a set of 

appropriate avian toxicity data. Another 

assessment issue is the lack of a 

standard or generally accepted method 

for modeling effects on wildlife or 

calculating screening benchmarks. This 

problem is exacerbated by the fact that 

wildlife test methods are not well 

standardized, except in pesticide 

registration. Hence, although there is a 

plethora of test data for dioxin-like 

chemicals and wildlife, relatively little 

of it was suitable for assessment. 

Finally, the chronic data were not as 

useful as they could have been, because 

test results in the literature were nearly 

always expressed as statistically 

significant concentrations rather than 

biological effects levels. The report 

presents alternative ways to deal with 

these issues.

Dated: December 23, 2003. 

Peter W. Preuss, Director, 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment.

[FR Doc. 04–323 Filed 1–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties can review or obtain 

copies of agreements at the Washington, 

DC offices of the Commission, 800 

North Capitol Street, NW., Room 940. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on an agreement to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within 10 days 

of the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register.

Agreement No.: 011284–054. 

Title: Ocean Carrier Equipment 

Management Association 

Agreement (‘‘OCEMA’’). 

Parties: APL Co. Pte. Ltd.; American 

President Lines, Ltd.; A.P. MollerMaersk A/S, trading under the 

name of Maersk Sealand; CMA 

CGM, S.A.; Compania 

Sudamericana de Vapores, S.A.; 

Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) 

Ltd.; Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd.; 

Hamburg-Su ̈damerikanische 

Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft KG; 

Hapag-Lloyd Container Linie 

GmbH; Hyundai Merchant Marine 

Co. Ltd.; Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd.; 

Lykes Lines Limited, LLC; TMM 

Lines Limited, LLC; Contship 

Containerlines, a division of CP 

Ships (UK) Limited; Australia-New 

Zealand Direct Line, a division of 

CP Ships (UK) Limited; Orient 

Overseas Container Line Limited; 

P&O Nedlloyd Limited; P&O 

Nedlloyd B.V.; Nippon Yusen 

Kaisha Line; Yangming Marine 

Transport Corp.; COSCO 

Containerlines Company Limited; 

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.; and 

Crowley Maritime Corporation. 

Synopsis: The proposed agreement 

amendment would delete provisions 

allowing for associate membership 

and add language that describes more 

specifically the agreement authority 

regarding charges relating to the 

interchange of ocean carrier 

equipment.

Agreement No.: 011517–009. 

Title: APL/HSDG/Lykes/Evergreen 

Vessel Sharing Agreement. 

Parties: American President Lines Ltd./

APL Co, PTE LTD, HamburgSu ̈damerikanische 

Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft KG, 

Lykes Lines Limited, LLC, and 

Evergreen Marine Corp (Taiwan) 

Ltd. 

Synopsis: The amendment amends the 

trade names and addresses of certain 

of the parties, changes the name of the 

agreement and restates the agreement.

Agreement No.: 011741–006. 

Title: U.S. Pacific Coast-Oceania 

Agreement. 

Parties: A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, trading 

under the name of Maersk Sealand; 

Australia-New Zealand Direct Line, 

a division of CP Ships (UK) 

Limited/Lykes Lines Limited LLC; 

FESCO Ocean Management 

Limited; HamburgSu ̈damerikanische 

Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft KG; 

P&O Nedlloyd Limited/P&O 

Nedlloyd B.V. 

Synopsis: The proposed agreement 

amendment would add provisions 

allowing the parties to alter the 

number of vessels they deploy, within 

a limited range, without amending 

their agreement.

Dated: December 31, 2003. 

By Order of the Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Bryant L. VanBrakle, Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–250 Filed 1–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The application also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than January 30, 

2004.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411 

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-

2034:

1. City Bancorp, Springfield, 

Missouri; to merge with Signature 

Bancshares, Inc., Springfield, Missouri, 

and thereby indirectly acquire Signature 

Bank, Springfield, Missouri.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, December 31, 2003.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 04–248 Filed 1–6–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S