68370 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 226 / Wednesday, November 24, 2004 / Notices 

Dispatch Logistics Services Logistics Air 

Limited, 3744 Industry Avenue, Suite 

404, Lakewood, CA 90712. Officers: 

Carla Yuen-Yi Leung, Vice President 

(Qualifying Individual), Leung Lai 

Kin, Director.

Non-Vessel—Operating Common 

Carrier and Ocean Freight Forwarder 

Transportation Intermediary Applicants:

Xima Freight Services, Inc., 8217 NW 

66th Street, Miami, FL 33166. 

Officers: Xiomara L. Salazar, Vice 

President (Qualifying Individual), 

Maite Avila, President.

D.B. Group America, Ltd., 182–17 150th 

Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 

11413. Officers: Gian Mario Favalli, 

Assistant Treasurer (Qualifying 

Individual), Vittorino De Bortoli, 

President.

Ocean Freight Forwarder—Ocean 

Transportation Intermediary Applicants:

USA Cargo & Courier Inc., 5900 NW 

97th Avenue, Unit C1 & C2, Miami, 

FL 33178. Officers: Heriberto 

Sanchez, Ocean Manager (Qualifying 

Individual), Alexander Moreno, 

President.

A & A International Shipping Inc., 333 

N. Marine Avenue, Wilmington, CA 

90744. Officers: Algis Gulbinas, 

President (Qualifying Individual), 

Anton Tombu, CEO.

Dated: November 19, 2004. 

Bryant L. VanBrakle, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–26065 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Federal Financial Participation in State 

Assistance Expenditures; Federal 

Matching Shares for Medicaid, the 

State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program, and Aid To Needy Aged, 

Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 

1, 2005 Through September 30, 2006

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Medical 

Assistance Percentages and Enhanced 

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages 

for Fiscal Year 2006 have been 

calculated pursuant to the Social 

Security Act (the Act). These 

percentages will be effective from 

October 1, 2005 through September 30, 

2006. This notice announces the 

calculated ‘‘Federal Medical Assistance 

Percentages’’ and ‘‘Enhanced Federal 

Medical Assistance Percentages’’ that 

we will use in determining the amount 

of Federal matching for State medical 

assistance (Medicaid) and State 

Children’s Health Insurance Program 

(SCHIP) expenditures, and Temporary 

Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 

Contingency Funds, the federal share of 

Child Support Enforcement collections, 

Child Care Mandatory and Matching 

Funds of the Child Care and 

Development Fund, Foster Care Title 

IV–E Maintenance payments, and 

Adoption Assistance payments. The 

table gives figures for each of the 50 

States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 

American Samoa, and the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands. Programs under title XIX of the 

Act exist in each jurisdiction; programs 

under titles I, X, and XIV operate only 

in Guam and the Virgin Islands; while 

a program under title XVI (Aid to the 

Aged, Blind, or Disabled) operates only 

in Puerto Rico. Programs under title XXI 

began operating in fiscal year 1998. The 

percentages in this notice apply to State 

expenditures for most medical services 

and medical insurance services, and 

assistance payments for certain social 

services. The statute provides separately 

for Federal matching of administrative 

costs. 

Sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B) of 

the Act require the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services to publish the 

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages 

each year. The Secretary is to figure the 

percentages, by formulas in sections 

1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B), from the 

Department of Commerce’s statistics of 

average income per person in each State 

and in the Nation as a whole. The 

percentages are within the upper and 

lower limits given in section 1905(b) of 

the Act. The percentages to be applied 

to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 

the Virgin Islands, Guam, American 

Samoa, and the Northern Mariana 

Islands are specified in statute, and thus 

are not based on the statutory formula 

that determines the percentages for the 

50 states. 

The ‘‘Federal Medical Assistance 

Percentages’’ are for Medicaid. Section 

1905(b) of the Act specifies the formula 

for calculating Federal Medical 

Assistance Percentages as follows:

‘‘Federal medical assistance percentage’’

for any State shall be 100 per centum less the 

State percentage; and the State percentage 

shall be that percentage which bears the same 

ratio to 45 per centum as the square of the 

per capita income of such State bears to the 

square of the per capita income of the 

continental United States (including Alaska) 

and Hawaii; except that (1) the Federal 

medical assistance percentage shall in no 

case be less than 50 per centum or more than 

83 per centum, (2) the Federal medical 

assistance percentage for Puerto Rico, the 

Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana 

Islands, and American Samoa shall be 50 per 

centum.

A provision in the Medicare, 

Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits 

Improvement and Protection Act of 

2000 modified the formula to calculate 

the percentages to be applied to Alaska 

for purposes of titles XIX and XXI of the 

Act for fiscal years 2001 through 2005. 

For Alaska only, the formula required 

dividing the state’s three-year average 

per capita income by 1.05 instead of 1.0. 

This provision has not been extended, 

and therefore the calculation for Alaska 

reverts to the standard formula. 

In addition, section 4725 of the 

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 amended 

section 1905(b) to provide that the 

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage 

for the District of Columbia for purposes 

of titles XIX and XXI shall be 70 

percent. For the District of Columbia, 

we note under the table of Federal 

Medical Assistance Percentages the rate 

that applies in certain other programs 

calculated using the formula otherwise 

applicable, and the rate that applies in 

certain other programs pursuant to 

section 1118 of the Social Security Act. 

Section 2105(b) of the Act specifies 

the formula for calculating the 

Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance 

Percentages as follows:

The ‘‘enhanced FMAP’’, for a State for a 

fiscal year, is equal to the Federal medical 

assistance percentage (as defined in the first 

sentence of section 1905(b)) for the State 

increased by a number of percentage points 

equal to 30 percent of the number of 

percentage points by which (1) such Federal 

medical assistance percentage for the State, is 

less than (2) 100 percent; but in no case shall 

the enhanced FMAP for a State exceed 85 

percent.

The ‘‘Enhanced Federal Medical 

Assistance Percentages’’ are for use in 

the State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program under Title XXI, and in the 

Medicaid program for certain children 

for expenditures for medical assistance 

described in sections 1905(u)(2) and 

1905(u)(3) of the Act. There is no 

specific requirement to publish the 

Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance 

Percentages. We include them in this 

notice for the convenience of the States.

DATES: The percentages listed will be 

effective for each of the 4 quarter-year 

periods in the period beginning October 

1, 2005 and ending September 30, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carrie Becker or Robert Stewart, Office 

of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 447D—Hubert H. Humphrey

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Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20201, (202) 690–

6870.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.558: TANF Contingency 

Funds; 93.563: Child Support Enforcement; 

93–596: Child Care Mandatory and Matching 

Funds of the Child Care and Development 

Fund; 93.658: Foster Care Title IV–E; 93.659: 

Adoption Assistance; 93.769: Ticket-to-Work 

and Work Incentives Improvement Act 

(TWWIIA) Demonstrations to Maintain 

Independence and Employment; 93.778: 

Medical Assistance Program; 93.767: State 

Children’s Health Insurance Program)

Dated: November 18, 2004. 

Tommy G. Thompson, 

Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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[FR Doc. 04–26056 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–C

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–05–0106] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–498–1210 or send 

comments to Sandi Gambescia, CDC 

Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–E11, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Preventive Health and Health Services 

Block Grant, Annual Application and 

Reports, OMB No. 0920–0106–

Extension—National Center for Chronic 

Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and brief description:

In 1994, OMB approved the collection 

of information provided in the grant 

applications and annual reports for the 

Preventive Health and Health Services 

(PHHS) Block Grant (OMB No. 0920–

0106). This approval expires on January 

31, 2005. CDC is requesting OMB 

clearance for this legislatively mandated 

information collection until January 31, 

2008. The request is to approve the 

development and adherence to Healthy 

People 2010 (the Nation’s Health 

Objectives) which was released in the 

Spring of 2000. The PHHS block grant 

is mandated according to section 1904 

to adhere to the Healthy People 

framework. 

This information, which is collected 

through the application forms from the 

official State health agencies, is required 

from section 1905 of the Public Health 

Service Act. There is a slight change in 

the proposed information collection 

from previous years. The changes 

include more program specific 

information and the relationship of 

block funded activities to program 

strategy. The information collected from 

the annual report forms is required by 

section 1906. The development of a 

PHHS block grant web page, with data 

web links from existing federal 

databases, will be used to coincide with 

the collection of uniform data for the 

annual report. The availability to collect 

data through internet accessibility will 

allow for a more streamlined and 

efficient use of data processing by the 

states and reduce the states’ burden of 

duplicate reporting on outcome and risk 

factor data. There is no cost to 

respondents except their time to 

complete the application/report.

ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Forms No. of respondents 

No. of responses/respondent 

Average burden per response in 

hours 

Total burden 

Annual applications .......................................................................................... * 61 1 30 1830 

Annual reports ................................................................................................. 61 1 40 2440 

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 4270 

*There are 61 respondents (Official State Health Agencies from the 50 States, the District of Columbia, 8 U.S. Territories, and two American 

Indian Tribes (Santee Sioux and Kickapoo of Kansas). The response burden consists of an annual application and an annual report (with selected summary data items). 

Dated: November 12, 2004. 

B. Kathy Skipper, 

Acting Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention.

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BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–05–0260] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–498–1210 or send 

comments to Sandi Gambescia, CDC 

Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–E11, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c)