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constructed. Thus, over this time period 

prior to the enactment of ARRA, the 

IEUA standardized its use of the Solinst 

transducers. At the time of the initial 

transducer procurements, the IEUA 

concluded the Solinst transducers had 

superior durability and more efficient 

data output compared to the 

domestically-manufactured transducers. 

Solinst transducers have metal 

connections that the IEUA determined 

at that time to be more robust and 

durable than the plastic connections of 

the U.S.-made product, because the 

plastic connections tend to strip if sand 

or grit gets inside the threading. The 

IEUA also determined the Solinst 

product provides a consistent data file 

so that data reduction will not have 

different formats, and require different 

steps and different software. Thus, data 

manipulation can be streamlined and 

semi-automated. Fewer components are 

required for installation of the Solinst 

transducers, which reduces the costs for 

labor and equipment. Also, since this 

transducer has become the IEUA’s 

standard, staff has been trained on how 

to use and maintain this particular 

equipment and software. If another type 

of transducer was utilized for the three 

monitoring wells being installed for this 

project, there would be approximately 

$10,000 a year in additional costs for 

labor and training, as well as additional 

capital costs for equipment due to the 

much higher cost of the domestic-made 

product. 

EPA finds these considerations as 

stated by IEUA provide ample 

functional justification for 

standardization, particularly because 

the use of a functionally effective and 

reliable set of transducers is integral to 

compliance with State-imposed 

regulatory requirements. Furthermore, 

as the IEUA’s decision to standardize on 

the Solinst transducers took place years 

before ARRA was enacted, that decision 

was clearly not an attempt to avoid 

application of the Buy American 

provisions of ARRA. If the mandate of 

section 1605(a) was applied here to 

require the IEUA to use the 

domestically-manufactured good under 

these circumstances, it would either 

force the IEUA to use two different and 

incompatible types of equipment for the 

same purpose, or alternatively to resolve 

the incompatibility by in effect 

requiring them to buy only the 

American-made product for their entire 

system. It is not in the public interest to 

require the IEUA either to bear the 

duplicative (or more) life-cycle costs for 

two incompatible types of goods, or to 

replace their twenty pre-ARRA Solinst 

transducers with the domestic product, 

and thereby to extend the scope of the 

ARRA Buy American provision far 

beyond the procurement of three 

transducers for an ARRA-funded 

project. 

The purpose of the ARRA is to 

stimulate economic recovery by funding 

current infrastructure construction, not 

to delay projects that are already ‘‘shovel 

ready’’ by requiring SRF eligible 

recipients such as the IEUA to revise 

their design standards and 

specifications, or to impair the efficient 

operation of project facilities thereafter. 

The imposition of ARRA Buy American 

requirements in this case would result 

in unreasonable delay for this project, 

and an unjustifiable burden to the IEUA, 

in the form of wasteful and duplicative 

life-cycle costs in the future, as well as 

problematic performance of its recharge 

well monitoring system due to 

incompatible transducers. Both results 

would directly conflict with 

fundamental economic purposes of 

ARRA, to create or retain jobs, and to 

build recovery by investments in 

effective infrastructure. 

The information provided is sufficient 

to meet the following criteria listed 

under Section 1605(b)(1) of the ARRA, 

OMB’s regulations at 2 CFR 176.60– 

176.170, and in the April 28, 2009 EPA 

memorandum for implementation of 

ARRA Buy American provisions of 

Public Law 111–5. Applying the Buy 

American requirements of ARRA would 

be inconsistent with the public interest. 

The March 31, 2009 Delegation of 

Authority Memorandum provided 

Regional Administrators with the 

authority to issue exceptions to Section 

1605 of ARRA within the geographic 

boundaries of their respective regions 

and with respect to requests by 

individual grant recipients. 

Having established both a proper 

basis to specify the particular good 

required for this project and that 

application of the Buy American 

requirements would be inconsistent 

with the public interest, the IEUA is 

hereby granted a waiver from the Buy 

American requirements of Section 

1605(a) of Public Law 111–5. This 

waiver permits use of ARRA funds for 

the purchase of the specified Solinst 

transducers as documented in the 

IEUA’s waiver request submittal dated 

January 21, 2010. This supplementary 

information constitutes the detailed 

written justification required by Section 

1605(c) for waivers based on a finding 

under subsection (b)(1). 

Authority: Public Law 111–5, section 1605. 

Dated: February 10, 2010. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Pacific 

Southwest Region. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4073 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–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 applications 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 March 25, 

2010. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. Premier Commerce Bancorp, Inc., 

Palos Hills, Illinois; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of G.R. 

Bancorp, Ltd., Grand Ridge, Illinois, and 

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares 

of The First National Bank of Grand 

Ridge, Grand Ridge, Illinois. 


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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, February 23, 2010. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3992 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

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. 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 the applications must be 

received at the Reserve Bank indicated 

or the offices of the Board of Governors 

not later than March 25, 2010. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Philadelphia (Michael E. Collins, Senior 

Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105– 

1521: 

1. Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation, Bryn 

Mawr, Pennsylvania; to acquire First 

Keystone Financial, Inc. Media, 

Pennsylvania, and thereby indirectly 

acquire First Keystone Bank, Media, 

Pennsylvania, and thereby engage in 

operating a savings and loan assocation, 

pursuant to 225.28(b)(4)(ii) of 

Regulation Y. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, February 23, 2010. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3991 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Granting of Request for Early 

Termination of the Waiting Period 

Under the Premerger Notification 

Rules 

February 2, 2010. 

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 

U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the 

Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust 

Improvements Act of 1976, requires 

persons contemplating certain mergers 

or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General advance notice and to wait 

designated periods before 

consummation of such plans. Section 

7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, 

in individual cases, to terminate this 

waiting period prior to its expiration 

and requires that notice of this action be 

published in the Federal Register. 

The following transactions were 

granted early termination of the waiting 

period provided by law and the 

premerger notification rules. The grants 

were made by the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General for the Antitrust Division of the 

Department of Justice. Neither agency 

intends to take any action with respect 

to these proposed acquisitions during 

the applicable waiting period. 

TRANSACTION GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION

ET date Trans No. ET req 

status Party name 

11–JAN–10 ............................................................... 20100293 G Tang Hsiang Chien. 

G TTM Technologies, Inc. 

G TTM Technologies, Inc. 

20100306 G Admiral Beverage Corporation. 

G Joe G. Maloof and Company. 

G Maloof Distributing LLC. 

20100309 G Apollo Investment Fund VII, L.P. 

G Cedar Fair, L.P. 

G Cedar Fair, L.P. 

12–JAN–10 ............................................................... 20100277 G Intermediate Capital Group PLC. 

G Computer Patent Annuities Holdings Limited. 

G Computer Patent Annuities Holdings Limited. 

20100308 G Johnson & Johnson. 

G Acclarent, Inc. 

G Acclarent, Inc. 

13–JAN–10 ............................................................... 20100262 G American Express Company. 

G Stephen M. Case. 

G Revolution Money Inc. 

20100268 G Microsoft Corporation. 

G Sentillion, Inc. 

G Sentillion, Inc. 

20100294 G George J. Pedersen. 

G Michael Gualario. 

G Sensor Technologies Incorporated. 

14–JAN–10 ............................................................... 20100296 G Francisco Partners II, LP. 

G QuadraMed Corporation. 

G QuadraMed Corporation. 


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