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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the SAB Conference Center, located at 

1025 F Street, NW., Room 3705, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain further information about this 

meeting may contact Dr. Angela Nugent, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO). Dr. 

Nugent may be contacted at the EPA 

Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; or via 

telephone/voice mail; (202) 343–9981; 

fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information about the EPA SAB, as well 

as any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice, may be found 

on the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB Expert Elicitation 

Advisory Panel will hold a public 

meeting to review EPA’s draft Expert 

Elicitation Task Force White Paper. The 

SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 

to provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the technical basis for Agency positions 

and regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Background: EPA’s Science Policy 

Council (SPC) formed the Expert 

Elicitation Task Force in April of 2005 

to initiate a thorough discussion of 

Expert Elicitation, and to investigate 

how to conduct and use this method to 

support EPA regulatory and nonregulatory analyses and decisionmaking. The Task Force, with 

representation across EPA program 

offices and Regions, developed the 

Expert Elicitation Task Force White 

Paper. The White Paper discusses the 

potential utility of using expert 

elicitation to support EPA regulatory 

and non-regulatory analyses and 

decision-making, provides 

recommendations for expert elicitation 

‘‘good practices’’ based on a review of 

the literature and actual experience 

within EPA and other federal agencies 

and describes steps for a broader 

application across EPA. EPA’s Office of 

the Science Advisor has requested SAB 

review of EPA’s draft Expert Elicitation 

Task Force White Paper to provide 

advice regarding the potential 

usefulness of expert elicitation, how to 

strengthen the scientific basis for its use, 

and the implications for possible 

implementation at EPA. 

EPA’s Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office formed the SAB Expert 

Elicitation Advisory Panel after 

announcing the advisory activity in the 

Federal Register on June 28, 2007 (72 

FR 35463–35465) and requesting 

nominations of experts. Information on 

the panel and the advisory activities can 

be found on the SAB Web site at 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/Expert

%20Elicitation%20White%20Paper?

OpenDocument. Availability of Meeting 

Materials: EPA’s draft Expert Elicitation 

Task Force White Paper will be posted 

on the EPA Office of Science Advisor 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/osa/spc/ 

expertelicitation. The EPA technical 

contact for the draft Expert Elicitation 

Task Force White Paper is Mr. Robert 

Hetes, EPA Office of Research and 

Development. Mr. Hetes may be 

contacted by telephone at (919) 541– 

1589, or via e-mail at 

hetes.bob@epa.gov. The agenda and 

other material for the upcoming public 

meeting will be posted on the SAB Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB Panel to 

consider on the topics included in this 

advisory activity and/or group 

conducting the activity. Oral 

Statements: In general, individuals or 

groups requesting an oral presentation 

at a public meeting will be limited to 

five minutes per speaker, with no more 

than a total of one hour for all speakers. 

Interested parties should contact Dr. 

Nugent, DFO, in writing (preferably via 

e-mail) at the contact information noted 

above, by February 18, 2009 to be 

placed on a list of public speakers for 

the meeting. Written Statements: 

Written statements should be received 

in the SAB Staff Office by February 18, 

2009 so that the information may be 

made available to the SAB Panel 

members for their consideration. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO in the following formats: one 

hard copy with original signature, and 

one electronic copy via e-mail 

(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Submitters are asked to provide versions 

of each document submitted with and 

without signatures, because the SAB 

Staff Office does not publish documents 

with signatures on its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Nugent at 

the phone number or e-mail address 

noted above, preferably at least ten days 

prior to the meeting to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: January 23, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–1919 Filed 1–28–09; 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 may submit comments 

on agreements to the Secretary, Federal 

Maritime Commission, Washington, DC 

20573, within ten days of the date this 

notice appears in the Federal Register. 

Copies of agreements are available 

through the Commission’s Web site 

(http://www.fmc.gov) or contacting the 

Office of Agreements at (202) 523–5793 

or tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 

Agreement No.: 012044–001. 

Title: MOL/CMA CGM Slot Charter 

Agreement. 

Parties: CMA CGM, S.A. and Mitsui 

O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. 

Filing Party: Robert B. Yoshitomi, 

Esq.; Nixon Peabody, LLP; Gas 

Company Tower; 555 West Fifth Street, 

46th Floor; Los Angeles, CA 90013. 

Synopsis: The amendment adds the 

ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the 

geographic scope of the agreement. 

Agreement No.: 012061. 

Title: CMA CGM/Maersk Line Space 

Charter, Sailing and Cooperative 

Working Agreement Western 

Mediterranean-U.S. East Coast. 

Parties: CMA CGM, S.A. and A.P. 

Moller-Maersk A/S. 

Filing Party: Wayne R. Rohde, Esq.; 

Sher and Blackwell, LLP; 1850 M Street, 

NW.; Suite 900; Washington, DC 20036. 

Synopsis: The agreement authorizes 

the parties to share vessel space in the 

trade between U.S. East Coast ports and 

ports in the Western Mediterranean. 

Agreement No.: 201200. 

Title: Houston Marine Terminal 

Operators/Freight Handlers Agreement. 

Parties: Ceres Gulf, Inc.; Chaparral 

Stevedoring Company of Texas, Inc.; CT 

Stevedoring, Inc. dba Cooper/T. Smith 

Stevedoring Co.; Ports America Texas, 

Inc.; GP Terminals, LLC; Shippers 

Stevedoring Company; and SSA Gulf, 

Inc. 

Filing Party: Deanna E. Rose, Esq.; 

Manelli Denison and Selter, PLLC; 2000 


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M Street, NW.; 7th Floor; Washington, 

DC 20036–3307. 

Synopsis: The agreement authorizes 

the parties to meet, discuss, and 

voluntarily agree on matters of common 

interest at the Port of Houston (the Port), 

including recommended rates and 

charges to be published in the Port’s 

tariffs. The parties request expedited 

review. 

Dated: January 23, 2009. 

By Order of the Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Karen V. Gregory, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–1831 Filed 1–28–09; 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 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 February 23, 

2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York (Ivan Hurwitz, Bank Applications 

Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, 

New York 10045–0001: 

1. Max Bancorp, LLC, New York, New 

York, to become a bank holding 

company by acquiring at least 50 

percent of the voting shares of 

Allegiance Community Bank, South 

Orange, New Jersey. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 26, 2009. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–1937 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

[Document Identifier: OS–0937–0198] 

Agency Information Collection 

Request: 60-Day Public Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

Agency Information Collection 

Request: 60-Day Public Comment 

Request. 

In compliance with the requirement 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed information collection request 

for public comment. Interested persons 

are invited to send comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including any of the following subjects: 

(1) The necessity and utility of the 

proposed information collection for the 

proper performance of the agency’s 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. To obtain copies of 

the supporting statement and any 

related forms for the proposed 

paperwork collections referenced above, 

e-mail your request, including your 

address, phone number, OMB number, 

and OS document identifier, to 

Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call 

the Reports Clearance Office on (202) 

690–6162. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collections must be directed 

to the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer 

at the above e-mail address within 60 

days. 

Proposed Project: Public Health 

Service Polices on Research Misconduct 

(42 CFR Part 93)—OMB No. 0937–0198– 

Extension—Office of Resource Integrity. 

Abstract: This is a request to extend 

the currently approved collection. The 

purpose of the Annual Report on 

Possible Research Misconduct (Annual 

Report) form is to provide data on the 

amount of research misconduct activity 

occurring in institutions conducting 

PHS supported research. In addition 

this provides an annual assurance that 

the institution has established and will 

follow administrative policies and 

procedures for responding to allegations 

of research misconduct that comply 

with the Public Health Service (PHS) 

Policies on Research Misconduct (42 

CFR Part 93). Research misconduct is 

defined as receipt of an allegation of 

research misconduct and/or the conduct 

of an inquiry and/or investigation into 

such allegations. These data enable the 

ORI to monitor institutional compliance 

with the PHS regulation. Lastly, the 

form will be used to respond to 

congressional requests for information 

to prevent misuse of Federal funds and 

to protect the public interest. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Forms 

(if necessary) Type of respondent Number of respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

PHS–6349 .............. Awardee Institutions .................................................... 5246 1 6/60 525 


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