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of 1977 (CRA), 12 U.S.C. 2901, et seq., 

and record of lending to first-time 

homebuyers. 12 U.S.C. 1430(g)(2). 12 

CFR part 944 implements section 10(g) 

of the Bank Act. See 12 CFR part 944. 

The rule provides uniform community 

support standards all Bank members 

must meet and review criteria FHFA 

staff must apply to determine 

compliance with section 10(g). More 

specifically, § 944.2 of the rule (12 CFR 

944.2) implements the statutory 

community support requirement and 

requires each member selected for 

review to submit a completed 

Community Support Statement Form to 

the FHFA. The community support 

standards for the two statutory factors 

are found in § 944.3 (12 CFR 944.3)— 

CRA and first-time homebuyer 

performance—this provision also 

provides guidance to a respondent on 

how it may satisfy the standards . The 

procedures and criteria FHFA uses in 

determining whether Bank members 

satisfy the statutory and regulatory 

community support requirements are 

found in §§ 944.4 and 944.5 (12 CFR 

944.4 through 944.5) 

The information collection contained 

in the Community Support Statement 

Form and §§ 944.2 through 944.5 of the 

rule are necessary to enable and are 

used by the FHFA to determine whether 

Bank members satisfy the statutory and 

regulatory community support 

requirements. Only Bank members that 

meet these requirements may maintain 

continued access to long-term Bank 

advances. See 12 U.S.C. 1430(g). 

The OMB number for the information 

collection is 2590–0005. The OMB 

clearance for the information collection 

expires on September 30, 2009. The 

likely respondents are institutions that 

are Bank members. 

B. Burden Estimate 

The FHFA estimates the total annual 

average number of respondents at 4100 

Bank members, with 1 response per 

member. The estimate for the average 

hours per response is one hour. The 

estimate for the total annual hour 

burden is 4100 hours (4100 members × 

1 response per member × 1 hour). 

C. Comment Request 

The FHFA requests written comments 

on the following: (1) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of FHFA 

functions, including whether the 

information has practical utility; (2) The 

accuracy of the FHFA estimates of the 

burdens of the collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information collected; 

and (4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Dated: August 13, 2009. 

James B. Lockhart III, 

Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency. 

[FR Doc. E9–19776 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8070–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank 

Holding Companies 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank 

holding company. The factors that are 

considered in acting on the notices are 

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the office of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than 

September 2, 2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 

President, Applications and 

Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 

Francisco, California 94105–1579: 

1. Alan Isaac Rothenberg, Beverly 

Hills, California; to acquire at least 10 

percent of the voting shares of 1st 

Century Bancshares, Inc., and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of 1st 

Century Bank, N.A., both of Los 

Angeles, California. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 13, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–19743 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

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 September 11, 

2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. Artisan Financial Corporation, 

Barrington, Illinois; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of Valley 

Community Bancorp, Inc., and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of 

Valley Community Bank, both of St. 

Charles, Illinois. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 13, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–19742 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Delegations of Authority 

Notice is hereby given that I have 

delegated to the National Coordinator 

for Health Information Technology 

(National Coordinator) the authority 

vested in the Secretary under Title XXX 

of the Public Health Service Act (42 

U.S.C. 201 et seq.), as amended, to 


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1Wolfort, R.M., Stokes, K.Y., & Granger, D.N. 

‘‘CN4+ T lymphocytes mediate 

hypercholesterolemia-induced endothelial 

dysfunction via a NAD(P)H oxidase-dependent 

mechanism.’’ Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 

294:H2619–H2626, 2008; hereafter referred to as 

‘‘paper 1.’’ Identified for retraction. 

Wolfort, R.M., Manriquez, R., Stokes, K.Y., & 

Granger, D.N. ‘‘Platelet-derived RANTES mediates 

hypercholesterolemia-induced superoxide 

production and endothelial dysfunction.’’ 

Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. Vol. 28 (pages 

unavailable), as Epub 2008, July 17; hereafter 

referred to as ‘‘paper 2.’’ Identified for retraction. 

Wolfort, R.M., Stokes, K.Y., & Granger, D.N. 

‘‘Immune cell-mediated endothelial cell 

dysfunction during hypercholesterolemia involves 

interferon-g dependent signaling.’’ Am J Physiol 

Heart Circ Physiol, as Epub 2008, September 5; 

hereafter referred to as ‘‘paper 3.’’ Retracted in Am 

J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 295(5):H2219, 2008 

November. 

2Manuscript submitted to the journal Free 

Radicals in Biology and Medicine, by Ryan M. 

Wolfort, Katherine C. Wood, Robert P. Hebbel, and 

Neil Granger, ‘‘Mechanisms underlying the 

vasomotor dysfunction in sickle transgenic mice,’’ 

Ms Number FRBM–D–08–00454; hereafter referred 

to as the ‘‘FRBM’’ manuscript. 

administer Subtitle B, ‘‘Incentives for 

the Use of Health Information 

Technology,’’ sections 3011 through 

3017, with the exception of 3012(c)(5), 

the Financial Support subsection. 

These authorities may be redelegated. 

The delegations authorize the National 

Coordinator to administer the Incentives 

for the Use of Health Information 

Technology as provided in Subtitle B. 

I hereby affirm and ratify any actions 

taken by the National Coordinator or by 

any other officials of the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology, which, in 

effect, involved the exercise of this 

authority prior to the effective date of 

this delegation. 

This delegation is effective upon date 

of signature. 

Dated: August 7, 2009. 

Kathleen Sebelius, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–19709 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Findings of Research Misconduct 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) 

and the Assistant Secretary for Health 

have taken final action in the following 

case: 

Ryan M. Wolfort, M.D., Ph.D., 

Louisiana State University Health 

Sciences Center—Shreveport : Based on 

the report of an investigation conducted 

by Louisiana State University Health 

Sciences Center—Shreveport (LSUHSC– 

S) and additional analysis conducted by 

ORI in its oversight review, the U.S. 

Public Health Service (PHS) found that 

Dr. Ryan M. Wolfort, who was a House 

Officer in the Department of Surgery, 

and a former graduate student, 

Department of Molecular and Cellular 

Physiology, LSUHSC–S, engaged in 

research misconduct in the reporting of 

research supported by National Heart, 

Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), 

National Institutes of Health (NIH), 

grants R01 HL26441 and P01 HL55552. 

Respondent’s research misconduct 

related to his dissertation research as a 

graduate student, which he undertook at 

the same time that he also was serving 

as a House Officer at LSUHSC–S. ORI 

acknowledges Dr. Wolfort’s cooperation 

with the LSUHSC–S misconduct 

proceedings. 

PHS found that Dr. Wolfort engaged 

in research misconduct by falsifying and 

fabricating data reported in three 

publications 1 and one manuscript 2 that 

had been submitted for publication, 

reviewed, and returned for revision. 

Specifically, Dr. Wolfort falsified and 

fabricated data reported in research 

examining the contribution of immune 

mechanisms to early oxidative stress 

and endothelial dysfunction in mice 

with induced dietary 

hypercholesterolemia by: 

1. Admittedly fabricating tabulations 

and the associated statistical analyses of 

RT–PCR data on Nox-2 mRNA 

expression in the three publications and 

the manuscript; 

2. Falsifying data and the associated 

statistical claims, specifically by (a) 

Admittedly falsifying the measurements 

of endothelial function by myographic 

recordings of aortic ring dilation in 

reaction to vasoactive substances in the 

three papers and manuscript, (b) 

admittedly falsifying the measurement 

of cytokine by cytometric bead assay in 

paper 3, and (c) falsifying the 

measurement of superoxide production 

by cytochrome c reduction in papers 1 

and 2, for which the underlying 

spreadsheet data the Respondent claims 

were unintentionally misrepresented, 

massaged, and improperly collated, but 

for which Respondent acknowledges 

that the raw data were missing for all 

three papers, admittedly because he 

intentionally erased files and discarded 

notebooks. 

Dr. Wolfort has entered into a 

Voluntary Exclusion Agreement in 

which he has voluntarily agreed, for a 

period of two (2) years, beginning on 

July 13, 2009: 

(1) To exclude himself from any 

contracting or subcontracting with any 

agency of the United States Government 

and from eligibility or involvement in 

nonprocurement programs of the United 

States pursuant to HHS’ Implementation 

(2 CFR part 276 et seq.) of OMB 

Guidelines to Agencies on Government 

wide Debarment and Suspension (2 

CFR, part 180); and 

(2) To exclude himself from serving in 

any advisory capacity to PHS, including 

but not limited to service on any PHS 

advisory committee, board, and/or peer 

review committee, or as a consultant. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Director, Division of Investigative 

Oversight, Office of Research Integrity, 

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750, 

Rockville, MD 20852. (240) 453–8800. 

John Dahlberg, 

Director, Division of Investigative Oversight, 

Office of Research Integrity. 

[FR Doc. E9–19795 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–31–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Interest Rate on Overdue 

Debts 

Section 30.18 of the Department of 

Health and Human Services’ claims 

collection regulations (45 CFR Part 30) 

provides that the Secretary shall charge 

an annual rate of interest as fixed by the 

Secretary of the Treasury after taking 

into consideration private consumer 

rates of interest prevailing on the date 

that HHS becomes entitled to recovery. 

The rate generally cannot be lower than 

the Department of Treasury’s current 

value of funds rate or the applicable rate 

determined from the ‘‘Schedule of 

Certified Interest Rates with Range of 

Maturities.’’ This rate may be revised 

quarterly by the Secretary of the 

Treasury and shall be published 

quarterly by the Department of Health 

and Human Services in the Federal 

Register. 

The Secretary of the Treasury has 

certified a rate of 111⁄4% for the quarter 

ended June 30, 2009. This interest rate 

will remain in effect until such time as 

the Secretary of the Treasury notifies 

HHS of any change. 

Dated: August 6, 2009. 

Molly P. Dawson, 

Director, Office of Financial Policy and 

Reporting. 

[FR Doc. E9–19707 Filed 8–17–09; 8:45 am] 

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