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of Bay Port State Bank, Bay Port,

Michigan.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (D. Michael Manies, Assistant Vice

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198–0001:

1. Dan Howard Galbraith, Lawrence,

Kansas, and Jan Louise Galbraith, Tulsa,

Oklahoma; to acquire voting shares of

Second Century Financial Corporation,

Perry, Kansas, and thereby indirectly

acquire voting shares of The Bank of

Perry, Perry, Kansas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 19, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–1694 Filed 1–24–00; 8:45 am]

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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.

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 17,

2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III,

Assistant Vice President) 701 East Byrd

Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528:

1. BB&T Corporation, Winston-Salem,

North Carolina; to merge with Hardwick

Holding Company, Dalton, Georgia, and

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares

of Hardwick Bank & Trust Company,

Dalton, Georgia, and First National Bank

of Northwest Georgia, Calhoun, Georgia.

In connection with this proposal,

BB&T Corporation requests permission

to exercise an option to acquire up to

19.9 percent of the voting securities of

Hardwick Holding Company under

certain circumstances.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 19, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–1695 Filed 1–24–00; 8:45 am]

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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.

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 February 7, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 104

Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia

30303–2713:

1. Birthright, Incorporated,

Montgomery, Alabama; to engage de

novo through its subsidiary, Jackson,

Shanklin, & Sonia Securities, LLC, New

Orleans, Louisiana, in securities

brokerage activities, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(7)(i) of Regulation Y.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco (Maria Villanueva, Consumer

Regulation Group) 101 Market Street,

San Francisco, California 94105–1579:

1. Wells Fargo & Company, San

Francisco, California; to acquire Ragen

MacKenzie Group Incorporated, Seattle,

Washington, and thereby engage in

providing financial and investment

advisory services, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(6) of Regulation Y; providing

securities brokerage, riskless principal,

private placement, and other agency

transactional services, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(7) of Regulation Y;

underwriting and dealing in government

obligations and money market

instruments in which state member

banks may underwrite and deal under

12 U.S.C. 335 and 24; and investing and

trading activities other than in bank

ineligible securities, pursuant to

§ 225.28(b)(8) of Regulation Y; and in

underwriting and dealing in all types of

debt and equity securities, other than

interests in open-end investment

companies, see J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.,

et al., 75 Fed. Res. Bull. 192 (1989).

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 19, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Proposed Information Collection

Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Project:

Title: National Child Abuse and

Neglect Data System.

OMB No.: 0980–0256.

Description: The Administration on

Children, Youth and Families

established the National Child Abuse

and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to

respond to the 1996 amendments (Pub.

L. 93–247) to the Child Abuse

Prevention and Treatment Act [42

U.S.C. 5101 et seq.], as amended, which

called for the creation of a coordinated

national data collection and analysis

program, both universal and case

specific in scope, to examine

standardized data on false, unfounded,

or unsubstantiated reports. In 1988,

ACYF embarked on a collaborative

effort with the States to develop a

voluntary national data collection and

analysis program, to collect, compile,

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and make available State child abuse

and neglect reporting information from

child protective services agencies in the

50 States, the District of Columbia, and

the territories.

NCANDS has two components. The

Summary Data Component (SDC) survey

collects aggregate data on key child

protective services statistics. The

Detailed Case Data Component (DCDC)

collects case-level data on each child

reported as an alleged victim of child

maltreatment. The Children’s Bureau is

currently preparing the 9th annual

report based on the NCANDS data.

In 1996, the Child Abuse Prevention

and Treatment Act was amended by

Public Law 104–235 to require that any

State receiving the Basic State Grant

work with the Secretary of the

Department of Health and Human

Services (DHHS) to provide specific

data on child maltreatment to the extent

practicable. The legislation specified the

following data elements.

(1) The number of children who were

reported to the State during the year as

abused or neglected.

(2) Of the number of children

described in paragraph (1), the number

with respect to whom such reports

were—

(A) substantiated;

(B) unsubstantiated; or

(C) determined to be false.

(3) Of the number of children

described in paragraph (2)—

(A) the number that did not receive

services during the year under the State

program funded under this section or an

equivalent State program;

(B) the number that received services

during the year under the State program

funded under this section or an

equivalent State program; and

(C) the number that were removed

from their families during the year by

disposition of the case.

(4) The number of families that

received preventive services from the

State during the year.

(5) The number of deaths in the State

during the year resulting from child

abuse or neglect.

(6) Of the number of children

described in paragraph (5), the number

of such children who were in foster

care.

(7) The number of child protective

services workers responsible for the

intake and screening of reports filed in

the previous year.

(8) The agency response time with

respect to each such report with respect

to initial investigation of reports of child

abuse or neglect.

(9) The response time with respect to

the provision of services to families and

children where an allegation of abuse or

neglect has been made.

(10) The number of child protective

services workers responsible for intake,

assessment, and investigation of child

abuse and neglect reports relative to the

number of reports investigated in the

previous year.

(11) The number of children reunited

with their families or receiving family

preservation services that, within five

years, result in subsequent substantiated

reports of child abuse and neglect,

including the death of the child.

(12) The number of children for

whom individuals were appointed by

the court to represent the best interests

of such children and the average

number of out-of-court contacts between

such individuals and children.

The reporting requirements specified

in CAPTA, as amended, have been met

through recent revisions to the SDC.

After discussions with the States and

pilot testing with a small number of

States, the reporting requirements are

being integrated into the current DCDC.

With this modification to the NCANDS,

States will be able to annually report on

child maltreatment using either the SDC

or the DCDC. States that participate in

the DCDC will no longer need to

additionally respond to the SDC Survey

in order to meet the annual reporting

requirements.

The information collected by

NCANDS will be used to understand

better the experiences of children and

families served by CPS and to guide

policy and program development at the

national and local levels. An annual

report, entitled Child Maltreatment, will

continue to be published. Data collected

through the NCANDS will also be used

to support the Department in

responding to the requirements of the

Government Performance and Results

Act; publishing State data in the annual

report to Congress on child welfare

outcomes; and monitoring States

through the Child and Family Services

Review process.

Respondents: State, Local or Tribal

Govt.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per respondent

Average burden

hours per

response

Total burden

hours

DCDC ....................................................................................... 30 1 130 3900

SDC ......................................................................................... 22 1 40 880

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 4780.

In compliance with the requirements

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the

Administration for Children and

Families is soliciting public comment

on the specific aspects of the

information collection described above.

Copies of the proposed collection of

information can be obtained and

comments may be forwarded by writing

to the Administration for Children and

Families, Office of Information Services,

370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20447, Attn: ACF

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests

should be identified by the title of the

information collection.

The Department specifically requests

comments 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)

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.

Consideration will be given to

comments and suggestions submitted

within 60 days of this publication.

Dated: January 18, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Acting Reports Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–1670 Filed 1–24–00; 8:45 am]

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