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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 the 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 125⁄8% for the quarter 

ended June 30, 2006. This interest rate 

will remain in effect until such time as 

the Secretary of the Treasury notifies 

HHS of any change. 

Dated: August 9, 2006. 

Jean Augustine, 

Director, Office of Financial Policy and 

Reporting. 

[FR Doc. 06–6917 Filed 8–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–04–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; 

American Health Information 

Community Confidentiality and 

Security Workgroup Meeting 

ACTION: New Meeting Date. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

rescheduled date of the first meeting of 

the American Health Information 

Community Confidentiality and 

Security Workgroup in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.). The 

Confidentiality and Security Workgroup 

was created by the American Health 

Information Community as a crosscutting Workgroup comprised of 

privacy, security, clinical, and technical 

experts, as well as representation from 

the consumer perspective. 

New Date Time: August 21, 2006, 1 

p.m. to 4 p.m. This meeting was 

previously scheduled to be held on 

August 4, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Mary C. Switzer Building 

(330 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 

20201), Conference Room 4090. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ 

workgroups.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be available via Web cast 

at http://www.eventcenterlive.com/ 

cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67. 

Dated: August 3, 2006. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Director, American Health Information 

Community, Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. 06–6916 Filed 8–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator; 

American Health Information 

Community Biosurveillance 

Workgroup Meeting 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

eighth meeting of the American Health 

Information Community Biosurveillance 

Workgroup in accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.) 

DATES: August 24, 2006 from 1 p.m. to 

5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Mary C. Switzer Building 

(330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20201), Conference Room 4090. [Please 

bring photo ID for entry to a Federal 

building.] 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ 

bio_main.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be available via Web cast 

at http://www.eventcenterlive.com/ 

cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67. 

Dated: August 3, 2006. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Director, American Health Information 

Community, Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator. 

[FR Doc. 06–6918 Filed 8–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator, 

American Health Information 

Community Biosurveillance Data 

Steering Group Meeting 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

fourth meeting of the American Health 

Information Community Biosurveillance 

Data Steering Group in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.). 

DATES: August 18, 2006, 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Mary C. Switzer Building 

(330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20201), Conference Room 4090. [Please 

bring photo ID for entry to a Federal 

building.] 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ 

workgroups.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be available via Web cast 

at http://www.eventcenterlive.com/ 

cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67. 

Dated: August 3, 2006. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Director, American Health Information 

Community, Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. 06–6919 Filed 8–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Public Meeting of the President’s 

Council on Bioethics on September 

7–8, 2006 

AGENCY: The President’s Council on 

Bioethics, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The President’s Council on 

Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, 

Chairman) will hold its twenty-sixth 

meeting, at which, among other things, 

it will hear presentations on and discuss 

issues in two broad areas: (1) Organ 

procurement, allocation, and 

transplantation and (2) the personal, 

social, and policy-related significance of 

genetic information and knowledge. The 

discussions in both areas are 

continuations of previous Council 

discussions. Subjects discussed at past 

Council meetings (although not on the 

agenda for the September 2006 meeting) 

include: human dignity, therapeutic and 

reproductive cloning, assisted 

reproduction, reproductive genetics, 

neuroscience, aging retardation, and 

lifespan-extension. Publications issued 

by the Council to date include: Human 

Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical 

Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond Therapy: 

Biotechnology and the Pursuit of 

Happiness (October 2003); Being 

Human: Readings from the President’s 

Council on Bioethics (December 2003); 

Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 

2004), Reproduction and Responsibility: 

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