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Questions section), if the allocatee has 

issued any Qualified Equity 

Investments; and (iii) a TLR if the 

allocatee has issued any Qualified LowIncome Community Investments in the 

form of loans or investments. The 

components that comprise an allocatee’s 

Annual Report are set forth in the 

allocation agreement that the allocatee 

enters into with the Fund in order to 

receive a NMTC Program allocation. 

Current Action: N/A. 

Type of review: Renewal (combining 

Annual Report, OMB 1559–0006, with 

Annual Survey, OMB 1559–0027). 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions, businesses or other forprofit institutions and tribal entities. 

Burden: Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 423. 

CDFI Annual Report: 233. 

NMTC Annual Report: 190. 

Estimated Annual Time Per 

Respondent: 50. 

CDFI Program TA awardees: 22 hours. 

CDFI Program FA awardees: 62 hours. 

NMTC Program allocatees: 65 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 14,184. 

CDFI Program TA reports: 3,300 

hours. 

CDFI Program FA reports: 9,300 

hours. 

NMTC Program reports: 1,584 hours. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on 

all aspects of the information 

collections, but commentators may wish 

to focus particular attention on: (a) The 

portion of the requested information 

that CDFIs and CDEs currently collect 

and track electronically; (b) the effort 

and cost for CDFIs and CDEs to begin 

collecting and electronically tracking 

any required information not currently 

collected and tracked electronically 

(e.g., enhancing systems, purchasing 

new systems); (c) the cost for CDFIs and 

CDEs to operate and maintain the 

services/systems required to provide the 

required information; (d) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (e) 

whether the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper evaluation of 

the effectiveness and impact of the 

Fund’s programs, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(f) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information; and (g) the 

accuracy of the Fund’s estimate of the 

burden of the collection of information. 

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 4703, 4703 note, 4707, 

4710, 4714, 4717; 26 U.S.C. 45D; 31 U.S.C. 

321; and 12 CFR part 1805. 

Dated: August 22, 2006. 

Arthur A. Garcia, 

Director, Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund. 

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BILLING CODE 4810–70–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION 

ADMINISTRATION 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCIES: Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency (OCC), Treasury; Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System (Board); Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Office of 

Thrift Supervision (OTS), Treasury; 

National Credit Union Administration 

(NCUA); and Federal Trade Commission 

(FTC). 

ACTION: Joint notice and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the OCC, the 

Board, the FDIC, the OTS, the NCUA, 

and the FTC (Agencies) may not 

conduct or sponsor, and the respondent 

is not required to respond to, an 

information collection unless it displays 

a currently valid Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) control number. 

Pursuant to section 214(e) of the Fair 

and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 

2003 (FACT Act or Act), the Agencies 

are requesting public comment on a 

proposed information collection 

concerning the ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates’’

(Survey). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 30, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

any or all of the Agencies. All 

comments, which should refer to the 

OMB control number, will be shared 

among the Agencies. 

OCC: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates (1557–

NEW),’’ by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• OCC Web site: http:// 

www.occ.treas.gov. Click on ‘‘Contact 

the OCC,’’ scroll down and click on 

‘‘Comments on Proposed Regulations.’’

• Mail: Communications Division, 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, Public Information Room, 

Mailstop 1–5, Attention: 1557–NEW, 

250 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20219. 

• Fax: (202) 874–4448 

• E-mail: 

regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. 

You may review comments by any of 

the following methods: 

• Viewing Comments Personally: You 

can inspect and photocopy the 

comments at the OCC’s Public 

Information Room, 250 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20219. You can make 

an appointment to inspect the 

comments by calling (202) 874–5043. 

• Viewing Comments Electronically: 

You may request that we send you an 

electronic copy of comments via e-mail 

or mail you a CD–ROM containing 

electronic copies by contacting the OCC 

at regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. 

A copy of the comments may also be 

submitted to the OMB desk officer: OCC 

Desk Officer, by mail to U.S. Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., #10235, Washington, DC 

20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974. 

Board: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates,’’ by 

any of the following methods: 

• Agency Web Site: http:// 

www.federalreserve.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on the http://www.federalreserve.gov/ 

generalinfo/foia/ProposedRegs.cfm. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• E-mail: 

regs.comments@federalreserve.gov. 

Include docket number in the subject 

line of the message. 

• Fax: 202–452–3819 or 202–452–

3102. 

• Mail: Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary, 

Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System, 20th Street and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20551. 

All public comments are available 

from the Board’s Web site at http:// 

www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/ 

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1Commission Rule 4.2(d), 16 CFR 4.2(d). The 

comment must be accompanied by an explicit 

request for confidential treatment, including the 

factual and legal basis for the request, and must 

identify the specific portions of the comment to be 

withheld from the public record. The request will 

be granted or denied by the Commission’s General 

Counsel, consistent with applicable law and the 

public interest. See Commission Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 

4.9(c). 

except as necessary for technical 

reasons. Accordingly, your comments 

will not be edited to remove any 

identifying or contact information. 

Public comments may also be viewed 

electronically or in paper in Room MP–

500 of the Board’s Martin Building (20th 

and C Streets, NW.) between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m. on weekdays. 

FDIC: Written comments should 

identify ‘‘Survey of Information Sharing 

Practices with Affiliates,’’ as the subject 

and be submitted by any of the 

following methods: 

• Agency Web site: http:// 

www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/ 

propose.html. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• E-mail: Comments@FDIC.gov. 

• Mail: Robert E. Feldman, Executive 

Secretary, Attention: Comments, FDIC, 

550 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20429. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Guard 

station at the rear of the 550 17th Street 

Building (located on F Street) on 

business days between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

Comments may be inspected and 

photocopied in the FDIC Public 

Information Center, Room E–1002, 3502 

North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 

22226, between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 

business days. 

OTS: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates (1550–

NEW),’’ by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• E-mail: 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

Please include ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates (1550–

NEW)’’ in the subject line of the 

message and include your name and 

telephone number in the message. 

• Fax: (202) 906–6518. 

• Mail: Information Collection 

Comments, Chief Counsel’s Office, 

Office of Thrift Supervision, 1700 G 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552, 

Attention: ‘‘Survey of Information 

Sharing Practices with Affiliates (1550–

NEW).’’

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Guard’s 

Desk, East Lobby Entrance, 1700 G 

Street, NW., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 

business days, Attention: Information 

Collection Comments, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, ‘‘Survey of Information Sharing 

Practices with Affiliates (1550–NEW).’’

Instructions: All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

http://www.ots.treas.gov/ 

pagehtml.cfm?catNumber=67&an=1, 

including any personal information 

provided. Docket: For access to the 

docket to read comments received, go to 

http://www.ots.treas.gov/ 

pagehtml.cfm?catNumber=67&an=1. In 

addition, you may inspect comments at 

the Public Reading Room, 1700 G Street, 

NW., by appointment. To make an 

appointment for access, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755. (Prior notice identifying the 

materials you will be requesting will 

assist us in serving you.) We schedule 

appointments on business days between 

10 a.m. and 4 p.m. In most cases, 

appointments will be available the next 

business day following the date we 

receive a request. 

NCUA: You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods (please 

send comments by one method only): 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• NCUA Web Site: http:// 

www.ncua.gov/ 

RegulationsOpinionsLaws/ 

proposedregs/proposedregs.html. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: Address to 

regcomments@ncua.gov. Include ‘‘[Your 

name] Comments on FACT Act 214(e) 

Study,’’ in the e-mail subject line. 

• Fax: (703) 518–6319. Use the 

subject line described above for e-mail. 

• Mail: Address to Neil McNamara, 

Deputy Chief Information Officer, 

National Credit Union Administration, 

1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 

22314–3428. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

mail address. 

FTC: Comments should refer to 

‘‘Affiliate Sharing Study: FTC File No. 

P064802’’ and may be submitted by any 

of the following methods. However, if a 

given comment contains any material 

for which confidential treatment is 

requested, it must be filed in paper 

form, and the first page of the document 

must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential.’’1

A copy of each comment should 

additionally be submitted—via 

facsimile, to (202) 395–6974—and 

addressed to: Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Federal Trade Commission. 

• E-mail: Comments filed in 

electronic form should be submitted as 

part of or as an attachment to e-mail 

messages directed to the following email box: affiliatestudy@ftc.gov. To 

ensure that the Commission considers 

an electronic comment, you must send 

it to the above e-mail box. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: If this 

notice appears at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, you may also file 

an electronic comment through that 

Web site. The Commission will consider 

all comments that regulations.gov 

forwards to it. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: A comment 

filed in paper form should include 

‘‘Affiliate Sharing Study: FTC File No. 

P064802’’ both in the text and on the 

envelope, and should be mailed or 

delivered, with two complete copies, to 

the following address: Federal Trade 

Commission/Office of the Secretary, 

Room H–135 (Annex J), 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20580. Because paper 

mail in the Washington area and at the 

Commission is subject to delay, please 

consider submitting your comments in 

electronic form, as prescribed above. 

The FTC is requesting that any comment 

filed in paper form be sent by courier or 

overnight service, if possible. 

The FTC Act and other laws the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. All timely and responsive 

public comments, whether filed in 

paper or electronic form, will be 

considered by the Commission, and will 

be available to the public on the FTC 

Web site, to the extent practicable, at 

http://www.ftc.gov/os/ 

publiccomments.htm. As a matter of 

discretion, the FTC makes every effort to 

remove home contact information for 

individuals from the public comments it 

receives before placing those comments 

on the FTC Web site. More information, 

including routine uses permitted by the 

Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s 

privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ 

ftc/privacy.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information may be 

requested from: 

OCC: Karen Furst, Policy Analyst, 

(202) 874–4509, Policy Analysis 

Division; Mary Gottlieb, OCC Clearance 

Officer or Camille Dickerson, Legal 

Technician, (202) 874–5090, Legislative 

and Regulatory Activities Division. 

Board: Kathleen Conley, Supervisory 

Consumer Financial Services Analyst, 

(202) 452–2389; or Michelle Long, 


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2Each respondent will provide information about 

more than one financial institution or other person 

that is a creditor or user of consumer reports. At a 

minimum, each respondent will be providing 

information about itself and at least one affiliate. 

Clearance Office, (202) 452–3829, 

Division of Research and Statistics. 

Telecommunications Device for the Deaf 

(TDD) users may call (202) 263–4869. 

FDIC: Richard M. Schwartz, Counsel, 

(202) 898–7424; or Leneta G. Gregorie, 

Counsel, (202) 898–3719. 

OTS: Marilyn K. Burton, OTS 

Clearance Officer, (202) 906–6467; or 

Donna Deale, Director of Holding 

Companies and Affiliates, (202) 906–

7488. 

NCUA: Regina M. Metz, Staff 

Attorney, Office of General Counsel, 

(703) 518–6540; or Matthew Biliouris, 

Program Officer, Examination and 

Insurance, (703) 518–6394. 

FTC: Sandra Farrington, Attorney, 

Division of Privacy and Identity 

Protection, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, (202) 326–2531; or Margaret 

Patterson, Economist, Bureau of 

Economics, (202) 326–3472. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposal for Approval of the Following 

New Collections of Information 

Title: Survey of Information Sharing 

Practices with Affiliates. 

Frequency of Response: Every three 

years. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

OCC 

OMB Number: 1557–NEW. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

40. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 400 

hours. 

Board 

OMB Number: 7100–NEW. 

Form Number: FR 3214e. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

60. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 600 

hours. 

FDIC 

OMB Number: 3064–NEW. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

1,000 hours. 

OTS 

OMB Number: 1550–NEW. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

30. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 300 

hours. 

NCUA 

OMB Number: 3133–NEW. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 500. 

FTC 

OMB Number: 3084–NEW. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 10 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 200 

hours. 

General Description of Report 

This information collection is 

voluntary for financial institution 

respondents and authorized pursuant to 

12 U.S.C. 481 and 484 (national banks); 

12 U.S.C. 248(a)(1) (state member 

banks); 12 U.S.C. 1463 and 1464 

(savings associations); and 12 U.S.C. 

1819(a)(Eighth) (state non-member 

banks and state branches of any foreign 

bank). Confidentiality would be 

determined on a case-by-case basis. In 

gathering information from respondents 

under its jurisdiction, the FTC may use 

the compulsory authority granted to it 

in Section 6(b) of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(b). 

Confidentiality will be protected in 

accordance with the FTC Act and the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice. 

Abstract 

The study the Agencies propose will 

use a written Survey to be completed by 

financial institutions and other persons 

that are creditors or users of consumer 

reports (‘‘respondents’’).2 The Agencies 

will use the responses to the Survey to 

prepare an initial report to the Congress 

on information sharing practices by 

financial institutions, creditors, or users 

of consumer reports with their affiliates. 

The Agencies are required jointly to 

submit this report to the Congress 

together with any recommendations for 

legislative or regulatory action, pursuant 

to Section 214(e) of the FACT Act. A 

copy of the Board’s draft survey of 

information sharing practices with 

affiliates will be made available, within 

seven days after publication of this 

notice, on the Board’s public Web site 

at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/ 

boarddocs/reportforms/review.cfm 

under ‘‘Information Collections Out for 

Public Comment.’’

Background 

The FACT Act became law on 

December 4, 2003. Pub. L. 108–159, 117 

Stat. 1952. In general, the FACT Act 

amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act 

(‘‘FCRA’’) to enhance the ability of 

consumers to combat identity theft, 

increase the accuracy of consumer 

reports, and allow consumers to 

exercise greater control regarding the 

type and amount of marketing 

solicitations they receive. To promote 

increasingly efficient national credit 

markets, the FACT Act also establishes 

uniform national standards in key areas 

of regulation regarding consumer report 

information. The Act contains a number 

of provisions intended to combat 

consumer fraud and related crimes, 

including identity theft, and to assist 

victims of these crimes. Finally, the Act 

requires the Agencies to conduct a 

number of studies. 

Section 214(e) of the FACT Act 

requires the Agencies jointly to conduct 

regular studies of the consumer 

information sharing practices by 

financial institutions, and other persons 

that are creditors or users of consumer 

reports, with their affiliates. In that 

regard, Section 214(e) requires the 

Agencies to identify: (i) The purposes 

for which financial institutions and 

other creditors and users of consumer 

reports share consumer information; (ii) 

the types of information shared by such 

entities; (iii) the number of choices 

provided to consumers with respect to 

the control of such sharing, and the 

degree to which and manner in which 

consumers exercise such choices, if at 

all; and (iv) whether such entities share 

or may share personally identifiable 

transaction or experience information 

with affiliates for purposes—(I) That are 

related to employment or hiring 

including whether the person that is the 

subject of such information is given 

notice of such sharing, and the specific 

uses of such shared information; or (II) 

of general publication of such 

information. 

The statute also requires the Agencies 

specifically to examine the information 

sharing practices that financial 

institutions and other creditors or users 

of consumer reports and their affiliates 

employ to make underwriting decisions 

or credit evaluations of consumers. The 

Agencies must jointly submit a report to 

the Congress on the results of the initial 

study together with any 


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recommendations for legislative or 

regulatory action. After the initial 

report, the Agencies must jointly submit 

follow-up reports to the Congress at 

least once every three years. 

Proposed Survey Panel 

The Agencies will select the survey 

panel based on whether the prospective 

respondent has affiliates with which it 

can share information, whether the 

prospective respondent is likely to be a 

user of consumer reports, and other 

factors. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours 

Each respondent will complete a 

written Survey. In order to complete the 

Survey, the individual completing the 

form for the respondent will most likely 

need to consult staff in other parts of the 

organization and obtain data from 

recordkeeping systems. Based on the 

Agencies’ expertise and experience, we 

estimate the consultations and the 

collection of data will take between four 

and eight hours per respondent. The 

Agencies estimate it will then take less 

than two hours for each respondent to 

complete the Survey. However, 

numerous factors are likely to influence 

the amount of time it will take a 

respondent to complete the Survey, 

including the number and type of 

affiliates, as well as the diversity of 

information sharing practices among 

affiliates. Based on the methodology 

proposed, the total burden imposed by 

the initial study, for all six agencies, 

will be approximately 3,000 hours. 

Request for Comment 

The Agencies invite comment on: 

a. Whether the information 

collections are necessary for the proper 

performance of the Agencies’ functions, 

including whether the information has 

practical utility; 

b. The accuracy of the Agencies’

estimates of the burden of the 

information collections, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of 

information collections on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

In addition, the OCC invites 

comments on the following: 

aa. The specific data the Agencies 

should collect to prepare the report 

required by Section 214(e) of the Fact 

Act and the terminology that will best 

describe and correctly specify the data 

to be collected; 

bb. If any data the Agencies should 

collect are not available, the type of 

proxy data the Agencies should request; 

cc. The extent to which depository 

institutions currently track and are able 

to report on the methods (e.g., 

telephone, online) used by consumers to 

opt-out of affiliate information sharing; 

and 

dd. Information related to 

recordkeeping practices or other aspects 

of the data specification and survey 

development process. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be shared among the 

Agencies. Unless otherwise afforded 

confidential treatment pursuant to 

Federal law, all comments will become 

a matter of public record. 

Dated: August 22, 2006. 

Stuart Feldstein, 

Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division, Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 25, 2006. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this 22nd day of 

August, 2006. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

Dated: August 21, 2006. 

Deborah Dakin, 

Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Regulations and 

Legislation Division, Office of Thrift 

Supervision. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this 24th day of 

August, 2006. 

By the National Credit Union 

Administration. 

John Ianno, 

Acting Secretary of the Board. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this twenty-first 

day of August, 2006. 

Federal Trade Commission. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 06–7271 Filed 8–30–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–P, 6210–01–P, 6714–01–P, 

6720–01–P, 7335–01–P, 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Open Meeting of the Area 4 Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel (Including the States 

of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, 

Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin) 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: An open meeting of the Area 

4 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be 

conducted (via teleconference). The 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting 

public comment, ideas, and suggestions 

on improving customer service at the 

Internal Revenue Service. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, September 26, 2006, at 11 

a.m., Central Time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Ann Delzer at 1–888–912–1227, or 

(414) 231–2360. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to Section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) 

that a meeting of the Area 4 Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel will be held Tuesday, 

September 26, 2006, at 11 a.m., Central 

Time via a telephone conference call. 

You can submit written comments to 

the panel by faxing the comments to 

(414) 231–2363, or by mail to Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel, Stop 1006MIL, 211 

West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, 

WI 53203–2221, or you can contact us 

at http://www.improveirs.org. This 

meeting is not required to be open to the 

public, but because we are always 

interested in community input we will 

accept public comments. Please contact 

Mary Ann Delzer at 1–888–912–1227 or 

(414) 231–2360 for dial-in information. 

The agenda will include the 

following: Various IRS issues. 

Dated: August 23, 2006. 

John Fay, 

Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. 06–7351 Filed 8–30–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Clinical Science Research and 

Development Service Cooperative 

Studies Scientific Merit Review Board; 

Notice of Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92–

463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) 

that a meeting of the Clinical Science 

Research and Development Service 

Cooperative Studies Scientific Merit 

Review Board will be held on 

September 19–20, 2006, at the Crystal 

City Marriott, 1999 Jefferson Davis 

Highway, Arlington, Virginia. The 

session is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. 

and end at 3 p.m. on both days. 

The Board advises the Chief Research 

and Development Officer through the 

Director of the Clinical Science 

Research and Development Service on 

the relevance and feasibility of proposed 


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