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Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S. 

Crystal Drive Arlington, VA. The hours 

of operation of this Docket Facility are 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Tentative Agenda 

Tentatively, the following items are 

on the agenda: 

1. Overview of GHS. 

2. NAFTA Perspectives. 

3. Goals of Harmonization: EPA and 

Stakeholder Perspectives. 

4. Building Block and Sample Label 

Presentation. 

5. Key Issues and Concerns Raised in 

Comments. 

6. Options for Implementation 

Mechanisms. 

7. Key State Issues. 

8. Education, Training and Outreach. 

III. How Can I Request to Participate in 

this Meeting? 

You may submit a request to 

participate in this meeting to the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Do not submit any information 

in your request that is considered CBI. 

Requests to participate in the meeting, 

identified by docket ID number EPA–

HQ–OPP–2004–0205, must be received 

on or before October 5, 2006. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, global 

harmonization, labeling, occupational 

safety and health, pesticides and pests, 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: September 18, 2006. 

Jay S. Ellenberger, 

Acting Director, Field External Affairs 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 06–8057 Filed 9–20–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 71 FR 54282, Thursday, 

September 14, 2006. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

MEETING: Thursday, September 21, 2006, 

10 a.m. (Eastern Time). 

CHANGE IN THE MEETING: The meeting has 

been cancelled. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Stephen Llewellyn, Acting Executive 

Officer on (202) 663–4070. 

Dated: September 19, 2006. 

Stephen Llewellyn, 

Acting Executive Officer, Executive 

Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 06–8118 Filed 9–19–06; 3:26 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–M 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collections 

Approved by Office of Management 

and Budget 

September 8, 2006. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for the following public 

information collections pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. 

DATES: Emergency revision of a 

currently approved collection effective 

on September 8, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicole R. On’gele, Federal 

Communications Commission, 445 12th 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554, 

(202) 418–2991 or via the Internet at 

nicole.ongele@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0798. 

OMB Approval Date: September 8, 

2006. 

Expiration Date: 2/28/07. 

Title: FCC Application for Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau Radio 

Service Authorization. 

Form No.: FCC Form 601. 

Estimated Annual Burdens: 250,920 

responses; 219,505 hours, and 

$50,144,000. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission has 

received emergency OMB approval to 

implement a modified information 

collection in connection with FCC Form 

601 (OMB Control No. 3060–0798), 

pursuant to a Commission order that 

became effective on June 5, 2006. The 

information collection associated with 

the FCC Form 601, specifically 

Schedule B, is being modified in order 

to ensure that the Commission will 

receive from winning bidders claiming 

special designated entity benefits all 

information necessary to permit the 

Commission to review the qualifications 

of that winning bidder to receive such 

benefits. While the FCC Form 601, 

Schedule B, already requires the 

submission of most of the information 

that the Commission requires to conduct 

this review, the modified information 

collection will ensure that the 

Commission receives additional 

information as mandated by a recent 

Commission order revising the rules 

applicable to entities seeking designated 

entity benefits. Until the electronic 

version of the form (specifically, the 

Schedule B) can be updated in the 

Commission’s Universal Licensing 

System (ULS), applicants will be 

requested to provide this same 

information in an attachment to the 

existing version of Form 601, filed 

electronically. The Commission uses the 

information provided by applicants on 

FCC Form 601 to update its database 

and to determine if the applicant is 

legally, technically and financially 

qualified to provide licensed services 

and to make proper use of the frequency 

spectrum. The information collected 

pursuant to this modified information 

collection will be used to ensure that 

only legitimate designated entities, as 

defined by the Commission’s rules, reap 

the benefits of the Commission’s 

designated entity program. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 06–7901 Filed 9–20–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD 

[No. 2006–N–05] 

Examination Rating System for the 

Federal Home Loan Banks and the 

Office of Finance 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Board. 

ACTION: Notice with request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance 

Board (Finance Board) is requesting 

comments on a proposed examination 

rating system to be known as the 

Federal Home Loan Bank Rating System 

(Rating System). 

DATES: The Finance Board will accept 

comments in writing on or before 

October 23, 2006. 

Comments: Submit comments to the 

Finance Board only once, using any one 

of the following methods: 

E-mail: comments@fhfb.gov. 

Fax: 202–408–2580. 


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Mail/Hand Delivery: Federal Housing 

Finance Board, 1625 Eye Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20006, Attention: 

Public Comments. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. If 

you submit your comment to the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal, please also 

send it by e-mail to the Finance Board 

at comments@fhfb.gov to ensure timely 

receipt by the agency. Include the 

following information in the subject line 

of your submission: Federal Housing 

Finance Board. Notice: Examination 

Rating System for the Federal Home 

Loan Banks and the Office of Finance. 

Docket Number 2006–N–05. 

We will post all public comments we 

receive without change, including any 

personal information you provide, such 

as your name and address, on the 

Finance Board Web site at http:// 

www.fhfb.gov/ 

Default.aspx?Page=93&Top=93. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony Cornyn, Associate Director, 

Supervision and Examination, Office of 

Supervision, cornyna@fhfb.gov or 202–

408–2522, or Kari Walter, Associate 

Director, Supervisory and Regulatory 

Policy, Office of Supervision, 

walterk@fhfb.gov or 202–408–2829. You 

can send regular mail to the Federal 

Housing Finance Board, 1625 Eye 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20006. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Federal Home Loan Bank Act (12 

U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) provides that the 

primary duty of the Finance Board is to 

ensure that the Federal Home Loan 

Banks (Banks) operate in a financially 

safe and sound manner. To the extent 

consistent with the safety and 

soundness charge, the other statutory 

duties of the Finance Board are to: (1) 

Supervise the Banks; (2) ensure that the 

Banks carry out their housing finance 

mission; and (3) ensure that the Banks 

remain adequately capitalized and able 

to raise funds in the capital markets. See 

12 U.S.C. 1422a(a)(3). 

The Banks are privately capitalized, 

government-sponsored enterprises that 

provide wholesale credit to members 

and housing associates for use in 

mortgage lending and related activities. 

The Banks have a statutory mandate to 

promote housing and community 

investment finance. See 12 U.S.C. 

1430(g), (i), and (j); 1430b. The Banks 

provide long-term, flexible financing to 

more than 8,100 member financial 

institutions around the country. 

In addition to supervising the Banks, 

the Finance Board has regulatory 

authority and supervisory oversight 

responsibility for the Office of Finance 

(OF), which is a joint office of the Banks 

that issues consolidated obligations in 

the public capital markets on behalf of 

the Banks. See 12 U.S.C. 1422b(b)(2); 12 

CFR part 985. The Banks fund 

themselves principally by issuing 

consolidated obligations, which are the 

joint and several obligations of all 12 

Banks’ and consist of bonds (original 

maturity of 1 year or longer) and 

discount notes (original maturity of less 

than 1 year). Although consolidated 

obligations are not guaranteed or 

insured by the federal government, the 

Banks’ status as government sponsored 

enterprises enables them to raise funds 

at rates slightly above comparable 

obligations issued by the Department of 

the Treasury. 

To carry out its mission of ensuring 

that the Banks and the OF are safe and 

sound so the Banks can serve as a 

reliable source of liquidity and funding 

for the nation’s housing finance and 

community investment needs, the 

Finance Board has one major program 

area: supervision of the Banks. See 12 

U.S.C. 1440 (requiring the Finance 

Board to perform annual examinations 

of the Banks). Staff monitors the 

performance, condition, and risk profile 

of each Bank through on-site 

examinations and other supervisory 

activities. Examinations are the 

cornerstone of the Finance Board’s 

safety and soundness supervisory 

program. In order to execute an effective 

risk-based supervisory program that 

promptly identifies and addresses 

current and emerging risks to the Banks, 

the Office of Supervision plans to 

implement the risk rating system 

discussed below for use beginning in 

calendar year 2007. 

II. The Proposed Federal Home Loan 

Bank Rating System 

The Finance Board is requesting 

comments on a proposed examination 

rating system to be known as the 

Federal Home Loan Bank Rating 

System. The proposed Rating System is 

attached as an Exhibit to this Notice. 

In 2005, the Office of Supervision 

began to provide an overall 

conclusion—Satisfactory, Fair, 

Marginal, or Unsatisfactory—as part of 

its Report of Examination. The proposed 

Rating System, which is the next step in 

communicating exam results to the 

Banks, is a risk-focused system under 

which each Bank and the OF would be 

assigned a composite rating based on an 

evaluation of various aspects of their 

operations. The composite rating of each 

Bank would be based on an evaluation 

and rating of 5 key components: 

Corporate governance, market risk, 

credit risk, operational risk, and 

financial condition and performance. 

The composite rating of the OF would 

be based primarily on an evaluation of 

2 components: corporate governance 

and operational risk. 

Under the Rating System, we would 

take administration of a Bank’s 

affordable housing and community 

investment activities into account in 

assigning component ratings for 

corporate governance and operational 

risk. Given the importance of affordable 

housing and community investment 

activities to the mission of the Bank 

System, the Office of Supervision may 

consider the need for a separate rating 

system or a separate ratings component 

to evaluate and rate the affordable 

housing and community investment 

programs of each Bank after gaining 

experience with the proposed Rating 

System. 

The Rating System is intended to 

serve 2 purposes. First, it is designed to 

reflect in a comprehensive, systematic, 

and consistent fashion the overall 

condition and performance of an 

institution, taking into consideration all 

significant financial, operational, and 

compliance factors addressed in the 

Finance Board’s examination. Second, 

the Rating System is meant to further 

enhance communication and 

transparency between the Office of 

Supervision and each Bank and the OF 

regarding the results of the examination 

process. The ratings for individual 

Banks and the OF would not be made 

public or released to other Banks, but 

would be supplied to the individual 

Banks and the OF on a confidential 

basis as part of the examination and 

supervisory process. 

Under the Rating System, each of the 

5 components would be assigned a 

numeric rating from ‘‘1’’ to ‘‘4.’’ A ‘‘1’’

rating indicates the lowest degree of 

supervisory concern, while a ‘‘4’’ rating 

indicates the highest degree of 

supervisory concern. The composite 

rating of each Bank and the OF also 

would be rated on a scale of ‘‘1’’ to ‘‘4’’

based on the ratings of the underlying 

components. The composite rating 

would be based on the component 

ratings but it would not be a simple 

arithmetic average of the component 

ratings. Instead, the relative importance 

of each component would be 

determined on a case-by-case basis 

within the parameters established by 

this rating framework. As proposed, an 

examiner would take a Bank’s 

performance in administering its 

affordable housing and community 

investment activities into consideration 

in assigning a composite rating to the 


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Bank. More specifically, a Bank’s 

performance in administrating it 

affordable housing and community 

investment activities would be given 

special consideration in the corporate 

governance and operational risk 

components of the Rating System. 

The Rating System would become 

operative when issued by the Office of 

Supervision, which is anticipated to 

occur before year end 2006 for 

implementation in 2007. 

III. Request for Comments 

The Finance Board requests comment 

on all aspects of the proposed Rating 

System. In addition, the Finance Board 

invites specific comments on the 

following questions: 

1. Does the proposed Rating System 

capture the essential components of an 

institution’s performance and condition 

that are relevant to assigning a 

composite rating to a Bank and the OF? 

If not, what additional or different 

components should be considered? 

2. Do the factors to be considered 

under each of the 5 components 

(corporate governance, market risk, 

credit risk, operational risk, and 

financial condition and performance) 

address the factors that should be 

considered in assessing each of the 

components? If not, what additional or 

different factors should be considered? 

Dated: September 13, 2006. 

By the Federal Housing Finance Board. 

John P. Kennedy, 

General Counsel. 

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[FR Doc. 06–7848 Filed 9–20–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6725–01–C 

FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS 

AUTHORITY 

Membership of the Federal Labor 

Relations Authority’s Senior Executive 

Service Performance Review Board 

AGENCY: Federal Labor Relations 

Authority. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

members of the Performance Review 

Board. 

DATES: September 21, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

M. Crumpacker, Executive Director, 

Federal Labor Relations Authority 

(FLRA); 1400 K Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20424–0001; (202) 218–

7945. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c) of Title 5, U.S.C. (as amended 

by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978) 

requires each agency to establish, in 

accordance with regulations prescribed 

by the Office of Personnel Management, 

one or more Performance Review Boards 

(PRB). Section 4314 (c)(4) requires that 

notice of appointment of the PRB be 

published in the Federal Register. 

As required by 5 CFR 430.310, 

Chairman Dale Cabaniss has appointed 

the following executives to serve on the 

2006–2007 PRB for the FLRA, beginning 

September 2006 through September 

2007: 

Frank Battle, Deputy Director of 

Administration, National Labor 

Relations Board; Jill Crumpacker, 

Executive Director, Federal Labor 

Relations Authority; Russell G. Harris, 

Deputy Administrator, Wage and Hour 

Division, U.S. Department of Labor; 

Kent Baum, Chief Human Capital 

Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark 

Office; Steve Nelson, Director, Office of 

Policy and Evaluation, Merit Systems 

Protection Board. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4134(c)(4). 

Dated: September 15, 2006. 

Jill M. Crumpacker, 

Executive Director. 

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BILLING CODE 6727–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–NEW] 

60-Day Notice 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary. 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

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 collection 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. 

Type of Information Collection 

Request: New collection. 

Title of Information Collection: 

Evaluation of Office on Women’s Health 

Publications. 

Form/OMB No.: 0990–NEW. 

Use: To improve future publications 

and to demonstrate accountability of 

efforts, the Office of Women’s Health 

(OWH) will evaluate four health 

communications materials. Discussion 

groups and web-based or paper- based 

surveys will be used from randomly 

selected participants and returned 

response cards. 

Frequency: 1. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

1648. 

Total Annual Responses: 1648. 

Average Burden per Response: 1 hour. 

Total Annual Hours: 472. 

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 

received with 60 days, and directed to 

the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer at 

the following address: Department of 

Health and Human Services, Office of 

the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for 

Research and Technology, Office of 

Resource Management, Attention: 

Sherrette Funn-Coleman (0990–NEW), 

Room 537–H, 200 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington DC 20201. 

Dated: September 12, 2006. 

Alice Bettencourt, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–7835 Filed 9–20–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–new] 

60-Day Notice 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office 

on Women’s Health. 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

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 collection 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. 

Type of Information Collection 

Request: New Collection. 

Title of Information Collection: The 

Heart Truth Professional Materials 

Program Evaluation. 

Form/OMB No.: 0990-New 

Use: The Heart Truth Campaign was 

launched by the National Heart, Lung, 

and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 

September 2002 to increase women’s 

awareness of heart disease. The Heart 

Truth joins together leaders in women’s 


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