Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 66 / Friday, April 6, 2007 / Notices 17159 

www.nos.noaa.gov/products/ 

pub_hypox.html. Given the passage of 6 

years, EPA’s Office of Water has 

requested that the SAB develop a report 

that evaluates the updated science 

regarding the causes and extent of 

hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, as well 

as the scientific basis of possible 

management options in the Mississippi 

River Basin. 

In response to EPA’s request, the SAB 

Staff Office formed the SAB Hypoxia 

Advisory Panel. Background on the 

Panel formation process was provided 

in a Federal Register notice published 

on February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8578–

8580). The SAB Hypoxia Advisory 

Panel met on September 6–7, 2006 (71 

FR 45543–45544), again on December 6–

8, 2006 (71 FR 66329–66330) and again 

on February 28–March 2, 2007 ( 72 FR 

5968–5969). Teleconferences of the full 

Hypoxia Advisory Panel and its three 

subgroups have also been published in 

Federal Register Notices (71 FR 55786–

55787, 71 FR 59107, 71 FR 77743–77744 

and 72 FR 11359–11360). Information 

about the SAB Hypoxia Advisory Panel 

is available on the SAB Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Materials in support of this meeting will 

be placed on the SAB Web site http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/ in advance of the 

meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to five minutes per speaker, 

with no more than a total of one hour 

for all speakers. Interested parties 

should contact Dr. Stallworth, DFO, at 

the contact information noted above, no 

later than June 4, 2007, to be placed on 

the public speaker list for the June 13–

15, 2007 meeting. Written Statements: 

Written statements should be received 

in the SAB Staff Office no later than 

June 4, 2007 so that the information may 

be made available to the SAB for their 

consideration prior to this meeting. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO in the following formats: one 

hard copy with original signature, and 

one electronic copy via e-mail to 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov (acceptable 

file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, 

WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, 

or Rich Text files in IBM–PC/Windows 

98/2000/XP format). 

Meeting Access: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at (202) 343–9867 or 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Stallworth, preferably at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting to give 

EPA as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: April 2, 2007. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E7–6459 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice; 

Announcing a Partially Open Meeting 

of the Board of Directors 

TIME AND DATE: The open meeting of the 

Board of Directors is scheduled to begin 

at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 

2007. The closed portion of the meeting 

will follow immediately the open 

portion of the meeting. 

PLACE: Board Room, First Floor, Federal 

Housing Finance Board, 1625 Eye 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20006. 

STATUS: The first portion of the meeting 

will be open to the public. The final 

portion of the meeting will be closed to 

the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE OPEN

PORTION: Appointment to the Office of 

Finance Board of Directors. 

Waivers Concerning Preparation of 

Combined Financial Reports. 

MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE CLOSED

PORTION: Periodic Update of 

Examination Program Development and 

Supervisory Findings. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Shelia Willis, Paralegal Specialist, 

Office of General Counsel, at 202–408–

2876 or williss@fhfb.gov. 

Dated: April 3, 2007. 

By the Federal Housing Finance Board. 

Neil R. Crowley, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 07–1739 Filed 4–4–07; 12:53 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6725–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–0000] 

Thirty-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: 

Existing Collection without an OMB 

number. 

Title of Information Collection: 

National Blood Collection and 

Utilization Survey. 

Form/OMB No.: OS–0990–New. 

Use: The Advisory Committee on 

Blood Safety and Availability, Health 

and Human Services (HHS), was 

established to provide policy advice to 

the Secretary and the Assistant 

Secretary for Health. The advice of the 

committee is partly dependent on the 

analysis of relevant blood collection and 

utilization data which is also widely 

distributed and used by the transfusion 

medicine community. To that end, the 

Office of Public Health and Science 

(OPHS) is responsible for conducting a 

bi-annual cross-sectional national blood 

products survey. OPHS performed the 

2005 National Blood Collection and 

Utilization Survey (NBCUS) using a 

nationally representative sample of 

hospitals and blood collection centers. 

Previously private and government 

financed versions of the NBCUS have 

successfully surveyed greater than 90% 

of the U.S. blood collection and 

processing facilities and more than 2900 

hospital based transfusion blood banks 

in the United States. The objective of 

the 2007 NBCUS is to produce reliable 

and accurate estimates of national and 

regional collections, utilization, and 

safety of all blood products—red blood 

cells, fresh frozen plasma, and platelets. 

New to the 2007 NBCUS is the 

identification and collection of baseline 

data for biovigilance blood safety 


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