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arising from GD having some level of 

ownership interest in two of the three 

companies currently in the market for 

melt-pour LAP services for mortar 

rounds and artillery shells are 

compounded by the fact that DZI 

appears likely to lose access to the 

Kansas AAP and, thus, may be unable 

to compete for the next round of 

contracts. This raises the likelihood that 

GD could act unilaterally to raise prices 

or otherwise engage in anticompetitive 

behavior in the market for melt-pour 

LAP services for mortar rounds and 

artillery shells. The proposed 

transaction also raises competitive 

concerns relating to the current round of 

competition for melt-pour LAP services 

for 120 mm and 60 mm and 81 mm 

mortar rounds. 

Absent Commission action, it appears 

likely that the only two potential 

bidders for current and future melt-pour 

LAP service contracts for mortar rounds 

or artillery shells are SNC and American 

Ordnance. With the proposed 

acquisition, GD has an incentive to act 

unilaterally to raise prices in the 

relevant product market because it will 

own all of SNC and receive half of the 

profits from American Ordnance. GD 

would have an incentive to submit bids 

with higher pricing, or other less 

competitive terms, than SNC would 

have submitted as an independent 

company because even if GD/SNC loses 

the bid, it would lose to American 

Ordnance, in which GD shares fifty 

percent of the profits. Therefore, GD 

would have less incentive to compete 

vigorously for these contracts, because it 

would benefit financially regardless of 

which company wins the contract. 

The proposed transaction also 

increases the likelihood that GD and 

American Ordnance could coordinate 

their competing bids for contracts. 

Through its ownership in American 

Ordnance, GD would have certain 

contacts and access to competitively 

sensitive information that could 

facilitate reaching terms of coordination, 

and the detection and punishment of 

deviations from those terms. 

VI. Entry Conditions 

Entry into the market for the 

provision of melt-pour LAP services for 

mortar rounds and artillery shells 

appears unlikely to occur within the 

relevant time frame. Establishing a meltpour operation to effectively enter and 

compete in this market is expensive and 

time-consuming, and is unlikely to 

occur in the next two years, particularly 

because the Army is not planning any 

new acquisitions before 2011. Further, 

even if a firm were to enter the market, 

it would face the difficult task of 

winning a bid for a critical product 

without a demonstrated track record of 

being able to produce and deliver the 

product. 

VII. The Proposed Consent Agreement 

The proposed Consent Agreement 

effectively remedies the competitive 

harm that would likely result from the 

acquisition by requiring GD to divest its 

interest in American Ordnance, at no 

minimum price, to a purchaser that 

receives the prior approval of the 

Commission and in a manner that 

receives the prior approval of the 

Commission. The proposed Consent 

Agreement requires GD to divest its 

interest in American Ordnance within 

four months after it completes its 

acquisition of SNC. By requiring the 

divestiture of General Dynamic’s 

interest in American Ordnance to a 

third party, the proposed Consent 

Agreement ensures that American 

Ordnance and a combined GD/SNC will 

remain independent competitors in the 

market post-acquisition. 

Because the Consent Agreement 

contemplates a divestiture by GD of its 

interest in American Ordnance after 

acquiring SNC, an order to hold the 

American Ordnance business separate 

(‘‘Hold Separate Order’’) is included. 

The Hold Separate Order requires that 

GD keep the American Ordnance 

business separate and apart from its 

other GD businesses, and that the 

company refrain from involvement in 

the direction, oversight, or influence of 

American Ordnance’s business. The 

Hold Separate Order also requires that 

GD’s members of American Ordnance’s 

board of managers be replaced with 

independent managers who are not 

affiliated with GD in any way. GD may 

not permit any of its employees, 

officers, or directors to be involved in 

the operations of American Ordnance 

while the Hold Separate Order remains 

in effect. 

The proposed Consent Agreement 

also allows the Commission to appoint 

an interim monitor to oversee GD’s 

compliance with all of its obligations 

and performance of its responsibilities 

pursuant to the Commission’s Decision 

and Order. The interim monitor, if 

appointed, would be required to file 

periodic reports with the Commission to 

ensure that the Commission remains 

informed about the status of the 

divestiture and the efforts being made to 

accomplish the divestiture. 

The proposed Consent Agreement 

includes a provision that requires GD to 

notify the Commission within five days 

of submitting a proposal to obtain the 

facilities use contract for either the Iowa 

AAP or the Milan AAP, and to provide 

the Commission with copies of all 

documents submitted as part of the 

proposal. This notification will allow 

the Commission to consult with the 

Department of Defense and the Army 

regarding possible competitive concerns 

that may arise in the future should GD 

be awarded the contracts to operate 

these melt-pour facilities in addition to 

owning SNC. 

The purpose of this analysis is to 

facilitate public comment on the 

Consent Agreement, and it is not 

intended to constitute an official 

interpretation of the Consent Agreement 

or to modify its terms in any way. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Notice of Meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on Minority Health 

AGENCY: Office of Minority Health, 

Office of Public Health and Science, 

Office of the Secretary, Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (DHHS) is hereby giving notice 

that the Advisory Committee on 

Minority Health (ACMH) will hold a 

meeting. This meeting is open to the 

public. Preregistration is required for 

both public attendance and comment. 

Any individual who wishes to attend 

the meeting and/or participate in the 

public comment session should e-mail 

acmh@osophs.dhhs.gov. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

January 23, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 8777 Georgia 

Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. 

The meeting is accessible from the 

Silver Spring Metro Station. The 

Crowne Plaza Hotel will provide shuttle 

service to and from the Silver Spring 

Metro Station for individuals attending 

the ACMH meeting on January 23, 2007. 

Meeting participants can call the hotel 

at (301) 589–0800 for shuttle pick-up if 

they don’t see the shuttle. Meeting 

participants may also walk the three 

short blocks to the hotel from the Silver 

Spring station by exiting onto Wayne 

Avenue and walking toward the 

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toward the Crowne Plaza. The hotel will 

be on the right-hand side. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND

REGISTRATION CONTACT: Ms. Monica A. 

Baltimore, Tower Building, 1101 

Wootton Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. Phone: 240–453–2882. 

Fax: 240–453–2883. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with Public Law 105–392, 

the ACMH was established to provide 

advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Minority Health in improving the 

health of each racial and ethnic 

minority group and on the development 

of goals and specific program activities 

of the Office of Minority Health. 

Topics to be discussed during this 

meeting will include strategies to 

improve the health of racial and ethnic 

minority populations through the 

development of health policies and 

programs that will help eliminate health 

disparities, as well as other related 

issues. 

Public attendance at the meeting is 

limited to space available. Individuals 

who plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodations, should notify the 

designated contact person at least 

fourteen business days prior to the 

meeting. Members of the public will 

have an opportunity to provide 

comments at the meeting. Public 

comments will be limited to three 

minutes per speaker. Individuals who 

would like to submit written statements 

should mail or fax their comments to 

the Office of Minority Health at least 

five business days prior to the meeting. 

Any members of the public who wish to 

have printed material distributed to 

ACMH committee members should 

submit their materials to Garth Graham, 

M.D., M.P.H., Executive Secretary, 

ACMH, Tower Building, 1101 Wootton 

Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852, prior to close of 

business January 16, 2007. 

Dated: December 22, 2006. 

Mirtha R. Beadle, 

Deputy Director, Office of Minority Health, 

Office of Public Health and Science, Office 

of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Evaluation of the Community 

Healthy Marriage Initiative. 

OMB No.: No collection. 

Description: The administration for 

Children and Families, United States 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, is conducting a demonstration 

and evaluation called Community 

Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI). 

Demonstration programs will be funded 

to support healthy marriage directly as 

well as encourage community changes 

in norms that increase support for 

healthy marriages and improve child 

and family well-being. The objective of 

the impact evaluation is to evaluate the 

community effects of these 

interventions on marital stability and 

satisfaction and child and family wellbeing outcomes among low-income 

families. Primary data for the impact 

evaluation will come from three waves 

of in-person data collection. This 

collection is a baseline survey of 

community members where CHMI 

demonstrations are operating, the first of 

three CMI surveys. The impact 

evaluation will assess the effects of 

community healthy marriage initiatives 

by comparing family and child wellbeing outcomes in the CHMI 

communities with similar outcomes in 

comparison communities that are well 

matched to the demonstration project 

sites. 

Respondents: Community members 

aged 18–49 in three study sites and 

three comparison communities. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total 

burden hours 

CHMI Baseline Survey .......................................................................... 4,200 1 0.666666 2,800 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,800 

Additional Information: Copies of the 

proposed collection may be obtained by 

writing to the Administration for 

Children and Families, Office of 

Administration, Office of Information 

Services, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., 

Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests 

should be identified by the title of the 

information collection. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

OMB Comment: OMB is required to 

make a decision concerning the 

collection of information between 30 

and 60 days after publication of this 

document in the Federal Register. 

Therefore, a comment is best assured of 

having its full effect if OMB receives it 

within 30 days of publication. Written 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent directly to the following: Office 

of Management and Budget, Paperwork 

Reduction Project, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, Attn: Desk 

Officer for ACF. 

Dated: January 3, 2007. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: Evaluation of the Refugee Social 

Service (RSS) and Targeted Assistant 

Formula Grant (TAG) Programs: Data 

Collection. 

OMB No.: 0970–0296. 

Description: The Office of Refugee 

Resettlement (ORR) within the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) funds the Refugee Social 

Services (RSS) and Targeted Assistance 

Formula Grant (TAG) programs, which 

are designed to help refugees achieve 

economic success quickly following 

their arrival in the United States 

through employment services, Englishlanguage instruction, vocational 

training, and other social services. ORR 

is sponsoring a project to (a) conduct a 

comprehensive evaluation of the 

effectiveness of ORR employability 

services through RSS and TAG, and (b) 

propose options for institutionalizing 

ongoing evaluation and performance 


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