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Demonstration of Advisory Opinion 

Search System. 

Management and Administrative 

Matters. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Mr. Robert Biersack, Press Officer, 

Telephone: (202) 694–1220. 

Mary W. Dove, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 07–995 Filed 2–28–07; 2:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–M 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Maritime Commission. 

ACTION: Final notice of submission for 

OMB review. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Federal Maritime Commission hereby 

gives notice that it has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for an extension of the existing 

collection requirements under 46 CFR 

Part 535—Ocean Common Carrier and 

Marine Terminal Operator Agreements 

Subject to the Shipping Act of 1984. The 

FMC has requested an extension of an 

existing collection as listed below. 

DATES: Written comments on this final 

notice must be submitted on or before 

April 2, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Mark Menchek, Desk Officer for FMC, 

725—17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503, OIRA_Submission@ 

OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395–5806, 

and to Derek O. Scarbrough, Chief 

Information Officer, Office of 

Administration, Federal Maritime 

Commission, 800 North Capitol Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20573 

(Telephone: (202) 523–5800), 

cio@fmc.gov. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

contacting Jane Gregory on 202–523–

5800 or e-mail: jgregory@fmc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice 

that FMC would be submitting this 

request was published in the Federal 

Register on December 22, 2006, 

allowing for a 60-day comment period. 

No comments were received. 

The FMC hereby informs potential 

respondents that an agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and that a person is 

not required to respond to, a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Information Collection Open for 

Comment 

Title: 46 CFR Part 535—Ocean 

Common Carrier and Marine Terminal 

Operator Agreements Subject to the 

Shipping Act of 1984. 

OMB Approval Number: 3072–0045 

(Expires March 31, 2007). 

Abstract: Section 4 of the Shipping 

Act of 1984, 46 U.S.C. 40301 (2006), 

identifies certain commercial 

agreements by or among ocean common 

carriers that fall within the jurisdiction 

of the Shipping Act. Section 5 of the 

Shipping Act, 46 U.S.C. 40302, requires 

that carriers file those agreements with 

the Federal Maritime Commission. 

Section 6 of the Shipping Act, 46 U.S.C. 

40304, specifies the Commission actions 

that may be taken with respect to filed 

agreements, including requiring the 

submission of additional information. 

Section 15 of the Shipping Act, 46 

U.S.C. 40104, authorizes the 

Commission to require that ocean 

common carriers, among other persons, 

file periodic reports. Requests for 

additional information and the filing of 

periodic reports are meant to assist the 

Commission in fulfilling its statutory 

mandate of overseeing the activities of 

the ocean transportation industry. These 

reports are necessary so that the 

Commission can monitor agreements 

parties’ activities to determine how or if 

their activities will have an impact on 

competition. 

Current Actions: There are no changes 

to this information collection, and it is 

being submitted for extension purposes 

only. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

staff uses the information filed by 

agreement parties to monitor their 

activities as required by the Shipping 

Act. Under section 6(g) of the Shipping 

Act, 46 U.S.C. 41307, the Commission 

must determine whether filed 

agreements will have substantially 

anticompetitive effects on prevailing 

trade conditions and, if so, whether the 

agreements will likely, by a reduction in 

competition, result in an unreasonable 

reduction in competition, result in an 

unreasonable reduction in 

transportation service or an 

unreasonable increase in transportation 

cost. If it is shown, based on 

information collected under this rule, 

that an agreement is likely to have the 

foregoing adverse effects, the 

Commission may bring suit in U.S. 

District Court to enjoin the operation of 

that agreement. The information 

collected is not disclosed to the public 

and is only for internal analysis in 

support of the Commission’s decisionmaking process. 

Frequency: This information is 

collected generally on a quarterly basis 

or as required under the rules. 

Type of Respondents: The types of 

respondents are ocean common carriers 

and marine terminal operators subject to 

the Act. 

Number of Annual Respondents: The 

Commission estimates a potential 

annual respondent universe of 574 

entities. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

average time for filing agreements is 

estimated to be two person-hours per 

filing. The average time for preparing 

and filing information required by Form 

FMC–150, Information Form for 

Agreements Between or Among Ocean 

Common Carriers, is estimated to be 12 

to 48 person-hours per response. The 

average time for completing Form FMC–

151, Monitoring Report for Agreements 

Between or Among Ocean Common 

Carriers, is estimated to range between 

seven to 50 person-hours for agreement 

staff and three to 12 hours for each 

agreement carrier party, depending on 

the complexity of the required 

information. The total average time for 

reporting and recordkeeping for all 

responses is 8.15 person-hours. 

Total Annual Burden: The 

Commission estimates the total personhour burden at 13,620 person-hours. 

Bryant L. VanBrakle, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–3794 Filed 3–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The application also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 


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persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than March 29, 

2007. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(David Tatum, Vice President) 1000 

Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 

30309: 

1. Banco de Sabadell, S.A., Sabadell, 

Spain; to become a bank holding 

company by acquiring 100 percent of 

the voting shares of TransAtlantic 

Holding Corp., and thereby indirectly 

acquire TransAtlantic Bank, both of 

Miami, Florida. 

2. United Community Banks, Inc., 

Blairsville, Georgia; to merge with 

Gwinnett Commercial Group, Inc., and 

thereby indirectly acquire First Bank of 

The South, both of Lawrenceville, 

Georgia. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, February 27, 2007. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–3668 Filed 3–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Transfer of Delegations of Authority To 

Disclose Certain Nonpublic 

Information to Foreign Law 

Enforcement Agencies and To Sign 

Confidentiality Agreements With 

Certain Foreign Agencies 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Transfer of delegation of 

authority. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has 

delegated authority to share information 

with certain law enforcement agencies 

in Canada, Australia, the United 

Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico, Costa Rica, 

and Spain to the Director of the Bureau 

of Consumer Protection. The 

Commission has also delegated to the 

Director of International Affairs 

authority to execute confidentiality 

agreements with certain foreign 

agencies, as a condition of their being 

granted access to nonpublic databases. 

These delegations include authority 

previously delegated to the Associate 

Director for International Consumer 

Protection. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 26, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

M. Harrison, Attorney, Office of the 

General Counsel, Federal Trade 

Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–

3204, lharrison@ftc.gov, or Michael L. 

Shore, Attorney, Office of International 

Affairs, Federal Trade Commission, 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–2708, 

mshore@ftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given, pursuant to 

Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1961, 26 

FR 6191, that the Commission has 

transferred from the Associate Director 

for International Consumer Protection to 

the Director of the Bureau of Consumer 

Protection (BCP Director) its prior 

delegations of authority to: (1) Disclose 

to Canadian law enforcement agencies, 

information regarding consumer 

protection investigations involving 

Canadian businesses or consumers (67 

FR 45738–01 (July 10, 2002)); (2) 

disclose to the Australian Competition 

and Consumer Commission, information 

regarding consumer protection 

investigations involving Australian 

businesses or consumers (67 FR 45738–

01 (July 10, 2002)); (3) disclose to 

Australian law enforcement agencies, 

information contained in the Consumer 

Sentinel database of consumer 

complaints and law enforcement 

information (67 FR 45738–01 (July 10, 

2002)); (4) disclose to the United 

Kingdom Office of Fair Trading and the 

United Kingdom Directorate for Trade 

and Industry, information regarding 

consumer protection investigations 

involving U.K. businesses or consumers 

(67 FR 45738–01 (July 10, 2002)); (5) 

disclose to Ireland’s Office of the 

Director of Consumer Affairs, 

information regarding consumer 

protection investigations involving 

Ireland (68 FR 60107–01 (Oct. 21, 

2003)); (6) disclose to Mexico’s 

Procuradurı ́a Federal del Consumidor, 

information regarding consumer 

protection matters involving Mexico (70 

FR 6442–01 (Feb. 7, 2005)); (7) disclose 

to Costa Rica’s Ministry of Economy, 

Industry, and Commerce, information 

regarding consumer protection matters 

involving Costa Rica (71 FR 14895–01 

(Mar. 24, 2006)); (8) disclose to the 

United Kingdom’s Office of Fair 

Trading, the United Kingdom’s 

Information Commissioner, Her 

Majesty’s Secretary of State for Trade 

and Industry in the United Kingdom, 

the Australian Competition and 

Consumer Commission, and the 

Australian Communications Authority, 

information regarding commercial email investigations that involve 

consumers, businesses, commerce or 

markets in the United Kingdom or 

Australia (69 FR 44008–01 (July 23, 

2004)); and (9) disclose to Spain’s 

Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de 

Datos, information regarding 

commercial e-mail investigations that 

involve consumers, businesses, 

commerce or markets in Spain (70 FR 

12487–03 (Mar. 14, 2005)). The BCP 

Director’s authority may be redelegated. 

This delegated authority does not 

apply to competition-related 

investigations. This delegated authority 

includes the authority to respond to 

disclosure and other requests within the 

ambit of any memorandum of 

understanding or agreement concerning 

consumer protection cooperation 

between the Commission and an agency 

listed or described in this notice or 

within the ambit of any agreement 

concerning consumer protection 

cooperation between the United States 

and any country listed in this notice. 

For this delegated authority, ‘‘consumer 

protection investigations involving 

businesses or consumers’’ of a country, 

‘‘consumer protection investigations 

involving’’ a country and ‘‘consumer 

protection matters involving’’ a country 

shall include any consumer protection 

investigation or matter involving that 

country or with a nexus to any person, 

entity, commerce, or market in that 

country. The phrase ‘‘commercial e-mail 

investigations that involve consumers, 

businesses, commerce or markets in’’ a 

country shall include any commercial email investigation or matter involving 

that country or with a nexus to any 

person, entity, commerce, or market in 

that country. 

When exercising its delegated 

authority, the BCP Director will require 

assurances of confidentiality from the 

relevant foreign law enforcement 

agency. Disclosures shall be made only 

to the extent consistent with limitations 

on disclosure including, where 

applicable, sections 6(f) and 21 of the 

FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f) and 57b–2 (as 

amended by sections 4(a) and 6(a) of the 

U.S. SAFE WEB Act of 2006, Public Law 

109–455, 120 Stat. 3372, 3372–73 and 

3376–77), Commission Rule 4.10(d), 16 

CFR 4.10(d), and with the Commission’s 

enforcement policies and other 


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