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copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Board of Scientific Counselors, 

Ecological Mid-Cycle Subcommittee 

Meeting—Spring 2007 Docket, EPA/DC, 

EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. The Public Reading Room is open 

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

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the ORD 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 

Heather Drumm, Mail Drop 8104–R, 

Office of Science Policy, Office of 

Research and Development, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1300 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: 

(202) 564–8239; via fax at: (202) 565–

2911; or via e-mail at: 

drumm.heather@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information 

Any member of the public interested 

in receiving a draft BOSC agenda or 

making a presentation at either meeting 

may contact Heather Drumm, the 

Designated Federal Officer, via any of 

the contact methods listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. In general, each individual 

making an oral presentation will be 

limited to a total of three minutes. 

Proposed agenda items for the 

meetings include, but are not limited to: 

Teleconference #1: the objectives of the 

review; an overview of ORD’s ecological 

research program; a summary of major 

changes in the ecological research 

program since 2005; Teleconference #2: 

an update on the revised Ecological 

Multi-Year Plan; face-to-face meeting: 

the ecological research program’s 

progress in response to 

recommendations from its 2005 BOSC 

review and other activities, 

subcommittee discussions. The 

meetings are open to the public. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Heather Drumm at (202) 564–

8239 or drumm.heather@epa.gov. To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Heather Drumm, 

preferably at least 10 days prior to the 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: March 19, 2007. 

Rebecca Calderon, 

Acting Director, Office of Science Policy. 

[FR Doc. E7–5581 Filed 3–26–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–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 

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 April 20, 2007. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(David Tatum, Vice President) 1000 

Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 

30309: 

1. First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc., 

Hammond, Louisiana; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of First 

Guaranty Bank, Hammond, Louisiana. 

2. Independent Bancshares, Inc. 

Employee Stock Ownership Plan, to 

become a bank holding company by 

retaining 25.76 percent of the voting 

shares of Independent Bancshares, Inc., 

and Community Spirit Bank, all of Red 

Bay, Alabama, and Spirit Bancshares, 

Inc., and Spirit Bank, both of Belmont, 

Mississippi. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant Vice 

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. BOK Financial Corporation, Tulsa, 

Oklahoma; to acquire, through its 

subsidiary BOKF Merger Corporation 

Number Twelve, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 100 

percent of the voting shares of Worth 

Bancorporation, Inc., and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of 

Worth National Bank, both in Lake 

Worth, Texas. Immediately thereafter, 

BOKF Merger Corporation Number 

Twelve, Tulsa, Oklahoma, will merge 

into Worth Bancorporation, Inc., Lake 

Worth, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 22, 2007. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–5553 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; The Board of 

Scientific Counselors Meeting (BSC), 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention announces the 

following meeting of the 

aforementioned committee: 

Time and Date: 9 a.m.–3 p.m., May 10, 

2007. 

Place: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New 

Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20001. 

Status: Open to the public, limited only by 

the space available. The meeting room 

accommodates approximately 50 people. 

Purpose: The Secretary, the Assistant 

Secretary for Health, and by delegation, the 

Director, CDC, are authorized under Sections 

301 and 308 of the Public Health Service Act 

to conduct directly or by grants or contracts, 

research, experiments, and demonstrations 

relating to occupational safety and health and 

to mine health. The BSC shall provide 

guidance to the Director, NIOSH, on research 

and prevention programs. Specifically, the 

Board shall provide guidance on the 

Institute’s research activities related to 

developing and evaluating hypotheses, and 

systematically documenting findings and 

disseminating results. The Board shall 

evaluate the degree to which the activities of 

NIOSH: (1) Conform to appropriate scientific 


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