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11 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(1). 12 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

thereunder.11 At any time within 60 

days of the filing of the proposed rule 

change, the Commission may summarily 

abrogate such rule change if it appears 

to the Commission that such action is 

necessary or appropriate in the public 

interest, for the protection of investors, 

or otherwise in furtherance of the 

purposes of the Act. 

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change is consistent with the Act. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

Number SR–CBOE–2007–22 on the 

subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Nancy M. Morris, Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–CBOE–2007–22. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if e-mail is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro/shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for inspection and copying in 

the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room. Copies of such filing will also be 

available for inspection and copying at 

the principal office of the CBOE. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change; the Commission does 

not edit personal identifying 

information from submissions. You 

should submit only information that 

you wish to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File number 

SR–CBOE–2007–22 and should be 

submitted on or before April 4, 2007. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated 

authority.12

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4589 Filed 3–13–07; 8:45 am] 

Editorial Note: FR Doc. E7–4589 originally 

published at pages 11924–11925 in the issue 

of Wednesday, March 14, 2007. The original 

publication contained footnote omissions. As 

a result, the corrected document is being 

republished in its entirety. 

[FR Doc. R7–4589 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1505–01–D 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5778] 

Biometric Visa Program Transition to 

Ten Fingerscans 

AGENCY: State Department. 

ACTION: Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron 

Acker, Legislation and Regulations 

Division, Visa Services, Department of 

State, Washington, DC 20520–0106, 

(202) 663–1205 or e-mail 

ackerrl@state.gov. 

SUMMARY: This public notice announces 

the change in the standard for 

fingerscans of the Biometric Visa 

Program from two fingerscans to ten 

fingerscans. The establishment of the 

Biometric Visa Program was announced 

to the public in December 2004 as a 

response to the requirements 

established by the Enhanced Border 

Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 

2002. When the program began, 

available technology only allowed for 

efficient capture and comparisons of 

two fingerscans. Now, improvements in 

technology allow the Program to 

incorporate a ten fingerscan standard. 

Why is the Department planning to take 

ten fingerscans from visa applicants? 

The Biometric Visa Program works 

closely with the US–VISIT Program of 

the Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). Both programs currently require 

aliens to submit two fingerscans as part 

of their respective application 

procedures. In consultation with DHS 

and the Department of Justice, the 

Department is instituting the ten 

fingerscan standard to improve our 

ability to detect and thwart persons 

ineligible for visas by raising the 

accuracy rate in matching fingerscans. 

Will this change affect all visa 

applicants? 

Visa applicants subject to the 

Biometric Visa Program will be required 

to provide ten fingerscans with their 

first visa application following the 

transition. 

When will this change take place? 

The Department plans to begin 

deployment of the ten fingerscan system 

to all visa issuing consular posts abroad 

beginning in April 2007, with 

completion scheduled for the end of 

2007. 

Dated: April 2, 2007. 

Maura Harty, 

Assistant Secretary, Consular Affairs, 

Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Fund Availability Under the VA 

Homeless Providers Grant and Per 

Diem Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) is announcing the 

availability of funds for applications for 

assistance under the Capital Grant 

component of VA’s Homeless Providers 

Grant and Per Diem Program. This 

notice contains information concerning 

the program, funding priorities, 

application process, and amount of 

funding available. 

DATES: An original completed and 

collated capital grant application (plus 

three completed collated copies) for 

assistance under the VA’s Homeless 

Providers Grant and Per Diem Program 

must be received in the Grant and Per 

Diem Field Office, by 4 p.m. Eastern 

Time on June 28, 2007. Applications 

may not be sent by facsimile (FAX). In 

the interest of fairness to all competing 

applicants, this deadline is firm as to 

date and hour, and VA will treat as 

ineligible for consideration any 

application that is received after the 

deadline. Applicants should take this 

practice into account and make early 

submission of their material to avoid 

any risk of loss of eligibility brought 

about by unanticipated delays or other 

delivery-related problems. 

For a Copy of the Application 

Package: Download directly from VA’s 

Grant and Per Diem Program Web page 

at: http://www.va.gov/homeless/ 

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www.grants.gov/. Questions should be 

referred to the Grant and Per Diem 

Program at (toll-free) 1–877–332–0334. 

For a document relating to the VA 

Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem 

Program, see the final rule published in 

the Federal Register on September 26, 

2003. 

Submission of Application: An 

original completed and collated grant 

application (plus three copies) and a 

cover letter clearly stating under which 

funding priority applicants wish to be 

considered must be submitted to the 

following address: 

VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per 

Diem Field Office, 10770 N. 46th Street, 

Suite C–200, Tampa, FL 33617. 

Applications must be received in the 

Grant and Per Diem Field office by the 

application deadline. Applications must 

arrive as a complete package. Materials 

arriving separately will not be included 

in the application package for 

consideration and may result in the 

application being rejected or not 

funded. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Guy Liedke, VA Homeless Providers 

Grant and Per Diem Program, 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 10770 

N. 46th Street, Suite C–200, Tampa, FL 

33617; (toll-free) 1–877–332–0334. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces the availability of 

capital funds for assistance under VA’s 

Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem 

Program for eligible entities to: (1) 

Expand existing transitional housing 

projects; or (2) develop new transitional 

housing programs. Supportive service 

centers will only be considered under 

funding priority 3. Funding applied for 

under the capital grant component may 

be used for: (1) Remodeling or alteration 

of existing buildings; (2) acquisition of 

buildings; (3) acquisition and 

rehabilitation of buildings; (4) new 

construction; and (5) acquisition of vans 

(in connection with a new or existing 

Grant and Per Diem Grant project) for 

outreach and transportation for 

homeless veterans. Funding applied for 

under this notice is authorized by 

Public Law 109–461, § 703, known as 

the Veterans Benefit, Health Care and 

Information Technology Act of 2006, 

codified at 38 U.S.C. 2011, 2012, 2061, 

2064, and may be used for aid for 

supportive housing and service centers. 

For eligibility criteria please refer to the 

final rule published in the Federal 

Register on September 26, 2003. 

Capital grant applicants may not 

receive assistance to replace funds 

provided by any State or local 

government to assist homeless persons. 

A proposal for an existing project that 

seeks to shift its focus by changing the 

population being served or the precise 

mix of services being offered is not 

eligible for consideration. No more than 

25 percent of housing and services 

available in projects funded through this 

grant program may be provided to 

clients who are not receiving those 

services as veterans. 

VA is pleased to issue this notice of 

Fund Availability (NOFA) for the 

Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem 

Program. The Department expects to 

award approximately $14 million under 

the capital grant component. 

Funding available under this NOFA is 

being offered to help offset the capital 

expenses of existing state and local 

governments, Indian Tribal 

governments, faith-based, and 

community-based organizations that are 

capable of creating and providing 

supported transitional housing for 

homeless veterans. The District of 

Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico, any territory or possession of the 

United States, are considered eligible 

entities under the definition of ‘‘State’’ in 

the final rule, § 61.1 Definitions. 

Per diem for these programs is 

requested in the grant application and 

may be paid at the time of grant project 

completion. It should be noted that VA 

per diem payment is limited to the 

applicant’s cost of care per eligible 

veteran minus other sources of 

payments to the applicant for furnishing 

services to homeless veterans up to the 

per day rate VA pays for State Home 

Domiciliary care. Awardees will be 

required to support their request for per 

diem payment with adequate fiscal 

documentation as to program income 

and expenses. 

Interested organizations should know 

that the vast majority of homeless 

veterans in this country suffer from 

mental illness or substance abuse 

disorders or are dually diagnosed with 

both mental illness and substance abuse 

disorders. In addition, many homeless 

veterans have serious medical problems. 

Collaboration with VA medical centers, 

VA community-based outpatient clinics 

or other health care providers as well as 

with VA and other benefit providers is 

an important aspect of assuring that 

homeless veterans have access to 

appropriate health care services. VA 

considers this program an important 

part of our effort to end chronic 

homelessness among veterans. 

It is important to be aware that VA 

places great emphasis on responsibility 

and accountability. VA has procedures 

in place to verify the completion of the 

capital grant as well as monitor services 

provided to homeless veterans and 

outcomes associated with the services 

provided in grant and per diem-funded 

programs. Applicants should be aware 

of the following: 

All awardees that are conditionally 

selected in response to this NOFA must 

meet the Life Safety Code of the 

National Fire Protection Association as 

it relates to their specific facility. 

Applicants should note that all facilities 

are to be sprinkled unless they are 

specifically exempted under the Life 

Safety Code and make consideration of 

this when submitting their capital grant 

applications. VA will conduct an 

inspection prior to awardees being able 

to submit request for per diem payment 

to ensure this requirement is met. 

Upon capital grant completion each 

program seeking per diem will have a 

liaison appointed from a nearby VA 

medical facility to provide oversight and 

monitor services provided to homeless 

veterans in the per diem-funded 

program. 

Monitoring will include at a 

minimum an annual review of each per 

diem program’s progress toward 

meeting internal goals and objectives in 

helping veterans attain housing 

stability, adequate income support, and 

self sufficiency as identified in each per 

diem program’s original application. 

Monitoring will also include a review of 

the agency’s income and expenses as 

they relate to this project to ensure per 

diem payment is accurate. 

Each per diem-funded program will 

participate in VA’s national program 

monitoring and evaluation system 

administered by VA’s Northeast 

Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC). 

NEPEC’s monitoring procedures will be 

used to determine successful 

accomplishment of these housing 

outcomes for each per diem-funded 

program. 

Authority: Funding applied for under this 

notice is authorized by Public Law 109–461, 

§ 703, known as the Veterans Benefit, Health 

Care and Information Technology Act of 

2006, codified at 38 U.S.C. 2011, 2012, 2061, 

2064, and may be used for aid for supportive 

housing. The program is implemented by the 

final rule codified at 38 CFR part 61.0. The 

final rule was published in the Federal 

Register on September 26, 2003, the 

regulations can be found in their entirety in 

38 CFR 61.0 through 61.82. Funds made 

available under this notice are subject to the 

requirements of those regulations. 

Allocation: Approximately $14 

million is available for the capital grant 

component. Capital grant awards will be 

limited to transitional housing projects, 

(service center programs will only be 

considered in this round under funding 

priority 3). 

Vans must be directly connected to a 

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Grant project and will be limited to one 

per project. These van awards do not 

count against the one per tax 

identification number for non-profit 

entitles or state and local government 

entities. Per diem payments to capital 

grant recipients are subject to the 

recipients maintaining the program for 

which the grant was awarded. 

Funding Priorities: VA is offering to 

eligible applicants funding priorities for 

transitional housing and services to 

homeless women veterans and homeless 

women who have care of their 

dependent children, housing and 

services in area’s experiencing the 

lingering effects of Hurricane’s Katrina 

and Rita, and service centers for Indian 

Tribal Governments. Additionally, VA 

is encouraging interested state and local 

governments, Indian tribal governments, 

and faith-based and community-based 

organizations to apply for funding under 

this NOFA. In this round of capital grant 

funding, VA expects to award funding 

to create approximately 900 communitybased supported housing beds. 

Funding priority 1. VA is offering the 

opportunity for providers who are 

willing to create new projects for 

women and women with care of 

dependent children. Of those eligible 

entities in the first funding priority that 

are legally fundable, the highest scoring 

applicants will be funded first until 

approximately $1.5 million is awarded. 

Applicants not funded in this priority 

will be considered in the fourth funding 

priority. 

Funding priority 2. VA is offering the 

opportunity for providers who are 

willing to create new or expand existing 

projects for homeless veterans due to 

the lingering effects of Hurricanes 

Katrina and Rita. Applicants whose 

projects are physically located in FEMA 

designated disaster declaration parishes 

or counties, that were eligible for 

‘‘Individual Assistance’’, as outlined in 

the tables below, that are eligible 

entities, will be considered in the 

second funding priority. Of those 

eligible entities in the second funding 

priority, that are legally fundable, the 

highest scoring applicants will be 

funded first until approximately $2.5 

million is awarded. Applicants not 

funded in this priority will be placed in 

the fourth funding priority. Should not 

enough eligible projects be funded 

under the second funding priority, 

funds not expended in this priority will 

fall to the fourth funding priority. 

Funding priority 3. Indian tribal 

governments that wish to establish 

service centers for homeless veterans 

will be considered in the third funding 

priority as applicable. Of those eligible 

entities in the third funding priority that 

are legally fundable, the highest scoring 

applicants will be funded first until 

approximately $1 million is awarded. 

Applicants not funded in this priority 

will be placed in the fourth funding 

priority. Should not enough eligible 

projects be funded under the third 

funding priority, funds not expended in 

this priority will fall to the fourth 

funding priority. 

Funding priority 4. VA is encouraging 

interested, state and local governments, 

Indian tribal governments, and faithbased and community-based 

organizations to apply for funding under 

this NOFA to create transitional housing 

and services for all homeless veterans. 

Eligible entities that are state and local 

governments, Indian Tribal 

governments, faith-based, and 

community-based organizations, will be 

considered in the fourth funding 

priority as applicable. Of those eligible 

entities that are legally fundable, the 

highest-ranked applications for which 

funding is available, will be 

conditionally selected for eligibility to 

receive a capital grant in accordance 

with their ranked order until funding is 

expended (approximately $9 million). 

Hurricane Katrina 

FEMA–1605–DR, Alabama ...................................................................... Declaration Date: August 29, 2005. 

Baldwin, Marengo, Mobile, Pickens, Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa, and Washington Counties. 

FEMA–1603–DR, Louisiana ..................................................................... Declaration Date: August 29, 2005. 

The parishes of Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Jefferson 

Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. 

Mary, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana. 

FEMA–1604–DR, Mississippi ................................................................... Declaration Date: August 29, 2005. 

Adams, Amite, Attala, Claiborne, Choctaw, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, Holmes, 

Humphreys, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison, 

Marion, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Stone, Walthall, Warren, Wayne, 

Wilkinson, Winston, and Yazoo Counties. 

Hurricane Rita 

FEMA–1607–DR, Louisiana ..................................................................... Declaration Date: September 24, 2005. 

The parishes of Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Cameron, Calcasieu, Beauregard, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson, Jefferson Davies, Lafayette, 

Lafourche, Livingston, Plaquemines, Sabine, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, and West Baton Rouge. 

FEMA–1606–DR, Texas ........................................................................... Declaration Date: September 24, 2005. 

The counties of Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, 

Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, Tyler, and Walker. 

Methodology: VA will review all 

capital grant applications in response to 

this notice of funding availability as 

follows: VA will group the applicants 

into the funding priorities categories. 

Applicants will then be ranked within 

their respective funding category based 

on score and any ranking criteria set 

forth in that funding category only if the 

applicant scores at least 600 cumulative 

points and receives points under the 

criteria in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and 

(i) of § 61.13. 

The highest-ranked application for 

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highest funding category, will be 

conditionally selected in accordance 

with their ranked order until VA 

reaches the projected amount of funding 

for each category. If funds are still 

available after selection of those 

applications in the highest priority 

group VA will continue to conditionally 

select applicants in lower priority 

categories in accordance with the 

selection method set forth in the final 

rule § 61.14. 

Application Requirements: 

Applicants must include a cover letter 

clearly stating under which funding 

priority they wish to be considered. The 

grant application requirements will be 

specified in the application package. 

Applicants should be careful to 

complete the proper application 

package. Submission of the incorrect or 

incomplete application package will 

result in the application being rejected 

at threshold. The packages include all 

required forms and certifications. 

Selections will be made based on 

criteria described in the application, 

final rule, and NOFA. Applicants who 

are conditionally selected will be 

notified of any additional information 

needed to confirm or clarify information 

provided in the application. Applicants 

will then be notified of the deadline to 

submit such information. If an applicant 

is unable to meet any conditions for 

grant award within the specified time 

frame, VA reserves the right to not 

award funds and to use the funds 

available for other grant and per diem 

applicants. 

Dated: April 30, 2007. 

Gordon H. Mansfield, 

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 

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