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plans to persons who could be ‘‘parties

in interest’’ with respect to such plans,

provided certain conditions specified in

the exemption are met. Under those

conditions neither the borrower nor an

affiliate of the borrower can have

discretionary control over the

investment of plan assets, or offer

investment advice concerning the

assets, and the loan must be made

pursuant to a written agreement. The

exemption also establishes a minimum

acceptable level for collateral based on

the market value of the loaned

securities.

Prohibited Transaction Exemption

82–63 permits compensation of a

fiduciary for services rendered in

connection with loans of plan assets

that are securities. The exemption

details certain conditions which must

be met.

Indemnification

Certain lender institutions offer

participating accounts indemnification

against losses in connection with

securities lending programs. Such

indemnifications may cover a variety of

occurrences including all financial loss,

losses from a borrower default, or losses

from collateral default. Lender

institutions that offer such

indemnification should obtain a legal

opinion from counsel concerning the

legality of their specific form of

indemnification under federal and/or

state law.

A lender institution which offers an

indemnity to its customers may, in light

of other related factors, be assuming the

benefits and, more importantly, the

liabilities of a principal. Therefore,

lender institutions offering

indemnification should also obtain

written opinions from their accountants

concerning the proper financial

statement disclosure of their actual or

contingent liabilities.

Regulatory Reporting

Securities borrowing and lending

transactions should be reported by

commercial banks according to the

Instructions for the Consolidated

Reports of Condition and Income and by

thrifts according to Thrift Financial

Report instructions.

By order of the Board of Directors.

Dated at Washington, D.C. this 22nd day of

July, 1997.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Robert E. Feldman,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–19964 Filed 7–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6714–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry

[ATSDR–121]

Notice of Availability of Administrative

Reports of Health Effects Studies

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances

and Disease Registry (ATSDR),

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of administrative reports of

20 ATSDR health effects studies and

associated publications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffrey A. Lybarger, M.D., MS, Director,

Division of Health Studies, Agency for

Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop E–31,

Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (404)

639–6200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sections

104(i) (1), (7), (8), and (9) of the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA), as amended (42 U.S.C.

9604(i) (1), (7), (8), and (9), provide the

Administrator of ATSDR with the

authority to conduct pilot studies and

epidemiologic and other health studies,

and to initiate health surveillance

programs to determine the relationship

between human exposure to hazardous

substances in the environment and

adverse health outcomes.

On February 13, 1990, ATSDR

published in the Federal Register (55

FR 5136) a final rule entitled, ‘‘Health

Assessments and Health Effects Studies

of Hazardous Substances Releases and

Facilities.’’ The primary purpose of that

rule, which created a new regulation at

42 CFR part 90, was to set forth general

procedures that ATSDR will follow

relating to certain agency activities,

including the conduct of health effects

studies. Section 90.11 of the regulation

concerns the reporting of results of

health assessments and health effects

studies, and provides that reports of

health effects studies conducted under

section 104(i) of CERCLA be available to

the general public upon request.

Availability: The reports of the health

effects studies and associated

publications in the following list are

now available through the U.S.

Department of Commerce, National

Technical Information Service (NTIS),

5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield,

Virginia 22151, telephone 1–800–553–

6847 or 703–487–4650. There is a

charge for these items as determined by

NTIS.

Health effects study NTIS document

Number

Southbend Subdivision Health Outcomes Study, Harris County, Texas, ATSDR/HS–95–57 .................................................... PB95–265518

Biologic Indicators of Exposure to Lead, RSR Smelter Site, Dallas, Texas, ATSDR/HS–95–59 ............................................... PB95–265500

Fort Hall Air Emissions Study, Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho, ........................................................................... PB96–109046

A Population-Based Case-Control Study of Lung Cancer Mortality in Four Arizona Smelter Towns, ATSDR/HS–95–61 ........ PB96–109038

McClellan Air Force Base Cross-Sectional Health Study, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, ATSDR/HS–95–62 .. PB96–138144

Lead and Cadmium Exposure Study, Galena, Kansas, ATSDR/HS–95–63 ............................................................................... PB96–138151

National Exposure Registry, Trichloroethylene (TCE) Subregistry, Followup 1 Technical Report, ATSDR/HS–96–64 ............. PB96–157573

National Exposure Registry, Volatile Organic Compounds Registry, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane (TCA) Subregistry, Baseline and

Followup 1 Technical Report, ATSDR/HS–96–65.

PB96–172101

Evaluating Individuals Reporting Sensitivities to Multiple Chemicals, California Department of Health Services, ATSDR/HS–

96–66.

PB96–187646

The Occurrence of Neural Tube, Heart, and Oral Cleft Defects in Areas With National Priorities List Sites: A Case-Control

Study, California Department of Health Services, California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, ATSDR/HS–96–67.

PB96–109632

National Exposure Registry, Dioxin Subregistry, Baseline and Followups 1 and 2 Technical Report, ATSDR/HS–96–70 ....... PB96–196613

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal Pilot Exposure Study, Part II: Analysis of Exposure to Diisopropylmethylphosphate, Aldrin,

Dieldrin, Endrin, Isodrin, and Chlorophenylmethsulfone, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Disease

Control and Environmental Epidemiology Division, Denver, Colorado, ATSDR/HS–96–68.

PB96–162151

Reproductive, Neurobehavioral, and Other Disorders in Communities Surrounding the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado

State University, Department of Environmental Health, Fort Collins, Colorado, ATSDR/HS–96–69.

PB96–178058
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Health effects study NTIS document

Number

Sympton and Disease Prevalence With Biomarkers Health Study, Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, Hall County, Nebraska, ATSDR/HS–96–72.PB96–187760

Disease and Sympton Prevalence Survey, Tucson International Airport Site, Tucson, Arizona, ATSDR/HS–96–71 ................ PB96–199484

Evaluation of Developmental Disabilities in Relation to Environmental Exposures in Groton, Massachusetts, ATSDR/HS–

97–75.

PB97–137715

Adult Environmental Neurobehavioral Test Battery, ATSDR/HS–95–58 .................................................................................... PB96–109012

Standardized Assessment of Birth Defects and Reproductive Disorders in Environmental Health Field Studies, ATSDR/HS–

96–73.

PB96–199609

Pediatric Environmental Neurobehavioral Test Battery, ATSDR/HS–96–74 ............................................................................... PB96–207352

National Exposure Registry, Trichloroethylene (TCE) Subregistry, TCE Baseline, CD–ROM Series: TCE, Volume: Baseline,

No. 1.

PB95–501987

In accordance with 42 CFR 90.11,

copies of these final publications have

been distributed, as appropriate, to the

Environmental Protection Agency; the

applicable State and local government

agencies; the affected local

communities; and parties potentially

responsible for their release, if their

identity is readily available to ATSDR.

Additional final reports will be

announced semiannually in the Federal

Register as they become available.

Dated: July 24, 1997.

Georgi Jones,

Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs,

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease

Registry.

[FR Doc. 97–20013 Filed 7–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4163–70–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry

[ATSDR–124]

Announcement of Final Priority Data

Needs for 12 Priority Hazardous

Substances and Call for Voluntary

Research Proposals

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances

and Disease Registry (ATSDR), U.S.

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS).

ACTION: Announcement of final priority

data needs and ongoing call for

Voluntary Research Proposals.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

final priority data needs for 12 priority

hazardous substances (see attached

Table 1) as part of the continuing

development and implementation of the

ATSDR Substance-Specific Applied

Research Program (SSARP). The notice

also serves as a continuous call for

voluntary research proposals. The

SSARP is authorized by the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act of 1980 (Superfund) or CERCLA, as

amended by the Superfund

Amendments and Reauthorization Act

of 1986 (SARA) (42 U.S.C. 9604(i)). This

research program was initiated on

October 17, 1991. At that time, a list of

priority data needs for 38 priority

hazardous substances was announced in

the Federal Register (56 FR 52178). The

list was subsequently revised based on

public comments and published in final

form on November 16, 1992 (57 FR

54150).

Twelve substances constitute the

second list of hazardous substances for

which priority data needs are identified

by ATSDR. In developing this list,

ATSDR solicited input from the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

and the National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences

(NIEHS). The 12 substances, which are

included in the ATSDR Priority List of

Hazardous Substances established by

ATSDR and EPA (59 FR 9486, February

28, 1994), are:

*Chlordane

*1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane

*Di-n-butyl phthalate

*Disulfoton

*Endrin (includes endrin aldehyde)

*Endosulfan (alpha-, beta-, and

endosulfan sulfate)

*Heptachlor (includes heptachlor

epoxide)

*Hexachlorobutadiene

*Hexachlorocyclohexane (alpha-, beta-,

delta-, and gamma-)

*Manganese

*Methoxychlor

*Toxaphene.

The priority data needs for these 12

substances were initially announced by

ATSDR in the Federal Register on April

1, 1996 (61 FR 14430). The public was

invited to comment on the priority data

needs during a 90-day period. ATSDR

received comments from industry

groups concerning substance-specific

priority data needs. The agency

responded to these comments and has

finalized the ‘‘Priority Data Needs’’

documents for these 12 hazardous

substances. Both the agency’s responses

and the revised ‘‘Priority Data Needs’’

documents are available for public

inspection at ATSDR (see ADDRESSES

section).

These priority data needs will be

addressed by the mechanisms described

in the Implementation of SubstanceSpecific Applied Research Program

section of this Federal Register notice.

This notice also serves as a

continuous call for voluntary research

proposals. Private-sector organizations

may volunteer to conduct research to

address specific priority data needs in

this notice by indicating their interest

through submission of a research

proposal to ATSDR (see ADDRESSES

section). A Tri-Agency Superfund

Applied Research Committee (TASARC)

comprised of scientists from ATSDR,

the National Toxicology Program (NTP),

and EPA will review all proposals. The

‘‘Priority Data Needs’’ documents are

available by writing to ATSDR (see

ADDRESSES section).

DATES: ATSDR considers the voluntary

research effort to be of significant

importance to the continuing

development of the Substance-Specific

Applied Research Program, and believes

this effort should be an open and

continuous one. Therefore, privatesector organizations are encouraged to

volunteer to conduct research to address

identified data needs, beginning with

the publication of this notice and until

that time when ATSDR announces that

research has been initiated for a specific

data need.

ADDRESSES: Private-sector organizations

interested in volunteering to conduct

research to address identified data

needs should announce their intention

by writing to Dr. William Cibulas,

Research Implementation Branch,

Division of Toxicology, Agency for

Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop E–29,

Atlanta, Georgia 30333. Requests for the

final ‘‘Priority Data Needs’’ documents

and ATSDR’s response to public

comments should be addressed

similarly.