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Abstract: At the completion of a cost 

reimbursement contract, contractors 

will report final costs incurred, 

including direct labor, materials, 

supplies, equipment, other direct 

charges, subcontracting, consultant fees, 

indirect costs, and fixed fee. Contractors 

will report this information on EPA 

Form 1900–10. EPA will use this 

information to reconcile the contractor’s 

costs. Establishment of the final costs 

and fixed fee is necessary to close out 

the contract. Responses to the 

information collection are mandatory 

for those contractors completing work 

under a cost reimbursement contract, 

and are required to receive final 

payment. Information submitted is 

protected from public release in 

accordance with the Agency’s 

confidentiality regulation, 40 CFR 2.201 

et seq. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 4 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

or disclose or provide information to or 

for a Federal agency. This includes the 

time needed to review instructions; 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purposes 

of collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements which have subsequently 

changed; train personnel to be able to 

respond to a collection of information; 

search data sources; complete and 

review the collection of information; 

and transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: All 

contractors who have completed an EPA 

cost reimbursement type contract. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 80 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$9,265.80, includes $264.00 annualized 

capital or O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There are 

no changes to the total estimated burden 

currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7321 Filed 3–26–12; 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 applications will also 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. 

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. 2012. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. PSB Holdings, Inc., Wausau, 

Wisconsin; to acquire 100 percent of the 

voting shares of Marathon State Bank, 

Marathon, Wisconsin. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 22, 2012. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7294 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

[Document Identifier: OS–0990–0335; 30- 

Day Notice] 

Agency Information Collection 

Request; 30-Day Public Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed collection for public 

comment. Interested persons are invited 

to send comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including any 

of the following subjects: (1) The 

necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the agency’s functions; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, email your request, 

including your address, phone number, 

OMB number, and OS document 

identifier, to 

Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call 

the Reports Clearance Office on (202) 

690–5683. Send written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collections within 30 days 

of this notice directly to the OS OMB 

Desk Officer; faxed to OMB at 202–395– 

5806. 

Proposed Project: Trends in U.S. 

Public Awareness of Racial and Ethnic 

Health Disparities (1999–2015)— 

Extension—OMB# 0990–0335—Office 

of Minority Health (OMH). 

Abstract: The proposed survey seeks 

to collect data for one of OMH’s annual 

performance measures, approved by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) in February 2007, following 

OMB’s examination of OMH using the 

Program Assessment Rating Tool 

(PART). This measure is to ‘‘increase 

awareness of racial/ethnic health status 

and health care disparities in the 

general population.’’ Findings from this 

data collection will enable OMH to track 

progress on this measure over time as 

necessitated by current OMB-approved 

program assessment requirements. 

The lack of general awareness and 

understanding about the nature and 

extent of racial and ethnic health 

disparities in the U.S. and the impact 

that such disparities are having on the 

overall health of the Nation have been 

cited as a major barrier to the provision 

of programmatic, budgetary, and policy 

attention to these issues. Therefore, one 

of the long-term, annual measures 

agreed upon was to ‘‘increase awareness 

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of racial/ethnic health status and health 

care disparities in the general 

population.’’ 

Additionally, OMH can use the 

findings about progress made in raising 

awareness to identify collaborative 

partners in the federal government, at 

the state and local levels, among 

businesses and non-profits, and among 

the faith community, in order to reach 

a wider audience. Further, these results 

can be used by program decision-makers 

and policy-makers, within and outside 

of HHS, who are interested in capturing 

progress made over time as HHS 

disseminates information to the U.S. 

population that confirms the existence, 

and societal effects, of racial and ethnic 

health disparities. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Type of respondent Number of 

respondents* 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden hours 

General Population .......................................................................................... 3,159 1 14/60 737 

Physician .......................................................................................................... 340 1 14/60 79 

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 816 

* Based on actual completion rates from the 2010 OMH/NORC survey. 

Keith A. Tucker, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7287 Filed 3–26–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Request for Comments on Issues of 

Privacy and Access With Regard to 

Human Genome Sequence Data 

AGENCY: The Presidential Commission 

for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Office 

of the Secretary, Department of Health 

and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Presidential Commission 

for the Study of Bioethical Issues is 

requesting public comment on the 

ethical issues raised by the ready 

availability of large-scale human 

genome sequence data, with regard to 

privacy and data access and the 

balancing of individual and societal 

interests. 

DATES: To assure consideration, 

comments must be received by May 25, 

2012. Comments received after this date 

will be considered only as time permits. 

ADDRESSES: Individuals, groups, and 

organizations interested in commenting 

on this topic may submit comments by 

email to info@bioethics.gov or by mail to 

the following address: Public 

Commentary, The Presidential 

Commission for the Study of Bioethical 

Issues, 1425 New York Ave. NW., Suite 

C–100, Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cary 

Scheiderer, Senior Policy and Research 

Analyst, The Presidential Commission 

for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 1425 

New York Avenue NW., Suite C–100, 

Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 

202–233–3960. Email: 

cary.scheiderer@bioethics.gov. 

Additional information may be obtained 

at http://www.bioethics.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 24, 2009, the President 

established The Presidential 

Commission for the Study of Bioethical 

Issues (Commission) to advise him on 

bioethical issues generated by novel and 

emerging research in biomedicine and 

related areas of science and technology. 

The Commission is charged to identify 

and promote policies and practices that 

assure ethically responsible conduct of 

scientific research and healthcare 

delivery. Undertaking these duties, the 

Commission seeks to identify and 

examine specific bioethical, legal, and 

social issues related to potential 

scientific and technological advances; 

examine diverse perspectives and 

possibilities for international 

collaboration on these issues; and 

recommend legal, regulatory, or policy 

actions as appropriate. 

The Commission is examining issues 

of privacy and access as pertains to 

large-scale human genome sequence 

data, including whole exome and whole 

genome data. As a result of the 

tremendous technological advances that 

have dramatically reduced the cost of 

sequencing, the science is at a point 

where relatively inexpensive, rapid 

sequencing of whole human genomes 

appears not only likely, but imminent. 

This prospect raises many questions for 

the scientific, medical, ethics, and 

patient communities related to how this 

information can and ought be collected, 

used, and governed. At the February 

2012 meeting, the Commission decided 

to focus specifically on those questions 

related to privacy and data access and 

the balancing of individual and societal 

interests. 

The Commission will spend the next 

six months soliciting additional input 

from the scientific, ethics, and patient 

communities, as well as others, to help 

inform our deliberations of these 

important topics. The Commission will 

provide the President with a report of its 

findings and recommendations later this 

year. 

The Commission is particularly 

interested in policies, practices, 

research, and perspectives on issues of 

privacy and data access as they relate to 

the integration of large-scale human 

genome sequencing into research and 

clinical care. To this end, the 

Commission is inviting interested 

parties to provide input and advice 

through written comments. 

Among other issues, the Commission 

is interested in receiving comments on 

the implications of large-scale human 

genome sequencing for the privacy of 

individuals, research subjects, patients 

and their families; the views of those 

groups and medical professional 

communities about privacy, both as 

regards genomic information and 

evolving notions of privacy, as 

evidenced and influenced by social 

media; and models and mechanisms for 

protecting privacy, in both genetic/ 

genomic databases and biobanks, but 

also in large databases of sensitive 

information. The Commission is further 

interested in receiving comments on 

issues related to balancing individual 

and societal interests with regard to the 

sharing of and access to large-scale 

human genomic data; the views of 

patients and other stakeholders on who 

should have access to these data and 

who should control access; models and 

mechanisms for governing access to 

genomic information; the role of health 

information technology in providing 

and governing access to genomic data; 

and access to genetic/genomic 

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