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schedule, replacing the previous annual 

requirement, such that all carriers 

receiving high-cost support are required 

to report and certify their quarterly 

performance testing results within two 

weeks, rather than within one week, 

after the end of the quarter in which the 

tests are conducted. See High Cost 

Administrative Order, FCC 25–87, para. 

138. Accordingly, this collection 

includes the requirements for testing 

speed and latency, and reporting and 

certifying such performance measures 

within two weeks after the end of each 

quarter to ensure that carriers are 

meeting the public interest obligations 

associated with their receipt of high-cost 

universal service support. 

Carriers will identify, from among the 

locations they have already submitted 

and certified in USAC’s High Cost 

Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal, the 

locations where they have an active 

subscriber (deployment locations are 

reported under OMB Control Number 

3060–1228, and active locations will be 

reported under this control number). 

From those subscriber locations, USAC 

will then select a random sample from 

which the carrier will be required to 

perform testing for speed and latency. 

Carriers that do not provide location 

information in the HUBB will use a 

randomization tool provided by USAC 

to select a random sample of locations 

for testing. Due to the rule changes that 

the Commission adopted on the High 

Cost Administrative Order, the carrier 

will then be required to submit to USAC 

the results of the testing on a quarterly 

basis. The quarterly filing will include 

the testing results from the prior quarter. 

The carrier’s sample for each service tier 

(e.g. 10 Mbps/1 Mbps, 25 Mbps/3 Mbps) 

shall be regenerated every two years. 

During the two-year cycle, carriers will 

have the ability to add and remove 

subscriber locations if necessary, e.g., as 

subscribership changes. Also, in July 

2023, the Commission adopted the 

Enhanced Alternative-Connect America 

Cost Model (E–ACAM) support 

mechanism, a new model-based offer to 

existing Alternative-Connect America 

Cost Model (A–CAM) I, A–CAM II, and 

Connect America Fund Broadband Loop 

Support (CAF BLS) carriers. See 

Connect America Fund: A National 

Broadband Plan for Our Future HighCost Universal Service Support et al., 

WC Docket No. 10–90 et al., Report and 

Order, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 

and Notice of Inquiry, FCC 23–60, at 

23–24, para. 49 (July 24, 2023) 

(Enhanced A–CAM Order). Revisions 

proposed include (1) a process for E– 

ACAM carriers to get a performance 

measures testing sample from nonHUBB reported locations, and (2) and 

reporting and certifying such 

performance measures within two 

weeks after the end of each quarter. The 

proposed revisions also include the 

retitling of this collection from 

‘‘Connect America Fund—Performance 

Testing Measures’’ to ‘‘Administrative 

Order—Performance Testing Measures.’’ 

The Commission therefore proposes to 

revise this information collection to 

reflect these modified requirements. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary,Office of the Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION NOTICE OF

PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: 

89 FR 75540. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: 

Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 

10:00 a.m. 

Hybrid Meeting: 1050 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC (12th Floor) and 

Virtual. 

CHANGE IN THE MEETING: 

The following item was also 

discussed: 

Proposed Referral of Questions on 

Dependent Care to Regulations 

Committee 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

(Authority: Government in the Sunshine Act, 

5 U.S.C. 552b) 

Laura E. Sinram, 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21846 Filed 9–19–24; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–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 public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 

Freedom of Information Office at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/ 

request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). 

Comments received are subject to 

public disclosure. In general, comments 

received will be made available without 

change and will not be modified to 

remove personal or business 

information including confidential, 

contact, or other identifying 

information. Comments should not 

include any information such as 

confidential information that would not 

be appropriate for public disclosure. 

Comments regarding each of these 

applications must be received at the 

Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of 

the Board of Governors, Ann E. 

Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later 

than October 23, 2024. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Brent B. Hassell, Assistant Vice 

President) P.O. Box 27622, Richmond, 

Virginia 23261. Comments can also be 

sent electronically to 

Comments.applications@rich.frb.org: 

1. Varn Financial Corporation, 

Ehrhardt, South Carolina; to become a 

bank holding company by acquiring 

Enterprise Bank of South Carolina, also 

of Ehrhardt, South Carolina. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414. 

Comments can also be sent 

electronically to 

Comments.applications@chi.frb.org: 

1. Security Midwest Bancorp, Inc., 

Springfield, Illinois; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring Security 

Bank, S.B. (Bank), Springfield, Illinois, 

upon the conversion of Bank from 

mutual to stock form. 


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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System. 

Michele Taylor Fennell, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21683 Filed 9–20–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Fees for Cruise Ship Operational 

Sanitation, Construction, and 

Renovation Inspections 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), within 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) announces fees for 

vessel sanitation inspections for fiscal 

year (FY) 2025. These inspections are 

conducted by HHS/CDC’s Vessel 

Sanitation Program (VSP). VSP helps 

the cruise line industry fulfill its 

responsibility for developing and 

implementing comprehensive sanitation 

programs to minimize the risk for 

environmentally associated illnesses 

and hazards. Every vessel that has a 

foreign itinerary and carries 13 or more 

passengers is subject to twice-yearly 

unannounced operations inspections 

and, when necessary, reinspection. 

DATES: These fees apply to inspections 

conducted from October 13, 2024, 

through September 30, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

CAPT Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Vessel 

Sanitation Program, National Center for 

Environmental Health, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 

Buford Highway NE, MS 106–6, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30341–3717; phone: 800–323– 

2132; email: vsp@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose and Background 

HHS/CDC established the Vessel 

Sanitation Program (VSP) in the 1970s 

as a cooperative activity with the cruise 

ship industry. VSP helps the cruise ship 

industry prevent and control the 

introduction and spread of 

environmentally associated illnesses 

and hazards on cruise ships. VSP 

operates under the authority of the 

Public Health Service Act (Section 361 

of the Public Health Service Act; 42 

U.S.C. 264, ‘‘Control of Communicable 

Diseases’’). Regulations found at 42 CFR 

71.41 (Foreign Quarantine— 

Requirements Upon Arrival at U.S. 

Ports: Sanitary Inspection; General 

Provisions) state that carriers arriving at 

U.S. ports from foreign areas are subject 

to sanitary inspections to determine 

potential rodent, insect, or other vermin 

infestations; contaminated food or 

water; or other sanitary conditions 

requiring measures to prevent 

introduction or spread of communicable 

diseases. 

The FY 2025 fee schedule reflects 

increases to cover costs to operate and 

improve the program. Travel expenses 

and other costs have increased, and 

larger ships and more complex features 

mean more inspectors are needed for 

each inspection. Fees charged for 

inspections also support many 

additional VSP services beyond 

inspections (plan reviews, equipment 

reviews, technical assistance, 

epidemiological investigations, and 

outbreak response activities). VSP will 

continue to enhance customer service to 

cruise lines and shipyards as well as 

public health efforts onboard by offering 

additional value-added services 

requested by industry partners such as 

modernization of VSP’s data systems to 

increase functionality and efficiency 

and updates to VSP training platforms. 

Additionally, the fee schedule will be 

restructured from seven categories to 

four categories. This new structure 

addresses comments from industry in 

July 2019 and more accurately reflects 

the number of inspectors and inspectorhours needed to perform an inspection. 

The fee schedule for sanitation 

inspections of passenger cruise ships by 

VSP was first published in the Federal 

Register on November 24, 1987 (52 FR 

45019). HHS/CDC began collecting fees 

on March 1, 1988. The fee schedule was 

most recently published in the Federal 

Register on August 14, 2023 (88 FR 

55048). This notice announces fees for 

inspections conducted during FY 2025 

(beginning on October 13, 2024, through 

September 30, 2025). The fee schedule 

for FY 2025 is presented in Appendix A. 

The following formula will be used to 

determine the fees: 

Total cost of VSP = Total cost of 

operating the program, such as 

administration, travel, staffing, 

sanitation inspections, and outbreak 

response. 

Weighted number of annual 

inspections = Total number of ships and 

inspections per year accounting for 

vessel size, number of inspectors 

needed for vessel size, travel logistics to 

conduct inspections, and vessel location 

and arrivals in U.S. jurisdiction per 

year. 

Fee 

The fee schedule (Appendix A) 

applies to inspections conducted from 

October 13, 2024, through September 

30, 2025. 

Applicability 

The fees will apply to all passenger 

cruise vessels for which inspections are 

conducted as part of HHS/CDC’s VSP. 

Noah Aleshire, 

Chief Regulatory Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

Appendix A 

FEE SCHEDULE FOR EACH VESSEL SIZE

Vessel size (GT 1) 

Operational 

inspection 2 fee 

(US$) 

Construction and 

renovation 

inspection 3 fee 

(US$) 

Tier 1 (<30,000 GT) ..................................................................................................................................... 8,073 16,146 

Tier 2 (30,001–110,000 GT) ........................................................................................................................ 16,146 32,292 

Tier 3 (110,001–180,000 GT) ...................................................................................................................... 32,292 64,584 


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Total cost of VSP 

Average cost per inspection = Weighted number of annual inspections