3236 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 14 / Thursday, January 22, 2015 / Notices 

1Copies of the Minutes of the Federal Open 

Market Committee at its meeting held on December 

16–17, 2014, which includes the domestic policy 

directive issued at the meeting, are available upon 

request to the Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551. The 

minutes are published in the Federal Reserve 

Bulletin and in the Board’s Annual Report. 

By Order of the Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Dated: January 16, 2015. 

Rachel E. Dickon, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01033 Filed 1–21–15; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Federal Open Market Committee; 

Domestic Policy Directive of December 

16–17, 2014 

In accordance with Section 271.25 of 

its rules regarding availability of 

information (12 CFR part 271), there is 

set forth below the domestic policy 

directive issued by the Federal Open 

Market Committee at its meeting held 

on December 16–17, 2014.1

Consistent with its statutory mandate, 

the Federal Open Market Committee 

seeks monetary and financial conditions 

that will foster maximum employment 

and price stability. In particular, the 

Committee seeks conditions in reserve 

markets consistent with federal funds 

trading in a range from 0 to 1/4 percent. 

The Committee directs the Desk to 

undertake open market operations as 

necessary to maintain such conditions. 

The Committee directs the Desk to 

maintain its policy of rolling over 

maturing Treasury securities into new 

issues and its policy of reinvesting 

principal payments on all agency debt 

and agency mortgage-backed securities 

in agency mortgage-backed securities. 

The Committee also directs the Desk to 

engage in dollar roll and coupon swap 

transactions as necessary to facilitate 

settlement of the Federal Reserve’s 

agency mortgage-backed securities 

transactions. The System Open Market 

Account manager and the secretary will 

keep the Committee informed of 

ongoing developments regarding the 

System’s balance sheet that could affect 

the attainment over time of the 

Committee’s objectives of maximum 

employment and price stability. 

By order of the Federal Open Market 

Committee, January 9, 2015. 

William B. English, 

Secretary, Federal Open Market Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01008 Filed 1–21–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Decision To Evaluate a Petition To 

Designate a Class of Employees From 

the Westinghouse Electric Corp. in 

Bloomfield, New Jersey, To Be 

Included in the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: NIOSH gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees from the 

Westinghouse Electric Corp. in 

Bloomfield, New Jersey, to be included 

in the Special Exposure Cohort under 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000. The initial proposed definition for 

the class being evaluated, subject to 

revision as warranted by the evaluation, 

is as follows: 

Facility: Westinghouse Electric Corp. 

Location: Bloomfield, New Jersey. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All 

employees who worked in any plant 

production area. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1950 through March 1, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum 

Avenue, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH 

45226–1938, Telephone 877–222–7570. 

Information requests can also be 

submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01056 Filed 1–21–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Annual Update of the HHS Poverty 

Guidelines 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides an 

update of the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) poverty 

guidelines to account for last calendar 

year’s increase in prices as measured by 

the Consumer Price Index. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 22, 2015, 

unless an office administering a 

program using the guidelines specifies a 

different effective date for that 

particular program. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about how the guidelines 

are used or how income is defined in a 

particular program, contact the Federal, 

state, or local office that is responsible 

for that program. For information about 

poverty figures for immigration forms, 

the Hill-Burton Uncompensated 

Services Program, and the number of 

people in poverty, use the specific 

telephone numbers and addresses given 

below. 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, contact 

Kendall Swenson, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey 

Building, Department of Health and 

Human Services, Washington, DC 

20201, telephone: (202) 690–7507, or 

visit http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

For information about the percentage 

multiple of the poverty guidelines to be 

used on immigration forms such as 

USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support, 

contact U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services at 1–800–375– 

5283. 

For information about the Hill-Burton 

Uncompensated Services Program (free 

or reduced-fee health care services at 

certain hospitals and other facilities for 

persons meeting eligibility criteria 

involving the poverty guidelines), 

contact the Health Resources and 

Services Administration Information 

Center at 1–800–275–4772. To receive a 

Hill-Burton information package, call 1– 

800–638–0742 (for callers outside 

Maryland) or 1–800–492–0359 (for 

callers in Maryland). You also may visit 

http://www.hrsa.gov/gethealthcare/

affordable/hillburton/. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty, visit the Poverty 

section of the Census Bureau’s Web site 

at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/

poverty/poverty.html or contact the 

Census Bureau’s Customer Service 

Center at 1–800–923–8282 (toll-free) or 

visit https://ask.census.gov for further 

information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42 

U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of 


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