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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.

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 May 26, 1998.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III,

Assistant Vice President) 701 East Byrd

Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:

1. FirstBancorporation, Inc., Beaufort,

South Carolina; to acquire 100 percent

of the voting shares of FirstBank of the

Midlands, N.A., Columbia, South

Carolina (in organization).

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(Philip Jackson, Applications Officer)

230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60690-1413:

1. Rigler Investment Company, New

Hampton, Iowa; to acquire 100 percent

of the voting shares of Figge Bancshares,

Inc., Ossian, Iowa, and thereby

indirectly acquire The Ossian State

Bank, Ossian, Iowa, and Iowa State

Bank, Calmar, Iowa.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (D. Michael Manies, Assistant Vice

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198-0001:

1. Central Trust Company, Lander,

Wyoming; to acquire 64.44 percent of

the voting shares of VH Bancorporation

Inc., Edina, Minnesota, and thereby

indirectly acquire Grand Marais State

Bank, Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 28, 1998.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–11671 Filed 4–30–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday,

May 6, 1998.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, 20th and C

Streets, .W., Washington, D.C. 20551.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Federal Reserve Bank director

eligibility issues.

2. Personnel actions (appointments,

promotions, assignments,

reassignments, and salary actions)

involving individual Federal Reserve

System employees.

3. Any matters carried forward from a

previously announced meeting.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Joseph R. Coyne, Assistant to the Board;

202–452–3204.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may

call 202–452–3206 beginning at

approximately 5 p.m. two business days

before the meeting for a recorded

announcement of bank and bank

holding company applications

scheduled for the meeting; or you may

contact the Board’s Web site at http://

www.bog.frb.fed.us for an electronic

announcement that not only lists

applications, but also indicates

procedural and other information about

the meeting.

Dated: April 29, 1998.

William W. Wiles,

Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–11732 Filed 4–29–98; 11:09 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Federal

Trade Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 2:00 p.m., Thursday,

May 14, 1998.

PLACE: Federal Trade Commission

Building, Room 532, 6th Street and

Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20580.

STATUS: Parts of this meeting will be

open to the public. The rest of the

meeting will be closed to the public.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Portions

Open to Public: (1) Oral Argument in

Automative Breakthrough Sciences,

Inc., Docket 9275.

Portions Closed to the Public: (2)

Executive Session to follow Oral

Argument in Automative Breakthrough

Sciences, Inc., Docket 9275.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Victoria Streitfield, Office of Public

Affairs: (202) 326–2180, Recorded

Message: (202) 326–2711.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–11795 Filed 4–29–98; 2:38 am]

BILLING CODE 6750–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service

Request for Public Comment: 60-day

Proposed Collection: Indian Health

Service Medical Staff Credentials and

Privileges File

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section

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

Reduction Act of 1995, to provide a 60-

day advance opportunity for public

comment on proposed information

collection projects, the Indian Health

Service (IHS) is publishing for comment

a summary of a proposed information

collection to be submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

review.

PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: 09–17–

0009, ‘‘Indian Health Service Medical

Staff Credentials and Privileges File’’.

Type of Information Collection Request:

Revision of currently approved

information collection, 09–17–0009,

‘’Indian Health Service Medical Staff

Credentials and Privileges File’’ which

expires July 31, 1998. Form Number:

Instructions and information collection

formats are contained in IHS Circular

No. 93–2, ‘‘Credentials and Privileges

Review Process for the Medical Staff.’’

Need and Use of Information Collection:

The IHS operates health care facilities

that provide health care services to

American Indians and Alaska Natives.

To provide these services, the IHS

employs (directly and under contract)

several categories of health care

providers including: physicians (M.D.

and D.O.), dentists, psychologist,

optometrists, podiatrists, audiologist;

and in some states, physician assistants,

certified registered nurse anesthetists,

nurse practitioners, and certified nurse

midwives. IHS policy specifically

requires physicians and dentists to be

members of the health care facility

medical staff where they practice.

Health care providers become medical

staff members, depending on the local

health care facility’s capabilities and

medial staff bylaws. There are three

types of IHS medical staff applicants: (1)

Health care provider applying for direct

employment with IHS; (2) contract

health care providers who will not seek

to become IHS employees; and, (3)

employed IHS health care providers

who seek to transfer between IHS health

care facilities.

National health care standards

developed by the Health Care Financing

Administration (HCFA) and by the

JCAHO require health care facilities to

review, evaluate and verify the

credentials, training and experience of
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medical staff applicants prior to

granting medical staff privileges. To

meet these standards, IHS health care

facilities require each medical staff

applicant to provide information

concerning their education, training,

licensure, and work experience and any

adverse disciplinary actions taken

against them. This information is then

verified with references supplied by the

applicant and may include: former

employers, educational institutions,

licensure and certification boards, the

American Medical Association, the

Federation of State Medical Boards, the

National Practitioner Data Bank, and the

applicants themselves.

In addition to the initial granting of

medical staff membership and clinical

privileges, JCAHO standards require

that a review of the medical staff be

conducted not less than every two years.

This review evaluates the current

competence of the medical staff and

verifies whether they are maintaining

their licensure and the certification

requirements of their specialty.

The medical staff credentials and

privileges records are maintained at the

health care facility where the health

care provider is a medical staff member.

The establishment of these records at

IHS health care facilities is not optional;

such records must be established and

maintained at all health care facilities in

the United States that are accredited by

JCAHO. This information collection

activity is used to evaluate individual

health care providers applying for

medical staff privileges at Indian Health

Service (IHS) health care facilities.

Affected Public: Individuals, Businesses

or other for-profit, Not-for-profit

institutions and State, local or Tribal

Government. Type of Respondents:

health care providers requesting

Medical staff privileges at IHS health

facilities.

Table 1 below provides: Types of data

collection instruments, Estimated

number of respondents, Number of

responses per respondent, Annual

Number of Responses, Average burden

hour per response, and Total annual

burden hour.

TABLE 1

Data collection instrument

Estimated

number of respondents

Responses

per respondent

Annual number of responses

Average burden hour

per response *

Total annual

burden hours

Application to Medical Staff ...................................... 600 1 600 0.75 (45 mins) ........... 450.0

Reference letter ........................................................ 1800 1 1800 0.33 (0 mins) ............. 600.0

Reappointment request ............................................ 644 1 644 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 644.0

Medical Privileges ..................................................... 387 1 387 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 387.0

Ob-Gyn Privileges ..................................................... 25 1 25 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 25.0

Surgical Privileges .................................................... 23 1 23 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 23.0

Psychiatric Privileges ................................................ 18 1 18 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 18.0

Anesthesia Privileges ............................................... 16 1 16 1.00 (60 mins) ........... 16.0

Dental Privileges ....................................................... 128 1 128 0.33 (0 mins) ............. 42.2

Optometric Privileges ................................................ 21 1 21 0.33 (0 mins) ............. 6.9

Psychology Privileges ............................................... 23 1 23 0.17 (0 mins) ............. 3.9

Audiologic Privileges ................................................. 6 1 6 0.08 (0 mins) ............. 0.5

Podiatric Privileges ................................................... 6 1 6 0.08 (0 mins) ............. 0.5

Radiology Privileges ................................................. 9 1 9 0.33 (0 mins) ............. 3.0

Pathology Privileges ................................................. 3 1 3 0.33 (0 mins) ............. 1.0

Total ................................................................... 3,709 ........................ ........................ .................................... 2,221.0

* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.

There are no Capital Costs, Operating

Costs and/or Maintenance Costs to

report.

Request for Comments

Your written comments and/or

suggestions are invited on one or more

of the following points: (a) Whether the

information collection activity is

necessary to carry out an agency

function; (b) whether the agency

processes the information collected in a

useful and timely fashion; (c) the

accuracy of public burden estimate (the

estimated amount of time needed for

individual respondents to provide the

requested information); (d) whether the

methodology and assumptions used to

determine the estimate are logical; (e)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information being

collected; and (f) ways to minimize the

public burden through the use of

automated, electronic, mechanical, or

other technological collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology.

SEND COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION: Send your written

comments, requests for more

information on the proposed collection

or requests to obtain a copy of the data

collection instrument(s) and

instructions to: Mr. Lance Hodahkwen,

Sr., M.P.H., IHS Reports Clearance

Officer, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway,

Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852.1601,

call non-toll free (301) 443–1116, send

via facsimile to (301) 443–1522, or send

your E-mail requests, comments, and

return address to:

lhodahkw@hqe.ihs.gov.

COMMENT DUE DATE: Your comments

regarding this information collection are

best assured of having their full effect if

received on or before June 30, 1998.

Dated: April 21, 1998.

Michael H. Trujillo,

Assistant Surgeon General, Acting Director.

[FR Doc. 98–11625 Filed 4–30–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–16–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration

Center for Substance Abuse

Prevention; Notice of Meeting

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is

hereby given of the meeting of the Drug

Testing Advisory Board of the Center for

Substance Abuse Prevention in June

1998.

A portion of the Drug Testing

Advisory Board meeting will be open

and will include a roll call, general

announcements, and a discussion of