Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 20 / Friday, January 30, 1998 / Notices 4693

Title: Community Reinvestment Act

Regulation—12 CFR Part 25.

OMB Number: 1557–0160.

Form Number: None.

Abstract: The OCC is requesting

comment on its proposed renewal

without change of the information

collections contained in 12 CFR Part 25.

The OCC uses this information to assess

each national bank’s record of meeting

the credit needs of its community, as

required by the Community

Reinvestment Act of 1977 (12 U.S.C.

2901 et seq.). The Act requires the OCC

to assess and evaluate the efforts of

national banks to help meet the credit

needs of their communities, including

low- and moderate-income

neighborhoods, consistent with safe and

sound operations. These records are

used in evaluating applications for

mergers, branches, and other corporate

activities. The collections of information

are found in 12 CFR 25.25, 25.27, 25.29,

25.41, 25.42, and 25.43. The OCC uses

the records in the examination process

to evaluate a bank’s CRA performance.

The public uses the information to

assess the bank’s CRA performance and

to participate meaningfully in the

application process.

Type of Review: Renewal, without

change, of OMB approval.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 3,076.

Total Annual Responses: 3,076.

Frequency of Response: Occasional.

Total Annual Burden: 57,044 burden

hours.

Comments

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and

included in the request for OMB

approval. All comments will become a

matter of public record. Comments are

invited on:

(a) Whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

agency, including whether the

information has practical utility;

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s

estimate of the burden of the collection

of information;

(c) Ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected;

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of

the collection on respondents, including

through the use of automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology; and

(e) Estimates of capital or startup costs

and costs of operation, maintenance,

and purchase of services to provide

information.

Dated: January 23, 1998.

Karen Solomon,

Director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities

Division.

[FR Doc. 98–2288 Filed 1–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision

[AC–6: OTS Nos. 05056 and H–1958]

First Savings Brancshares, MHC,

Woodbridge, New Jersey; Approval of

Conversion Application

Notice is hereby given that on January

16, 1998, the Director, Corporate

Activities, Office of Thrift Supervision,

or her designee, acting pursuant to

delegated authority, approved the

application of First Savings Bancshares,

MHC, Woodbridge, New Jersey, to

convert to the stock form of

organization. Copies of the application

are available for inspection at the

Dissemination Branch, Office of Thrift

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20552, and the

Northeast Regional Office, Office of

Thrift Supervision, 10 Exchange Place,

18th Floor, Jersey City, New Jersey

07302.

Dated: January 22, 1998.

By the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Nadine Y. Washington,

Corporate Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–1897 Filed 1–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS

Rehabilitation Research and

Development Service Scientific Merit

Review Board, Notice of Meeting

The Department of Veterans Affairs

gives notice under Pub. L. 92–463

(Federal Advisory Committee Act) as

amended, by section 5(c) of Pub. L. 94–

409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation

Research and Development Service

Scientific Merit Review Board will be

held at the Westin City Hotel, 1400 ‘‘M’’

Street NW., Washington, DC on January

27 through January 29, 1998.

The session on January 27, 1998, is

scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and end

at 9:30 p.m. The sessions on January 28

and January 29, 1998, are scheduled to

begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. The

purpose of the meeting is to review

rehabilitation research and development

applications for scientific and technical

merit and to make recommendations to

the Director, Rehabilitation Research

and Development Service, regarding

their funding.

The meeting will be open to the

public up to the seating capacity of the

room for the January 27 session for the

discussion of administrative matters, the

general status of the program, and the

administrative details of the review

process. On January 28–29, 1998 the

meeting is closed during which the

Board will be reviewing research and

development applications.

This review, involves oral comments,

discussion of site visits, staff and

consultant critiques of proposed

research protocols, and similar

analytical documents that necessitate

the consideration of the personal

qualifications, performance and

competence of individual research

investigators. Disclosure of such

information would constitute a clearly

unwarranted invasion of personal

privacy. Disclosure would also reveal

research proposals and research

underway which could lead to the loss

of these projects to third parties and

thereby frustrate future agency research

efforts.

Thus, the closing is in accordance

with 5 U.S.C. 552b (c)(6), and (c)(9)(B)

and the determination of the Secretary

of the Department of Veterans Affairs

under Sections 10(d) of Pub. L. 92–463

as amended by Section 5(c) of Pub. L.

94–409.

Due to the limited seating capacity of

the room, those who plan to attend the

open session should write to Ms.

Victoria Mongiardo, Program Analyst,

Rehabilitation Research and

Development Service, Department of

Veterans Affairs, 103 South Gay Street,

Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (Phone:

410–962–2563) at least five days before

the meeting.

Dated: January 8, 1998.

By Direction of the Secretary.

Heyward Bannister,

Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–2314 Filed 1–29–98; 8:45 am]

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