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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 August 13,

1998.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

(W. Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-

2272:

1. Prosperity Bancshares, Inc., El

Campo, Texas; to acquire 100 percent of

the voting shares of Union State Bank,

East Bernard, Texas.

2. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.,

Dallas, Texas; to become a bank holding

company by acquiring 100 percent of

the voting shares of Resource Bank,

N.A., Dallas, Texas. Comments

regarding this application must be

received not later than August 12, 1998.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, July 14, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–19131 Filed 7–16–98; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Notice of Proposals to Engage in

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or

to Acquire Companies that are

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking

Activities

The companies listed in this notice

have given notice under section 4 of the

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12

CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to

acquire or control voting securities or

assets of a company, including the

companies listed below, that engages

either directly or through a subsidiary or

other company, in a nonbanking activity

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation

Y (12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has

determined by Order to be closely

related to banking and permissible for

bank holding companies. Unless

otherwise noted, these activities will be

conducted throughout the United States.

Each notice is available for inspection

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated.

The notice also will be available for

inspection at the offices of the Board of

Governors. Interested persons may

express their views in writing on the

question whether the proposal complies

with the standards of section 4 of the

BHC Act.

Unless otherwise noted, comments

regarding the applications must be

received at the Reserve Bank indicated

or the offices of the Board of Governors

not later than August 3, 1998.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Philadelphia (Michael E. Collins, Senior

Vice President) 100 North 6th Street,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-1521:

1. Wilmington Trust Corporation,

Wilmington, Delaware; to acquire WT

Investments, Inc., Wilmington,

Delaware, and thereby engage in

investment advisory activities, pursuant

to § 225.28(b)(6) of Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, July 14, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–19132 Filed 7–16–98; 8:45 am]

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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,

July 22, 1998.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, 20th and C

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

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Proposals regarding building

projects at a Federal Reserve Bank and

Branch.

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:

Lynn S. Fox, 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: July 15, 1998.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 98–19211 Filed 7–15–98; 10:33 am]

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GENERAL SERVICES

ADMINISTRATION

Federal Supply Service; Move

Management Services (MMS) and the

General Services Administration’s

(GSA’s) Centralized Household Goods

Traffic Management Program (CHAMP)

AGENCY: Federal Supply Service, GSA.

ACTION: Notice of proposed program

changes for comment.

SUMMARY: This notice announces GSA’s

plan to continue providing MMS under

the Household Goods Tender of Service

(HTOS) until October 31, 1999, with the

expectation of adding MMS to the

Governmentwide Employee Relocation

Services Schedule as a separate service

during the next open season scheduled

for Spring 1999. Under this plan GSA

will continue to be able to meet

customer needs while transitioning

MMS to a FAR contract procurement

method. This notice supersedes two

previous Federal Register notices

published for comment on this subject

(62 FR 64225, December 4, 1997, and 63

FR 30496, June 4, 1998).

DATES: Please submit your comments by

September 15, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to the

Travel and Transportation Management

Division (FBT), General Services

Administration, Washington, DC 20406,

Attn: Federal Register Notice. GSA will

consider your comments prior to

implementing this proposal.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Larry Tucker, Senior Program Expert,

Travel and Transportation Management

Division, FSS/GSA, 703–305–5745.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: GSA has

been exploring for almost a year

alternative procurement strategies for

providing MMS to Federal agencies, two

of which were published in the Federal

Register for comment (see references

under SUMMARY paragraph above). It was

our hope to offer GSA customers access

to a full spectrum of MMS through an

alternative approach by expiration of

the current household goods rates on

October 31, 1998.

While exploring alternatives, we have

continued to meet with customer

agencies and household goods industry

representatives. Dialogue from these

meetings, coupled with reaction to the

two previous Federal Register notices,

have led us to conclude that the

Governmentwide Employee Relocation

Services Schedule offers a viable longterm strategy for providing MMS to

agencies. We can fully transition to

providing MMS as a separate service

under the schedule during the next
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open season scheduled for Spring 1999.

In the interim, we plan to incorporate

MMS in the current schedule as an addon or ‘‘enhanced service’’ as announced

previously in the Federal Register. To

use the add-on (i.e., ‘‘enhanced

service’’), however, a customer agency

would be required to purchase MMS as

part of a total relocation services

package, and would be limited to the

three vendors now on schedule. While

such an approach would meet the needs

of a small number of Federal activities

that buy the entire package of relocation

services (real estate services, mortgage

assistance, etc.) customers interested in

acquiring only MMS would not have

access to the services.

After having carefully weighed all the

issues, we have concluded that for the

immediate future we can best satisfy

customer needs and meet industry

concerns by continuing to provide MMS

through the HTOS until October 31,

1999, with the clear expectation of

adding MMS to the Governmentwide

Employee Relocation Services Schedule

as a separate service during the next

open season scheduled for Spring 1999.

Under this plan, agencies that

currently produce MMS under the

HTOS will enjoy uninterrupted service,

and agencies that wish to procure a

more comprehensive package of

relocation services, including MMS,

will be able to do so in the very near

future under the schedule. Carrier and

non-schedule-broker MMS providers

will be able to continue offering service

under the HTOS until the next open

season when they will have opportunity

to compete and transition to the

schedule. The broker MMS providers

currently on schedule also will be able

to continue offering service under the

HTOS until the open season when MMS

will become a separate procurement

item on the schedule.

As stated in the SUMMARY paragraph

above, this inclusive approach will

allow GSA to continue meeting

customer needs and address concerns

raised by interested industry

representatives while we transition

MMS to a FAR contract procurement

method.

In anticipation of favorable reaction to

this inclusive plan and in an effort to

keep the household goods program on

target, we plan to immediately proceed

with issuance of an RFO allowing both

general transportation and MMS

providers to file new rates for November

1, 1998, implementation (or as soon

thereafter as realistically possible).

Under the described plan, the new rates

would be effective until October 31,

1999.

Dated: July 13, 1998.

Janice Sandwen,

Director, Travel and Transportation

Management Division.

[FR Doc. 98–19107 Filed 7–16–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Announcement 98103]

Cooperative Agreement To Study

Consumer Demand for Food Safety;

Notice of Availability of Funds for

Fiscal Year 1998

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 1998

funds for a cooperative agreement to

study consumer demand for food safety.

This announcement is related to the

‘‘Healthy People 2000’’ priority area of

Food and Drug Safety.

The purpose of the program is to

contribute to the education of the U.S.

public with respect to the risk of

foodborne illness and to available

public and private efforts to reduce that

risk, and evaluate the methods used in

economic evaluation of interventions

designed to improve food safety. There

are five objectives to the program. The

recipient will address the first two

objectives in combination with any or

all of the other three objectives.

The first objective of the study is to

develop a program designed to educate

a nationally representative sample of

consumers about the risks of food borne

pathogen consumption at home and

retail establishments, and various

collective and private means of reducing

these risks. As part of the educational

program, consumers will be questioned

about their own food safety practices

and their perceptions of the

effectiveness of those practices. They

will be informed of food industry

measures that are intended to maintain

the safety of the food supply and of

safety measures they can implement at

home in food storage, preparation, and

consumption.

The second objective is to obtain an

empirical estimate of the value

consumers place on reducing the risk

associated with a specific food borne

illness for which interventions already

exist.

The third and fourth objectives are

designed to address the development,

refinement, and evaluation of the

elicitation methods used in this type of

evaluation. For example, it is not well

understood how sensitive consumers

are to small changes in the probability

of rare health-related events and how

they process probability information

when forming their values of reduced

risk of adverse health outcomes.

Therefore, the third objective is to

model the process by which consumers

assess such changes in probability and

risk, and how they use that assessment

in forming values. The validity of the

model will also be evaluated.

The fourth objective is to test whether

the presentation of distinct pathogenspecific and symptom-specific scenarios

result in different consumer valuations.

In conducting economic evaluations of

health programs, it is important to be

certain about what is being valued: Do

consumers value reduction of risk

associated with a specific pathogen or

do they value reduction of the risk of

experiencing the symptoms of food

borne pathogens in general. Specifically,

are consumers concerned about the

cause of the illness, or just whether they

contract the illness?

The fifth objective is to examine how

alternative combinations of private and

collective risk reduction strategies affect

consumer valuation of safer food.

Consumers already have a certain

amount of control over the risk of food

borne illness. There are many strategies

that can be used in preparation either in

the home or at a food service

establishment. In addition, there are

producer and processor strategies that

can improve the safety of food before it

arrives at the final consumer.

B. Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private nonprofit

organizations and by governments and

their agencies; that is, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

other public and private nonprofit and

State and local governments or their

bona fide agents.

Note: Public Law 104–65 states that an

organization described in section 501(c)(4) of

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that

engages in lobbying activities is not eligible

to receive Federal funds constituting an

award, grant, cooperative agreement,

contract, loan, or any other form.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $150,000 is available

in FY 98 to fund one award. It is

expected that the award will begin on or

about September 30, 1998, and will be

made for a 12-month budget period

within a project period of up to 5 years.

Budgets for periods 2–5 should be

submitted at a level of $200,000 per