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two new nitric acid facilities have been 

constructed in recent years, those 

facilities are outside the relevant 

geographic market and make nitric acid 

for their internal use at a lower 

concentration. Existing suppliers of 

65%–67% concentration nitric acid are 

unlikely to expand their sales footprint 

enough to defeat a price increase by the 

merged entity in the relevant geographic 

market. 

VI. The Consent Agreement 

The proposed Consent Agreement 

remedies the competitive concerns 

raised by the Merger by requiring the 

merging parties to divest Agrium’s 

Conda, Idaho facility to Itafos and 

Agrium’s North Bend, Ohio facility to 

Trammo. These divestitures will 

preserve the competition that currently 

exists in the relevant markets. 

Under the proposed Consent 

Agreement, Agrium’s phosphate 

operations at Conda, Idaho, as well as 

related phosphate mines, customer and 

supplier contracts, and intellectual 

property, will be sold to Itafos. Itafos is 

an integrated producer of phosphatebased fertilizers with a phosphate 

mining and manufacturing operation 

located in Brazil. Itafos also owns other 

phosphate mining properties, including 

a mine in Paris Hills, Idaho, located 35 

miles from Conda. Paris Hills is 

expected to become operational in 2019 

and will serve as a source of high-grade 

phosphate ore for the Conda operations. 

As a new entrant into the sale of SPA 

in North America, Itafos is well 

positioned to preserve the SPA 

competition that would otherwise be 

lost through the Merger. 

The proposed Consent Agreement 

further provides that Agrium’s nitric 

acid plant and related operations at 

North Bend, Ohio, as well as customer 

and supplier contracts and intellectual 

property, will be sold to Trammo. 

Trammo is a global trader, distributor, 

and transporter of commodity 

chemicals, including anhydrous 

ammonia, the primary feedstock for 

nitric acid production. Trammo owns 

three ammonia terminals in Illinois as 

well as specialized refrigerated barges 

for ammonia distribution. Through its 

trading and storage activities, Trammo 

expects to realize efficiencies in the 

supply of anhydrous ammonia to North 

Bend. Trammo will be a new entrant in 

the sale of 65%–67% concentration 

nitric acid and will replace Agrium’s 

position in the market today. 

The merged entity must complete the 

divestiture within ten days of closing 

the Merger. If the Commission 

determines that Itafos or Trammo is not 

an acceptable acquirer, the Decision and 

Order requires the parties to unwind the 

sale and accomplish the divestiture to 

another Commission-approved acquirer 

within 120 days of the date the Decision 

and Order becomes final. If the merging 

parties fail to carry out the divestiture 

in the manner prescribed by the 

Decision and Order, the Commission 

may appoint a divestiture trustee to 

accomplish the divestiture. 

The Commission will appoint an 

interim monitor to ensure the merging 

parties’ compliance with the Decision 

and Order and to keep the Commission 

informed about the status of the 

divestiture. The purpose of this analysis 

is to facilitate public comment on the 

proposed Consent Agreement, and it is 

not intended to constitute an official 

interpretation of the proposed Decision 

and Order or to modify its terms in any 

way. 

By direction of the Commission. 

April J. Tabor, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28336 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice–MA–2017–09; Docket No. 2017– 

0002, Sequence No. 26] 

2018 Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) 

Mileage Reimbursement Rates; 2018 

Standard Mileage Rate for Moving 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Travel 

Regulation (FTR) Bulletin 18–03, 

Calendar Year (CY) 2018 Privately 

Owned Vehicle (POV) Mileage 

Reimbursement Rates and Standard 

Mileage Rate for Moving Purposes 

(Relocation Allowances). 

SUMMARY: GSA is required by statute to 

set the mileage reimbursement rate for 

privately owned automobiles (POA) as 

the single standard mileage rate 

established by the Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS). In addition, the IRS 

mileage rate for medical or moving 

purposes is used to determine the POA 

rate when a Government-furnished 

automobile is authorized. This notice of 

subject bulletin is the only notification 

to agencies of revisions to the POV 

mileage rates for official travel, and 

relocation, other than the changes 

posted on GSA’s website. 

DATES: Applicable: This notice is 

applicable on January 1, 2018. 

Applicability: This notice applies to 

travel and relocation performed on or 

after January 1, 2018 through December 

31, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

clarification of content, please contact 

Mr. Cy Greenidge, Office of 

Government-wide Policy, Office of 

Asset and Transportation Management, 

at 202–219–2349, or by email at 

travelpolicy@gsa.gov. Please cite Notice 

of FTR Bulletin 18–03. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: GSA posts 

the POV mileage reimbursement rates, 

formerly published in 41 CFR Chapter 

301, solely on the internet at https://

www.gsa.gov/mileage. Also, posted on 

this site is the standard mileage rate for 

moving purposes. This process, 

implemented in FTR Amendment 2010– 

07, 75 FR 72965 (November 29, 2010), 

FTR Amendment 2007–03, 72 FR 35187 

(June 27, 2007), and FTR Amendment 

2007–06, 72 FR 70234 (December 11, 

2007), ensures more timely updates 

regarding mileage reimbursement rates 

by GSA for Federal employees who are 

on official travel or relocating. Notices 

published periodically in the Federal 

Register, such as this one, and the 

changes posted on the GSA website, 

now constitute the only notification to 

Federal agencies of revisions to the POV 

mileage reimbursement rates and the 

standard mileage reimbursement rate for 

moving purposes. This Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS) rate also establishes the 

standard mileage rate for moving 

purposes as it pertains to official 

relocation. Finally, GSA’s annual 

privately owned airplane and 

motorcycle mileage reimbursement rate 

reviews have resulted in new CY 2018 

rates. GSA conducts independent 

airplane and motorcycle studies that 

evaluate various factors, such as the cost 

of fuel, the depreciation of the original 

vehicle costs, maintenance and 

insurance, and/or by applying consumer 

price index data. FTR Bulletin 18–03 

establishes and announces the new CY 

2018 POV mileage reimbursement rates 

for official temporary duty and 

relocation travel ($0.545 per mile for 

POA’s, $0.18 per mile for POA’s when 

a Government furnished automobile is 

authorized, $1.21 per mile for privately 

owned airplanes, $0.515 per mile for 

privately owned motorcycles, and $0.18 

per mile for moving purposes), pursuant 

to the process discussed above. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5707(b). 


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Dated: December 20, 2017. 

Giancarlo Brizzi, 

Acting Associate Administrator, Office of 

Government-wide Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28394 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–6075–CN] 

RIN 0938–ZB44 

Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s 

Health Insurance Programs; Provider 

Enrollment Application Fee Amount for 

Calendar Year 2018; Correction 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: This document corrects 

technical errors in the December 4, 2017 

Federal Register notice titled ‘‘Provider 

Enrollment Application Fee Amount for 

Calendar Year 2018’’. 

DATES: Effective Date: This correction 

notice takes effect on January 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Singer, (410) 786–0365. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background and Summary of Errors 

In FR Doc. 2017–25972, which 

appeared in the December 4, 2017 

Federal Register (82 FR 57273) titled 

‘‘Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s 

Health Insurance Programs; Provider 

Enrollment Application Fee Amount for 

Calendar Year 2018’’, there were several 

technical and typographical errors that 

are identified and corrected in the 

Correction of Errors section of this 

document. 

On page 57274, in our discussion 

regarding Medicare estimates for 

calendar year (CY) 2018, we erroneously 

listed the number of ‘‘newly enrolled 

institutional providers’’ as ‘‘3,800’’. 

Given this error, we are also correcting 

the errors in several calculations/ 

equations that included the erroneous 

figure (that is, 3,800). We are also 

correcting a typographical error. 

II. Correction of Errors 

In FR Doc. 2017–25972 of December 

4, 2017 (82 FR 57273), make the 

following corrections: 

1. On page 57274, 

a. Second column, last bulleted 

paragraph, line 1, the phrase ‘‘3,800 

newly enrolling institutional providers’’ 

is corrected to read ‘‘10,700 newly 

enrolling institutional providers’’. 

b. Third column— 

(1) First bulleted paragraph, line 1, 

the figure ‘‘7.500’’ is corrected to read 

7,500’’. 

(2) Second full paragraph— 

(a) Line 1, the phrase ‘‘Using a figure 

of 11,300 (3,800 newly enrolling’’ is 

corrected to read ‘‘Using a figure of 

18,200 (10,700 newly enrolling’’. 

(b) Line 6, the phrase ‘‘$101,700 (or 

11,300 × $9’’ is corrected to read 

‘‘$163,800 (or 18,200 × $9’’. 

(3) Fourth full paragraph, line 6, the 

phrase ‘‘be $371,700 ($270,000 + 

$101,700)’’ is corrected to read ‘‘be 

$433,800 ($270,000 + $163,800)’’. 

Dated: December 27, 2017. 

Wilma Robinson, 

Deputy Executive Secretary to the 

Department, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28412 Filed 12–29–17; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Evaluation of the Family 

Unification Program. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF) is 

proposing an information collection 

activity to assess the impact, through 

rigorous evaluation, of participation in 

the Family Unification Program (FUP) 

on child welfare involvement and child 

maltreatment. The Department of 

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

funds and administers FUP. Through 

the program, vouchers are provided to 

families for whom the lack of adequate 

housing is a primary factor in (a) the 

imminent placement of the family’s 

child, or children, in out-of-home care 

or (b) the delay in the discharge of the 

child, or children, to the family from 

out-of-home-care. The program aims to 

prevent children’s placement in out-ofhome care, promote family reunification 

for children placed in out-of-home care, 

and decrease new reports of abuse and 

neglect. Vouchers may also be provided 

to youth transitioning from foster care 

who do not have adequate housing, 

although this population is not the focus 

of this evaluation. 

The evaluation will contribute to 

understanding the effects of FUP on 

project participants’ child welfare 

involvement. The evaluation will be 

conducted in approximately ten sites, 

with random assignment of FUP-eligible 

families to program and control groups. 

The evaluation consists of both an 

impact study and an implementation 

study. Data collection for the impact 

study will be exclusively through 

administrative data. Data collection for 

the implementation study will be 

through site visits and collection of 

program data. Data collection activities 

will span 3 years. 

Implementation study data collection 

will occur at three points in time: (1) 

Prior to the implementation 

(‘‘preliminary’’), (2) 6–9 months into the 

implementation (‘‘first’’), and (3) 18–21 

months into implementation (‘‘followup’’) time periods. Semi-structured 

interviews will be conducted with 

agency/organization management 

(preliminary, first) and FUP 

management (first, follow-up), and focus 

groups will be conducted with front-line 

staff (first, follow-up). Program data, 

including a referral form and 

questionnaires regarding housing 

assistance and other services, will be 

collected through forms completed by 

frontline staff. FUP management staff 

will also complete an online 

randomization tool and a form 

(‘‘dashboard’’) to facilitate monitoring of 

the evaluation. 

This evaluation is part of a larger 

project to help ACF build the evidence 

base in child welfare through rigorous 

evaluation of programs, practices, and 

policies. It will also contribute to HUD’s 

understanding of how housing can serve 

as a platform for improving quality of 

life. 

Respondents: Public housing 

authority staff, public child welfare 

agency staff, and other service provider 

staff. 


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