27144 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 16, 2001 / Notices

Naviera Mundial Inc.

Ocean Pacific Lines, Inc.

Og International (USA) Co., Inc.

P. H. Petry, Company, Inc.

Poseidon Freight Forwarders, Inc. d/b/a

Poseidon Line

Roberto Bucci (USA) Inc.

Rolines Shipping Corp.

S. h. r. Enterprises, Inc.

S. t. s. International, Inc.

Sanchez, Carlos B. d/b/a R & S Trading

Seamax, Inc.

Transbridge International, Inc.

Transneftegazstroy America, Inc.

Treset Corporation

World Marine Services Dominicana, LLC

World Wide Cargo Logistics, Inc.

Yellow Freight System, Inc.

Bryant L. VanBrakle,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–12369 Filed 5–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank

Holding Companies

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank

holding company. The factors that are

considered in acting on the notices are

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices

also will be available for inspection at

the office of the Board of Governors.

Interested persons may express their

views in writing to the Reserve Bank

indicated for that notice or to the offices

of the Board of Governors. Comments

must be received not later than May 31,

2001.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice President)

104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303–2713:

1. Murphy O’Banion, Leesville,

Louisiana; to acquire additional voting

shares of Vernon Bancshares, Inc.,

Leesville, Louisiana, and thereby

indirectly acquire additional voting

shares of The Vernon Bank, Leesville,

Louisiana.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(Phillip Jackson, Applications Officer)

230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60690–1414:

1. William Robert Phelps, Fairmont,

Minnesota; to retain voting shares of

Swea City Bancorporation, Inc.,

Estherville, Iowa; and thereby indirectly

retain voting shares of Bank Plus,

Estherville, Iowa.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, May 11, 2001.

Robert deV. Frierson

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 01–12377 Filed 5–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

The companies listed in this notice

have applied to the Board for approval,

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part

225), and all other applicable statutes

and regulations to become a bank

holding company and/or to acquire the

assets or the ownership of, control of, or

the power to vote shares of a bank or

bank holding company and all of the

banks and nonbanking companies

owned by the bank holding company,

including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well

as other related filings required by the

Board, are available for immediate

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank

indicated. The application also will be

available for inspection at the offices of

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

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise

noted, nonbanking activities will be

conducted throughout the United States.

Additional information on all bank

holding companies may be obtained

from the National Information Center

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.

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 June 11, 2001.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice

President) 701 East Byrd Street,

Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528:

1. First Union Corporation, Charlotte,

North Carolina, to merge with Wachovia

Corporation, Winston-Salem, North

Carolina, and thereby indirectly acquire

voting shares of Wachovia Bank,

National Association, Winston-Salem,

North Carolina; Wachovia Acquisition

Corporation 2001-01, Winston-Salem,

North Carolina; Republic Security Bank,

West Palm Beach, Florida; and First

National Bank of Atlanta, New Castle,

Delaware. First Union also requests

approval to exercise an option to

acquire up to 19.9 percent of the voting

shares of Wachovia Corporation under

certain circumstances.

In connection with this application,

Applicant also has applied to acquire

Atlantic Savings Bank, FSB, Hilton

Head Island, South Carolina, and

thereby engage in operating a savings

association, pursuant to §

225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, May 11, 2001.

Robert deV. Frierson

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 01–12376 Filed 5–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S

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. Additional information on all

bank holding companies may be

obtained from the National Information

Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.

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 May 30, 2001.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New

York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior Vice

President) 33 Liberty Street, New York,

New York 10045–0001:

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 16, 2001 / Notices 27145

1. Caisse Nationale de Credit

Agricole; Paris, France, to retain,

indirectly through Banco Espirito Santo,

S.A., Lisbon, Portugal, an existing

investment in and acquire additional

shares of Clarity Incentive Systems,

New York, New York, and thereby

continue engaging in data processing

and management consulting activities

pursuant to §§ 225.28(b)(9) and (b)(14)

of Regulation Y.

2. Caisse Nationale de Credit

Agricole; Paris, France, to retain,

indirectly through Banco Espirito Banco

Espirito Santo, S.A., Lisbon, Portugal,

shares of FiNet.com, Inc., San Ramon,

California, and thereby continue

engaging in extending credit and

activities related to extending credit

pursuant to §§ 225.28(b)(1) and (b)(2) of

Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, May 10, 2001.

Robert deV. Frierson

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 01–12263 Filed 5–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60Day–01–39]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted

for Public Comment and

Recommendations

In compliance with the requirement

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for

opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic

summaries of proposed projects. To

request more information on the

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of

the data collection plans and

instruments, call the CDC Reports

Clearance Officer on (404) 639–7090.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology. Send comments to Anne

O’Connor, CDC Assistant Reports

Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road,

MS–D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

Patterns of Eye Movement and

Message Processing—NEW—The

National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The mission of the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health is to

promote safety and health at work for all

people through research and prevention.

NIOSH often develops work-related

health and safety messages designed to

persuade workers to follow specific

work-related habits that reduce the risk

of on-the-job injury or disease. Research

has shown that the more a reader thinks

about a message being read, the more

persuasive the message will be in

changing the attitude and behavior of

the reader. However, assessing how

much a reader is actually thinking about

a message has been difficult to do in any

way beyond simply asking the reader

questions about the material. Such selfreport methods are limited in that they

are imprecise and are vulnerable to

measurement error.

The primary purpose of this study by

the Institute’s Health Effects Laboratory

Division, Health Communication

Research Branch (HCRB) is to determine

if specific patterns of eye movement are

related to the amount of thinking a

person does while reading persuasive

materials. From the eye-tracking

literature, certain patterns of eye

movement have already been associated

with reading conceptually difficult text.

It is believed that these identified

patterns of eye movement represent

more thinking about what is being read.

It is predicted that the same patterns of

eye-movement found for conceptually

difficult text also will be found when

participants are reading persuasive

materials designed to be more thought

provoking, or persuasive. If consistent

patterns of eye movement are found to

be related to more or less thinking about

persuasive materials, then eye-tracking

can be further developed as a measure

of persuasive message effectiveness.

Such a finding would be an

improvement over the more commonly

employed self-report methods of

assessing message effectiveness.

As a secondary consideration, a

measure of impulsivity will be included

in this study to determine if higher or

lower ratings of impulsivity predict if a

person will think about a persuasive

message. It is predicted that participants

higher in impulsivity will be less likely

to think as much about a message as

participants lower in impulsivity. If this

prediction about impulsivity is

confirmed in this study, messages could

possibly be tailored in ways to improve

persuasive effectiveness for readers

potentially high in impulsivity.

Additionally, a general measure of

personality traits also will be

administered for the purpose of

considering other personality

characteristics that may be related to

more or less thinking about persuasive

materials.

The persuasion theory guiding the

first two studies is the Elaboration

Likelihood Model (ELM). Each study

will involve a manipulation of

constructs used in the model,

persuasive message relevance (high or

low) and argument strength (strong or

weak). The high relevance condition is

intended to lead to more thinking about

the material than the low relevance

condition. The strong and weak

arguments are a manipulation check to

make sure that the high and low

relevance manipulation was convincing.

Both self-report measures of thinking

and measures of eye movement will be

obtained from all participants. Analyses

will be performed to test the predictions

stated above. Analyses also will be

performed to determine the relation

between impulsivity and personality

traits to more or less thinking about the

persuasive materials.

The third year will be an application

of the results obtained from the first two

studies. From the first two studies a

template will have been developed that

will show how to best design effective

occupational safety and health

communication materials. This template

will be incorporated into other current

and future HCRB projects.

The specific goals for this project are

as follows: (1) partially replicate an ELM

study with the addition of eye

movement measures, (2) examine the

relation between amount of thinking

while reading persuasive materials and

eye movement, (3) extend the replicated

study and eye movement measure to an

occupational safety and health issue,

i.e., forklift operation, (4) incorporate

the eye movement template into

ongoing HCRB projects, and (5)

disseminate findings at relevant

conferences and in the appropriate

professional journals. There are no costs

to respondents.