29328 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 30, 2001 / Notices

Trans # Acquiring Acquired Entities

Transactions Granted Early Termination—05/08/2001

20011764 ......................... Boyd Gaming Corporation ................. Shawn Scott ...................................... Delta Downs Racing Association,

Inc.

Delta Downs, Incorporated, Winner’s

Circle #1 of Madison, LLC.

Transactions Granted Early Termination—05/09/2001

20011735 ......................... Johnson & Johnson ........................... Alza Corporation ................................ Alza Corporation.

20011762 ......................... SES Global S.A ................................. General Electric Company ................ GE Subsidiary, Inc., GE Capital

Global Satellites, Inc.

20011768 ......................... Benfield Greig Group plc ................... E.W. Blanch Holdings, Inc ................ E.W. Blanch Holdings, Inc.

For Further Information Contact:

Sandra M. Peay or Parcellena P.

Fielding, Contact Representatives,

Federal Trade Commission, Premerger

Notification Office, Bureau of

Competition, Room 303, Washington,

D.C. 20580, (202) 326–3100.

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–13556 Filed 5–29–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6750–01–M

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Appointments to the Medicare

Payment Advisory Commission

AGENCY: General Accounting Office

(GAO).

ACTION: Notice of appointments.

SUMMARY: The Balanced Budget Act of

1997 established the Medicare Payment

Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and

gave the Comptroller General

responsibility for appointing its

members. This notice announces three

new appointments and three

reappointments to fill the vacancies

occurring this year, and designates the

Chair and Vice Chair of the

Commission.

DATES: Appointments are effective May

1, 2001 through April 30, 2004.

ADDRESSES: GAO: 441 G Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20548; MedPAC: 1730

K Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington,

DC 20006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

GAO: Molly Ryan, 202/512–3592;

MedPAC: Murray N. Ross, Ph.D., 202/

653–7220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this

year’s vacancies I am announcing the

following:

Newly appointed members are Sheila

P. Burke, Under Secretary for American

Museums and National Programs,

Smithsonian Institution; Allen D.

Feezor, Health Benefits Administrator,

California Public Employees’ Retirement

System; and Ralph W. Muller, President

and CEO, University of Chicago

Hospitals and Health System;

reappointed members are Joseph P.

Newhouse, Ph.D., John D. MacArthur

Professor of Health Policy and

Management, Harvard University; Alice

F. Rosenblatt, Senior Vice President,

Merger and Acquisition Integration,

Wellpoint Health Networks; and John

W. Rowe, M.D., Chairman, CEO, and

President, Aetna Inc. I also hereby name

Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., an

independent consultant, as Chair of the

Commission; and Robert D. Reischauer,

Ph.D., President of the Urban Institute,

as Vice Chair.

(Sec. 4022, Pub. L. 105–33, 111 Stat. 251,

350)

David M. Walker,

Comptroller General of the United States.

[FR Doc. 01–13445 Filed 5–29–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 1610–02–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60Day–01–43]

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 Seleda

Perryman, 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

National Telephone Survey of Urban

Mosquito Control Programs—New—

National Center for Infectious Disease

(NCID), Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC). West Nile virus is a

mosquito-borne virus that is native to

the eastern hemisphere, where it

recently caused large epidemics of

human disease in eastern Europe,

Russia, and the Middle East. In 1999,

West Nile virus first appeared in the

United States when it caused an

epidemic of mosquito-borne

encephalitis and meningitis in the

greater New York City metropolitan

area. During 1999–2000, 83 persons

(mostly senior citizens) with West Nile

viral disease and 9 fatalities were

reported in New York, New Jersey, and

Connecticut. The apparent primary

vector to humans was the house

mosquito, Culex pipiens, which occurs

in virtually all urban areas of the United

States. This species is also one of the

principal vectors of St. Louis

encephalitis virus, historically the most

important cause of epidemic viral

encephalitis in the United States, and a

close relative of West Nile virus. Based

on the detection of West Nile virus in