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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 July 26, 2001.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York

(Betsy Buttrill White, Senior Vice

President) 33 Liberty Street, New York,

New York 10045–0001:

1. Canadian Imperial Bank of

Commerce, Toronto, Canada; CIBC

World Markets Inc., Toronto, Canada;

CIBC Delaware Holdings, New York,

New York; and Amicus Holdings, Inc.,

Cicero, Illinois; to acquire 95 percent of

Series C preferred stock and 51 percent

of total voting shares of Juniper

Financial Corp., Wilmington, Delaware,

and thereby indirectly acquire Juniper

Bank, Wilmington, Delaware.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice President)

1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta,

Georgia 30309–4470:

1. Newnan Coweta Bancshares, Inc.,

Newnan, Georgia; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of Newnan

Coweta Bank, Newnan, Georgia.

2. Central Alabama Bancshares, Inc.,

Wetumpka, Alabama; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of First

Community Bank of Central Alabama

(in organization), Wetumpka, Alabama.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco (Maria Villanueva, Consumer

Regulation Group) 101 Market Street,

San Francisco, California 94105–1579:

1. Centennial First Financial Services,

Redlands, California; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of Palomar

Community Bank, Escondido,

California.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 26, 2001.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Advisory Council on Government

Auditing Standards; Government

Auditing Standards: Independence

AGENCY: General Accounting Office.

ACTION: Notice of document availability.

SUMMARY: On May 4, 2001, the U.S.

General Accounting office (GAO), on the

recommendation of the Advisory

Council on Government Auditing

Standards, issued an exposure draft of a

proposed revision to Government

Auditing Standards (also known as the

Yellow Book) titled Government

Auditing Standards: Independence

(GAO/GAGAS–ED–4). The proposed

revision would expand the definition of

personal impairments, highlight the

distinction between external and

internal reporting, and acknowledge the

ways that organizations can be free from

organizational impairments to

independence. Specifically, the

exposure draft proposes expanding the

examples of personal impairments and

adding criteria to help audit

organizations understand whether the

provisions of nonaudit service affect the

subject matter of the audit. The

exposure draft emphasizes that auditors

and audit organizations have an

obligation to evaluate the circumstances

and relationships on each assignment to

identify situations that could result in

an actual or perceived impairment to

independence, including whether the

performance of nonaudit services affects

the subject matter being audited. The

exposure draft also recognizes that

internal auditors play a vital role in

government auditing and can be free

from organizational impairments to

independence. However, since internal

auditors are responsible to management

while external auditors are responsible

to third parties outside the audited

entity, a fundamental difference exists

between internal and external auditors.

The exposure draft acknowledges this

difference by retaining the sections on

internal audit in the 1994 revision of

Government Auditing Standards but

refocusing the discussion to

organizational impairment

considerations when reporting

internally to management. In addition,

the exposure draft expanded by two

ways the criteria that define

organizations that can report externally.

First, the exposure draft expands the

presumptive criteria by specifying

additional ways for an organization to

be free from organizational impairments

to independence. If the audit

organization meets any of the

presumptive criteria listed in the

exposure draft, it can be considered

organizationally independent to audit

externally. Second, the exposure draft

recognizes that other organizational

structures can provide sufficient

safeguards to prevent the audited entity

from interfering with the audit

organization’s ability to perform the

work and report the results impartially.

If the audit organization meets all the

statutory protections listed in the

exposure draft, it can be considered

organizationally independent to report

externally.

DATES: Comments are accepted through

July 30, 2001.

ADDRESSES: A copy of the exposure draft

can be obtained on the Internet on

GAO’s Home Page (www.gao.gov).

Additional copies of these proposed

standards can be obtained from the U.S.

General Accounting Office, Room 1100

700 4th Street, NW., Washington, DC

20548, or by calling (202) 512–6000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marcia Buchanan, Assistant Director,

Government Auditing Standards, 202–

512–9321.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To

facilitate analysis of your comments, it

would be helpful if you sent them both

in writing and on diskette (in Word or

ASCII format). To ensure that your

comments are considered by the council

in their deliberations, please submit

them by July 30, 2001, to the following

address: Government Auditing

Standards Comments, Independence

Exposure Draft, U.S. General

Accounting Office, Room 5X16 (FMA),

441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC

20548. (31 U.S.C. 7501–7507).

Jeffrey C. Steinhoff,

Managing Director, Financial Management

and Assurance.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60 Day–01–51]

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

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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 Invited

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

Pulmonary Function Testing Course

Approval Program, 29 CFR 1910.1043

(OMB NO. 0920–0138)—Extension—

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 has responsibility under the

Cotton Dust Standard, 29 CFR

1910.1043, for approving courses to

train technicians to perform pulmonary

function testing in the Cotton Dust

Industry. Successful completion of a

NIOSH approved course is mandatory

under the Standard. To carry out its

responsibility, NIOSH maintains a

Pulmonary Function Testing Course

Approval Program. The program

consists of an application submitted by

potential sponsors who seek NIOSH

approval to conduct courses, and if

approved, notification to NIOSH of any

course or faculty changes during the

period of approval. The application

form and addend materials, including

agenda, vitae and course materials, is

reviewed by the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health to

determine if the applicant has

developed a program which adheres to

the criteria required in the Standard.

Following approval, any subsequent

changes to the course are submitted by

course sponsors via letter and reviewed

by NIOSH staff to assure that changes in

faculty or course content continue to

meet course requirements. Applications

and materials to be a course sponsor and

carry out training are submitted

voluntarily by institutions and

organizations from throughout the

country. This is required for NIOSH to

evaluate a course to determine whether

it meets the criteria in the Standard and

whether technicians will be adequately

trained as mandated under the

Standard. The estimated annual cost to

respondents is $1058.00.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses

Avg. burden/

response

(in hrs.)

Total burden

hours

Sponsoring organization .......................................................................... 71 1 1 71

Total .............................................................................................. .......................... .......................... .......................... 71

Dated: June 22, 2001.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60 Day–01–49]

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 Invited

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

Hanford Birth Cohort Study—New—

The Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR) is mandated

pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA) and its 1986 Amendments,

the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), to prevent or

mitigate adverse human health effects

and diminished quality of life resulting

from the exposure to hazardous

substances into the environment. This

legislation was, in part, in response to

the lack of scientific information about

potential adverse health effects resulting

from exposure of a general population to

hazardous substances. Although

environmental exposures have been

documented at many hazardous waste

sites in the United States, most existing

data are for occupational exposures.

However, environmental exposure of a

general population is more likely to

include exposure of vulnerable

subpopulations (e.g., pregnant women,

children, elderly, and the infirm).

ATSDR plans activities to address these

issues which include conducting health

studies at sites on the Environmental

Protection Agency’s (EPA) National

Priorities List (NPL) to determine

whether and to what degree exposure to

hazardous substances at these sites are

harmful to human health.