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2. Morrill Bancshares, Inc., Merriam, 

Kansas; to acquire 100 percent of the 

voting shares of Nemaha Investment 

Company, Inc., Atchison, Kansas, and 

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares 

of First State Bank of Goff, Goff, Kansas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 26, 2005.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 05–1766 Filed 1–31–05; 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: 11:30 a.m., Monday, 

February 7, 2005.

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. Personnel actions (appointments, 

promotions, assignments, 

reassignments, and salary actions) 

involving individual Federal Reserve 

System employees.

2. Any items carried forward from a 

previously announced meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michelle A. Smith, Director, Office of 

Board Members; 202–452–2955.

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.federalreserve.gov for an electronic 

announcement that not only lists 

applications, but also indicates 

procedural and other information about 

the meeting.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 28, 2005.

Robert dev. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 05–1958 Filed 1–28–05; 2:27 pm]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Office of Public Health Emergency 

Preparedness Statement of 

Organization, Functions, and 

Delegations of Authority 

Part A, Office of the Secretary, 

Statement of Organization, Functions, 

and Delegations of Authority of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is being amended at 

Chapter AN, Office of Public Health 

Emergency Preparedness, as last 

amended at 69 FR 51679–51680, dated 

August 20, 2004. This organizational 

change is primarily to realign the 

functions of OPHEP to more clearly 

delineate responsibilities for the various 

activities associated with emergency 

preparedness and response. This 

includes the designation by the 

President that HHS is the principal 

Federal agency for planning and 

coordinating response to mass casualty 

incidents. Also, on behalf of HHS, 

OPHEP will develop and implement 

policies and procedures with respect to 

physical and information security. The 

changes are as follows. 

I. Under Part A, Chapter AN, ‘‘Office 

of Public Health Emergency 

Preparedness (AN),’’ delete in its 

entirety and replace with the following: 

Section AN.00 Mission: On behalf of 

the Secretary, the Office of Public 

Health Emergency Preparedness 

(OPHEP) directs and coordinates HHSwide efforts with respect to 

preparedness for and response to 

bioterrorism and other public health 

and medical emergencies. OPHEP is an 

office of the Public Health Service (PHS) 

and is responsible for ensuring a ‘‘OneDepartment’’ approach to developing 

such preparedness and response 

capabilities and directing and 

coordinating the relevant activities of 

the HHS Operation Divisions (OPDIV). 

The principal areas of program 

emphasis are (1) enhancement of State 

and local preparedness—primarily 

health departments and hospitals; (2) 

development and use of National and 

Departmental policies and plans relating 

to the response to public health and 

medical threats and emergencies (e.g.,

Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8 

of the National Response Plan (NRP), 

Homeland Security Presidential 

Directives (HSPD) #5 and #10, HHS’s 

Concept of Operations Plan for Public 

Health and Medical Emergencies 

(CONOPS) and the Secretary’s 

Emergency Response Team (SERT) 

System Description); (3) coordination 

with relevant entities inside and outside 

HHS such as State, local and Tribal 

public health and medical officials, the 

Departments of Homeland Security 

(DHS), Defense (DOD), Veterans Affairs 

(VA), Justice (DOJ), the Homeland 

Security Council (HSC), other ESF #8 

partner organizations and others within 

the National security community; and 

(4) rapid public health and medical 

support to Federal, State, local and 

Tribal governments who may be 

responding to incidents of national 

significance or public health 

emergencies. 

Section 10. AN Organization: OPHEP 

is headed by the Assistant Secretary for 

Public Health Emergency Preparedness 

(ASPHEP), who reports directly to the 

Secretary, and includes the following 

components: 

• Immediate Office of the ASPHEP 

(ANA). 

• Office of Research and 

Development Coordination (ANB). 

• Office of Mass Casualty Planning 

(ANC). 

• Office of Emergency Operations and 

Security Programs (ANE). 

• Office of Medicine, Science and 

Public Health (ANF). 

Section 20.AN Functions:

1. Immediate Office of the ASPHEP 

(ANA). The Immediate Office of the 

ASPHEP (IO/ASPHEP) provides 

executive and administrative direction 

to all OPHEP components; coordinates 

and assists in the development of 

training programs and standards to 

prepare Federal agencies to deal with 

the public health and medical response 

to emergencies; and represents the 

ASPHEP at interagency and HSC policy 

coordination meetings. The ASPHEP is 

the principal advisor to the Secretary on 

matters relating to bioterrorism and 

other public health and medical 

emergencies. The ASPHEP coordinates 

interagency interfaces between HHS and 

other Federal Departments and 

Agencies, State, local and Tribal public 

health and medical entities. The 

ASPHEP directs the Department’s 

activities relating to protecting the U.S. 

population from acts of bioterrorism and 

other public health and medical threats 

and emergencies. The ASPHEP provides 

leadership in the coordination of 

activities for public health and medical 

emergency preparedness matters 

internal to the Office of the Secretary 

and represents the Department in 

working closely with DHS and other 

Federal Departments and Agencies. 

2. Office of Research and 

Development Coordination (ANB). The 

Office of Research and Development 

Coordination (ORDC) is headed by a 

Director and is responsible for 

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coordinating research and development 

toward new vaccines, diagnostics, and 

drug related to the pathogenic 

organisms most likely to be used in a 

terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland. A 

key function of ORDC is to direct and 

coordinate Project BioShield activities 

related to the advanced development 

and acquisition of vaccines and other 

pharmaceuticals to be included in the 

Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). 

ORDC supports the ASPHEP by working 

with all scientific agencies of the 

Department, including the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH), the Center for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 

the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA), as well as other Government, 

private, and non-profit scientific 

entities.

3. Office of Mass Casualty Planning 

(ANC). The Office of Mass Casualty 

Planning (OMCP) is headed by a 

Director and is responsible for 

developing policies, plans, and 

analytical products that ensure the 

readiness of the office, the Department 

and the Government to respond to 

public health and medical threats and 

emergencies. OMCP leads the planning 

activities required to fulfill HHS 

responsibilities under ESF #8 of the 

NRP and HSPD 10. OMCP manages the 

continuing development of Public 

Health Service Catastrophe Contingency 

Care (PHSC3) mobile medical units. 

OMCP also acquires physical response 

assets (e.g., medical equipment and 

supplies) for Federal Government public 

health and medical preparedness and 

response activities relevant to 

catastrophic public health and medical 

emergency preparedness. OMCP works 

to integrate mass casualty preparedness 

activities, through its surge capacity 

efforts, across local, State and Federal 

levels consistent with the National 

Incident Management System (NIMS). 

OMCP is the primary OPHEP liaison 

with the Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA) regarding its 

programs for hospital bioterrorism 

preparedness, volunteer health 

professionals, and terrorism-related 

education and training for health care 

professionals. 

4. Office of Emergency Operations 

and Security Programs (ANE). The 

Office of Emergency and Security 

Programs. (OEOSP) is headed by a 

Director and is responsible for ensuring 

that OPHEP has the systems and 

processes necessary to coordinate the 

Department’s response to bioterrorism 

and other public health and medical 

threats and emergencies. OEOSP leads 

the response activities required to fulfill 

HHS responsibilities under ESF #8 of 

the NRP. OEOSP develops and directs 

the Secretary’s Operations Center (SOC); 

trains and manages the Secretary’s 

Emergency Response Team (SERT); 

coordinates and executes the HHS 

Continuity of Operations (COOP) and 

Continuity of Government (COG) 

programs; plans, implements and 

evaluates Departmental and interagency 

response exercises; and develops 

security related policies establishing 

procedures to manage the Department’s 

risks, threats and vulnerabilities. 

OEOSP also is the primary operational 

liaison to emergency response entities 

within HHS (e.g., the Substance Abuse 

and Mental Health Services 

Administration (SAMHSA) CDC, FDA, 

and HRSA) and within the interagency 

community (e.g., DHS, DOD, VA). 

5. Office of Medicine, Science and 

Public Health (ANF). The Office of 

Medicine, Science and Public Health 

(OMSPH) is headed by a director and is 

responsible for providing leadership 

and direction with respect to the 

analysis, review and advice on medical 

preparedness programs, policies, 

initiatives, and activities of OPHEP. 

OMSPH serves as the OPHEP focal point 

for all international activities related to 

public health emergency preparedness. 

OMSPH coordinates OPHEP’s overall 

influenza pandemic effort and works 

closely with HHS components (e.g.,

CDC, NIH, FDA), the Department of 

State, the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) and the World 

Health Organization (WHO) to ensure 

that programs for dealing with avian 

influenza and plans for dealing with 

pandemic influenza are as effective as 

possible. OMSPH oversees the 

development of medical policies related 

to providing access to medical products 

that have not been approved for 

marketing in the U.S. but must be made 

available on an emergency basis as 

medical countermeasures to counteract 

terrorism or naturally occurring 

biological, chemical or radiological/

nuclear threats. These policies and their 

implementation include using 

procedures associated with the 

investigational new drug (IND) and 

Emergency Use Authorization 

authorities. OMSPH also carries out 

special scientific and public health 

oriented projects directly and works 

with others to establish activities, 

programs, and standards to protect the 

public from bioterrorism and naturally 

occurring infectious disease threats. 

OMSPH works with other nations and 

multilateral organizations in combating 

public health threats, emergencies, and 

bioterrorism by establishing bilateral 

and multi-national international 

partnerships to develop early warning 

surveillance capability for infectious 

disease outbreaks, including those 

involving potential bioterrorism agents. 

OMSPH also provides HHS leadership 

in the activities of the Biological 

Weapon Convention and the Global 

Health Security Action Group. In 

coordination with the Office of Global 

Health Affairs (OGHA), OMSPH 

provides leadership in coordinating U.S. 

government activities related to the 

WHO International Health Regulations 

(IHR). 

II. Continuation of Policy: Except as 

inconsistent with this reorganization, all 

statements of policy and interpretations 

with respect to the Office of Public 

Health Emergency Preparedness 

heretofore issued and in effect prior to 

the date of this reorganization are 

continued in full force and effect. 

III. Delegations of Authority: All 

delegations and redelegations of 

authority made to officials and 

employees of affected organizational 

components will continue in them or 

their successors pending further 

redelegation, provided they are 

consistent with this reorganization. 

IV. Funds, Personnel and Equipment:

Transfer of organizations and functions 

affected by this reorganization shall be 

accompanied in each instance by direct 

and support funds, positions, personnel, 

records, equipment and other resources.

Dated: January 25, 2005. 

Ed Sontag, 

Assistant Secretary for Administration.

[FR Doc. 05–1813 Filed 1–31–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of Inspector General; Program 

Exclusions: Correction

AGENCY: Office of Inspector General, 

HHS.

ACTION: Notice of program exclusions, 

correction. 

Published document in the Federal 

Register of January 21, 2005, imposed 

exclusions. The document contained the 

incorrect monthly exclusions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jacqueline Freeman (410) 786–5197. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of January 21, 

2005, FR Doc. 05–1081, starting on page 

3205, the list was for the August 2003 

exclusions. The correction exclusions 

for December 2004 should read: