55430 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 182 / Wednesday, September 21, 2005 / Notices 

1According to the Securities Industry 

Association’s guide on management and 

professional earnings, the median salary for a 

financial reporting manager is $97,500. Assuming 

that a financial reporting manager works 1800 hours 

per year, he or she earns $54.17 per hour. Adding 

in overhead costs of 35%, the hourly rate equals 

$73.13 per hour, or $877.56 per 12-hour response. 

Federal Official, Mr. Sam Duraiswamy 

(telephone: 301–415–7364) between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (e.t.) five days 

prior to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Electronic recordings will be permitted 

only during those portions of the 

meeting that are open to the public. 

Further information regarding this 

meeting can be obtained by contacting 

the Designated Federal Official between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (e.t.). Persons 

planning to attend this meeting are 

urged to contact the above named 

individual at least two working days 

prior to the meeting to be advised of any 

potential changes in the agenda. 

Dated: September 14, 2005. 

Michael L. Scott, 

Branch Chief, ACRS/ACNW. 

[FR Doc. 05–18800 Filed 9–20–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND 

HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 

Senior Executive Service Performance 

Review Board Membership 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Review Commission (OSHRC). 

ACTION: Notice of Senior Executive 

Service Performance Review Board 

Membership. 

Title 5, U.S. Code, section 4314(c)(4), 

The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 

Public Law 95–454 (section 405) 

requires that the appointment of 

Performance Review Board (PRB) 

members be published in the Federal 

Register. 

As required by 5 CFR 430.310, 

Chairman W. Scott Railton has 

appointed the following executives to 

serve on the Senior Executive Service 

Performance Review Board for the 

Occupational Safety and Health Review 

Commission beginning September 2005 

through September 2007: 

Stephen S. Smith, Associated Director 

for Management, Broadcasting Board 

of Governors, 

Christopher W. Warner, General 

Counsel, U.S. Chemical Safety and 

Hazard Investigator Board, 

Richard L. Baker, Executive Director, 

Federal Mine Safety and Health 

Review Commission, 

Marcel C. Acosta, Deputy Executive 

Director, National Capital Planning 

Commission, 

Jill Crumpacker, Chief of Staff/Director 

of Policy and Performance 

Management, U.S. Federal Labor 

Relations Authority, 

Thomas Stock, General Counsel, Federal 

Mine Safety and Health Review 

Commission. 

The PRB will make recommendations 

to the Chairman on the performance of 

the Commission’s senior executives. 

For information regarding this notice, 

please contact Alexander Ferna ́ndez, 

General Counsel, Occupational Safety 

and Health Review Commission at (202) 

606–5100. 

Dated: September 9, 2005. 

W. Scott Railton, 

Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health 

Review Commission. 

[FR Doc. 05–18773 Filed 9–20–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7600–01–M 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIMES AND DATES: 12:30 p.m., Monday, 

September 26, 2005; and 8:30 a.m., 

Tuesday, September 27, 2005. 

PLACE: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal 

Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant 

Plaza, SW., in the Benjamin Franklin 

Room. 

STATUS: September 26—12:30 p.m. 

(Closed); September 27—8:30 a.m. 

(Open). 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Monday, September 26 at 12:30 p.m. 

(Closed). 

1. Strategic Planning. 

2. Personnel Matters and 

Compensation Issues. 

3. Rate Case Planning. 

4. Proposed Filing with the Postal 

Rate Commission for Parcel Return 

Service. 

5. Office of Inspector General Fiscal 

Year 2006 Budget. 

6. Fiscal Year 2006 Integrated 

Financial Plan Briefing. 

7. Capital Investment. 

a. Kansas City, Missouri, Main Post 

Office Modification Request. 

Tuesday, September 27, at 8:30 a.m. 

(Open). 

1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting, 

August 1–2, 2005. 

2. Remarks of the Postmaster General 

and CEO Jack Potter. 

3. Committee Reports. 

4. Board of Governors Calendar Year 

2006 Meeting Schedule. 

5. Office of the Governors Fiscal Year 

2006 Budget. 

6. Postal Rate Commission Fiscal Year 

2006 Budget. 

7. Fiscal Year 2006 Operating and 

Capital Plans. 

8. Strategic Transformation Plan 

2006–2010. 

9. Fiscal Year 2006 Annual 

Performance Plan—Government 

Performance and Results Act. 

10. Capital Investment. 

a. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Processing 

and Distribution Center. 

11. Tentative Agenda for the 

November 1, 2005, meeting in 

Washington, DC. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William T. Johnstone, Secretary of the 

Board, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant 

Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20260–

1000. Telephone (202) 268–4800. 

William T. Johnstone, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–18900 Filed 9–16–05; 4:31 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–M 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon written request, copies available 

from: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

Extension: 

Rule 17a–10; SEC File No. 270–154; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0122. 

Notice is hereby given that pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below. The Code of Federal 

Regulations citation to this collection of 

information is the following rule: 17 

CFR 240.17a–10. 

Rule 17a–10 requires broker-dealers 

that are exempted from the filing 

requirements of paragraph (a) of Rule 

17a–5 (17 CFR section 240.17a–5) to file 

with the Commission an annual 

statement of income (loss) and balance 

sheet. It is anticipated that 

approximately 500 broker-dealers will 

spend 12 hours per year complying with 

Rule 17a–10. The total burden is 

estimated to be approximately 6,000 

hours. Each broker-dealer will spend 

approximately $880 per response 1 for a 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 182 / Wednesday, September 21, 2005 / Notices 55431 

1Black Hills is engaged in two lines of business: 

(1) The generation, transmission, distribution and 

sale of electricity to retail and wholesale customers; 

and (2) through Black Hills Energy and its 

subsidiaries, the development, ownership and 

operation of exempt wholesale generators, as 

defined in section 32 of the Act, qualifying facilities 

as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies 

Act of 1978, as amended, and the production, 

transportation and marketing of natural gas, oil, 

coal and other energy commodities, power 

marketing and other energy-related activities. 

Applicants previously engaged in certain exempt 

telecommunications activities and these businesses 

have recently been sold. 

2Black Hills Corporation, et al., Holding 

Company Act Release No. 27931. Black Hills 

registered as a public-utility holding company 

under the Act earlier this year, in 2005. By the 

Financing Order, Black Hills, then a public-utility 

holding company exempt from registration under 

section 3(a)(1) of the Act by rule 2, Black Hills 

Power, its subsidiary electric-utility company, and 

all other direct and indirect subsidiaries, were 

authorized to engage in financing and investment 

activities, intrasystem services and other related 

activities and transactions, through December 31, 

2007, following Black Hills’ registration as a publicutility holding company. A recent, related notice 

was issued on July 26, 2005, addressing certain 

administrative money pool matters. See Black Hills 

Corporation, et al., Holding Co. Act Release No. 

28003. No hearing has been requested. 

3Black Hills states that it explained, in its 

application for the Financing Order, that the Black 

Hills system companies will engage in a variety of 

affiliate transactions for goods, services and 

construction, in accordance with rules 87, 88, 90 

and 91, unless otherwise authorized by Commission 

order or rule. Black Hills states it also committed 

to file accounting and cost allocation procedures 

with the Commission by October 1, 2005; to form 

Black Hills Service within sixty days of issuance of 

the Financing Order, but sought authority to delay 

(for not longer than twelve months) the full 

implementation of Black Hills Service and the 

required accounting systems and cost allocation 

methodologies; and finally, to complete conversion 

of non-exempt market-based rate affiliate 

transactions to cost-based transactions (not later 

than twelve months following issuance of the 

Financing Order). In the Financing Order, the 

Commission acknowledged Black Hills’ plans for 

these procedures, Black Hills Service and the 

affiliate arrangements. 

4Black Hills states that it established Black Hills 

Service and has taken significant steps to 

implement it. Black Hills states further that, in this 

implementation, it has already expended significant 

resources in extensive planning and organizational 

initiatives to identify employees and functions to be 

transferred to Black Hills Service, defining 

extensive new organizational, management and 

personnel structures to be put in place at Black 

Hills Service and associate companies and 

formulating required changes to human resources 

systems and pension and benefit plans. 

total annual expense for all brokerdealers of $440,000. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

control number. 

Written comments regarding the 

above information should be directed to 

the following persons: (i) Desk Officer 

for the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10102, 

New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503 or by sending an 

e-mail to: David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov; 

and (ii) R. Corey Booth, Director, Chief 

Information Officer, Office of 

Information Technology, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, 

NE., Washington, DC 20549. Comments 

must be submitted to OMB within 30 

days of this notice. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Jonathan G. Katz, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–18764 Filed 9–20–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 35–28029] 

Filings Under the Public Utility Holding 

Company Act of 1935, as Amended 

(‘‘Act’’) 

September 14, 2005. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following filing(s) has/have been made 

with the Commission pursuant to 

provisions of the Act and rules 

promulgated under the Act. All 

interested persons are referred to the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) for 

complete statements of the proposed 

transaction(s) summarized below. The 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) and 

any amendment(s) is/are available for 

public inspection through the 

Commission’s Branch of Public 

Reference. 

Interested persons wishing to 

comment or request a hearing on the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) 

should submit their views in writing by 

October 6, 2005, to the Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

Washington, DC 20549–0609, and serve 

a copy on the relevant applicant(s) and/ 

or declarant(s) at the address(es) 

specified below. Proof of service (by 

affidavit or, in the case of an attorney at 

law, by certificate) should be filed with 

the request. Any request for hearing 

should identify specifically the issues of 

facts or law that are disputed. A person 

who so requests will be notified of any 

hearing, if ordered, and will receive a 

copy of any notice or order issued in the 

matter. After October 6, 2005, the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s), as 

filed or as amended, may be granted 

and/or permitted to become effective. 

Black Hills Corporation, et al. (70–

10237) 

Black Hills Corporation (‘‘Black 

Hills’’), a registered public-utility 

holding company, Black Hills Power, 

Inc. (‘‘Black Hills Power’’), an electricutility subsidiary of Black Hills, both 

located at 625 Ninth Street, Rapid City, 

SD 57701, and Cheyenne Light, Fuel 

and Power Company, also an electricutility subsidiary of Black Hills, located 

at 108 West 18th, Cheyenne, WY 82001, 

Black Hills Energy, Inc. (‘‘Black Hills 

Energy’’), a nonutility subsidiary of 

Black Hills, and all of Black Hills other 

subsidiaries (collectively, 

‘‘Subsidiaries’’), located at 625 Ninth 

Street, Rapid City, SD 57701 

(collectively, ‘‘Applicants’’), have filed 

with the Commission a post-effective 

amendment to their previously filed 

application-declaration (‘‘Application’’) 

under sections 6(a), 7, 9(a), 10, 11, 12(b) 

and (c), 13(b), 32, 33 and 34 of the Act 

and rules 42, 43, 45, 52, 53, 54, 58 and 

88 through 92. 

Black Hills requests certain 

extensions of time. 

I. Background 

Black Hills is an integrated publicutility holding company.1 On December 

28, 2004, the Commission authorized 

Black Hills and its Subsidiaries to 

engage in various financing and other 

transactions (‘‘Financing Order’’).2 In 

connection with the Financing Order, 

Black Hills committed to establish a 

limited liability subsidiary, Black Hills 

Service Company, LLC (‘‘Black Hills 

Service’’), to provide centralized 

services (such as accounting, financial, 

human resources, information 

technology and legal services) to the 

companies in the Black Hills system 3

and to submit certain filings to the 

Commission and to implement certain 

processes and methodologies by 

December 28, 2005.4

The Act was repealed on August 8, 

2005, and the Public Utility Holding 

Company Act of 2005 (‘‘PUHCA 2005’’) 

was enacted on that date by the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005 (‘‘Energy Policy Act 

2005’’). The repeal of the Act ends the 

Commission’s authority over Black Hills 

and the Black Hills system under this 

statute as of February 8, 2006 and 

subjects Black Hills and the Black Hills 

system to new, but in certain respects 

similar, regulation by the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(‘‘FERC’’) under PUHCA 2005. 

FERC is required to issue certain 

PUHCA 2005 regulations by December 

8, 2005. Black Hills states that the new 

FERC regulations may affect some of the 

processes and methodologies relating to 

allocation of costs, among other things, 

that were addressed in the Financing 

Order.