66902 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2005 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

October 28, 2005. 

The Department of the Treasury has 

submitted the following public 

information collection requirement(s) to 

OMB for review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance 

Officer listed. Comments regarding this 

information collection should be 

addressed to the OMB reviewer listed 

and to the Treasury Department 

Clearance Officer, Department of the 

Treasury, Room 11000, 1750 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20220. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before December 5, 2005, 

to be assured of consideration. 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

OMB Number: 1545–1537. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: REG–253578–96(NPRM) Health 

Insurance Portability for Group Plans; 

(Temporary) Interim Rules for Health 

Insurance Portability for Group Health 

Plans. 

Description: The regulations provide 

guidance for group health plans and the 

employers maintaining them regarding 

requirements imposed on plans relating 

to preexisting condition exclusions, 

discrimination based on health status, 

and access to coverage. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions, State, 

local or tribal. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

262,289 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Glenn P. Kirkland, 

(202) 622–3428, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6516, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20224. 

OMB Reviewer: Alexander T. Hunt, 

(202) 395–7316, Office of Management 

and Budget, Room 10235, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503. 

Michael A. Robinson, 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–21923 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of International Affairs 

Survey of U.S. Ownership of Foreign 

Securities as of December 31, 2005 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, 

Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of reporting 

requirements. 

SUMMARY: By this Notice, the 

Department of the Treasury is informing 

the public that it is conducting a 

mandatory survey of U.S. ownership of 

foreign securities as of December 31, 

2005. This Notice constitutes legal 

notification to all United States persons 

who are in the reporting panel set forth 

in this Notice that they must respond to 

this survey. Additional copies of the 

reporting form SHCA and instructions 

may be printed from the Internet at: 

http://www.treas.gov/tic/forms.html. 

Who Must Report: It is expected that 

reporting will be required only from 

those organizations which reported the 

largest values of securities data on the 

benchmark survey Form SHC entitled 

‘‘U.S. Ownership of Foreign Securities, 

Including Selected Money Market 

Instruments as of December 31, 2001’’. 

The panel for this survey is expected to 

include: the 31 largest custodians and 

largest end-investors that filed schedule 

2 in the aforementioned 2001 

benchmark survey; and 188 of the next 

largest end-investors that filed schedule 

3 in the aforementioned 2001 

benchmark survey. Entities required to 

report will be contacted individually by 

the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 

Entities not contacted by the Federal 

Reserve Bank of New York have no 

reporting responsibilities. 

What To Report: This report will 

collect information on U.S. resident 

holdings of foreign securities, i.e., 

equities, long-term debt securities, and 

short-term debt securities (including 

selected money market instruments). 

How To Report: Copies of the survey 

forms and instructions, which contain 

complete information on reporting 

procedures and definitions, may be 

obtained at the website address given 

above in the SUMMARY, or by contacting 

the survey staff of the Federal Reserve 

Bank of New York at (212) 720–6300, email: SHC.help@ny.frb.org. The mailing 

address is: Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York, Statistics Function, 4th Floor, 33 

Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045–

0001. 

When To Report: Data must be 

submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank 

of New York, acting as fiscal agent for 

the Department of the Treasury, by 

March 3, 2006. 

Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This 

data collection has been approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned 

control number 1505–0146. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a valid control number 

assigned by OMB. The estimated 

average annual burden associated with 

this collection of information is 48 

hours per respondent for end-investors 

and custodians that file schedule 3 

reports covering their securities 

entrusted to U.S. resident custodians, 

145 hours per respondent for large endinvestors filing schedule 2 reports, and 

700 hours per respondent for large 

custodians of securities filing Schedule 

2 reports. Comments concerning the 

accuracy of this burden estimate and 

suggestions for reducing this burden 

should be directed to the Department of 

the Treasury, Attention Administrator, 

International Portfolio Investment Data 

Reporting Systems, Room 5422, 

Washington, DC 20220, and to OMB, 

Attention Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Treasury, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

Dwight Wolkow, 

Administrator, International Portfolio 

Investment Data Reporting Systems. 

[FR Doc. 05–21892 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–25–P 

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF 

PEACE 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: United States Institute of Peace. 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 17, 

2005, 9:15 a.m.–3:30 p.m. 

LOCATION: 1200 17th Street, NW., Suite 

200, Washington, DC 20036–3011. 

STATUS: Open Session—Portions may be 

closed pursuant to subsection (c) of 

section 552(b) of Title 5, United States 

Code, as provided in subsection 

1706(h)(3) of the United States Institute 

of Peace Act, Public Law 98–525. 

AGENDA: November 2005 Board Meeting; 

Approval of Minutes of the One 

Hundred Twentieth Meeting (September 

22, 2005) of the Board of Directors; 

Chairman’s Report; President’s Report; 

Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Submission to 

OMB; Selection of NPEC topic; Grants 

Program Restructure; Other General 

Issues.