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bank holding companies. Unless 

otherwise noted, these activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Each notice is available for inspection 

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. 

The notice also will be available for 

inspection at the offices of the Board of 

Governors. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

question whether the proposal complies 

with the standards of section 4 of the 

BHC Act. 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 the applications must be 

received at the Reserve Bank indicated 

or the offices of the Board of Governors 

not later than February 6, 2008. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 

(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs 

Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, 

Missouri 63166–2034: 

1. Evolve Financial Group, Inc., 

Cordova, Tennessee;, to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of AFS 

Investment Advisors, Inc., Austin, 

Texas, and thereby engage in investment 

advisory activities, pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(6)(i) of Regulation Y. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 17, 2008. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E8–1080 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Annual Update of the HHS Poverty 

Guidelines 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides an 

update of the HHS poverty guidelines to 

account for last calendar year’s increase 

in prices as measured by the Consumer 

Price Index. 

DATES: Effective Date: Date of 

publication, unless an office 

administering a program using the 

guidelines specifies a different effective 

date for that particular program. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about how the guidelines 

are used or how income is defined in a 

particular program, contact the Federal, 

State, or local office that is responsible 

for that program. Contact information 

for two frequently requested programs is 

given below: 

For information about the Hill-Burton 

Uncompensated Services Program (free 

or reduced-fee health care services at 

certain hospitals and other facilities for 

persons meeting eligibility criteria 

involving the poverty guidelines), 

contact the Office of the Director, 

Division of Facilities Compliance and 

Recovery, Health Resources and 

Services Administration, HHS, Room 

10–105, Parklawn Building, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 

20857. To speak to a person, call (301) 

443–5656. To receive a Hill-Burton 

information package, call 1–800–638–

0742 (for callers outside Maryland) or 

1–800–492–0359 (for callers in 

Maryland). You also may visit http:// 

www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/default.htm. 

The Division of Facilities Compliance 

and Recovery notes that as set by 42 

CFR 124.505(b), the effective date of this 

update of the poverty guidelines for 

facilities obligated under the HillBurton Uncompensated Services 

Program is sixty days from the date of 

this publication. 

For information about the percentage 

multiple of the poverty guidelines to be 

used on immigration forms such as 

USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support, 

contact U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services at 1–800–375–

5283 or visit http://www.uscis.gov/files/ 

form/I-864p.pdf. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty or about the Census 

Bureau poverty thresholds, visit the 

Poverty section of the Census Bureau’s 

Web site at http://www.census.gov/ 

hhes/www/poverty.html or contact the 

Census Bureau’s Demographic Call 

Center Staff at (301) 763–2422 or 1–866–

758–1060 (toll-free). 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, contact 

Gordon Fisher, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Washington, DC 20201—

telephone: (202) 690–7507—or visit 

http://www.aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42 

U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services to update, at least annually, the 

poverty guidelines, which shall be used 

as an eligibility criterion for the 

Community Services Block Grant 

program. The poverty guidelines also 

are used as an eligibility criterion by a 

number of other Federal programs. The 

poverty guidelines issued here are a 

simplified version of the poverty 

thresholds that the Census Bureau uses 

to prepare its estimates of the number of 

individuals and families in poverty. 

As required by law, this update is 

accomplished by increasing the latest 

published Census Bureau poverty 

thresholds by the relevant percentage 

change in the Consumer Price Index for 

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The 

guidelines in this 2008 notice reflect the 

2.8 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2006 and 2007. After this 

inflation adjustment, the guidelines are 

rounded and adjusted to standardize the 

differences between family sizes. The 

same calculation procedure was used 

this year as in previous years. (Note that 

these 2008 guidelines are roughly equal 

to the poverty thresholds for calendar 

year 2007 which the Census Bureau 

expects to publish in final form in 

August 2008.) The guideline figures 

shown represent annual income. 

2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................... $10,400 

2 .................................................... 14,000 

3 .................................................... 17,600 

4 .................................................... 21,200 

5 .................................................... 24,800 

6 .................................................... 28,400 

7 .................................................... 32,000 

8 .................................................... 35,600 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $3,600 for each additional 

person. 

2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................... $13,000 

2 .................................................... 17,500 

3 .................................................... 22,000 

4 .................................................... 26,500 

5 .................................................... 31,000 

6 .................................................... 35,500 

7 .................................................... 40,000 

8 .................................................... 44,500 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $4,500 for each additional 

person. 


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2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons in family Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................... $11,960 

2 .................................................... 16,100 

3 .................................................... 20,240 

4 .................................................... 24,380 

5 .................................................... 28,520 

6 .................................................... 32,660 

7 .................................................... 36,800 

8 .................................................... 40,940 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $4,140 for each additional 

person. 

Separate poverty guideline figures for 

Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of 

Economic Opportunity administrative 

practice beginning in the 1966–1970 

period. (Note that the Census Bureau 

poverty thresholds—the version of the 

poverty measure used for statistical 

purposes—have never had separate 

figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The 

poverty guidelines are not defined for 

Puerto Rico or other outlying 

jurisdictions. In cases in which a 

Federal program using the poverty 

guidelines serves any of those 

jurisdictions, the Federal office that 

administers the program is generally 

responsible for deciding whether to use 

the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines 

for those jurisdictions or to follow some 

other procedure. 

Due to confusing legislative language 

dating back to 1972, the poverty 

guidelines have sometimes been 

mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’

(Office of Management and Budget) 

poverty guidelines or poverty line. In 

fact, OMB has never issued the 

guidelines; the guidelines are issued 

each year by the Department of Health 

and Human Services. The poverty 

guidelines may be formally referenced 

as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated 

periodically in the Federal Register by 

the U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services under the authority of 

42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’

Some programs use a percentage 

multiple of the guidelines (for example, 

125 percent or 185 percent of the 

guidelines), as noted in relevant 

authorizing legislation or program 

regulations. Non-Federal organizations 

that use the poverty guidelines under 

their own authority in non-federallyfunded activities can choose to use a 

percentage multiple of the guidelines 

such as 125 percent or 185 percent. 

The poverty guidelines do not make a 

distinction between farm and non-farm 

families, or between aged and non-aged 

units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty 

thresholds have separate figures for aged 

and non-aged one-person and twoperson units.) 

Note that this notice does not provide 

definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or 

‘‘family.’’ This is because there is 

considerable variation in how different 

programs that use the guidelines define 

these terms, traceable to the different 

laws and regulations that govern the 

various programs. 

Therefore, questions about how a 

particular program applies the poverty 

guidelines (for example, Is income 

before or after taxes? Should a particular 

type of income be counted? Should a 

particular person be counted in the 

family or household unit?) should be 

directed to the organization that 

administers the program. 

Dated: January 17, 2008. 

Michael O. Leavitt, 

Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

[FR Doc. 08–256 Filed 1–18–08; 9:13 am] 

BILLING CODE 4151–05–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Decision To 

Evaluate a Petition To Designate a 

Class of Employees at Spencer 

Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works, 

Pittsburg, KS, To Be Included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees at 

Spencer Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works, 

Pittsburg, Kansas, to be included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort under the 

Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The 

initial proposed definition for the class 

being evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Spencer Chemical Co., 

Jayhawks Works. 

Location: Pittsburg, Kansas. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All 

employees. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1958 through December 31, 1963. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: January 15, 2008. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E8–1031 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–19–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Determination 

Concerning a Petition To Add a Class 

of Employees to the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice of a 

determination concerning a petition to 

add a class of employees at the Y–12 

Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000 (EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384q. On 

December 14, 2007, the Secretary of 

HHS determined that the following 

employees do not meet the statutory 

criteria for addition to the SEC as 

authorized under EEOICPA: 

Statisticians who performed statistical 

analysis of biological experiments (working 

within the Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

Biological Sciences Division) in all locations 

at the Y–12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 

who were employed by the Department of 

Energy or its contractors between January 1, 

1958, and June 30, 1958. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: January 15, 2008. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational, 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E8–1033 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

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