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manufacturer of submersible pumps: 

ITT Flygt Corporation. ITT Flygt was 

specified as the sole acceptable 

manufacturer of submersible pumps 

because the County had standardized on 

such pumps in 2003, when the project 

started. At the time, 88 out of 106 pump 

systems in the County were equipped 

with Flygt submersible pumps. The 

County standardized to these pumps, 

according to the standardization 

agreement with ITT Flygt Corporation, 

to provide greater reliability in the 

operation of pump stations and avoid 

the increased costs of inventory, service, 

maintenance, and engineering 

associated with using several different 

brands of pumps. Additionally, 

according to the County, 

standardization would allow the County 

to further its efforts to avoid sanitary 

sewer overflows by allowing maximum 

flexibility to interchange pumps during 

emergencies. Due to the difference in 

the design of pumps, guide rail systems, 

and electrical control systems, pumps 

from one manufacturer cannot be 

installed in a pump station outfitted for 

a different manufacturer’s pumps. If 

there is a catastrophic failure or 

concurrent failure of pumps at a given 

station, interchangeability allows the 

immediate replacement of the failed 

pumps in one station with little-used 

pumps removed from other comparably 

sized stations. This ability is, according 

to the County, critically important in the 

event of a catastrophic failure or 

concurrent pump failures. This 

minimizes the downtime of the failed 

pump station and mitigates the risks of 

a major wastewater overflow. It also 

eliminates the necessity of maintaining 

spare pumps as a contingency measure 

against such situations. EPA has 

determined that the County has 

provided ample cause for 

standardization. Furthermore, 

standardization took place well before 

ARRA funding was available, so such a 

decision by the County was clearly not 

an attempt to avoid application of the 

Buy American provisions of ARRA. 

The purpose of the ARRA is to 

stimulate economic recovery by funding 

current infrastructure construction, not 

to delay projects that are already ‘‘shovel 

ready’’ by requiring SRF eligible 

recipients such as the County to revise 

their design standards and 

specifications. The imposition of ARRA 

Buy American requirements in this case 

would result in unreasonable delay for 

this project, and an unnecessary burden 

to the County, in the form of increased 

maintenance costs in the future, as well 

as decreased performance of its system 

due to incompatible pumps. To delay 

this construction would directly conflict 

with a fundamental economic purpose 

of ARRA, which is to create or retain 

jobs. 

The information provided is sufficient 

to meet the following criteria listed 

under Section 1605(b) of the ARRA, 

OMB’s regulations at 2 CFR 176.60– 

176.170, and in the April 28, 2009, EPA 

Memorandum: Applying the Buy 

American requirements of ARRA would 

be inconsistent with the public interest. 

The March 31, 2009, Delegation of 

Authority Memorandum provided 

Regional Administrators with the 

authority to issue exceptions to Section 

1605 of ARRA within the geographic 

boundaries of their respective regions 

and with respect to requests by 

individual grant recipients. 

Having established both a proper 

basis to specify the particular good 

required for this project and that 

application of the Buy American 

requirements would be inconsistent 

with the public interest, the County is 

hereby granted a waiver from the Buy 

American requirements of Section 

1605(a) of Public Law 111–5. This 

waiver permits use of ARRA funds for 

the purchase of the specified ITT Flygt 

Corporation submersible pumps 

documented in the County’s waiver 

request submittal dated September 1, 

2009. This supplementary information 

constitutes the detailed written 

justification required by Section 1605(c) 

for waivers based on a finding under 

subsection (b)(1). 

Authority: Public Law 111–5, section 1605. 

Dated: December 18, 2009. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1119 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting; Deletion of 

Agenda Item from January 20, 2010, 

Open Meeting 

Date: January 15, 2010. 

The following item has been deleted 

from the list of Agenda items scheduled 

for consideration at the January 20, 

2010, Open Meeting and previously 

listed in the Commission’s Notice of 

January 13, 2010. This item has been 

adopted by the Commission. 

ITEM NO. BUREAU SUBJECT 

2 WIRELESS TELE– COMMUNICATIONS ........ TITLE: Amendment of Parts 15, 74 and 90 of 

the Commission’s Rules Regarding Low 

Power Auxiliary Stations, Including Wireless 

Microphones (WT Docket No. 08–166) 

SUMMARY: The Commission will consider 

an Order and Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking to complete an important component of the DTV transition by prohibiting 

the further distribution and sale of devices 

that operate in the 700 MHz frequency and 

setting a date by which existing devices 

must clear the band to enable the rollout of 

public safety services and accelerate the 

deployment of next generation wireless networks. 


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3466 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 13 / Thursday, January 21, 2010 / Notices 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

Managing Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1200 Filed 1–19–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–S 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notices 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, January 14, 

2010, at 10 a.m. 

PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, 

DC. (Ninth Floor). 

STATUS: Meeting open to the public. 

THE FOLLOWING ITEM WAS WITHDRAWN

FROM THE AGENDA: 

DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 2009–27: 

American Future Fund Political Action 

by its counsel, Jason Torchinsky. 

* * * * * 

PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME: 

Thursday, January 28, 2010 (meeting 

open to the public). This meeting was 

rescheduled for Friday, January 29, 

2010. 

* * * * * 

Individuals who plan to attend and 

require special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

contact Darlene Harris, Deputy 

Commission Secretary, at (202) 694– 

1040, at least 72 hours prior to the 

hearing date. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Darlene Harris, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1024 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–M 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank 

Holding Companies 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank 

holding company. The factors that are 

considered in acting on the notices are 

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the office of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than February 

4, 2010. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(Steve Foley, Vice President) 1000 

Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 

30309: 

1. Richard T. Alger, the Richard T. 

Alger Revocable Trust, Richard T. Alger, 

trustee, and the Mason W. Alger and 

Dorothy Turner Alger Irrevocable Trust 

for Thomas M. Alger, Richard T. Alger, 

trustee, all of Homestead, Florida; to 

acquire voting shares of Hometown of 

Homestead Banking Company, and 

thereby indirectly acquire voting shares 

of 1st National Bank of South Florida, 

both of Homestead, Florida. 

2. William Hall Losner, Homestead, 

Florida; to acquire voting shares of 

Hometown of Homestead Banking 

Company, and thereby indirectly 

acquire voting shares of 1st National 

Bank of South Florida, both of 

Homestead, Florida. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. 

Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200 

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201– 

2272: 

1. A.C. Schwethelm, Comfort, Texas; 

to retain voting shares of, and acquire 

additional shares of Paint Rock 

Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly 

retain voting shares of, and acquire 

additional voting shares of First State 

Bank, both of Paint Rock, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 15, 2010. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1038 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

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 February 16, 

2010. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 

President, Applications and 

Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 

Francisco, California 94105–1579: 

1. Grandpoint Capital, Inc., Los 

Angeles, California; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of Santa 

Ana Business Bank, Santa Ana, 

California. 

In connection with this application, 

Applicant also has applied to engage de 

novo through its subsidiary, Grandpoint 

Capital Advisors, Inc., Los Angeles, 

California, in financial advisory 

acitivites to businesses and individuals, 

pursuant to section 225.28(b)(6) and in 

private placement of debt and equity 

securities activities, pursuant to section 

225.28(b)(7)(iii), of Regulation Y. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 15, 2010. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1037 Filed 1–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreement Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreement 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on the agreement to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within ten days 

of the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register. A copy of the 


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