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Iowa, to acquire the mortgage business

of First National Bank of Kerrville,

Kerrville, Texas, thereby engage in

mortgage lending activities pursuant to

§ 225.25(b)(1) of the Board’s Regulation

Y.

2. Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis,

Minnesota; through its subsidiary

Norwest Mortgage, Inc., Des Moines,

Iowa, to acquire the mortgage business

of Community State Bank of Alexandria,

Alexandria, Minnesota, and thereby

engage in the mortgage origination

business, pursuant to § 225.25(b)(1) of

the Board’s Regulation Y.

3. Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis,

Minnesota; through its subsidiary

Norwest Investment Services Inc.,

Minneapolis, Minnesota, proposes to

acquire the brokerage services business

of Texas National Bank, Midland, Texas,

also an indirect subsidiary of Norwest

Corporation, and thereby engage in fullservice brokerage business, government

securities, and limited underwriting

activities, pursuant to §§ 225.25(b)(15)

and (b)(16) of the Board’s Regulation Y.

4. Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis,

Minnesota; through its wholly-owned

subsidiary Norwest Mortgage, Inc., Des

Moines, Iowa, to acquire the mortgage

business of Goldenbank, N.A., Golden,

Colorado, and thereby engage in the

mortgage business, pursuant to §

225.25(b)(1) of the Board’s Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, February 3, 1995.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 95–3239 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

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.

EFFECTIVE DATE: These guidelines go into

effect on the day they are published

(unless an office administering a

program using the guidelines specifies a

different effective date for that

particular program).

ADDRESS: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS), Washington, D.C.

20201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information about how the poverty

guidelines are used in a particular

program, contact the Federal (or other)

office which is responsible for that

program.

For general information about the

poverty guidelines (but not for

information about how they are used in

a particular program), contact Gordon

Fisher, Office of the Assistant Secretary

for Planning and Evaluation, HHS—

telephone: (202) 690–6141.

For information about the Hill-Burton

Uncompensated Services Program (nofee or reduced-fee health care services at

certain hospitals and other health care

facilities for certain persons unable to

pay for such care), contact the Office of

the Director, Division of Facilities

Compliance and Recovery, HHS—

telephone: (301) 443–5656. 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 Hill-Burton

Uncompensated Services Program is

sixty days from the date of this

publication.

Under an amendment to the Older

Americans Act, the figures in this notice

are the figures that state and area

agencies on aging should use to

determine ‘‘greatest economic need’’ for

Administration on Aging programs. For

information about those programs,

contact Donald Fowles, Administration

on Aging, HHS—telephone: (202) 619–

2614.

For information about the Department

of Labor’s Lower Living Standard

Income Level (an alternative eligibility

criterion with the poverty guidelines for

certain Job Training Partnership Act

programs), contact Josephine Nieves,

Associate Assistant Secretary for

Employment and Training, U.S.

Department of Labor—telephone: (202)

219–6236.

For information about the number of

persons in poverty or about the Census

Bureau (statistical) poverty thresholds,

contact Kathleen Short, Chief, Poverty

and Wealth Statistics Branch, U.S.

Bureau of the Census—telephone: (301)

763–8578.

1995 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR ALL

STATES (EXCEPT ALASKA AND HAWAII) AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Size of family unit

Poverty

guideline

1 ...................................................... $7,470

2 ...................................................... 10,030

3 ...................................................... 12,590

4 ...................................................... 15,150

5 ...................................................... 17,710

6 ...................................................... 20,270

7 ...................................................... 22,830

8 ...................................................... 25,390

For family units with more than 8

members, add $2,560 for each

additional member. (The same

increment applies to smaller family

sizes also, as can be seen in the figures

above.)

1995 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Size of family unit

Poverty

guideline

1 ...................................................... $9,340

2 ...................................................... 12,540

3 ...................................................... 15,740

4 ...................................................... 18,940

5 ...................................................... 22,140

6 ...................................................... 25,340

7 ...................................................... 28,540

8 ...................................................... 31,740

For family units with more than 8

members, add $3,200 for each

additional member. (The same

increment applies to smaller family

sizes also, as can be seen in the figures

above.)

1995 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Size of family unit

Poverty

guideline

1 ...................................................... $8,610

2 ...................................................... 11,550

3 ...................................................... 14,490

4 ...................................................... 17,430

5 ...................................................... 20,370

6 ...................................................... 23,310

7 ...................................................... 26,250

8 ...................................................... 29,190

For family units with more than 8

members, add $2,940 for each

additional member. (The same

increment applies to smaller family

sizes also, as can be seen in the figures

above.)

The preceding figures are the 1995

update of the poverty guidelines

required by sections 652 and 673(2) of
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the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

(OBRA) of 1981 (Pub. L. 97–35). As

required by law, this update reflects last

year’s change in the Consumer Price

Index (CPI–U); it was done using the

same procedure used in previous years.

Section 673(2) of OBRA–1981 (42

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

poverty guidelines as an eligibility

criterion for the Community Services

Block Grant program, while section 652

(42 U.S.C. 9847) requires the use of the

poverty guidelines as an eligibility

criterion for the Head Start program.

The poverty guidelines are also used as

an eligibility criterion by a number of

other Federal programs (both HHS and

non-HHS). When such programs give an

OBRA–1981 citation for the poverty

guidelines, they cite section 673(2). 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 (formerly by the Office of

Economic Opportunity/Community

Services Administration). The poverty

guidelines may be formally referenced

as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated

annually in the Federal Register by the

U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services under authority of section

673(2) of the Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act of 1981.’’

The poverty guidelines are a

simplified version of the Federal

Government’s statistical poverty

thresholds used by the Bureau of the

Census to prepare its statistical

estimates of the number of persons and

families in poverty. The poverty

guidelines issued by the Department of

Health and Human Services are used for

administrative purposes—for instance,

for determining whether a person or

family is financially eligible for

assistance or services under a particular

Federal program. The poverty

thresholds are used primarily for

statistical purposes. Since the poverty

guidelines in this notice—the 1995

guidelines—reflect price changes

through calendar year 1994, they are

approximately equal to the poverty

thresholds for calendar year 1994 which

the Census Bureau will issue in late

summer or autumn 1995.

In certain cases, as noted in the

relevant authorizing legislation or

program regulations, a program uses the

poverty guidelines as only one of

several eligibility criteria, or uses a

percentage multiple of the guidelines

(for example, 130 percent or 185 percent

of the guidelines). Some other programs,

while not using the guidelines to

exclude non-lower-income persons as

ineligible, use them for the purpose of

giving priority to lower-income persons

or families in the provision of assistance

or services.

In some cases, these poverty

guidelines may not become effective for

a particular program until a regulation

or notice specifically applying to the

program in question has been issued.

The poverty guidelines given above

should be used for both farm and

nonfarm families. Similarly, these

guidelines should be used for both aged

and non-aged units. The poverty

guidelines have never had an aged/nonaged distinction; only the Census

Bureau (statistical) poverty thresholds

have separate figures for aged and nonaged one-person and two-person units.

Definitions

There is no universal administrative

definition of ‘‘income,’’ ‘‘family,’’

‘‘family unit,’’ or ‘‘household’’ that is

valid for all programs that use the

poverty guidelines. Federal programs

may use administrative definitions that

differ somewhat from the statistical

definitions given below; the Federal

office which administers a program has

the responsibility for making decisions

about administrative definitions.

Similarly, non-Federal organizations

which use the poverty guidelines in

non-Federally-funded activities may use

administrative definitions that differ

from the statistical definitions given

below. In either case, to find out the

precise definitions used by a particular

program, one must consult the office or

organization administering the program

in question. The following statistical

definitions (derived for the most part

from language used in U.S. Bureau of

the Census, Current Population Reports,

Series P60–185 and earlier reports in the

same series) are made available for

illustrative purposes only.

(a) Family. A family is a group of two

or more persons related by birth,

marriage, or adoption who live together;

all such related persons are considered

as members of one family. For instance,

if an older married couple, their

daughter and her husband and two

children, and the older couple’s nephew

all lived in the same house or

apartment, they would all be considered

members of a single family.

(b) Unrelated individual. An

unrelated individual is a person 15

years old or over (other than an inmate

of an institution) who is not living with

any relatives. An unrelated individual

may be the only person living in a house

or apartment, or may be living in a

house or apartment (or in group quarters

such as a rooming house) in which one

or more persons also live who are not

related to the individual in question by

birth, marriage, or adoption. Examples

of unrelated individuals residing with

others include a lodger, a foster child,

a ward, or an employee.

(c) Household. As defined by the

Bureau of the Census for statistical

purposes, a household consists of all the

persons who occupy a housing unit

(house or apartment), whether they are

related to each other or not. If a family

and an unrelated individual, or two

unrelated individuals, are living in the

same housing unit, they would

constitute two family units (see next

item), but only one household. Some

programs, such as the food stamp

program and the Low-Income Home

Energy Assistance Program, employ

administrative variations of the

‘‘household’’ concept in determining

income eligibility. A number of other

programs use administrative variations

of the ‘‘family’’ concept in determining

income eligibility. Depending on the

precise program definition used,

programs using a ‘‘family’’ concept

would generally apply the poverty

guidelines separately to each family

and/or unrelated individual within a

household if the household includes

more than one family and/or unrelated

individual.

(d) Family unit. ‘‘Family unit’’ is not

an official U.S. Bureau of the Census

term, although it has been used in the

poverty guidelines Federal Register

notice since 1978. As used here, either

an unrelated individual or a family (as

defined above) constitutes a family unit.

In other words, a family unit of size one

is an unrelated individual, while a

family unit of two/three/etc. is the same

as a family of two/three/etc.

(e) Income. Programs which use the

poverty guidelines in determining

eligibility may use administrative

definitions of ‘‘income’’ (or ‘‘countable

income’’) which differ from the

statistical definition given below. Note

that for administrative purposes, in

many cases, income data for a part of a

year may be annualized in order to

determine eligibility—for instance, by

multiplying by four the amount of

income received during the most recent

three months.

For statistical purposes—to determine

official income and poverty statistics—

the Bureau of the Census defines

income to include total annual cash

receipts before taxes from all sources,

with the exceptions noted below.

Income includes money wages and

salaries before any deductions; net

receipts from nonfarm self-employment
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(receipts from a person’s own

unincorporated business, professional

enterprise, or partnership, after

deductions for business expenses); net

receipts from farm self employment

(receipts from a farm which one

operates as an owner, renter, or

sharecropper, after deductions for farm

operating expenses); regular payments

from social security, railroad retirement,

unemployment compensation, strike

benefits from union funds, workers’

compensation, veterans’ payments,

public assistance (including Aid to

Families with Dependent Children,

Supplemental Security Income,

Emergency Assistance money payments,

and non-Federally-funded General

Assistance or General Relief money

payments), and training stipends;

alimony, child support, and military

family allotments or other regular

support from an absent family member

or someone not living in the household;

private pensions, government employee

pensions (including military retirement

pay), and regular insurance or annuity

payments; college or university

scholarships, grants, fellowships, and

assistantships; and dividends, interest,

net rental income, net royalties, periodic

receipts from estates or trusts, and net

gambling or lottery winnings.

For official statistical purposes,

income does not include the following

types of money received: capital gains;

any assets drawn down as withdrawals

from a bank, the sale of property, a

house, or a car; or tax refunds, gifts,

loans, lump-sum inheritances, one-time

insurance payments, or compensation

for injury. Also excluded are noncash

benefits, such as the employer-paid or

union-paid portion of health insurance

or other employee fringe benefits, food

or housing received in lieu of wages, the

value of food and fuel produced and

consumed on farms, the imputed value

of rent from owner-occupied nonfarm or

farm housing, and such Federal noncash

benefit programs as Medicare, Medicaid,

food stamps, school lunches, and

housing assistance.

Dated: February 6, 1995.

Donna E. Shalala,

Secretary of Health and Human Services.

[FR Doc. 95–3285 Filed 2–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4150–04–P

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 91F–0324]

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Filing of

Food Additive Petition; Amendment;

Correction

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is correcting a

notice that appeared in the Federal

Register of January 26, 1995 (60 FR

5184). The document amended the

filing notice for a food additive petition

filed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

to indicate that the petitioned additive,

alkylthiophenolics, acid-catalyzed

condensation reaction products of pnonylphenol, formaldehyde, and 1-

dodecanethiol, is also intended for use

in pressure-sensitive adhesives. The

document was published with some

editorial errors. This document corrects

those errors.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Andrew Zajac, Center for Food Safety

and Applied Nutrition (HFS–216), Food

and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW.,

Washington, DC 20204, 202–418–3095.

In FR Doc. 95–2007, appearing on

page 5184 in the Federal Register of

Thursday, January 26, 1995, the

following corrections are made:

On page 5184, in the second column,

in the first full paragraph, in line 6, and

in the third column, in line 13, the word

‘‘alkylthiophendics’’ is corrected to read

‘‘alkylthiophenolics’’.

Dated: February 3, 1995.

Alan M. Rulis,

Acting Director, Office of Premarket

Approval, Center for Food Safety and Applied

Nutrition.

[FR Doc. 95–3300 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

Health Care Financing Administration

Public Information Collection

Requirements Submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

Clearance

AGENCY: Health Care Financing

Administration, HHS.

The Health Care Financing

Administration (HCFA), Department of

Health and Human Services, has

submitted to OMB the following

proposals for the collection of

information in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (Public Law

96–511).

1. Type of Information Collection:

Reinstatement; Type of Review

Requested: Regular submission; Title of

Information Collection: Provider

Reimbursement Manual Sections 2721,

2722, and 2725; Form No.: HCFA–9044;

Use: The requirements in the Manual

describe justification for submitting an

exception request to ESRD composite

rates for outpatient dialysis services;

Respondents: Business or other for

profit, Federal agencies or employees/

Non-profit institutions and Small

businesses or organizations; Obligation

to Respond: Required to obtain or retain

benefit; Number of Respondents: 400;

Total Annual Responses: 400; Total

Annual Hours Requested: 19,200.

2. Type of Information Collection:

Reinstatement, with change, of a

previously approved collection; Type of

Review Requested: Regular submission;

Title of Information Collection:

Medicare Home Health Agency

Conditions of Participation; Form No.:

HCFA–R–39; Use: Home Health

Agencies to participate in Medicare are

required to maintain this information to

show compliance with published health

and safety; Respondents: State or local

governments and Business or other forprofit; Obligation to Respond: Required

to obtain or retain benefit; Number of

Respondents: 8,039; Total Annual

Responses: 8,039; Total Annual Hours

Requested: 69.498.

Additional Information or Comments:

Call the Reports Clearance Office on

(410) 966–5536 for copies of the

clearance request packages. Written

comments and recommendations for the

proposed information collections

should be sent within 30 days of this

notice directly to the OMB Desk Officer

designated at the following address:

OMB Human Resources and Housing

Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: February 3, 1995.

Kathleen B. Larson,

Director, Management Planning and Analysis

Staff, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Health Care Financing

Administration.

[FR Doc. 95–3286 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4120–03–M

[HSQ–223–N]

CLIA Program; Approval of the College

of American Pathologists

AGENCY: Health Care Financing

Administration (HCFA), HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

approval of the College of American

Pathologists (CAP) as an accrediting