33744 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 126 / Friday, June 28, 1996 / Notices

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 24, 1996.

William W. Wiles,

Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 96–16551 Filed 6–27–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

Notice of Proposal to Engage in

Permissible Nonbanking Activities.

Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, has given notice pursuant to

section 4(c)(8) of the Bank Holding

Company Act (12 USC 1843(c)(8)) (BHC

Act) and section 225.23 of the Board’s

Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.23), to engage

de novo through its subsidiary,

Information Services, Inc., Des Moines,

Iowa, in a joint venture with the

Boulder Area Board of Realtors, Inc.,

Boulder, Colorado, and the Longmont

Association of Realtors, Inc., Longmont,

Colorado, in providing data processing

services for a real estate database

(Company). The real estate information

services database would include real

estate/property records, which identify

each parcel of real property for all

counties within Colorado, and contain

information on the improvements made

on the parcel, its current ownership,

legal description, tax assessment, and

other information. Company also would

provide related services by owning and

operating an on-line computer system

capable of storing data necessary for a

public and private real estate/property

records database and by retrieving

information from the database in an

electrical impulse form or hard copy

form. Company proposes to conduct

these activities throughout Colorado.

Section 4(c)(8) of the BHC Act

provides that a bank holding company

may, with Board approval, engage in

any activity ‘‘which the Board after due

notice and opportunity for hearing has

determined (by order or regulation) to

be so closely related to banking or

managing or controlling banks as to be

a proper incident thereto . . . .’’ 12 USC

1843(c)(8). In publishing the proposal

for comment, the Board does not take a

position on issues raised by the

proposal. Notice of the proposal is

published solely in order to seek the

views of interested persons on the

issues presented by the notice, and does

not represent a determination by the

Board that the proposal meets or is

likely to meet the standards of the BHC

Act.

Any comments or requests for hearing

should be submitted in writing and

received by William W. Wiles,

Secretary, Board of Governors of the

Federal Reserve System, Washington,

D.C. 20551, no later than July 17, 1996.

Any request for a hearing on this

proposal must, as required by section

262.3(e) of the Boards Rules of

Procedure (12 CFR 262.3 (e)), be

accompanied by a statement of the

reasons why a written presentation

would not suffice in lieu of a hearing,

identifying specifically any questions of

fact that are in dispute, summarizing the

evidence that would be presented at a

hearing, and indicating how the party

commenting would be aggrieved by

approval of the proposal. The notice

may be inspected at the offices of the

Board of Governors or the Federal

Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 24, 1996.

William W. Wiles

Secretary of the Board

[FR Doc. 96–16548 Filed 6–27–96; 8:45am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

Notice of Proposals to Engage in

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or

to Acquire Companies that are

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking

Activities

The companies listed in this notice

have given notice under section 4 of the

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation

Y, (12 CFR part 225) to engage de novo,

or to acquire or control voting securities

or assets of a company that engages

either directly or through a subsidiary or

other company, in a nonbanking activity

that is listed in § 225.25 of Regulation

Y (12 CFR 225.25) or that the Board has

determined by Order to be closely

related to banking and permissible for

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.

Once the notice has been accepted for

processing, it will also 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, including whether

consummation of the proposal can

‘‘reasonably be expected to produce

benefits to the public, such as greater

convenience, increased competition, or

gains in efficiency, that outweigh

possible adverse effects, such as undue

concentration of resources, decreased or

unfair competition, conflicts of

interests, or unsound banking practices’’

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Any request for a

hearing on this question must be

accompanied by a statement of the

reasons a written presentation would

not suffice in lieu of a hearing,

identifying specifically any questions of

fact that are in dispute, summarizing the

evidence that would be presented at a

hearing, and indicating how the party

commenting would be aggrieved by

approval of the proposal.

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 July 12, 1996.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(James A. Bluemle, Vice President) 230

South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois

60690:

1. Marshall & Illsley Corporation,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin; to acquire

EastPoint Technology, Inc., Bedford,

New Hampshire, and thereby engage in

operating a data processing company,

pursuant to § 225.25(b)(7) of the Board’s

Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, June 24, 1996.

William W. Wiles,

Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 96–16550 Filed 6–27–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

has made final findings of scientific

misconduct in the following case:

Vipin Kumar, Ph.D., California

Institute of Technology: Based upon a

report forwarded to the Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) by the

California Institute of Technology

(C.I.T.) dated January 10, 1991, as well

as information obtained by ORI during

its oversight review, ORI found that

Vipin Kumar, Ph.D., formerly a scientist

at C.I.T., engaged in scientific

misconduct in biomedical research

supported by Public Health Service

(PHS) funds.

Specifically, ORI found that Dr.

Kumar committed scientific misconduct

by falsifying and/or fabricating Figures

2a and 2b in a scientific paper

published in the Journal of

Experimental Medicine, 170:2183–2188

(1989) (JEM paper). ORI accepted the

C.I.T. conclusion that Dr. Kumar ‘‘freely

admitted’’ that he mislabeled the lanes