Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 131 / Monday, July 8, 1996 / Notices 35733

encouraged and invited on or before

August 22, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Rules Docket Clerk,

Office of the General Counsel, Federal

Emergency Management Agency, room

840, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC

20472; (facsimile)(202) 646–4536.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: O.

Megs Hepler, III, Director, Exercises

Division, Preparedness, Training, and

Exercises Directorate, Federal

Emergency Management Agency,

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2867.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

mission of FEMA’s REP Program, which

was established in 1979, is to protect the

health and safety of the public residing

in the vicinity of a commercial nuclear

power plant by ensuring that all levels

of government have planned and

prepared for their response to a possible

radiological incident at the plant. As the

REP Program has matured, a number of

REP Program stakeholders have

recommended that the program be

restructured in order to become more

streamlined and efficient. In light of

stakeholders’ recommendations and the

fact that the REP Program has been in

existence for over 16 years, FEMA

intends to initiate a comprehensive

strategic review of the way its offsite

radiological emergency planning and

preparedness responsibilities are

performed.

This comprehensive strategic review

will examine the various mechanisms,

policies, procedures, guidance

documents, and processes now used to

carry out FEMA’s REP Program, with a

view to improving the efficiency and

effectiveness of the program by

implementing new policies, procedures,

processes and guidance, if necessary.

The review will further National

Performance Review goals, will be

closely coordinated with the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and

will provide for extensive input from all

stakeholders in the REP community—

States, utilities, Public Interest Research

Groups, interested citizens, other

Federal agencies, Congress, etc. The

strategic review will also ensure that

REP activities are consistent with the

current requirements of the Government

Performance Review Act.

As a first step, FEMA is publishing

this Federal Register notice announcing

its intent to conduct the comprehensive

strategic review and requesting

comments from any interested parties.

FEMA welcomes suggestions as to

approaches to take in performing this

review, as well as specific suggestions

on how to streamline the REP program

and make it more cost-effective.

When submitting recommendations,

commenters should note that the

resulting REP Program must still

accomplish the program’s original

mission, i.e., it must continue to ensure

that measures can be taken to protect

the health and safety of the public in the

vicinity of commercial nuclear power

plants in the event of a radiological

incident.

Dated: June 28, 1996.

James Lee Witt,

Director.

[FR Doc. 96–17293 Filed 7–5–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6718–05–P

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Ocean Freight Forwarder License

Applicants

Notice is hereby given that the

following applicants have filed with the

Federal Maritime Commission

applications for licenses as ocean freight

forwarders pursuant to section 19 of the

Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. app.

1718 and 46 CFR part 510).

Persons knowing of any reason why

any of the following applicants should

not receive a license are requested to

contact the Office of Freight Forwarders,

Federal Maritime Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20573.

Foreign Cargo International, Inc., 8420

N.W. 58th Street, Miami, FL 33166,

Officer: Enrique E. Ros, Jr., President.

Happy International Corp., 147–48

175th Street, Jamaica, NY 11434,

Officer: Gordon Kuo, President.

Air & Ocean Shipping, Inc., 1551

Carmen Drive, Elk Grove Village, IL

60007, Officers: Ingo Wagschal,

President, Guenter Fischer, Board of

Directors.

Marlins Consolidators, Inc., d/b/a,

International Cargo Services, 8333

N.W. 66th Street, Miami, FL 33166,

Officers: Sarah E. Dion, President,

Carmen I. Garcia, Vice President.

Reliable Van & Storage Co., Inc., 550

Division Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07201,

Officers: Pat J. Toscano, President,

Peter J. Toscano, CEO.

Dated: July 2, 1996.

Joseph C. Polking,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–17247 Filed 7–5–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6730–01–M

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. Once the application 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 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,

including whether the acquisition of the

nonbanking company 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 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, nonbanking

activities will be conducted throughout

the United States.

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 August 1, 1996.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (Lloyd W. Bostian, Jr., Senior

Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street,

Richmond, Virginia 23261:

1. Carolina Fincorp, Inc.,

Rockingham, North Carolina; to become