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authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. Sections 154 

and 309(j) of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 30 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $2,000. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this information collection 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) after this 60 day comment period 

in order to obtain the full three year 

clearance from them. The Commission 

is requesting an extension (no change in 

the reporting and/or recordkeeping 

requirements) of this information 

collection. There is a change in the 

number of respondents since this was 

last submitted to OMB for approval. The 

estimated number of respondents has 

decreased by 980 fewer respondents; 

and 1,470 hourly burden reduction 

adjustments. The Commission is also 

reporting a $98,000 annual cost decrease 

since the 2006 submission. 

Section 90.621(b)(4) allows stations to 

be licensed at distances less than those 

prescribed in the Short-Spacing 

Separation Table where applicants 

‘‘secure a waiver’’. Applicants seeking a 

waiver in these circumstances are still 

required to submit with their 

application an interference analysis, 

based upon any of the generallyaccepted terrain-based propagation 

models, demonstrating that co-channel 

stations would receive the same or 

greater interference protection than 

provided in the Short-Spacing 

Separation Table. 

Section 90.621(b)(5) permits stations 

to be located closer than the required 

separation, so long as the applicant 

provides letters of concurrence 

indicating that the applicant and each 

co-channel licensee within the specified 

separation agree to accept any 

interference resulting from the reduced 

separation between systems. Applicants 

are still required to file such 

concurrence letters with the 

Commission. Additionally, the 

Commission did not eliminate filings 

required by provisions such as 

international agreements, its 

environmental (National Environmental 

Protection Act (NEPA)) rules, its 

antenna structure registration rules, or 

quiet zone notification/filing 

procedures. 

Section 90.693 requires that 800 MHz 

incumbent Specialized Mobile Radio 

(SMR) service licensees ‘‘notify the 

Commission within 30 days of any 

changes in technical parameters or 

additional stations constructed that fall 

within the short-spacing criteria.’’ It has 

been standard practice for incumbents 

to notify the Commission of all changes 

and additional stations constructed in 

cases where such stations are in fact 

located less than the required 70 mile 

distance separation, and are therefore 

technically ‘‘short-spaced’’, but are in 

fact fully compliant with the parameters 

of the Commission’s Short-Spacing 

Separation Table. 

The Commission uses this 

information to determine whether to 

grant licenses to applicants making 

‘‘minor modifications’’ to their systems 

which do not satisfy mileage separation 

requirements pursuant to the ShortSpacing Separation Table. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–11209 Filed 5–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Announcement of Board 

Approval Under Delegated Authority 

and Submission to OMB 

SUMMARY: Background. Notice is hereby 

given of the final approval of proposed 

information collections by the Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System (Board) under OMB delegated 

authority, as per 5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB 

Regulations on Controlling Paperwork 

Burdens on the Public). Board-approved 

collections of information are 

incorporated into the official OMB 

inventory of currently approved 

collections of information. Copies of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act Submission, 

supporting statements and approved 

collection of information instrument(s) 

are placed into OMB’s public docket 

files. The Federal Reserve may not 

conduct or sponsor, and the respondent 

is not required to respond to, an 

information collection that has been 

extended, revised, or implemented on or 

after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 

a currently valid OMB control number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Acting Federal Reserve Board 

Clearance Officer—Cynthia Ayouch— 

Division of Research and Statistics, 

Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551 

(202–452–3829). 

OMB Desk Officer—Shagufta Ahmed 

—Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, New Executive Office Building, 

Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503. 

Final approval under OMB delegated 

authority of the extension for three 

years, without revision of the following 

reports: 

1. Report title: The Senior Loan 

Officer Opinion Survey on Bank 

Lending Practices. 

Agency form number: FR 2018. 

OMB control number: 7100–0058. 

Frequency: Up to six times a year. 

Reporters: Large U.S. commercial 

banks and large U.S. branches and 

agencies of foreign banks. 

Annual reporting hours: 1,008 hours. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

2 hours. 

Number of respondents: 84. 

Small businesses are not affected. 

General description of report: This 

information collection is voluntary (12 

U.S.C. 225a, 248(a)(2), and 3105(c)(2)) 

and is given confidential treatment (5 

U.S.C. 552 (b)(4)). 

Abstract: The FR 2018 is conducted 

with a senior loan officer at each 

respondent bank, generally through a 

telephone interview, up to six times a 

year. The purpose of the survey is to 

provide qualitative and limited 

quantitative information on credit 

availability and demand, as well as 

evolving developments and lending 

practices in the U.S. loan markets. 

Consequently, a portion of the questions 

in each survey typically covers special 

Topics of timely interest. There is the 

option to survey other types of 

respondents (such as other depository 

institutions, bank holding companies, or 

other financial entities) should the need 

arise. The FR 2018 survey provides 

crucial information for monitoring and 

understanding the evolution of lending 

practices at banks and developments in 

credit markets. 

Current Actions: On February 26, 

2009, the Federal Reserve published a 

notice in the Federal Register (74 FR 

8794) requesting public comment for 60 

days on the extension, without revision, 

of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion 

Survey. The comment period for this 

notice expired on April 27, 2009. No 

comments were received. 

2. Report title: Senior Financial 

Officer Survey. 

Agency form number: FR 2023. 

OMB control number: 7100–0223. 

Frequency: Up to four times a year. 

Reporters: Large commercial banks. 

Annual reporting hours: 240 hours. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

1 hour. 

Number of respondents: 60. 

Small businesses are not affected. 

General description of report: This 

information collection is voluntary 

(U.S.C. 225a, 248(a), and 263). It has 

been anticipated that most, if not all, of 

the information to be collected on the 

FR 2023 would be exempt from 


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disclosure under subsection (b)(4) of the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552(b)(4). However, the confidentiality 

status of the survey would be 

determined on a case-by-case basis, 

when the specific questions to be asked 

on each particular survey are formulated 

but before respondents are contacted. 

Respondents will be informed of the 

confidentiality status of that particular 

survey, each time the survey would be 

conducted. 

Abstract: The 2023 requests 

qualitative and limited quantitative 

information about liability management, 

the provision of financial services, and 

the functioning of key financial markets 

from a selection of up to sixty large 

commercial banks (or, if appropriate, 

from other depository institutions or 

major financial market participants). 

Responses are obtained from a senior 

officer at each participating institution 

through a telephone interview. The 

survey is conducted when major 

informational needs arise and cannot be 

met from existing data sources. The 

survey does not have a fixed set of 

questions; each survey consists of a 

limited number of questions directed at 

topics of timely interest. The survey 

helps pinpoint developing trends in 

bank funding practices, enabling the 

Federal Reserve to distinguish these 

trends from transitory phenomena. 

Current Actions: On February 26, 

2009, the Federal Reserve published a 

notice in the Federal Register (74 FR 

8794) requesting public comment for 60 

days on the extension, without revision, 

of the Senior Financial Officer Survey. 

The comment period for this notice 

expired on April 27, 2009. No 

comments were received. 

3. Report titles: Quarterly Report of 

Interest Rates on Selected Direct 

Consumer Installment Loans and 

Quarterly Report of Credit Card Plans. 

Agency form numbers: FR 2835 and 

FR 2835a. 

OMB control number: 7100–0085. 

Frequency: Quarterly. 

Reporters: Commercial banks. 

Annual reporting hours: FR 2835, 132 

hours; and FR 2835a, 100 hours. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

FR 2835, 13.2 minutes; and FR 2835a, 

30 minutes. 

Number of respondents: FR 2835, 150; 

and FR 2835a, 50. 

Small businesses are not affected. 

General description of report: These 

information collections are voluntary 

(12 U.S.C. 248(a)(2)). The FR 2835a 

individual respondent data are given 

confidential treatment (5 U.S.C. 

552(b)(4)), the FR 2835 data however, is 

not given confidential treatment. 

Abstract: The FR 2835 collects 

information from a sample of 

commercial banks on interest rates 

charged on loans for new vehicles and 

loans for other consumer goods and 

personal expenses. The FR 2835a 

collects information on two measures of 

credit card interest rates from a sample 

of commercial banks with $1 billion or 

more in credit card receivables and a 

representative of smaller issuers. 

Current Actions: On February 26, 

2009, the Federal Reserve published a 

notice in the Federal Register (74 FR 

8794) requesting public comment for 60 

days on the extension, without revision, 

of the Senior Financial Officer Survey. 

The comment period for this notice 

expired on April 27, 2009. The Federal 

Reserve received one comment from a 

federal agency describing its use of the 

FR 2835 and FR 2835a data to prepare 

monthly, quarterly, and annual 

estimates of personal interest payments, 

a component of personal outlays in the 

national income and product accounts. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, May 11, 2009. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–11275 Filed 5–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Granting of Request for Early 

Termination of the Waiting Period 

Under the Premerger Notification 

Rules 

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 

U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the 

Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust 

Improvements Act of 1976, requires 

persons contemplating certain mergers 

or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General advance notice and to wait 

designated periods before 

consummation of such plans. Section 

7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, 

in individual cases, to terminate this 

waiting period prior to its expiration 

and requires that notice of this action be 

published in the Federal Register. 

The following transactions were 

granted early termination of the waiting 

period provided by law and the 

premerger notification rules. The grants 

were made by the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General for the Antitrust Division of the 

Department of Justice. Neither agency 

intends to take any action with respect 

to these proposed acquisitions during 

the applicable waiting period. 

Trans # Acquiring Acquired Entities 

Transactions Granted Early Termination—04/20/2009 

20090390 ......................... Sterling Capital Partners III, L.P ....... Nova Records Management, LLC ..... Capital Records Management, Incorporated; Garden State Consulting, 

LLC; Nova Records, Inc.; Nova 

Records, LLC; Records Management Corporation; Release of Information Solutions, Inc. 

Transactions Granted Early Termination—04/21/2009 

20090380 ......................... Deloitte LLP ....................................... BearingPoint, Inc ............................... BearingPoint, Inc. 

Transactions Granted Early Termination—04/22/2009 

20090378 ......................... Sanofi-Aventis ................................... BiPar Sciences, Inc ........................... BiPar Sciences, Inc. 

20090386 ......................... James R. Leininger, M.D. BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc ..... BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

Transactions Granted Early Termination—04/24/2009 

20090393 ......................... Williams Companies, Inc ................... Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P .............. Atlas Pipeline McKean, LLC; Atlas 

Pipeline New York, LLC. 


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