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January 23, 2009, pp. 4199–4201) are 

shown in the table below. 

2009 HHS POVERTY GUIDELINES

Persons 

in family or household 

48 Contiguous 

States and DC Alaska Hawaii 

1 ................................................................................................................................................... $10,830 $13,530 $12,460 

2 ................................................................................................................................................... 14,570 18,210 16,760 

3 ................................................................................................................................................... 18,310 22,890 21,060 

4 ................................................................................................................................................... 22,050 27,570 25,360 

5 ................................................................................................................................................... 25,790 32,250 29,660 

6 ................................................................................................................................................... 29,530 36,930 33,960 

7 ................................................................................................................................................... 33,270 41,610 38,260 

8 ................................................................................................................................................... 37,010 46,290 42,560 

For each additional person, add .................................................................................................. 3,740 4,680 4,300 

Source: FEDERAL REGISTER, Vol. 74, No. 14, January 23, 2009, pp. 4199–4201. 

These guidelines are updated 

periodically. 

Criteria for Donor Reimbursement 

1. Any individual who in good faith 

incurs travel and other qualifying 

expenses toward the intended donation 

of an organ. 

2. Donor and recipient of the organ 

are U.S. citizens or lawfully admitted 

residents of the U.S. 

3. Donor and recipient have primary 

residences in the U.S. or its territories. 

4. Travel is originating from the 

donor’s primary residence. 

5. Donor and recipient certify that 

they understand and are in compliance 

with Section 301 of NOTA (42 U.S.C. 

274e) which states in part ‘‘* * * It 

shall be unlawful for any person to 

knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise 

transfer any human organ for valuable 

consideration for use in human 

transplantation if the transfer affects 

interstate commerce.’’ 

6. The transplant center where the 

donation procedure occurs certifies to 

its status of good standing with the 

Organ Procurement and Transplantation 

Network (OPTN). 

Qualifying Expenses 

For the purposes of the 

Reimbursement of Travel and 

Subsistence Expenses toward Living 

Organ Donation Program, qualifying 

expenses presently include only travel, 

lodging, and meals and incidental 

expenses incurred by the donor and/or 

his/her accompanying person(s) as part 

of: 

(1) Donor evaluation and/or 

(2) Hospitalization for the living 

donor surgical procedure, and/or 

(3) Medical or surgical follow-up, 

clinic visits, or hospitalization within 2 

calendar years following the living 

donation procedure (or beyond the 2- 

year period if exceptional circumstances 

exist). 

The Program will pay for a total of up 

to five trips; three for the donor and two 

for accompanying persons. However, in 

cases in which the transplant center 

requests the donor to return to the 

transplant center for additional visits as 

a result of donor complications or other 

health related issues, NLDAC may 

provide reimbursement for the 

additional visit(s) for the donor and an 

accompanying person. The 

accompanying persons need not be the 

same in each trip. 

The total Federal reimbursement for 

qualified expenses during the donation 

process for the donor and accompanying 

individuals shall not exceed $6,000.00. 

Reimbursement for qualifying expenses 

shall be provided at the Federal perdiem rate, except for hotel 

accommodation, which shall be 

reimbursed at no more than 150 percent 

of the Federal per diem rate. 

For donor and recipient pairs 

participating in a paired exchange 

program, the applicable eligibility 

criteria for the originally intended 

recipient shall be considered for the 

purpose of reimbursement of qualifying 

donor expenses even though the final 

recipient of the donated organ may not 

be the recipient identified in the 

original donor-recipient pair. 

Maximum Number of Prospective 

Donors per Recipient 

• Kidney: one donor at a time with a 

maximum of three donors 

• Liver: one donor at a time with a 

maximum of five donors 

• Lung: two donors at a time with a 

maximum of six donors 

Special Provisions 

Many factors may prevent the 

intended and willing donor from 

proceeding with the donation. 

Circumstances that would prevent the 

transplant or donation from proceeding 

include: Present health status of the 

intended donor or recipient, perceived 

long-term risks to the intended donor, 

justified circumstances such as acts of 

God (e.g., major storms or hurricanes), 

or a circumstance when an intended 

donor proceeds toward donation in 

good faith, subject to a case-by-case 

evaluation by the NLDAC, but then 

elects not to pursue donation. In such 

cases, the intended donor and 

accompanying persons may receive 

reimbursement for qualified expenses 

incurred as if the donation had been 

completed. Under Program policy, a 

form will be filed with the Internal 

Revenue Service (IRS) reporting funds 

disbursed as income for expenses not 

incurred. 

Dated: June 10, 2009. 

Mary K. Wakefield, 

Administrator. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Science and Technology Directorate; 

Notice of Public Meeting of the Project 

25 Compliance Assessment Program 

Governing Board 

AGENCY: Science and Technology 

Directorate, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office for 

Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) 

will hold a public meeting of its Project 

25 (P25) Compliance Assessment 

Program (CAP) Governing Board (GB). 

The P25 CAP GB is composed of public 

sector officials who are involved in the 

procurement of P25 equipment. The 

purpose of the meeting is to collect 

comments from individual P25 CAP GB 

members on the proposed Compliance 

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Assessment Bulletins (CABs). 

Additionally, comments are sought on 

the inclusion of tests for the P25 InterRadio Frequency Subsystem Interface 

(ISSI) in the P25 CAP process. 

The proposed CABs will be posted on 

http://www.safecomprogram.gov. Public 

comments on these documents and the 

Program are encouraged and will be 

collected through the Web site prior to 

the meeting. Public comments will also 

be received during the session, as time 

permits. DHS OIC will post details of 

the meeting, including the agenda, ten 

business days in advance of the meeting 

at http://www.safecomprogram.gov. The 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION in this 

Notice provides background information 

on the P25 suite of standards and the 

establishment of the P25 CAP. 

DATES: The meeting will take place on 

Tuesday, June 23, 2009, from 1 p.m. to 

2 p.m. (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The session will take place 

via conference call. To participate, 

please send an e-mail to 

Jen_Menaker@sra.com by June 22, 2009, 

for access information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Luke Berndt, Department of Homeland 

Security, Science and Technology 

Directorate, Office for Interoperability 

and Compatibility, Washington Navy 

Yard, 245 Murray Lane, SW., Building 

#410, Washington, DC 20528. 

Telephone: (202) 254–5332. E-mail: 

Luke.Berndt@hq.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Emergency responders—emergency 

medical technicians, fire personnel, and 

law enforcement officers—need to 

seamlessly exchange communications 

across disciplines and jurisdictions in 

order to successfully respond to day-today incidents and large-scale 

emergencies. P25 focuses on developing 

standards that allow radios and other 

components to interoperate, regardless 

of the manufacturer. In turn, these 

standards enable emergency responders 

to seamlessly exchange critical 

communications with other disciplines 

and jurisdictions. 

An initial goal of P25 is to specify 

formal standards for interfaces between 

the components of a land mobile radio 

(LMR) system. LMR systems are 

commonly used by emergency 

responders in portable handheld and 

mobile vehicle-mounted devices. 

Although formal standards are being 

developed, no process is currently in 

place to confirm that LMR equipment 

advertised as P25-compliant meets all 

aspects of P25 standards. 

To address discrepancies between P25 

standards and industry equipment, 

Congress passed legislation calling for 

the creation of the P25 CAP. The P25 

CAP is a partnership between the DHS 

Command, Control and Interoperability 

Division; the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s National Institute of 

Standards and Technology; industry; 

and the emergency response 

community. 

The P25 CAP provides an 

independent process for evaluating P25 

equipment for standards compliance 

and interoperability across 

manufacturers. By providing 

manufacturers with a method to test 

their equipment for compliance with 

P25 standards, the P25 CAP helps 

emergency response officials make 

informed purchasing decisions. 

The P25 CAP requires test laboratories 

to demonstrate their competence 

through a rigorous and objective 

assessment process. Such a process 

promotes the user community’s 

confidence in, and acceptance of, test 

results from DHS-recognized 

laboratories. All equipment suppliers 

that participate in the P25 CAP must use 

recognized laboratories to conduct 

performance, conformance, and 

interoperability tests on their products. 

P25 equipment suppliers will release 

Summary Test Reports and Suppliers 

Declarations of Compliance based on 

testing from laboratories recognized by 

DHS. This documentation will assure 

the public that P25 equipment complies 

with established standards. 

Created by DHS OIC, CABs describe 

how the P25 CAP operates and address 

issues related to the Program. The scope 

of a CAB can range from policy to 

guidance, covering issues such as 

specific test standards to be used for a 

particular P25 interface, or P25 LMR 

Request for Proposal guidance. During 

the upcoming meeting, updates to two 

CABs will be discussed. The CAB 

updates are as follows: 

• Summary Test Report 

Requirements—This CAB has been 

updated to include the identification of 

which vocoder is present in the product 

being tested. The format of the 

document has been restructured in 

order to accommodate additional P25 

interfaces that will be added to the 

Program in the future. 

• Supplier’s Declaration of 

Compliance Requirements—This CAB 

has been updated to include the 

identification of which vocoder is 

present in the product being tested. 

Draft versions of these two CABs are 

available at: http:// 

www.safecomprogram.gov. Public 

comments on the updates to these 

documents are encouraged and can be 

submitted through the Web site prior to 

the meeting. 

There will be additional discussion 

on the creation of a new CAB regarding 

the inclusion of the ISSI interface in the 

Program. Discussion will focus on the 

timeline for inclusion of the interface as 

well as which tests should be required. 

Public comments on this topic can be 

submitted through the Web site prior to 

the meeting. Public comments will also 

be received during the session, as time 

permits. 

More information about the P25 CAP 

is available at http:// 

www.safecomprogram.gov. 

Dated: June 8, 2009. 

Bradley I. Buswell, 

Under Secretary (Acting), Science and 

Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2009–0001] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and 

request for comments; revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection; OMB No. 1660–0097; FEMA 

Form—None. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) has 

submitted the information collection 

abstracted below to the Office of 

Management and Budget for review and 

clearance in accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The submission 

describes the nature of the information 

collection, the categories of 

respondents, the estimated burden (i.e., 

the time, effort and resources used by 

respondents to respond) and cost, and 

includes the actual data collection 

instruments FEMA will use. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 20, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the proposed information collection 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget. Comments 

should be addressed to the Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, and sent via 

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