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Agency also requests that person(s)
submitting comments directly to the
docket also provide a copy of their
comments to the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. There is
no limit on the length of written
comments for consideration by the
HSRB.
E. Background
The EPA Human Studies Review
Board will be reviewing its draft report
from the April 4-6, 2006 HSRB meeting.
Background on the April 4-6, 2006
HSRB meeting can be found at 71 FR
12194 (March 9, 2006) and at the HSRB
Web site http://www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/.
Dated: May 16, 2006.
George Gray,
EPA Science Advisor.
[FR Doc. E6-7830 Filed 5-22-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL-8173-6; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0463]
External Review Draft, Application of
Equilibrium Partitioning Theory to Soil
PAH Contamination
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment
period.
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day
public comment period for the draft
document titled, "Application of
Equilibrium Partitioning Theory to Soil
PAH Contamination" (EPA/600/R-06/
035A). The document was prepared by
the Ecological Risk Assessment Support
Center managed by the National Center
for Environmental Assessment within
EPA's Office of Research and
Development.
EPA is releasing this draft document
solely for the purpose of pre-
dissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been
formally disseminated by EPA. It does
not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination. EPA will
consider any public comments
submitted in accordance with this
notice when revising the document.
DATES: The 30-day public comment
period begins May 23, 2006, and ends
June 22, 2006. Technical comments
should be in writing and must be
received by EPA by June 22, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The draft document,
"Application of Equilibrium
Partitioning Theory to Soil PAH
Contamination," is available primarily
via the Internet on the National Center
for Environmental Assessment's home
page under the Recent Additions and
Data and Publications menus at http://
www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of
paper copies are available from Ms.
Donna Tucker, Technical Information
Manager, NCEA-Cincinnati; telephone:
513-569-7257; facsimile: 513-569-
7916; e-mail: tucker.donna@epa.gov. If
you are requesting a paper copy, please
provide your name, your mailing
address, and the document title,
"Application of Equilibrium
Partitioning Theory to Soil PAH
Contamination".
Comments may be submitted
electronically via http://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the public comment
period, contact the Office of
Environmental Information Docket;
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile:
202-566-1753; or e-mail:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
For technical information, contact
Michael Kravitz, NCEA; telephone: 513-
569-7740; facsimile: 513-487-2540; or
e-mail: kravitz.michael@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Project/
Document
U.S. EPA's Ecological Risk
Assessment Support Center (ERASC) is
a knowledge center that provides
technical information and addresses
scientific questions on topics relevant to
ecological risk assessment at hazardous
waste sites for EPA's Office of Solid
Waste and Emergency Response
(OSWER) and Regional Superfund/
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA) staff. The topics are
submitted by users in the program office
and regions. The ERASC is managed by
the Office of Research and
Development's (ORD's) National Center
for Environmental Assessment and is
located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The ERASC recently completed an
external review draft of the document
titled, "Application of Equilibrium
Partitioning Theory to Soil PAH
Contamination". It addresses the issue
of whether equilibrium partitioning
techniques can be used to predict the
toxicity of PAH mixtures in soil.
II. How to Submit Technical Comments
to the Docket at http://
www.regulations .gov
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD 2006-
0463 by one of the following methods:
• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202-566-1753.
• Mail: Office of Environmental
Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code:
2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. The phone
number is 202-566-1752.
• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is
located in the EPA Headquarters Docket
Center, EPA West Building, Room B102,
1301 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744.
Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
If you provide comments in writing,
please submit one unbound original
with pages numbered consecutively,
and three copies of the comments. For
attachments, provide an index, number
pages consecutively with the comments,
and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
0463. It is EPA's policy to include all
comments it receives in the public
docket without change and to make the
comments available online at http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless a
comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information
(CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do
not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through http://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
http://www.regulations.gov Web site is
an "anonymous access" system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through http://
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the Internet. If you
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submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information
about EPA's public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at http://
www.epa.gov/epahorae/dockets.htrn.
Docket: Documents in the docket are
listed in the http://www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other materials, such as
copyrighted material, are publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in http://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters
Docket Center.
Dated: May 15, 2006.
George W. Alapas,
Deputy Director, National Center for
Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. E6-7835 Filed 5-22-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
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. The application also will 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
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
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 June 16, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice
President) 701 East Byrd Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
I. Capital One Financial Corporation,
McLean, Virginia; to merge with North
Fork Bancorporation, Inc., Melville,
New York, and thereby indirectly
acquire voting shares of North Fork
Bank, Mattituck, New York, and
Superior Savings of New England,
National Association, Branford,
Connecticut.
In connection with this application,
Applicant also has applied to acquire up
to 19.9 percent of the voting shares of
North Fork Bancorporation, Inc.,
Melville, New York.
In addition, North Fork
Bancorporation, Inc., Melville, New
York; has applied to acquire up to 19.9
percent of the voting shares of Capital
One Financial Corporation, McLean,
Virginia.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant Vice
President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198-0001:
I. Quay Bank Corp., Albuquerque,
New Mexico; to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 100 percent of
the voting shares of High Desert State
Bank, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director,
Regional and Community Bank Group)
101 Market Street, San Francisco,
California 94105-1579:
1. Concord Place, Inc., Nassau,
Bahamas; to become a bank holding
company by acquiring at least 76.6
percent of the voting shares of Los
Angeles National Bank, Buena Park,
California.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, May 18, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-7821 Filed 5-22-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Request for Applications for the
Mentoring Partnership Program—
Protege
AGENCY: Office on Women's Health,
Office of Public Health and Science,
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Announcement Type: Cooperative
Agreement—FY 2006 Initial
announcement.
Funding Opportunity Number: Not
applicable.
CFDA Number: 93.291.
DATES: To receive consideration,
applications must be received by the
Office of Grants Management, Office of
Public Health and Science (OPHS),
Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), no later than June 22,
2006.
Pre-site visits (if needed): August 21-
25, 2006. If the pre-site visits will
determine funding they will need to be
prior to July 15 (due date of funding
memos to Office of Grants
Management).
Award date: September 1, 2006.
SUMMARY: The Office on Women's
Health (OWH) within the Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS) is
the government's champion and focal
point for women's health issues, and
works to redress inequities in research,
health care services, and education that
have historically placed the health of
women at risk. The OWH coordinates
women's health efforts within DHHS to
eliminate disparities in health status
and supports culturally sensitive
educational programs that encourage
women to take personal responsibility
for their own health and wellness. To
that end, OWH has established public/
private partnerships to address critical
women's health issues nationwide,
namely mentoring partnerships (protege
and mentor) meant to strengthen the
capacity of non-profit organizations that
provide HIV/AIDS prevention services
to women at risk and/or living with
HIV/AIDS. Women of color represent
over 80 percent of the reported AIDS
cases. Younger women are increasingly
at higher risk for HIV/AIDS. Thus, the
Mentoring Partnership Program—
Protege intends to demonstrate how
small, non-profit, community-based,
faith-based, and women's service
organizations will be strengthened,
programs/service effectiveness
increased, and gender-focused and
culturally competent practices
instituted so that efforts to reach women
most at risk and/or living with HIV/
AIDS are increased. The non-profit
community-based, faith-based, and
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