30-Day notice of submission of "Federal Home Loan Bank Directors" information collection for OMB Approval

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FCC 11–50, the Commission adopted
rules that relate to the implementation
of section 224 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, regarding
access to poles that are owned or
controlled by utilities. Under the
Commission’s rules, utilities must
provide cable television systems and
telecommunications carriers
(collectively, ‘‘attachers’’) with nondiscriminatory access to attach facilities
to poles, ducts, conduits, or rights-ofway owned or controlled by the utilities
(collectively, ‘‘pole attachments’’).
However, utilities may deny in writing
those pole attachment applications
where there is insufficient capacity on
a pole, or for reasons of safety,
reliability, and generally applicable
engineering purposes. Commission rules
also create a series of deadlines or
‘‘timelines’’ by which attachers request
and receive permission from utilities for
pole attachments. The first stage of the
timeline requires utilities to survey the
requested poles where access is
requested and to perform an engineering
analysis. Utilities may notify attachers
when they have completed their surveys
of the affected poles. With regard to the
second stage of the timeline, utilities
must present to attachers an estimate of
charges for preparing a pole for a new
attachment (‘‘make-ready’’ work). With
regard to the make-ready stage of the
timeline, utilities are required to send
notices of impending make-ready work
to entities with existing attachments on
the pole. Such notification letters are
sent when a make-ready schedule is
established. If the make-ready period is
interrupted, or if the pole owner asserts
its right to a 15-day extension of time to
perform make-ready work, then
notification letters also are required
from the utility to the new attacher.
Additionally, the Order adopted a
rule requiring utilities to make available
and keep up-to-date a reasonably
sufficient list of approved contractors to
perform surveys and make-ready work
in the communications space of a utility
pole. If an attacher uses a utilityapproved contractor, then it must notify
the utility and invite the utility to send
a representative to oversee the work.
Finally, the Order also broadened the
existing enforcement process by
permitting incumbent local exchange
carriers (LECs) to file complaints
alleging that the pole attachment rates,
terms, or conditions demanded by
utilities are unjust or unreasonable. If an
incumbent LEC can demonstrate that it
is similarly situated to an attacher that
is a telecommunications carrier or a
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attachment agreements), then it can gain
comparable pole attachment rates,
terms, and condition as the similarlysituated carrier. The paperwork burdens
for this provision are contained in OMB
Collection No. 3060–0392. The Order
also encourages incumbent LECs that
benefit from lower pole attachment
costs to file data at the Commission that
demonstrate that the benefits are being
passed on to consumers.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–27555 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6712–01–P

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
Designated Reserve Ratio for 2018
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice of Designated Reserve
Ratio for 2018.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act, the Board of
Directors of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation designates that
the Designated Reserve Ratio (DRR) for
the Deposit Insurance Fund shall
remain at 2 percent for 2018. The Board
is publishing this notice as required by
section 7(b)(3)(A)(i) of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munsell St. Clair, Chief, Banking and
Regulatory Policy Section, Division of
Insurance and Research, (202) 898–
8967; Robert Grohal, Chief, Fund
Analysis and Pricing Section, Division
of Insurance and Research, (202) 898–
6939; or Sheikha Kapoor, Senior
Counsel, Legal Division, (202) 898–
3960.
SUMMARY:

Dated at Washington, DC, on September
27, 2017.
By order of the Board of Directors.
Valerie J. Best,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–27539 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6714–01–P

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE
AGENCY
[No. 2017–N–10]

Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
AGENCY:

Federal Housing Finance

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30-Day notice of submission of
information collection for approval from
Office of Management and Budget.

ACTION:

In accordance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA
or the Agency) is seeking public
comments concerning an information
collection known as ‘‘Federal Home
Loan Bank Directors,’’ which has been
assigned control number 2590–0006 by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). FHFA intends to submit the
information collection to OMB for
review and approval of a three-year
extension of the control number, which
is due to expire on December 31, 2017.
DATES: Interested persons may submit
comments on or before January 22,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs of the Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
Federal Housing Finance Agency,
Washington, DC 20503, Fax: (202) 395–
3047, Email: OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please also submit
comments to FHFA, identified by
‘‘Proposed Collection; Comment
Request: ‘Federal Home Loan Bank
Directors, (No. 2017–N–10)’’’ by any of
the following methods:
• Agency Website: www.fhfa.gov/
open-for-comment-or-input.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments. If
you submit your comment to the
Federal eRulemaking Portal, please also
send it by email to FHFA at
RegComments@fhfa.gov to ensure
timely receipt by the agency.
• Mail/Hand Delivery: Federal
Housing Finance Agency, Eighth Floor,
400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC
20219, ATTENTION: Proposed
Collection; Comment Request: ‘‘Federal
Home Loan Bank Directors, (No. 2017–
N–10)’’.
We will post all public comments we
receive without change, including any
personal information you provide, such
as your name and address, email
address, and telephone number, on the
FHFA website at http://www.fhfa.gov. In
addition, copies of all comments
received will be available for
examination by the public through the
electronic comment docket for this PRA
Notice also located on the FHFA
website.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Sweeney, Senior Management
Analyst, Division of Bank Regulation, by
email at Patricia.Sweeney@fhfa.gov or
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by telephone at (202) 649–3311; or Eric
Raudenbush, Associate General
Counsel, Eric.Raudenbush@fhfa.gov,
(202) 649–3084 (these are not toll-free
numbers); Federal Housing Finance
Agency, 400 Seventh Street SW,
Washington, DC 20219. The
Telecommunications Device for the
Hearing Impaired is (800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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A. Need for and Use of the Information
Collection
Section 7 of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Act (Bank Act) vests the
management of each Federal Home Loan
Bank (Bank) in its board of directors.1
As required by section 7, each Bank’s
board comprises two types of directors:
(1) Member directors, who are drawn
from the officers and directors of
member institutions located in the
Bank’s district and who are elected to
represent members in a particular state
in that district; and (2) independent
directors, who are unaffiliated with any
of the Bank’s member institutions, but
who reside in the Bank’s district and are
elected on an at-large basis.2 Both types
of directors serve four-year terms, which
are staggered so that approximately onequarter of a Bank’s total directorships
are up for election every year.3 Section
7 and FHFA’s implementing regulation,
codified at 12 CFR part 1261, establish
the eligibility requirements for both
types of Bank directors and the
professional qualifications for
independent directors, and set forth the
procedures for their election.
Part 1261 of the regulations requires
that each Bank administer its own
annual director election process. As part
of this process, a Bank must require
each nominee for both types of
directorship, including any incumbent
that may be a candidate for re-election,
to complete and return to the Bank a
form that solicits information about the
candidate’s statutory eligibility to serve
and, in the case of independent director
candidates, about his or her professional
qualifications for the directorship being
sought.4 Specifically, member director
candidates are required to complete the
Federal Home Loan Bank Member
Director Eligibility Certification Form
(Member Director Eligibility
Certification Form), while independent
director candidates must complete the
Federal Home Loan Bank Independent
Director Application Form (Independent
Director Application Form).
12 U.S.C. 1427(a)(1).
12 U.S.C. 1427(b) and (d).
3 See 12 U.S.C. 1427(d).
4 See 12 CFR 1261.7(c) and (f); 12 CFR 1261.14(b).

Each Bank must also require all of its
incumbent directors to certify annually
that they continue to meet all eligibility
requirements.5 Member directors do this
by completing the Member Director
Eligibility Certification Form again every
year, while independent directors
complete the abbreviated Federal Home
Loan Bank Independent Director
Annual Certification Form (Independent
Director Annual Certification Form) to
certify their ongoing eligibility.
The Banks use the information
collection contained in the Independent
Director Application Form and part
1261 to determine whether individuals
who wish to stand for election or reelection as independent directors satisfy
the statutory eligibility requirements
and possess the professional
qualifications required under the statute
and regulations. Only individuals
meeting those eligibility requirements
and qualifications may serve as an
independent director.6 On an annual
basis, the Banks use the information
collection contained in the Independent
Director Annual Certification Form and
part 1261 to determine whether their
incumbent independent directors
continue to meet the statutory eligibility
requirements.
The Banks use the information
collection contained in the Member
Director Eligibility Certification Form
and part 1261 to determine whether
individuals who wish to stand for
election or re-election as member
directors satisfy the statutory eligibility
requirements. Only individuals meeting
these requirements may serve as a
member director.7 On an annual basis,
the Banks also use the information
collection contained in the Member
Director Eligibility Certification Form
and part 1261 to determine whether
their incumbent member directors
continue to meet the statutory eligibility
requirements.
The OMB control number for this
information collection is 2590–0006 and
the current PRA clearance expires on
December 31, 2017. The likely
respondents are individuals who are
prospective and incumbent Bank
directors. The three Bank director forms
that FHFA will be submitting to OMB
for review, copies of which appear at
the end of this notice, are substantively
identical to those that are currently
approved under the PRA. However,
FHFA is considering major revisions to
each of the forms and expects to publish
another set of PRA notices regarding the
revised forms and to submit the revised

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12 CFR 1261.12.
12 U.S.C. 1427(a)(3).
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forms to OMB for review and clearance
under the PRA in the near future.
B. Burden Estimate
FHFA estimates the total annual hour
burden imposed upon respondents by
the three Bank director forms
comprising this information collection
to be 145 hours (37 hours + 75 hours +
33 hours = 145 hours, as detailed
below).
The Agency estimates the total annual
hour burden on all member director
candidates and incumbent member
directors associated with review and
completion of the Member Director
Eligibility Certification Form to be 37
hours. This includes a total annual
average of 68 member director
candidates, with 1 response per
individual taking an average of 15
minutes (.25 hours) (68 respondents ×
.25 hours = 17 hours). It also includes
a total annual average of 80 incumbent
member directors, with 1 response per
individual taking an average of 15
minutes (.25 hours) (80 individuals ×
.25 hours = 20 hours).
The Agency estimates the total annual
hour burden on all independent director
candidates associated with review and
completion of the Independent Director
Application Form to be 75 hours. This
includes a total annual average of 25
independent director candidates, with 1
response per individual taking an
average of 3 hours (25 individuals × 3
hours = 75 hours).
The Agency estimates the total annual
hour burden on all incumbent
independent directors associated with
review and completion of the
Independent Director Annual
Certification Form to be 33 hours. This
includes a total annual average of 66
incumbent independent directors, with
1 response per individual taking an
average of 30 minutes (.5 hours) (66
individuals × .5 hours = 33 hours).
C. Comments Request
In accordance with the requirements
of 5 CFR 1320.8(d), FHFA published a
request for public comments regarding
this information collection in the
Federal Register on October 12, 2017.8
The 60-day comment period closed on
December 11, 2017. FHFA received two
comments, neither of which addressed
any aspect of this information collection
or the PRA.
In accordance with the requirements
of 5 CFR 1320.10(a), FHFA is publishing
this second notice to request comments
regarding the following: (1) Whether the
collection of information is necessary
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functions, including whether the
information has practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of FHFA’s estimates of the
burdens of the collection of information;
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Dated: December 19, 2017.
Kevin Winkler,
Chief Information Officer, Federal Housing
Finance Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

[FR Doc. 2017–27629 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 8070–01–C

Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request

Notice of Agreement Filed

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The Commission hereby gives notice
of the filing of the following agreement
under the Shipping Act of 1984.
Interested parties may submit comments
on the agreement to the Secretary,
Federal Maritime Commission,
Washington, DC 20573, within twelve
days of the date this notice appears in
the Federal Register. A copy of the
agreement is available through the
Commission’s website (www.fmc.gov) or
by contacting the Office of Agreements
at (202) 523–5793 or tradeanalysis@
fmc.gov.
Agreement No.: 012439–002.
Title: THE Alliance Agreement.
Parties: Hapag-Lloyd AG and HapagLloyd USA LLC (acting as one party);
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.; Mitsui
O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.; Nippon Yusen
Kaisha; and Yang Ming Marine
Transport Corp and Yang Ming (UK)
Ltd. (acting as one party).
Filing Party: Joshua Stein, Cozen
O’Conner, 1200 Nineteenth Street NW,
Washington, DC 20036.
Synopsis: The Amendment revises the
Agreement to provide for the transition
that will occur following the acquisition
of the assets of the container liner
operations of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha,
Ltd.; Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.; and
Nippon Yusen Kaisha by a new
company known as Ocean Network
Express Pte. Ltd. effective April 1, 2018.
Ocean Network Express Pte. Ltd. is
added as a party effective on the date of
the transition referenced above. In
addition, the Amendment adds Yang
Ming (UK) Ltd. as a party (operating as
a single party with Yang Ming Marine
Transport Corp.) and adds Guatemala
and India to the geographic scope of the
Agreement.
By Order of the Federal Maritime
Commission.
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Rachel E. Dickon,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–27640 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
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Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
changes to the currently approved
information collection project: ‘‘Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Household Component and the MEPS
Medical Provider Component.’’
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed changes to
questions asked of household
respondents, data collection
instruments, collection plans, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Proposed Project
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
(MEPS) Household Component (HC)
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
For over thirty years, results from the
MEPS and its predecessor surveys (the
1977 National Medical Care
Expenditure Survey, the 1980 National
Medical Care Utilization and
Expenditure Survey and the 1987
National Medical Expenditure Survey)
have been used by OMB, DHHS,
Congress and a wide number of health
services researchers to analyze health
care use, expenses and health policy.
Major changes continue to take place
in the health care delivery system. The
MEPS is needed to provide information
about the current state of the health care
system as well as to track changes over
time. The MEPS permits annual
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expenditures and sources of payment
for that health care. It also permits
tracking individual change in
employment, income, health insurance
and health status over two years. The
use of the National Health Interview
Survey (NHIS) as a sampling frame
expands the MEPS analytic capacity by
providing another data point for
comparisons over time.
Households selected for participation
in the MEPS–HC are interviewed five
times in person. These rounds of
interviewing are spaced about 5 months
apart. The interview will take place
with a family respondent who will
report for him/herself and for other
family members.
The only change to the MEPS–HC
from the previous OMB clearance is an
update to the existing Adult SelfAdministered Questionnaire (SAQ).
The MEPS–HC has the following goal:
D To provide nationally representative
estimates for the U.S. civilian
noninstitutionalized population for:
• Health care use, expenditures,
sources of payment
• health insurance coverage
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
(MEPS) Medical Provider Component
(MPC)
The MEPS–MPC will contact medical
providers (hospitals, physicians, home
health agencies and institutions)
identified by household respondents in
the MEPS–HC as sources of medical
care for the time period covered by the
interview, and all pharmacies providing
prescription drugs to household
members during the covered time
period. The MEPS–MPC is not designed
to yield national estimates as a standalone survey. The sample is designed to
target the types of individuals and
providers for whom household reported
expenditure data was expected to be
insufficient. For example, Medicaid
enrollees are targeted for inclusion in
the MEPS–MPC because this group is
expected to have limited information
about payments for their medical care.
The MEPS–MPC collects event level
data about medical care received by
sampled persons during the relevant
time period. The data collected from
medical providers include:
• Dates on which medical encounters
occurred during the reference period
• Data on the medical content of each
encounter, including ICD–9 (or ICD–
10) and CPT–4 codes
• Data on the charges associated with
each encounter, such as the sources
paying for the medical care-including
the patient/family, public sources,
and private insurance, and amounts
paid by each source

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