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The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the office of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than February
12, 2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414:
1. Patricia L. Pierce, as an individual,
and Patricia L. Pierce and Oliver P.
Smith, both of Menasha, Wisconsin, as
a group acting in concert, to retain
voting shares of First Menasha
Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly
retain voting shares of First National
Bank–Fox Valley, both of Neenah,
Wisconsin.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, January 23, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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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 applications 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
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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 February 22,
2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice
President) 701 East Byrd Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528:
1. Community Bankers Acquisition
Corp., Great Falls, Virginia (to be
renamed Community Bankers Trust
Corporation); to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 100 percent of
the voting shares of TransCommunity
Financial Corporation, Glen Allen,
Virginia, and thereby indirectly acquire
voting shares of TransCommunity Bank,
National Association, Manakin–Sabot,
Virginia.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166–2034:
1. First National Bancorp, Inc., Green
Forest, Arkansas; to acquire additional
voting shares, for a total of 9.99 percent
of the voting shares of Legacy National
Bank, Springdale, Arkansas.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(W. Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–
2272:
1. Relationship Financial
Corporation; to become a bank holding
company by acquiring 100 percent of
the voting shares of Guadalupe National
Bank, both of Kerrville, Texas (in
organization).
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, January 23, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–10210]

Emergency Clearance: Public
Information Collection Requirements
Submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB)
Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS), Department of Health
and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of proposed
collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
We are, however, requesting an
emergency review of the information
collection referenced below. In
compliance with the requirement of
section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we have
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) the following
requirements for emergency review. We
are requesting an emergency review
because the collection of this
information is needed before the
expiration of the normal time limits
under OMB’s regulations at 5 CFR part
1320(a)(2)(ii). This is necessary to
ensure compliance with an initiative of
the Administration. We cannot
reasonably comply with the normal
clearance procedures because of an
unanticipated event, as stated in 5 CFR
1320.13(a)(2)(ii).
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Additional
Quality Measures and Procedures for
Hospital Reporting of Quality Data for
the FY 2009 IPPS Annual Payment
Update (Surgical Care Improvement
Project & Mortality Measures); Form
Number: CMS–10210 (OMB#: 0938–
1022); Use: The approval of this data
collection process is essential to meet
the requirements of Section 404 of the
Medicare Prescription Drug and
Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 and
its applicability to the hospital market
basket. This section of the MMA
requires the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to, ‘‘... establish a
frequency for revising such [market
basket] weights including the labor
share, in such market basket to reflect
the most current data available more
frequently than every five years.’’
This information is used by Quality
Improvement Organizations (QIOs) to

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identify opportunities for improvement,
and to effectively target quality
improvement initiatives in order to meet
the statutory requirements for QIOs. The
information will be made available to
hospitals for their use in internal quality
improvement initiatives. The
information is used by CMS to direct its
contractors to focus on particular areas
of improvement, and to develop quality
improvement initiatives. Most
importantly, this information is
available to beneficiaries, as well as to
the public in general, to provide
hospital information to assist them in
making decisions about their health
care. CMS conducts focus groups or
market testing prior to public reporting
hospital quality data on the Hospital
Compare Web site.
For FY 2008, we propose to add the
HCAHPS Survey to the measure set. For
FY 2009, the set of measures for the
RHQDAPU program will consist of
measures previously approved through
the PRA process, as well as additional
measures identified through this
rulemaking. We propose to add the
following additional measures for FY
2009: Pneumonia 30-day Mortality
(Medicare patients); SCIP Infection 4:
Cardiac Surgery Patients with
Controlled 6AM Postoperative Serum
Glucose; SCIP Infection 6: Surgery
Patients with Appropriate Hair
Removal.
These three measures were recently
endorsed by the National Quality Forum
(NQF) and will be added to the set. All
of these measures have been approved
by the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA)
for inclusion in the national voluntary
hospital reporting set, and are fully
specified and included in The Joint
Commission Specifications Manual for
National Hospital Quality Measures.
The measures offer important additions
to our understanding of patient
outcomes (mortality) and patient safety
efforts, and could help encourage
additional systems change in hospitals
in the areas of pneumonia care and
surgical services. Frequency:
Recordkeeping, reporting, third-party
disclosure—quarterly; Affected Public:
Business or other for-profit, not-forprofit; Number of Respondents: 3,700;
Total Annual Responses: 3,700; Total
Annual Hours: 806,250.
CMS is requesting OMB review and
approval of this collection by February
29, 2008, with a 180-day approval
period. Written comments and
recommendations will be considered
from the public if received by the
individuals designated below by
February 25, 2008.
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proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access CMS’ Web Site
address at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
regulations/pra or E-mail your request,
including your address, phone number,
OMB number, and CMS document
identifier, to [email protected],
or call the Reports Clearance Office on
(410) 786–1326.
In commenting on the proposed
information collections please reference
the document identifier or OMB control
number. To be assured consideration,
comments and recommendations must
be submitted in one of the following
ways by February 27, 2008.
1. Electronically. You may submit
your comments electronically to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’
to find the information collection
document(s) accepting comments.
2. By regular mail. You may mail
written comments to the following
address:
CMS, Office of Strategic Operations and
Regulatory Affairs, Division of
Regulations Development, Attention:
Document Identifier/OMB Control
Number lllll, Room C4–26–05,
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,
Maryland 21244–1850.
and,
OMB Human Resources and Housing
Branch, Attention: Carolyn Lovett,
New Executive Office Building, Room
10235, Washington, DC 20503, Fax
Number: (202) 395–6974.
Dated: January 18, 2008.
Michelle Shortt,
Director, Regulations Development Group,
Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory
Affairs.
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[Document Identifier: CMS–10255, CMS–
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) is publishing the
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collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection; Title of
Information Collection: Evaluation of
Care and Disease Management Under
Medicare Advantage. Use: CMS is
conducting an evaluation of care and
disease management programs under
Medicare Advantage (MA), which
includes a survey of all MA plans. The
survey will help describe the structure
and operation of these programs. The
survey will gather information about
MA health plans’ care and disease
management programs that is not
available from other sources, such as
relations with health providers, the use
of electronic data systems,
characteristics of care and disease
management programs, population
served, physician intervention,
differences with regular MA plans and
special needs plans, and evidence of
effectiveness and assessment of costs.
Information is collected through a onetime, self-administered mail
questionnaire. Form Number: CMS–
10255 (OMB# 0938–New); Frequency:
Once; Affected Public: Private sector–
Business or other for-profit and Not-forprofit institutions; Number of
Respondents: 475; Total Annual
Responses: 475; Total Annual Hours:
435.
2. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension without change of a
currently approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Phone Surveys
of Products and Services for Medicare
Payment Validation and Supporting
Regulations in 42 CFR 405.502. Use:
The phone surveys of products and
services for Medicare payment
validation and supporting regulations in
42 CFR 405.502 will be used to identify
specific products/services provided to
Medicare beneficiaries and the costs
associated with the provision of those
products/services. The information
collected will be used to validate the
Medicare payment amounts for those
products/services and institute revisions
of payment amounts where necessary.

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