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rulemaking process. Upon publication

of the CFPB’s final rulemaking, any final

changes would be incorporated into the

Federal Reserve’s Regulation E

information collection, as appropriate.

In addition to the DFA amendments, the

Federal Reserve proposed (in the

NPRM) to extend for three years,

without revision, the current Regulation

E information collection. The Federal

Reserve did not receive any comments

on this part of the proposal and

therefore will proceed with extending

the information collection as proposed.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 23, 2012.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Secretary of the Board.

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or

Bank Holding Company

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank

or bank holding company. The factors

that are considered in acting on the

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices

also will be available for inspection at

the offices 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

13, 2012.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of

Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King,

Community Affairs Officer) 90

Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis,

Minnesota 55480–0291:

1. Mark L. Hensley, Daniel J. Hensley,

both of Kalispell, Montana, and Joan C.

Hensley Brennan, Kirkland,

Washington, as proposed general

partners of the Hensley Family Limited

Partnership, Kalispell, Montana, to

acquire additional voting shares of

Valley Bancshares, Inc., Kalispell,

Montana, and thereby indirectly acquire

Valley Bank of Kalispell, Kalispell,

Montana.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198–0001:

1. Toby J. Strom and Julie A. Strom,

both of Oskaloosa, Iowa; and Shawn P.

Lueger, Seneca, Kansas; to retain control

of Community Bancshares, Inc., parent

of Community National Bank, both in

Seneca, Kansas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 24, 2012.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 2012–1761 Filed 1–26–12; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for

Section 7A of the Clayton Act

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Trade

Commission announces the revised

thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino

Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976

required by the 2000 amendment of

Section 7A of the Clayton Act.

DATES: Effective Date: February 27,

2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: B.

Michael Verne, Federal Trade

Commission, Bureau of Competition,

Premerger Notification Office, (202)

326–3100, Room 301, 600 Pennsylvania

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as

added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino

Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,

Public Law 94–435, 90 Stat. 1390 (‘‘the

Act’’), requires all persons

contemplating certain mergers or

acquisitions, which meet or exceed the

jurisdictional thresholds in the Act, to

file notification with the Commission

and the Assistant Attorney General and

to wait a designated period of time

before consummating such transactions.

Section 7A(a)(2) requires the Federal

Trade Commission to revise those

thresholds annually, based on the

change in gross national product, in

accordance with Section 8(a)(5). Note

that while the filing fee thresholds are

revised annually, the actual filing fees

are not similarly indexed and, as a

result, have not been adjusted for

inflation in over a decade. The new

thresholds, which take effect 30 days

after publication in the Federal

Register, are as follows:

Original

threshold

(million)

Subsection of 7A

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7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(II) ...............................................................................................................................................

7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III) ..............................................................................................................................................

7A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(III) ..............................................................................................................................................

Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees 1 (3)(b)(1) .........................................................

Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2) ............................................................

Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(2) ............................................................

Section 7A note: Assessment and Collection of Filing Fees (3)(b)(3) ............................................................

Any reference to these thresholds and related thresholds and limitation values in the HSR rules.

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(16 CFR Parts 801–803) and the

Antitrust Improvements Act

Notification and Report Form and its

Instructions will also be adjusted, where

indicated by the term ‘‘(as adjusted)’’, as

follows:

Adjusted

threshold

(million)

Original threshold

$10 million ..............................

50 million ................................

100 million ..............................

110 million ..............................

200 million ..............................

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Authority: 15 U.S.C. 18a.

[FR Doc. 2012–1867 Filed 1–26–12; 8:45 a.m.]

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for

Section 8 of the Clayton Act

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade

Commission announces the revised

thresholds for interlocking directorates

required by the 1990 amendment of

Section 8 of the Clayton Act.

DATES: Effective Date: January 27, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James F. Mongoven, Federal Trade

Commission, Bureau of Competition,

Office of Policy and Coordination, (202)

326–2879, Room NJ 7115, 600

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,

DC 20580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 8

of the Clayton Act, as amended in 1990,

prohibits, with certain exceptions, one

person from serving as a director or

officer of two competing corporations if

two thresholds are met. Competitor

corporations are covered by Section 8 if

each one has capital, surplus, and

undivided profits aggregating more than

$10,000,000, with the exception that no

corporation is covered if the competitive

sales of either corporation are less than

$1,000,000. Section 8(a)(5) requires the

Federal Trade Commission to revise

those thresholds annually, based on the

change in gross national product. The

new thresholds, which take effect

immediately, are $27,784,000 for

Section 8(a)(1), and $2,778,400 for

Section 8(a)(2)(A).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Announcement of Requirements and

Registration for ‘‘Discharge Follow-Up

Appointment Challenge’’

AGENCY: Office of the National

Coordinator for Health Information

Technology, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The ‘‘Discharge Follow-Up

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 19(a)(5).

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

Appointment Challenge’’ challenges

software developers to create an easy-touse web-based tool that will make postdischarge follow-up appointment

scheduling a more effective and shared

process for care providers, patients and

caregivers. In addition, developers will

need to articulate a plan for broader

adoption at the community level.

Submissions can be existing

applications, or applications developed

specifically for this challenge.

The statutory authority for this

challenge competition is Section 105 of

the America COMPETES

Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L.

111–358).

DATES: Effective on January 26, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Adam Wong, (202) 720–2866; Wil Yu,

(202) 690–5920.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Subject of Challenge Competition:

The Office of the National Coordinator

for Health Information Technology

(ONC), in collaboration with the

Partnership for Patients, seeks to

support spread and adoption of

promising IT-enabled solutions targeting

improved care transitions in the

‘‘Discharge Follow-Up Appointment

Challenge.’’ Nearly one in five patients

from a hospital will be readmitted

within 30 days. A large proportion of

readmissions can be prevented by

improving communications and

coordinating care before and after

discharge from the hospital.

This challenge is the second in a

series of challenges calling attention to

care transitions, particularly the time a

patient is discharged from a hospital;

these challenges are seeking

development and spread of IT-enabled

tools that will achieve better care and

better health at lower cost. The first

challenge, ‘‘Ensuring Safe Transitions

from Hospital to Home,’’ called upon

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developers to create a web-based

application that could empower patients

and caregivers to better navigate and

manage a transition from a hospital.

Research has shown that scheduling

follow-up appointments and postdischarge testing before a patient is

discharged, with input and engagement

from patients and caregivers, is one of

the critical elements of a safe and

effective transition. While an increasing

number of organizations have adopted

this best practice, most patients across

the country continue to leave the

hospital without confirmed

appointments and many providers

remain frustrated by a highly manual

and unreliable system.

Hospitals with IT-enabled scheduling

processes for follow-up appointments

often benefit from being in a delivery

system where a single scheduling

system is shared across many care

settings and providers. A growing

number of innovative consumer-facing

tools are becoming available for patients

and care givers to schedule

appointments and rate providers.

However these tools have not yet

reached high levels of adoption within

communities, and haven’t to date

targeted the appointment scheduling

needs of patients, caregivers and

providers at the point of discharge from

a hospital.

The ideal application for will include

the following components: Easy to

navigate user interface, easy to navigate

process for downstream accepting

providers, information for patient and

caregiver convenience and preference,

critical background information for

downstream providers, messaging

capabilities to minimize no-shows and

cancellations, and EHR interface

capabilities where applicable.

To anticipate the needs of a test bed

organization or community, successful

applicants will also need to formally

address the following pilot

implementation considerations:

estimated timeline for testing and pilot

completion, description of ideal pilot

environment, estimated resources

needed for pilot, metrics to monitor

pilot success, and proposed budget for

a three-day site visit to support pilot

development.

Eligibility Rules for Participating in

the Competition:

To be eligible to win a prize under

this challenge, an individual or entity:

(1) Shall have registered to participate

in the competition under the rules

promulgated by Office of the National

Coordinator for Health Information

Technology;

(2) Shall have complied with all the

requirements under this section;

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