Federal Register/Vol. 77, No. 17/Thursday, January 26, 2012/Notices

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Filed Date: 1/19/12

Accession Number: 20120119–5162

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/9/12

Docket Numbers: ER12–840–000

Applicants: Northern Indiana Public

Service Company

Description: Northern Indiana Public

Service Company submits tariff filing

per 35.13(a)(2)(iii): Definitions to be

effective 2/1/2012.

Filed Date: 1/19/12

Accession Number: 20120119–5174

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/9/12

The filings are accessible in the

Commission’s eLibrary system by

clicking on the links or querying the

docket number.

Any person desiring to intervene or

protest in any of the above proceedings

must file in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and

385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern

time on the specified comment date.

Protests may be considered, but

intervention is necessary to become a

party to the proceeding.

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed

information relating to filing

requirements, interventions, protests,

service, and qualifying facilities filings

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For

other information, call (866) 208–3676

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.

Dated: January 19, 2012.

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 2012–1613 Filed 1–25–12; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–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.

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 21,

2012.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs

Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis,

Missouri 63166–2034:

1. Cabool State Bank Employee Stock

Ownership Plan, Cabool, Missouri; to

acquire additional voting shares, for a

total of 31.95 percent of the voting

shares of Cabool Bancshares, Inc., and

thereby indirectly acquire additional

voting shares of Cabool State Bank, both

in Cabool, Missouri.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of

Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King,

Community Affairs Officer) 90

Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis,

Minnesota 55480–0291:

1. State Bankshares, Inc., Fargo, North

Dakota; to acquire 100 percent of the

voting shares of First Hawley

Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly

acquire voting shares of First National

Bank, both in Hawley, Minnesota.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice

President, Applications and

Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San

Francisco, California 94105–1579:

1. First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc., Chula

Vista, California; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of Beach

Business Bank, Manhattan Beach,

California.

In connection with this application,

Applicant also has applied to retain 100

percent of the voting shares of Pacific

Trust Bank, fsb, Chula Vista, California,

and thereby engage in operating a

nonbank thrift subsidiary, pursuant to

section 225.28(b)(4) of Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, January 23, 2012.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 2012–1616 Filed 1–25–12; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Annual Update of the HHS Poverty

Guidelines

AGENCY

: Department of Health and

Human Services.

ACTION

: Notice.

SUMMARY

: This notice provides an

update of the Department of Health and

Human Services (HHS) poverty

guidelines to account for last calendar

year’s increase in prices as measured by

the Consumer Price Index.

DATES

: Effective Date: Date of

publication, unless an office

administering a program using the

guidelines specifies a different effective

date for that particular program.

ADDRESSES

: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,

Room 404E, Humphrey Building,

Department of Health and Human

Services, Washington, DC 20201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

: For

information about how the guidelines

are used or how income is defined in a

particular program, contact the Federal,

state, or local office that is responsible

for that program. For information about

poverty figures for immigration forms,

the Hill-Burton Uncompensated

Services Program, and the number of

people in poverty, use the specific

telephone numbers and addresses given

below.

For general questions about the

poverty guidelines themselves, contact

Kendall Swenson or Gordon Fisher,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Planning and Evaluation, Room 404E,

Humphrey Building, Department of

Health and Human Services,

Washington, DC 20201—telephone:

(202) 690–7507—or visit http://

aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.

For information about the percentage

multiple of the poverty guidelines to be

used on immigration forms such as

USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support,

contact U.S. Citizenship and

Immigration Services at 1–(800) 375–

5283.

For information about the Hill-Burton

Uncompensated Services Program (free

or reduced-fee health care services at

certain hospitals and other facilities for

persons meeting eligibility criteria

involving the poverty guidelines),

contact the Office of the Director,

Division of Health Facilities, Health

Resources and Services Administration,

HHS, Room 10–105, Parklawn Building,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857. To speak to a staff member,

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please call (301) 443–5656. To receive a

Hill-Burton information package, call 1–

(800) 638–0742 (for callers outside

Maryland) or 1–(800) 492–0359 (for

callers in Maryland). You also may visit

http://www.hrsa.gov/gethealthcare/

affordable/hillburton/.

For information about the number of

people in poverty, visit the Poverty

section of the Census Bureau’s web site

at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/

poverty/poverty.html or contact the

Census Bureau’s Customer Service

Center at 1–(800) 923–8282 (toll-free) or

visit http://ask.census.gov for further

information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Background

Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42

U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of

the Department of Health and Human

Services to update the poverty

guidelines at least annually, adjusting

them on the basis of the Consumer Price

Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U).

The poverty guidelines are used as an

eligibility criterion by the Community

Services Block Grant program and a

number of other Federal programs. The

poverty guidelines issued here are a

simplified version of the poverty

thresholds that the Census Bureau uses

to prepare its estimates of the number of

individuals and families in poverty.

As required by law, this update is

accomplished by increasing the latest

published Census Bureau poverty

thresholds by the relevant percentage

change in the Consumer Price Index for

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The

guidelines in this 2012 notice reflect the

3.2 percent price increase between

calendar years 2010 and 2011. After this

inflation adjustment, the guidelines are

rounded and adjusted to standardize the

differences between family sizes. The

same calculation procedure was used

this year as in previous years. (Note that

these 2012 guidelines are roughly equal

to the poverty thresholds for calendar

year 2011 which the Census Bureau

expects to publish in final form in

September 2012.)

The poverty guidelines continue to be

derived from the Census Bureau’s

current official poverty thresholds; they

are not derived from the Census

Bureau’s new Supplemental Poverty

Measure (SPM).

The following guideline figures

represent annual income.

2012 P

OVERTY

UIDELINES FOR THE

48 C

ONTIGUOUS

TATES AND THE

ISTRICT OF

OLUMBIA

Persons in family/household

Poverty

guideline

1 ................................................ $11,170

2 ................................................ 15,130

3 ................................................ 19,090

4 ................................................ 23,050

5 ................................................ 27,010

6 ................................................ 30,970

7 ................................................ 34,930

8 ................................................ 38,890

For families/households with more

than 8 persons, add $3,960 for each

additional person.

2012 P

OVERTY

UIDELINES FOR

LASKA

Persons in family/household

Poverty

guideline

1 ................................................ $13,970

2 ................................................ 18,920

3 ................................................ 23,870

4 ................................................ 28,820

5 ................................................ 33,770

6 ................................................ 38,720

7 ................................................ 43,670

8 ................................................ 48,620

For families/households with more

than 8 persons, add $4,950 for each

additional person.

2012 P

OVERTY

UIDELINES FOR

AWAII

Persons in family/household

Poverty

guideline

1 ................................................ $12,860

2 ................................................ 17,410

3 ................................................ 21,960

4 ................................................ 26,510

5 ................................................ 31,060

6 ................................................ 35,610

7 ................................................ 40,160

8 ................................................ 44,710

For families/households with more

than 8 persons, add $4,550 for each

additional person.

Separate poverty guideline figures for

Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of

Economic Opportunity administrative

practice beginning in the 1966–1970

period. (Note that the Census Bureau

poverty thresholds—the version of the

poverty measure used for statistical

purposes—have never had separate

figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The

poverty guidelines are not defined for

Puerto Rico or other outlying

jurisdictions. In cases in which a

Federal program using the poverty

guidelines serves any of those

jurisdictions, the Federal office that

administers the program is generally

responsible for deciding whether to use

the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines

for those jurisdictions or to follow some

other procedure.

Due to confusing legislative language

dating back to 1972, the poverty

guidelines sometimes have been

mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’

(Office of Management and Budget)

poverty guidelines or poverty line. In

fact, OMB has never issued the

guidelines; the guidelines are issued

each year by the Department of Health

and Human Services. The poverty

guidelines may be formally referenced

as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated

periodically in the Federal Register by

the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services under the authority of

42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’

Some federal programs use a

percentage multiple of the guidelines

(for example, 125 percent or 185 percent

of the guidelines), as noted in relevant

authorizing legislation or program

regulations. Non-Federal organizations

that use the poverty guidelines under

their own authority in non-Federally-

funded activities also may choose to use

a percentage multiple of the guidelines.

The poverty guidelines do not make a

distinction between farm and non-farm

families, or between aged and non-aged

units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty

thresholds have separate figures for aged

and non-aged one-person and two-

person units.)

Note that this notice does not provide

definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or

‘‘family,’’ because there is considerable

variation in defining these terms among

the different programs that use the

guidelines. These variations are

traceable to the different laws and

regulations that govern the various

programs. This means that questions

such as ‘‘Is income counted before or

after taxes?’’, ‘‘Should a particular type

of income be counted?’’, and ‘‘Should a

particular person be counted as a

member of the family/household?’’ are

actually questions about how a specific

program applies the poverty guidelines.

All such questions about how a specific

program applies the guidelines should

be directed to the entity that administers

or funds the program, since that entity

has the responsibility for defining such

terms as ‘‘income’’ or ‘‘family,’’ to the

extent that these terms are not already

defined for the program in legislation or

regulations.

Dated: January 19, 2012.

Kathleen Sebelius,

Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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