E6-4543. Community Development Financial Institutions Fund: Open Meeting of the Community Development Advisory Board

AGENCY:

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION:

Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY:

This notice announces the next meeting of the Community Development Advisory Board (the Advisory Board), which provides advice to the Director of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the Fund).

DATES:

The next meeting of the Advisory Board will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 26, 2006.

ADDRESSES:

The Advisory Board meeting will be held in Conference Rooms B and C of the Bureau of the Mint, U.S. Treasury, located at 801 9th Street, NW., Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Office of Public and Legislative Affairs of the Fund, 601 13th Street, NW., Suite 200 South, Washington, DC 20005, [phone] (this is not a toll free number). Other information regarding the Fund and its programs may be obtained through the Fund's Web site at http://www.cdfifund.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Section 104(d) of the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4703(d)) established the Advisory Board. The charter for the Advisory Board has been filed in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.

The function of the Advisory Board is to advise the Director of the Fund (who has been delegated the authority to administer the Fund) on the policies regarding the activities of the Fund. The Fund is a wholly owned corporation within the Department of the Treasury. The Advisory Board shall not advise the Fund on the granting or denial of any particular application for monetary or non-monetary awards. The Advisory Board shall meet at least annually.

It has been determined that this document is not a major rule as defined in Executive Order 12291 and therefore regulatory impact analysis is not required. In addition, this document does not constitute a rule subject to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. Chapter 6).

The next meeting of the Advisory Board, all of which will be open to the public, will be held in Conference Rooms B and C of the Bureau of the Mint, U.S. Treasury, located at 801 9th Street, NW., Washington, DC, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 26, 2006. The room will accommodate up to 20 members of the public. Seats are available to members of the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participation in the discussions at the meeting will be limited to Advisory Board members, Department of the Treasury staff, and certain invited guests. Because the meeting will be held in a secured facility, members of the public who desire to attend the meeting must contact the Fund's Office of Public and Legislative Affairs by 5 p.m. ET on April 20, 2006 by calling [phone] (this is not a toll free number) or via e-mail at [e-mail], to inform the Fund of your desire to attend the meeting and to provide the information that will be required to facilitate your entry to the facility.

Anyone who would like to have the Advisory Board consider a written statement must submit it to the Fund's Office of Public and Legislative Affairs of the Fund, 601 13th Street, NW., Suite 200 South, Washington, DC, 20005, by 5 p.m. ET on April 20, 2006.

The Advisory Board meeting will include a report from the Director on the activities of the Fund since the last Advisory Board meeting, as well as policy, programmatic, fiscal and legislative initiatives for the years 2006 and 2007.

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 4703; Chapter X, Pub. L. 104-19, 109 Stat. 237.

Dated: March 23, 2006

Arthur A. Garcia,

Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.