Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 191 / Monday, October 4, 2004 / Notices 59185

ADDRESSES: Idaho Counties Risk 

Management Program Building, 3100 

South Vista Avenue, Boise, Idaho.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

topics will include review and approval 

of project proposals, and it is an open 

public forum.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Doug Gochnour, Designated Federal 

Officer, at (202) 392–6681 or e-mail 

dgochnour@fs.fed.us.

Dated: September 28, 2004. 

Richard A. Smith, 

Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest.

[FR Doc. 04–22257 Filed 10–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

Maximum Portion of Guarantee 

Authority Available for Fiscal Year 

2005

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: As set forth in 7 CFR 

4279.107 (b) and 4279.119 (b)(4), each 

fiscal year the Agency shall establish a 

limit on the maximum portion of 

guarantee authority available for that 

fiscal year that may be used to guarantee 

loans with a guarantee fee of 1 percent 

or guaranteed loans with a guarantee 

percentage exceeding 80 percent. 

Allowing the guarantee fee to be 

reduced to 1 percent or exceeding the 80 

percent guarantee on certain guaranteed 

loans that meet the conditions set forth 

in 7 CFR 4279.107 and 4279.119 will 

increase the Agency’s ability to focus 

guarantee assistance on projects which 

the Agency has found particularly 

meritorious, such as projects in rural 

communities that remain persistently 

poor, which experience long-term 

population decline and job 

deterioration, are experiencing trauma 

as a result of natural disaster, or are 

experiencing fundamental structural 

changes in the economic base. 

Not more than 12 percent of the 

Agency’s quarterly apportioned 

guarantee authority will be reserved for 

loan requests with a guarantee fee of 1 

percent, and not more than 15 percent 

of the Agency’s quarterly apportioned 

guarantee authority will be reserved for 

guaranteed loan requests with a 

guaranteed percentage exceeding 80 

percent. Once the above quarterly limits 

have been reached, all additional loans 

guaranteed during the remainder of that 

quarter will require a 2 percent 

guarantee fee and not exceed an 80 

percent guarantee limit. As an exception 

to this paragraph and for the purposes 

of this notice, loans developed by the 

North American Development Bank 

(NADBank) Community Adjustment and 

Investment Program (CAIP) will not 

count against the 15 percent limit. Up 

to 50 percent of CAIP loans may have 

a guaranteed percentage exceeding 80 

percent. The funding authority for CAIP 

loans is not derived carryover or 

recovered funding authority of the B&I 

Guaranteed Loan Program. 

Written requests by the Rural 

Development State Office for approval 

of a guaranteed loan with a 1 percent 

guarantee fee or a guaranteed loan 

exceeding 80 percent must be forwarded 

to the National Office, Attn: Director, 

Business and Industry Division, for 

review and consideration prior to 

obligation of the guaranteed loan. The 

Administrator will provide a written 

response to the State Office confirming 

approval or disapproval of the request.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Kieferle, Processing Branch Chief, 

Business and Industry Division, Rural 

Business-Cooperative Service, USDA, 

Stop 3224, 1400 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20250–3224, 

telephone (202) 720–7818.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

action has been reviewed and 

determined not to be a rule or regulation 

as defined in Executive Order 12866.

Dated: September 22, 2004. 

Peter J. Thomas, 

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 04–22217 Filed 10–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Information Collection To Be 

Submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for Approval Under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act; 

Nonprofit Agency Recordkeeping 

Requirements

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase from 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase 

from People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled (The Committee) will submit 

the collection of information listed 

below to OMB for approval under the 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act. This notice solicits comments on 

that collection of information.

DATES: Submit your written comments 

on the information collection on or 

before December 3, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Mail your comments on the 

requirement to Janet Yandik, 

Information Management Specialist, 

Committee for Purchase from People 

Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, 

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, Jefferson 

Plaza 2, Suite 10800, Arlington, VA, 

22202–3259; fax (703) 603–0655; or email rulecomments@jwod.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anissa Craghead, Regulatory Affairs 

Specialist, Committee for Purchase from 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 

Arlington, VA, 22202–3259; phone (703) 

603–0033; fax (703) 603–0655; or e-mail 

acraghead@jwod.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.), require that interested members 

of the public and affected agencies have 

an opportunity to comment on 

information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). The Committee plans to 

submit a request to OMB to renew its 

approval of the collection of information 

for nonprofit agency responsibilities 

related to recordkeeping. The 

Committee is requesting a 3-year term of 

approval for this information collection 

activity. 

Federal agencies may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The OMB control 

number for this collection of 

information is 3037–0005. 

The Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Act 

of 1971 (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) is the 

authorizing legislation for the JWOD 

Program. The JWOD Program creates 

jobs and training opportunities for 

people who are blind or who have other 

severe disabilities. Its primary means of 

doing so is by requiring Government 

agencies to purchase selected products 

and services from nonprofit agencies 

employing such individuals. The JWOD 

Program is administered by the 

Committee. Two national, independent 

organizations, National Industries for 

the Blind (NIB) and NISH, help State 

and private nonprofit agencies 

participate in the JWOD Program. 

The implementing regulations for the 

JWOD Act, which are located at 41 CFR 

Chapter 51, detail the recordkeeping 

requirements imposed on nonprofit 

agencies participating in the JWOD 

59186 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 191 / Monday, October 4, 2004 / Notices 

Program. Section 51–2.4 of the 

regulations describes the criteria that 

the Committee must consider when 

adding a product or service to its 

Procurement List. One of these criteria 

is that a proposed addition must 

demonstrate a potential to generate 

employment for people who are blind or 

severely disabled. The Committee 

decided that evidence that employment 

will be generated for those individuals 

consists of recordkeeping that tracks 

direct labor and revenues for products 

or services sold through a JWOD 

Program contract. This recordkeeping 

can be done on each individual JWOD 

project or by product or service family. 

In addition, § 51–4.3 of the 

regulations requires that nonprofit 

agencies keep records on direct labor 

hours performed by each worker and 

keep an individual record or file for 

each blind or severely disabled 

individual documenting that 

individual’s disability and capabilities 

for competitive employment. The 

records that nonprofit agencies must 

keep in accordance with § 51–4.3 of the 

regulations constitute the bulk of the 

hour burden associated with this OMB 

control number. 

This information collection renewal 

request seeks approval for the 

Committee to continue to ensure 

compliance with recordkeeping 

requirements established by the 

authority of the JWOD Act and set forth 

in the Act’s implementing regulations 

and to ensure that the Committee has 

the ability to confirm the suitability of 

products and services on its 

Procurement List. The recordkeeping 

requirements described in this 

document are the same as those 

currently imposed on nonprofit agencies 

participating in the JWOD Program. 

Title: Nonprofit Agency 

Responsibilities, 41 CFR 51–2.4 and 51–

4.3. 

OMB Control Number: 3037–0005. 

Description of Collection:

Recordkeeping. 

Description of Respondents:

Nonprofit agencies participating in the 

JWOD Program. 

Annual Number of Respondents:

About 650 nonprofit agencies will 

annually participate in recordkeeping. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: The 

recordkeeping burden is estimated to 

average 5 hours per respondent. Total 

annual burden is 3,250 hours. 

We invite comments concerning this 

renewal on: (1) Whether the collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of our agency’s 

functions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden of the collection of information; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents.

Dated: September 28, 2004. 

Sheryl D. Kennerly, 

Director, Information Management.

[FR Doc. 04–22179 Filed 10–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Delaware, Connecticut, District 

of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and 

West Virginia Advisory Committees 

and Subcommittees 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights that a briefing by 

conference call of the Connecticut, 

Delaware, District of Columbia, 

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 

Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia 

Advisory Committees will convene at 11 

a.m. and adjourn at 11:45 a.m., Friday, 

October 8, 2004. The purpose of the 

briefing is to listen to a presentation by 

Professor Gavin Clarkson on the use of 

Native American racial imagery for 

sports mascots. 

This conference call is available to the 

public through the following call-in 

number: 1–800–497–7708, access code: 

26575717. Any interested member of the 

public may call this number and listen 

to the meeting. Callers can expect to 

incur charges for calls not initiated 

using the supplied call-in number or 

over wireless lines, and the Commission 

will not refund any incurred charges. 

Callers will incur no charge for calls 

using the call-in number over land-line 

connections. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–977–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and access code. 

To ensure that the Commission 

secures an appropriate number of lines 

for the public, persons are asked to 

register by contacting Barbara de La 

Viez of the Eastern Regional Office at 

(202) 376–7533 by 4 p.m. on 

Wednesday, October 6, 2004. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, September 29, 

2004. 

Ivy L. Davis, 

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 04–22270 Filed 10–1–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Sunshine Act Notice

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights.

DATE AND TIME: Friday, October 8, 2004, 

9:30 a.m.

PLACE: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 

624 9th Street, NW., Room 540, 

Washington, DC 20425.

STATUS: 

Agenda 

I. Approval of Agenda 

II. Approval of Minutes of September 

17, 2004 Meeting 

III. Announcements 

IV. Staff Director’s Report 

V. State Advisory Committee 

Appointments for Montana, North 

Dakota, Ohio, Utah, and 

Washington 

VI. ‘‘Redefining Rights in America: The 

Civil Rights Record of the George 

W. Bush Administration, 2001–

2004’’ Report 

VII. Future Agenda Items 

11 a.m. Briefing on Voting and 

Election Reform: Is America Ready 

to Vote?

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Les 

Jin, Press and Communications (202) 

376–7700.

Debra A. Carr, 

Deputy General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 04–22301 Filed 9–29–04; 4:30 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 040916269–4269–01] 

Notice of Data Sharing Activity

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of determination.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) will provide certain 

business data from its Business Register 

and its 2002 Economic Census to the 

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for 

statistical purposes exclusively. 

Through the use of these shared data, 

the BEA expects to improve the quality 

of data collected by the Census Bureau