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proposed information collection should

be sent directly to the following:

Office of Management and Budget,

Paperwork Reduction Project, 725

17th Street, NW, Washington, DC

20503, Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.

Dated: April 25, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

Title: Head Start Family and Child

Experiences Survey (FACES).

OMB No.: OMB No. 0970–0151.

Description: The Administration on

Children, Youth and Families (ACYF),

Administration for Children and

Families (ACF) of the Department of

Health and Human Services (DHHS) is

requesting Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) clearance for interview

instruments to be used in the Head Start

Family and Child Experiences Survey

(FACES). This study is being conducted

under contract with Westat, Inc. (with

Ellsworth Associates as their

subcontractor (#105–96–1912)) to

collect information on Head Start

performance measures. This revision is

intended to follow-on to the current

design in order to follow the sample

through the end of their first grade year

of school.

FACES currently involves five phases

of data collection. The first phase was

a Spring 1997 Field test in which

approximately 2400 parents and

children were studied in a nationally

stratified random sample of 40 Head

Start programs. The second and third

phases occurred in Fall 1997 (Wave 1)

and Spring 1998 (Wave 2) when data

were collected on a sample of 3200

children and families in the same 40

programs. Spring 1998 data collection

included assessments of both Head Start

children completing the program and

former Head Start children completing

kindergarten (kindergarten field test) as

well as interviews with their parents

and ratings by their kindergarten

teachers. In the fourth and fifth phases,

follow-up continued for a second

program year, plus a kindergarten

follow-up. The current plan is to extend

data collection in spring of the firstgrade year for both cohorts of children,

those completing kindergarten in spring

1999, and those completing

kindergarten in spring 2000.

This schedule of data collection is

necessitated by the mandates of the

Government Performance and Results

Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103–62),

which requires that the Head Start

Bureau move expeditiously toward

development and testing of Head Start

Performance Measures, and by the 1994

reauthorization of Head Start (Head

Start Act, as amended, May 18, 1994,

Section 649 (d)), which requires

assessment of Head Start’s quality and

effectiveness. These mandates were

reinforced by the Head Start Act

Reauthorization of October, 1998, which

called for planning for a study of Head

Start children to continue follow-up

through first grade.

Respondents: Federal Government,

Individuals or Households, and Not-forprofit institutions.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument

Estimated

number of respondents

Estimated

number of responses per

respondent

Average burden hours per

response

Estimated total

annual burden

hours requested

Year 1 (2000):

First grade parents ................................................................................... 1604 1 .33 535

First grade children ................................................................................... 1604 1 .75 1203

First grade teachers ................................................................................. 1604 1 .50 802

Year 2 (2001):

All parents ................................................................................................. 2770 1 .08 231

First grade parents ................................................................................... 1166 1 .33 389

First grade children ................................................................................... 1166 1 .75 875

First grade teachers ................................................................................. 1166 1 .50 583

Annualized totals:

Year 1 ....................................................................................................... 2540 ........................ ........................ ........................

Year 2 ....................................................................................................... 2078 ........................ ........................ ........................

Estimated total annual burden hours .............................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 2309

Note: The 2309 annual hours is based on an average of 2000 and 2001 estimated burden hours.

Additional Information: Copies of the

proposed collection may be obtained by

writing to the Administration for

Children and Families, Office of

Information Services, 370 L’Enfant

Promenade, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance

Officer.

OMB Comment: OMB is required to

make a decision concerning the

collection of information between 30

and 60 days after publication of this

document in the Federal Register.

Therefore, a comment is best assured of

having its full effect if OMB receives it

within 30 days of publication. Written

comments and recommendations for the

proposed information and collection

should be sent directly to the following:

Office of Management and Budget,

Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503,

Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.

Dated: April 25, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 98F–0184]

Rohm and Haas Co.; Withdrawal of

Food Additive Petition

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) in announcing

the withdrawal, without prejudice to a

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future filing, of a food additive petition

(FAP 8A4588) proposing that the food

additive regulations be amended to

provide for the safe use of completely

hydrolyzed copolymer of acrylonitrile

and trivinylcyclohexane ion-exchange

resin for use in treating potable water

and aqueous, acidic, and alcoholic

foods.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Parvin M. Yasaei, Center for Food Safety

and Applied Nutrition (HFS–215), Food

and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW.,

Washington, DC 20204, 202–418–3023.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice

published in the Federal Register of

April 1, 1998 (63 FR 15851), FDA

announced that a food additive petition

(FAP 8A4588) had been filed by Rohm

and Haas Co., 5000 Richmond St.,

Philadelphia, PA 19137. The petition

proposed to amend the food additive

regulations in § 173.25 Ion-exchange

resins (21 CFR 173.25) to provide for the

safe use of completely hydrolyzed

copolymer of acrylonitrile and

trivinylcyclohexane ion-exchange resin

for use in treating potable water and

aqueous, acidic, and alcoholic foods.

Rohm and Haas Co. has now withdrawn

the petition without prejudice to a

future filing (21 CFR 171.7).

Dated: March 24, 2000.

Laura M. Tarantino,

Acting Director, Office of Premarket

Approval, Center for Food Safety and Applied

Nutrition.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Heart, Lung, and Blood

Institute; Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request: The Framingham

Study

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of

section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the National

Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

(NHLBI), the National Institutes of

Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) a

request for review and approval of the

information collection listed below.

This proposed information collection

was previously published in the Federal

Register on December 30, 1999, page

73564 and allowed 60-days for public

comment. No public comments were

received. The purpose of this notice is

to allow an additional 30 days for public

comment. The National Institutes of

Health may not conduct or sponsor, and

the respondent is not required to

respond to, an information collection

that has been extended, revised, or

implemented on or after October 1,

1995, unless it displays a currently valid

OMB control number.

Proposed Collection

Title: The Framingham Study. Type of

Information Collection Request:

Revision of a currently approved

collection (OMB No. 0925–0216). Need

and Use of Information Collection: This

project involves physical examination

and testing of the surviving members of

the original Framingham Study cohort

and the surviving members of the

offspring cohort. Investigators will

contact doctors, hospitals, and nursing

homes to ascertain participants’

cardiovascular events occurring outside

the study clinic. Information gathered

will be used to further describe the risk

factors, occurrence rates, and

consequences of cardiovascular disease

in middle aged and older men and

women. Frequency of Response: The

cohort participants respond every two

years; the offspring participants respond

every four years. Affected Public:

Individuals or households; Businesses

or other for-profit; Small businesses or

organizations. Type of Respondents:

Middle aged and elderly adults; doctors

and staff of hospitals and nursing

homes. The annual reporting burden is

as follows: Estimated Number of

Respondents: 2,865; Estimated Number

of Responses per Respondent: 3.398;

Average Burden Hours Per Response:

0.6321; and Estimated Total Annual

Burden Hours Requested: 6,154. The

annualized cost to respondents is

estimated at $80,485 assuming

respondents time at the rate of $10 per

hour and physician/medical staff time at

the rate of $55 per hour. There are no

Capital Costs to report. There are no

Operating or Maintenance Costs to

report.

ESTIMATE OF HOUR BURDEN

Type of respondents

Estimated

number of

respondents

Estimated

number of

responses per

respondent

Average

burden hours

per response

Estimated total

annual burden

hours

requested

Framingham Original Cohort ........................................................................... 340 3.912 0.3496 465

Framingham Offspring Cohort ......................................................................... 1,267 5.642 0.7300 5,218

Physician, hospital, nursing home staff ........................................................... 629 1.000 0.6700 421

Framingham next-of-kin ................................................................................... 629 1.000 0.0800 50

Total .......................................................................................................... 2,865 3.398 0.6321 6,154

Request for Comments

Written comments and/or suggestions

from the public and affected agencies

are invited on one or more of the

following points: (1) Whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the function of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (2) The accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of methodology

and assumptions used; (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 those who

are to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Direct Comments to OMB

Written comments and/or suggestions

regarding the item(s) contained in this

notice, especially regarding the

estimated public burden and associated

response time, should be directed to the:

Office of Management and Budget,

Office of Regulatory Affairs, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk

Officer for NIH. To request more

information on the proposed project or

to obtain a copy of the data collection

plans and instruments, contact: Dr. Paul

Sorlie, Project Officer, NIH, NHLBI,

6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7934,

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