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(3) Review, approval and

implementation of procedures

established for accomplishing the scope

of work for the project funded under

this cooperative agreement;

(4) Assistance, including referral, in

establishing Federal interagency

contacts necessary to the successful

completion of tasks and activities

identified in the approved Scope of

Work. MCHB will assist in identifying

and establishing Federal interagency

contacts required to achieve MCHB

dissemination of program

communication goals;

(5) Participation in the dissemination

of project products.

Review Criteria

The following are generic review

criteria applicable to MCHB programs:

(1) The extent to which the project

will contribute to the advancement of

maternal and child health and/or

improvement of the health of children

with special health care needs;

(2) The extent to which the project is

responsive to policy concerns

applicable to MCH grants and to

program objectives, requirements,

priorities and/or review criteria for

specific project categories, as published

in program announcements or guidance

materials;

(3) The extent to which the estimated

cost to the Government of the project is

reasonable, considering the anticipated

results;

(4) The extent to which the project

personnel are well qualified by training

and/or experience for their roles in the

project and the applicant organization

has adequate facilities and personnel;

and

(5) The extent to which, insofar as

practicable, the proposed activities, if

well executed, are capable of attaining

project objectives.

The final review criteria used to

review and rank applications for the

DUE program are included in the

application kit. Applicants should pay

strict attention to addressing these

criteria as they are the basis upon which

their applications will be judged.

Dated: April 27, 2000.

Claude Earl Fox,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 00–11016 Filed 5–2–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–U

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4560–C–05]

FY 2000 Super Notice of Funding

Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD’s

Housing, Community Development and

Empowerment Programs and Section 8

Housing Voucher Assistance; Notice

of Clarifications and Modifications of

the Fair Housing Initiatives Program

(FHIP) and Extension of Application

Deadline for FHIP Initiatives

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal

Opportunity, HUD.

ACTION: Super Notice of Funding

Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD

grant programs; notice of clarifications

and modifications for the FHIP funding

availability announcement.

SUMMARY: On February 24, 2000, HUD

published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2000

Super Notice of Funding Availability

(SuperNOFA) for HUD’s Housing,

Community Development, and

Empowerment Programs and Section 8

Housing Voucher Assistance. This

document makes certain modifications

and clarifications to the FY 2000

funding availability announcement for

the FHIP Program.

DATES: Except for the applications

submitted under the Fair Housing

Partnership Components for the Private

Enforcement Initiative (EOI) and the

Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI), the

application due date for funding under

FHIP is extended to June 2, 2000. The

application due date for applications

submitted under the Fair Housing

Partnership Components of EOI and PEI

is extended to June 30, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You

may contact Lauretta Dixon, Director,

FHIP–FHAP Support Division, Office of

Programs, Office of Fair Housing and

Equal Opportunity, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, 451

Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC, at

(202) 708–0800 (this is not a toll free

number). Persons with speech or

hearing impairments may call the FHIP–

FHAP Division by calling 1–800–290–

1671, or 1–800–877–8399 (the Federal

Information Relay Service TTY). Other

than the ‘‘800’’ number, these numbers

are not toll-free. You may also call the

SuperNOFA Information Center, which

you may reach by calling 1–800–HUD–

8929 or the Center’s TTY number at 1–

800–HUD–2209.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

February 24, 2000 (65 FR 9322), HUD

published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2000

Super Notice of Funding Availability

(SuperNOFA) for HUD’s Housing,

Community Development, and

Empowerment Programs and Section 8

Housing Voucher Assistance. The FY

2000 SuperNOFA announced the

availability of approximately $2.424

billion in HUD program funds covering

39 grant categories within programs

operated and administered by HUD

offices and Section 8 housing voucher

assistance.

This document makes certain

modifications and clarifications to the

FY 2000 funding availability

announcement for the Fair Housing

Initiatives Program (FHIP). The funding

availability announcement for FHIP

(FHIP NOFA) is found at page 9485 (65

FR 9485) of the February 24, 2000

SuperNOFA.

The modifications and clarifications

made by this document do the

following:

(1) Change the impact of the

immigrant and other underserved

populations provision with respect to

the General Components of the Private

Enforcement (PEI) and Education and

Outreach (EOI) Initiatives by advising

applicants that points will no longer be

awarded under these two components

for applicants that devote a portion of

their activities and budget to the needs

of these underserved populations;

(2) Revise the provision found in the

Program Requirements Section (Part IV

of the FHIP NOFA) so that an awardee

will be required to reimburse the United

States for FHIP funded enforcement

activity when it receives compensation

in a settlement or conciliation; however,

the awardee will not be required to

reimburse the United States when the

compensation is awarded in a final

judgment;

(3) Set forth technical and conforming

language for errors identified in the

FHIP NOFA; and

(4) Extend the application due date

for applications submitted under the

Fair Housing Partnership Components

of EOI and PEI to June 30, 2000. For all

other Initiatives/Components, the

closing date for submitting applications

is extended to June 2, 2000.

The corrections that follow are

organized in the order of the above

description of the four types of changes.

Accordingly, in the Super Notice of

Funding Availability for Housing,

Community Development, and

Empowerment Programs and Section 8

Housing Voucher Assistance for Fiscal

Year 2000, notice document 00–4123,

beginning at 65 FR 9322, in the issue of

Friday, February 24, 2000, the following

clarifications and corrections are made

to the FHIP NOFA, commencing at

9487:

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1. The FHIP NOFA is modified in

several places regarding the issue of

immigrant and other underserved

populations, as defined in the FHIP

NOFA. This modification only affects

applications submitted under the

General Components of Private

Enforcement Initiative (PEI) and

Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI).

Before this amendment, this provision

was a rating provision, awarding up to

five points to applicants that devote a

portion of their activities and budget to

the fair housing needs of these

populations. This amendment makes

this provision a tie-breaking provision.

When applicants receive the same

overall score, the one that describes/lists

the outreach the applicant will engage

in to make these populations aware of

its services/activities will be ranked

higher than those that do not. As a

result of this amendment, applicants

under the General Components of PEI

and EOI need not devote a portion of

their activities and budget to address the

needs of immigrant and other

underserved populations, as defined in

the FHIP NOFA. Several portions of the

FHIP NOFA are affected as follows:

On page 9488, first column, in first

paragraph that continues from page

9487, remove the sentence beginning

with ‘‘Points will be awarded’’ and

ending with ‘‘other underserved

populations’’ and substitute the

following language:

As described in Part V, Application

Selection Process, in a tie-breaking situation,

applications submitted under the General

Components of the Private Enforcement

Initiative (PEI) and the Education and

Outreach Initiative (EOI) which describe/list

specific examples of the outreach which will

be engaged in to advise immigrant (especially

ethnic minorities that are not Englishspeaking) and other underserved

populations, as defined in the NOFA, of the

services offered by the project will be ranked

higher than applications which do not.

Merely asserting you will engage in/conduct

outreach to these populations is not

sufficient. However, whether you describe/

list 1 or 101 specific examples is of no

consequence since, for the purpose of

breaking the tie, all that will be considered

is whether, ‘‘yes you have’’ or ‘‘no you have

not’’ described/listed specific examples of

the outreach you will engage in to inform

these populations of the services offered by

the project.

On page 9488, first column, in the

first paragraph that continues from page

9487, the sentence that begins,

‘‘Applicants under the Community

Tensions Component’’ becomes a new

paragraph and to this new paragraph the

following language is added:

For those of you applying under the

Establishing New Organizations Component

of FHOI, HUD has identified and targeted for

funding two groups whose fair housing needs

have been underserved. They are (1) persons

in rural areas, as defined in Section

IV(A)(16), and (2) immigrants (especially

ethnic minorities that are not Englishspeaking). The Department hopes to establish

three new organizations with two of the

awards (or one each) being awarded to

applicants addressing the needs of these

groups.

On page 9489, first column, under

paragraph (2)(b) Eligible Activities,

remove the second sentence which

begins ‘‘Points will be awarded’’ and all

that follows in that paragraph.

On page 9489, third column, under

paragraph (2)(b) Eligible Activities,

remove the last sentence which begins

‘‘Points will be awarded * * * ’’.

On page 9495, second column,

paragraph (B)(3) on Tie Breaking, the

first paragraph becomes the second

paragraph and the following becomes

the first paragraph.

For applications submitted under the

General Components of EOI and PEI, only.

When there is a tie in the overall score, the

applicant who describes/lists specific

examples of the outreach which will be

engaged in to advise immigrant (especially

ethnic minorities that are not Englishspeaking) and other underserved

populations, as defined in Section IV(A)(16),

of the services offered by the project will be

ranked higher than applicants that do not.

Merely asserting you will engage in/conduct

outreach to these populations is not

sufficient. However, whether you describe/

list 1 or 101 specific examples is of no

consequence since, for the purpose of

breaking the tie, all that will be considered

is whether, ‘‘yes you have’’ or ‘‘no you have

not’’ described/listed specific examples of

the outreach you will engage in to inform

these populations of the services offered by

the project. If some or all of the applicants

have described/listed specific examples of

outreach to these populations and a tie

continues to exist, then the applications will

be ranked in accordance with the next

paragraph.

On page 9495, second column, the

first paragraph of paragraph (B)(3),

which is now the second paragraph as

provided above, is amended by inserting

the following phrase at the start of the

new second paragraph—For All

Initiatives/Components.

On page 9497, under ‘‘Rating Factor 3:

Soundness of Approach,’’ the following

changes are made:

First column: Remove the last

paragraph which begins ‘‘Points will be

awarded’’ and ends at the top of the

middle column on this same page.

Middle column: remove the first two

lines of the italicized paragraph which

begins, ‘‘For all Components,’’ through

the words ‘‘PEI and EOI’’ and capitalize

the word ‘‘Your’’ and retain the

remainder of the italicized paragraph.

Middle column, remove all of the

second italicized language which begins

‘‘For the General Components of PEI

and EOI’’ through all of the italicized

language that is found in the third

column, preceding the paragraph

designated as paragraph ‘‘(2)’’ in the

third column.

2. HUD’s FY 1999 FHIP NOFA was

amended to require awardees who

received FHIP funding to reimburse the

United States when they have received

compensation for FHIP-funded

activities. That requirement is also in

the FY 2000 NOFA. The purpose of this

change is to modify that provision so

that the requirement applies to

compensation received from a

conciliation or settlement, but not from

a final judgment in litigation. The

provision is amended as follows:

On page 9494, first column, in the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(7)(b)’’ insert

before the word ‘‘When’’ which begins

the first sentence, the following

phrase—‘‘In a conciliation, or

settlement’’.

On page 9494, first column, in the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(7)(b)’’ at the

end of paragraph (7)(b), insert the

following as the last sentence of the

paragraph:

This reimbursement requirement does not

apply to compensation received after a

judgment in state or Federal court.

3. The following are technical and

conforming language changes:

On page 9491, middle column, in the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(2)(b)’’ in the

second line, after the phrase ‘‘immigrant

groups’’ remove the phrase ‘‘that are

non-English-speaking’’ and insert the

following in its place: ‘‘(especially

ethnic minorities who are not Englishspeaking).’’

On page 9494, third column, under

Part V, Section (F), remove the word

‘‘Initiatives’’ from the title of Section F

and insert ‘‘Components’’.

On page 9495, middle column, the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(3)’’ is

redesignated as paragraph ‘‘(C).’’

On page 9495, third column, the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(C)’’ on

‘‘Selections’’ is redesignated as

paragraph ‘‘(D).’’

On Page 9496, first column, the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(D)’’ on

‘‘Priority for Shifting Remaining Funds’’

is redesignated as paragraph ‘‘(E).’’

On page 9496, middle column, the

paragraph designated as ‘‘(E)’’ on

‘‘Factors for Award’’ is redesignated as

paragraph ‘‘(E)’’.

On page 9508, which contains the

‘‘Cover Page FY 2000 FHIP

Application,’’ the last sentence of the

paragraph in the middle of the page is

removed and the following is inserted:

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Failure to submit your preference at the

time of application will be treated as a

technical deficiency, which may be corrected

as noted in Section V of the General Section

of the SuperNOFA.

4. The due date for applications

submitted under the Fair Housing

Partnership Components of the

Education and Outreach and Private

Enforcement Initiatives is extended to

June 30, 2000. For all other Initiatives/

Components, the application due date is

extended to June 2, 2000.

On page 9487, first column, under

‘‘Program Overview’’ and following the

heading ‘‘Application Deadline,’’ the

date ‘‘May 16, 2000’’ is removed, and

the following is inserted:

Application Deadline. For all

Initiatives/Components, except the Fair

Housing Partnership Components of the

Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI)

and the Private Enforcement Initiative

(PEI), June 2, 2000. For the EOI and PEI

Fair Housing Partnership Components,

June 30, 2000.

On page 9487, first column, in Section

I, under the heading ‘‘Application Due

Date’’ the first paragraph is revised to

read as follows:

For all Initiatives/Components, except

the Fair Housing Partnership

Components of the Education and

Outreach Initiative (EOI) and the Private

Enforcement Initiative (PEI), you must

submit completed applications to HUD

Headquarters, at the address shown

below, on or before 12:00 midnight,

Eastern time, on June 2, 2000. For

applications submitted under the EOI

and PEI Fair Housing Partnership

Components, you must submit

completed applications to HUD

Headquarters, at the address shown

below, on or before 12:00 midnight,

Eastern time, on June 30, 2000.

Dated: April 27, 2000.

Eva M. Plaza,

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and

Equal Opportunity.

[FR Doc. 00–11088 Filed 5–1–00; 11:22 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–28–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO–320–1330–PB–24–1A]

Extension of Currently Approved

Information Collection; OMB Approval

Number 1004–121

Information Collection Submitted to

the Office of Management and Budget

for Review Under the Paperwork

Reduction Act.

The Bureau of Land Management

(BLM) has submitted the following

renewal for the collection of information

to the Office of Management and Budget

for approval under the Paperwork

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

We request that interested parties

provide us comments on this

information collection renewal.

You may get copies of the proposed

collection of information and related

forms and explanatory material from the

Bureau’s Clearance Officer at the phone

number listed below. Please make any

comments and suggestions about our

information collection requirements

directly to the Bureau Clearance Officer

and to the Office of Management and

Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project

(1004–30, 1004–121 and 1004–142),

Washington, DC 20503.

Nature of Comments

We specifically request your

comments on the following:

1. Whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

functioning of BLM, including whether

the information will have practical

utility;

2. The accuracy of BLM’s estimate of

the burden, including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used.

3. The quality, utility and clarity of

the information to be collected; and

4. How to minimize the burden of

collecting the information those on who

are to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical or other forms of

information technology.

Title: Leasing of Solid Minerals Other

Than Coal and Oil Shale (43 CFR 3500).

OMB Approval Number: 1004–121.

Abstract: We require persons to

supply us information that we use to

establish their qualifications to hold

permits and leases for solid minerals

other than coal and oil shale. We also

require information that we use to

determine procedures for the leasing of

solid minerals other than coal or oil

shale and for developing those leases.

BLM uses this information to ensure

that operations on permits and leases

are conducted in a manner that is

consistent with the regulations and

environmental requirements in

accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as

amended.

Form Numbers: 3504–1, 3504–3,

3504–4, 3510–1, 3520–7.

Frequency: On occasion.

Description of Respondents: Those

seeking to lease and develop solid

minerals other than coal and oil shale.

Estimated Completion Times

BREAKDOWN OF INFORMATION COLLECTIONS AND TOTAL HOURS

Type of application Number of

responses

Hours per responses Total hours

Prospecting Permit ............................................................................................................................ 25 1 25

Exploration Plan for Prospecting Permit ........................................................................................... 20 80 1600

Prospecting Permit Extension ........................................................................................................... 5 1 5

Preference Right Lease ..................................................................................................................... 2 100 200

Competitive Lease Bid ....................................................................................................................... 5 40 200

Fringe Acreage Lease or Lease Modification ................................................................................... 5 40 200

Assignment or Sublease .................................................................................................................... 40 2 80

Lease Renewals or Adjustments ....................................................................................................... 15 1 15

Use Permit ......................................................................................................................................... 1 1 1

Exploration License ........................................................................................................................... 1 3 3

Exploration Plan for Exploration License .......................................................................................... 1 80 80

Development Contract ....................................................................................................................... 1 1 1

Bond ................................................................................................................................................... 150 4 600

Mine Plan ........................................................................................................................................... 5 150 750

Total ............................................................................................................................................ 276 ...................... 3760