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Agoura Hills, CA; and X–VEIN, Inc.,

Tokyo, Japan have been added as parties

to this venture. Also, AMS Group

International, Unterpremstatten,

Austria; Chronology Corp., Redmond,

WA; DSP Group, Herzlia, Israel; Henry

Davis Consulting, Inc., Soquel, CA;

IDEC–IC Design Education Center,

Taejon, South Korea; Integrated

Intellectual Property, Inc., Santa Clara,

CA; LightSpeed Semiconductor Corp.,

Sunnyvale, CA; Packet Engines, Inc.,

Spokane, WA; Richard Watts

Associated, Ltd., Bedfordshire, United

Kingdom; Scientific & Engineering

Software, Inc., Austin, TX; Technical

Data Freeway, Inc., Concord, MA;

Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale,

CA have been dropped as parties to this

venture.

No other changes have been made in

either the membership or planned

activity of the group research project.

Membership in this group research

project remains open, and VSI Alliance

intends to file additional written

notification disclosing all changes in

membership.

On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance

filed its original notification pursuant to

Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department

of Justice published a notice in the

Federal Register pursuant to section

6(b) of the Act on March 4, 1997 (62 FR

9812).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on July 14, 1999. A

notice was published in the Federal

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the

Act on December 2, 1999 (64 FR 67592).

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 00–17407 Filed 7–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention

[OJP (OJJDP)–1287]

Program Announcements for OJJDP’s

Fiscal Year 2000 Gang-Free Schools

and Communities Initiative

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs,

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP),

Justice.

ACTION: Notice of solicitations.

SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice

and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is

requesting applications for two new

programs to address the youth gang

problem and one new evaluation

program under its Fiscal Year 2000

Gang-Free Schools and Communities

Initiative. This initiative represents a

collaboration between the U.S.

Department of Justice and the U.S.

Departments of Education, Health and

Human Services, Labor, and Treasury.

The two new programs are the GangFree Communities Program and the

Comprehensive Gang Model: An

Enhanced School/Community Approach

to Reducing Youth Gang Crime Program.

An evaluation of the second program,

An Enhanced School/Community

Approach, will also be competitively

awarded.

DATES: Applications for two of the three

programs (the Gang-Free Communities

Program and the National Evaluation of

the Comprehensive Gang Model: An

Enhanced School/Community Approach

to Reducing Youth Gang Crime) are due

by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, September 1,

2000. The due date for applications for

the Comprehensive Gang Model: An

Enhanced School/Community Approach

to Reducing Youth Gang Crime is 5 p.m.

ET on Friday, September 15, 2000.

ADDRESSES: All application packages

should be mailed or delivered to the

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention, c/o Juvenile

Justice Resource Center, 2277 Research

Boulevard, Mail Stop 2K, Rockville, MD

20850; 301–519–5535. Faxed or emailed applications will not be

accepted. Interested applicants can

obtain the three program

announcements (which are contained in

one document) and the OJJDP

Application Kit from the Juvenile Justice

Clearinghouse at 800–638–8736. The

program announcements are also

available on OJJDP’s Web site at

www.ojjdp.ncjrs.ogr (click on ‘‘Grants &

Funding’’ for the program

announcements). The Application Kit is

available online at www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/

grants/about.html#kit. (See the

‘‘Format’’ section in each program

announcement for instructions on

application standards.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim

Burch, Gang Programs Coordinator,

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention, 202–307–5914,

or (for the National Evaluation of

OJJDP’s Comprehensive Gang Model:

An Enhanced School/Community

Approach to Reducing Youth Gang

Crime) Phelan Wyrick, Program

Manager, Research and Policy

Development Division, Office of

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention, at 202–353–9254. [These are

not toll-free numbers.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority This action is authorized under

Title II, Part D, of the Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as

amended (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.).

Background

In 1998, more than 4,000 urban,

suburban, and rural communities in the

United States were experiencing youth

gang problems. More than 30,000 youth

gangs and 800,000 youth gang members

were reported in the most recent

systematic, annual nationwide survey of

law enforcement agencies conducted by

OJJDP’s National Youth Gang Center.

Research findings from OJJDP and the

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggest

that youth gangs continue to present a

serious threat to public safety, despite

the recent downturn in juvenile crime.

OJJDP’s Program of Research on the

Causes and Correlates of Delinquency

found that youth who are involved in

youth gangs commit three to seven

times as many delinquent and criminal

offenses as youth who are not gang

involved. The studies found this trend

holds true even when comparing gang

youth to nongang youth who were

delinquents. Involvement with the

juvenile and criminal justice systems is

usually not a new experience for youth

who join gangs. Many of these youth not

only have come into previous contact

with the justice system, but in many

cases have also been involved in or in

need of child protective, mental health,

and other services. These youth are

known to experience significant risk

factors in numerous domains and pose

a threat not only to their own safety, but

to the safety of their families and their

communities as well.

The threat of gang crime and violence

is not limited to the streets. According

to the 1998 National Youth Gang

Survey, 40 percent of youth gang

members in the United States are

estimated to be under age 17.

Presumably, most of these youth are still

in school. The percentage of public

school students who reported that gangs

were present in their schools nearly

doubled from 17 percent in 1989 to 31

percent in 1995, according to the U.S.

Departments of Education and Justice.

Thus, youth gang activity is also a threat

to the very place sometimes assumed to

be free from safety threats: the

classrooms. These issues present a

continuing need for communities to

seek progressive and promising

approaches to address the problem.

The purpose of the Gang-Free

Communities Program is to provide up

to 12 communities an opportunity to

implement the OJJDP Comprehensive

Gang Model as a way of addressing its

local youth gang problem. The purpose

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of the second program, which is jointly

sponsored by the U.S. Department of

Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free

Schools, and the U.S. Department of

Health and Human Services’ Center for

Mental Health Services, is to provide up

to four communities an opportunity to

assist in developing and implementing

the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model

and enhancing the Model’s school

component. The evaluation effort will

focus on the latter program in order to

measure its success. Under each

program, the initial funding year will

consist of a planning and assessment

process to better identify the youth gang

problem locally and to better develop a

plan for addressing the problem(s) using

the OJJDP Model.

Dated: June 27, 2000.

John J. Wilson,

Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

[FR Doc. 00–16712 Filed 7–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

ADMINISTRATION

Records Schedules for Electronic

Copies Previously Covered by General

Records Schedule 20; Availability and

Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Archives and Records

Administration (NARA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of

proposed records schedules; request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The National Archives and

Records Administration (NARA)

publishes notice at least once monthly

of certain Federal agency requests for

records disposition authority (records

schedules). Once approved by NARA,

records schedules provide mandatory

instructions on what happens to records

when no longer needed for current

Government business. They authorize

the preservation of records of

continuing value in the National

Archives of the United States and the

destruction, after a specified period, of

records lacking administrative, legal,

research, or other value. Notice is

published for records schedules in

which agencies propose to destroy

records not previously authorized for

disposal or reduce the retention period

of records already authorized for

disposal.

This request for comments pertains

solely to schedules for electronic copies

of records created using word

processing and electronic mail where

the recordkeeping copies are already

scheduled. (Electronic copies are

records created using word processing

or electronic mail software that remain

in storage on the computer system after

the recordkeeping copies are produced.)

These records were previously

approved for disposal under General

Records Schedule 20, Items 13 and 14.

The agencies identified in this notice

have submitted schedules pursuant to

NARA Bulletin 99–04 to obtain separate

disposition authority for the electronic

copies associated with program records

and administrative records not covered

by the General Records Schedules.

NARA invites public comments on such

records schedules, as required by 44

U.S.C. 3303a(a). To facilitate review of

these schedules, their availability for

comment is announced in Federal

Register notices separate from those

used for other records disposition

schedules.

DATES: Requests for copies must be

received in writing on or before August

25, 2000. On request, NARA will send

a copy of the schedule. NARA staff

usually prepare appraisal

memorandums concerning a proposed

schedule. These, too, may be requested.

Requesters will be given 30 days to

submit comments.

Some schedules submitted in

accordance with NARA Bulletin 99–04

group records by program, function, or

organizational element. These schedules

do not include descriptions at the file

series level, but, instead, provide

citations to previously approved

schedules or agency records disposition

manuals (see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice). To

facilitate review of such disposition

requests, previously approved schedules

or manuals that are cited may be

requested in addition to schedules for

the electronic copies. NARA will

provide the first 100 pages at no cost.

NARA may charge $.20 per page for

additional copies. These materials also

may be examined at no cost at the

National Archives at College Park (8601

Adelphi Road, College Park, MD).

ADDRESSES: To request a copy of any

records schedule identified in this

notice, write to the Life Cycle

Management Division (NWML),

National Archives and Records

Administration (NARA), 8601 Adelphi

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001.

Requests also may be transmitted by

FAX to 301–713–6852 or by e-mail to

records.mgt@arch2.nara.gov. Requesters

must cite the control number, which

appears in parentheses after the name of

the agency which submitted the

schedule, and must provide a mailing

address. Those who desire appraisal

reports and/or copies of previously

approved schedules or manuals should

so indicate in their request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marie Allen, Director, Life Cycle

Management Division (NWML),

National Archives and Records

Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road,

College Park, MD 20740–6001.

Telephone: (301) 713–7110. E-mail:

records.mgt@arch2.nara.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year

Federal agencies create billions of

records on paper, film, magnetic tape,

and other media. To control this

accumulation, agency records managers

prepare schedules proposing retention

periods for records and submit these

schedules for NARA approval, using the

Standard Form (SF) 115, Request for

Records Disposition Authority. These

schedules provide for the timely transfer

into the National Archives of

historically valuable records and

authorize the disposal of all other

records after the agency no longer needs

the records to conduct its business.

Routine administrative records common

to most agencies are approved for

disposal in the General Records

Schedules (GRS), which are disposition

schedules issued by NARA that apply

Government-wide.

On March 25, 1999, the Archivist

issued NARA Bulletin 99–04, which

told agencies what they must do to

schedule electronic copies associated

with previously scheduled program

records and certain administrative

records that were previously scheduled

under GRS 20, Items 13 and 14. On

December 27, 1999, the Archivist issued

NARA Bulletin 2000–02, which

suspended Bulletin 99–04 pending

NARA’s completion in FY 2001 of an

overall review of scheduling and

appraisal. On completion of this review,

which will address all records,

including electronic copies, NARA will

determine whether Bulletin 99–04

should be revised or replaced with an

alternative scheduling procedure.

However, NARA will accept and

process schedules for electronic copies

prepared in accordance with Bulletin

99–04 that are submitted after December

27, 1999, as well as schedules that were

submitted prior to this date.

Schedules submitted in accordance

with NARA Bulletin 99–04 only cover

the electronic copies associated with

previously scheduled series. Agencies

that wish to schedule hitherto

unscheduled series must submit

separate SF 115s that cover both

recordkeeping copies and electronic

copies used to create them.

In developing SF 115s for the

electronic copies of scheduled records,