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AFV labeling cost is estimated to be 

$258,400 ($0.38 × 680,000). 

Thus, the estimated total annual nonlabor cost burden associated with the 

Rule is $259,000 ($205 + $258,400), 

rounded. 

William Blumenthal, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E7–952 Filed 1–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Annual Update of the HHS Poverty 

Guidelines 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides an 

update of the HHS poverty guidelines to 

account for last calendar year’s increase 

in prices as measured by the Consumer 

Price Index. 

DATES: Effective Date: Date of 

publication, unless an office 

administering a program using the 

guidelines specifies a different effective 

date for that particular program. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about how the guidelines 

are used or how income is defined in a 

particular program, contact the Federal, 

State, or local office that is responsible 

for that program. Contact information 

for two frequently requested programs is 

given below: 

For information about the Hill-Burton 

Uncompensated Services Program (free 

or reduced-fee health care services at 

certain hospitals and other facilities for 

persons meeting eligibility criteria 

involving the poverty guidelines), 

contact the Office of the Director, 

Division of Facilities Compliance and 

Recovery, Health Resources and 

Services Administration, HHS, Room 

10–105, Parklawn Building, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 

20857. To speak to a person, call (301) 

443–5656. To receive a Hill-Burton 

information package, call 1–800–638–

0742 (for callers outside Maryland) or 

1–800–492–0359 (for callers in 

Maryland). You may also visit http:// 

www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/default.htm. 

The Division of Facilities Compliance 

and Recovery notes that as set by 42 

CFR 124.505(b), the effective date of this 

update of the poverty guidelines for 

facilities obligated under the HillBurton Uncompensated Services 

Program is sixty days from the date of 

this publication. 

For information about the percentage 

multiple of the poverty guidelines to be 

used on immigration forms such as 

USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support, 

contact U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services at 1–800–375–

5283 or visit http://www.uscis.gov/files/ 

form/I-864p.pdf. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty or about the Census 

Bureau poverty thresholds, visit the 

Poverty section of the Census Bureau’s 

Web site at http://www.census.gov/ 

hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html or 

contact the Census Bureau’s 

Demographic Call Center Staff at (301) 

763–2422 or 1–866–758–1060 (toll-free). 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, contact 

Gordon Fisher, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Washington, DC 20201—

telephone: (202) 690–7507—or visit 

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42 

U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services to update, at least annually, the 

poverty guidelines, which shall be used 

as an eligibility criterion for the 

Community Services Block Grant 

program. The poverty guidelines also 

are used as an eligibility criterion by a 

number of other Federal programs. The 

poverty guidelines issued here are a 

simplified version of the poverty 

thresholds that the Census Bureau uses 

to prepare its estimates of the number of 

individuals and families in poverty. 

As required by law, this update is 

accomplished by increasing the latest 

published Census Bureau poverty 

thresholds by the relevant percentage 

change in the Consumer Price Index for 

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The 

guidelines in this 2007 notice reflect the 

3.2 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2005 and 2006. After this 

inflation adjustment, the guidelines are 

rounded and adjusted to standardize the 

differences between family sizes. The 

same calculation procedure was used 

this year as in previous years. (Note that 

these 2007 guidelines are roughly equal 

to the poverty thresholds for calendar 

year 2006 which the Census Bureau 

expects to publish in final form in 

August 2007.) The guideline figures 

shown represent annual income. 

2007 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons 

in family 

Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................. $10,210 

2 .................................................. 13,690 

3 .................................................. 17,170 

4 .................................................. 20,650 

5 .................................................. 24,130 

6 .................................................. 27,610 

7 .................................................. 31,090 

8 .................................................. 34,570 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $3,480 for each additional 

person. 

2007 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons 

in family 

Poverty 

guideline 

..................................................... $12,770 

2 .................................................. 17,120 

3 .................................................. 21,470 

4 .................................................. 25,820 

5 .................................................. 30,170 

6 .................................................. 34,520 

7 .................................................. 38,870 

8 .................................................. 43,220 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $4,350 for each additional 

person. 

2007 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons 

in family 

Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................. $11,750 

2 .................................................. 15,750 

3 .................................................. 19,750 

4 .................................................. 23,750 

5 .................................................. 27,750 

6 .................................................. 31,750 

7 .................................................. 35,750 

8 .................................................. 39,750 

For families with more than 8 

persons, add $4,000 for each additional 

person. 

Separate poverty guideline figures for 

Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of 

Economic Opportunity administrative 

practice beginning in the 1966–1970 

period. (Note that the Census Bureau 

poverty thresholds—the version of the 

poverty measure used for statistical 

purposes—have never had separate 

figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The 

poverty guidelines are not defined for 

Puerto Rico or other outlying 

jurisdictions. In cases in which a 


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Federal program using the poverty 

guidelines serves any of those 

jurisdictions, the Federal office that 

administers the program is generally 

responsible for deciding whether to use 

the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines 

for those jurisdictions or to follow some 

other procedure. 

Due to confusing legislative language 

dating back to 1972, the poverty 

guidelines have sometimes been 

mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’

(Office of Management and Budget) 

poverty guidelines or poverty line. In 

fact, OMB has never issued the 

guidelines; the guidelines are issued 

each year by the Department of Health 

and Human Services. The poverty 

guidelines may be formally referenced 

as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated 

periodically in the Federal Register by 

the U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services under the authority of 

42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’

Some programs use a percentage 

multiple of the guidelines (for example, 

125 percent or 185 percent of the 

guidelines), as noted in relevant 

authorizing legislation or program 

regulations. Non-Federal organizations 

that use the poverty guidelines under 

their own authority in non-federallyfunded activities can choose to use a 

percentage multiple of the guidelines 

such as 125 percent or 185 percent. 

The poverty guidelines do not make a 

distinction between farm and non-farm 

families, or between aged and non-aged 

units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty 

thresholds have separate figures for aged 

and non-aged one-person and twoperson units.) 

Note that this notice does not provide 

definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or 

‘‘family.’’ This is because there is 

considerable variation in how different 

programs that use the guidelines define 

these terms, traceable to the different 

laws and regulations that govern the 

various programs. Therefore, questions 

about how a particular program applies 

the poverty guidelines (e.g., Is income 

before or after taxes? Should a particular 

type of income be counted? Should a 

particular person be counted in the 

family or household unit?) should be 

directed to the organization that 

administers the program. 

Dated: January 17, 2007. 

Michael O. Leavitt, 

Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

[FR Doc. 07–268 Filed 1–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4151–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Disease, Disability, and Injury 

Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel (SEP): NIOSH 

Occupational Health and Safety 

Research, Program Announcement 

Number (PAR) 06–484 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) 

announces the aforementioned meeting: 

Time and Date: 8 a.m.–5 p.m., February 9, 

2007 (Closed). 

Place: 1750 New York Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20006. 

Status: The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with provisions set 

forth in section 552b(c)(4) and (6), Title 5 

U.S.C., and the Determination of the Director, 

Management Analysis and Services Office, 

CDC, pursuant to Public Law 92–463. 

Matters To Be Discussed: The SEP meeting 

will include the review, discussion, and 

evaluation of applications received in 

response to ‘‘NIOSH Occupational Health 

and Safety Research,’’ PAR 06–484. The 

applications being reviewed include 

information of a confidential nature, 

including personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the applications. 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Horace M. Stiles, DDS, PhD, MPH, 

Designated Federal Officer, 15111 Farm 

Market Road, Maypearl, Texas 76064–1902, 

telephone 404.498.2584. 

The Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, has been delegated the 

authority to sign Federal Register notices 

pertaining to announcements of meetings and 

other committee management activities, for 

both CDC and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: January 18, 2007. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Acting Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E7–987 Filed 1–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: 45 CFR 1304 Head Start 

Program Performance Standards. 

OMB No. 0970–0148. 

Description: Head Start Program 

Performance Standards require Head 

Start and Early Head Start Programs and 

Delegate Agencies to maintain program 

records. The Administration for 

Children and Families, Office of Head 

Start, is proposing to renew, without 

changes, the authority to require certain 

record keeping in all programs as 

provided for in 45 CFR part 1304 Head 

Start Program Performance Standards. 

These standards prescribe the services 

that Head Start and Early Head Start 

programs provide to enrolled children 

and their families. 

Respondents: Head Start and Early 

Head Start grantees and delegate 

agencies. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Standard .......................................................................................................... 2,590 16 41.8 1,732,192 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: .................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,732,192 

Additional Information: Copies of the 

proposed collection may be obtained by 

writing to the Administration for 

Children and Families, Office of 

Administration, Office of Information 

Services, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., 

Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests 

should be identified by the title of the 

information collection. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

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 collection should 

be sent directly to the following: Office 

of Management and Budget, Paperwork 


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