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Total Estimate Burden Hours: 91

Status: Reinstatement, without

changes.

Contact: Jane Luten, HUD, (202) 708–

2556 x2537, Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB,

(202) 395–7316

Dated: August 27, 1997

[FR Doc. 97–23758 Filed 9–8–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4279–D–01]

Delegation of Authority

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of delegation of

authority.

SUMMARY: This notice delegates to the

Assistant Secretary for Public and

Indian Housing (PIH) the authority of

the Secretary regarding the HOPE VI

Program (also referred to as the urban

revitalization demonstration program;

and the revitalization of severely

distressed public housing).

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Reardon, Assistant General

Counsel, Assisted Housing Division,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Room

8166, Washington, DC 20410; telephone

(202) 708–0470 (this is not a toll-free

number.) This number may also be

accessed via TTY by calling the Federal

Information Relay Service at 1–800–

877–8399.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The HOPE

VI program is an urban revitalization

program involving major reconstruction

of severely distressed or obsolete public

housing. In order to address the needs

of this program, the authority to

administer it is being delegated to the

Assistant Secretary for Public and

Indian Housing.

Accordingly, the Secretary delegates

authority as follows:

Section A. Authority Delegated

The Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development delegates to the Assistant

Secretary for PIH the authority of the

Secretary regarding the HOPE VI

program, including the signing of grant

agreements. The HOPE VI program (also

referred to as the urban revitalization

demonstration program; and the

revitalization of severely distressed

public housing) was originally

authorized under the 1993 HUD

Appropriations Act, Public Law 102–

389 (October 6, 1992) and has continued

to be authorized under succeeding

appropriations acts for the Department

Section B. Authority Reserved

The authority delegated does not

include the authority to sue and be

sued.

Section C. Authority To Redelegate

The authority delegated includes the

authority to redelegate.

Dated: August 28, 1997.

Andrew Cuomo,

Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development.

[FR Doc. 97–23759 Filed 9–8–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–32–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC); Public Comment on the

Proposal To Develop the

‘‘Environmental Hazards Geospatial

Data Content Standard’’ as a Federal

Geographic Data Committee Standard

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The FGDC is soliciting public

comments on the proposal to develop a

‘‘Environmental Hazards Geospatial

Data Content Standard.’’ If the proposal

is approved, the standard will be

developed following the FGDC

standards development and approval

process. If the standard is adopted by

the FGDC, it must be followed by all

Federal agencies collecting

environmental hazards geospatial data

directly or indirectly, through grants,

partnerships, or contracts.

In its assigned Federal leadership in

the development of the National Spatial

Data Infrastructure (NSDI), the FGDC

recognizes that FGDC standards must

also meet the needs and recognize the

views of State and local governments,

academia, industry, and the public. The

purpose of this notice is to solicit such

views. The FGDC invites the community

to review the proposal and comment on

the objectives, scope, approach,

usability of the proposed standard;

identify existing related standards; and

indicate their participating in the

development of the standard.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before October 3, 1997.

CONTACT AND ADDRESSES: The complete

proposal is included in this notice. It is

also posted at Internet address: http://

www.fgdc.gov/pub/standards/Hazards/

envhzpro.txt

Comments may be submitted via

Internet mail or by submitting an

electronic copy on diskette. Send

comments via Internet to: gdchazards@www.fgdc.gov. Comments emailed as attachments must be in ASCII

format.

A soft copy version may be submitted

on a 3.5×3.5 diskette in WordPerfect 5.0

or 6.0/6.1 format, along with one

hardcopy version of the comments, to

the FGDC Secretariat (attn: Jennifer Fox)

at U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National

Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive,

Reston, Virginia, 20192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following

is the complete proposal for the

Environmental Hazards Geospatial Data

Content Standard.

Date of Proposal: May 1997.

Submitting Organization: FGDC

Facilities Working Group (FWG).

Point of Contact: Nancy Blyler (202)

761–8893.

Objectives: To develop a nationally

focused Environmental Hazards

Geospatial Data Content Standard

(hereafter called Environmental Hazards

Standard) that will establish a

consistent approach to sharing

information about natural and manmade

substances, materials, and conditions

that are, or have the potential to be,

detrimental to ecosystems on the earth.

Goals: 1. To compile common

definitions for environmental hazard

data that will facilitate the effective, use,

understanding, and automation of

geospatial information.

2. To standardize entities, attributes,

and domain values that will improve

the creation, management and data

sharing of environmental hazard data.

3. To resolve discrepancies related to

the use of similar terms, thereby

minimizing duplication within and

among systems.

Scope: The environmental hazards

standard will address data concerning

the evaluation and investigation of the

existence of environmental hazards,

monitoring the presence of hazards,

preparedness and protection from

hazards, and remediation of their

effects. This standard will include the

management of information about

chemical and biological substances,

hazardous materials, and physical

conditions that affect the earth’s

ecosystems, including air, soil, and

water systems (both surface water and

ground water). This standard will not

address natural disasters (e.g.,

volcanoes, earthquakes).

Justification/Benefits: There is no

national geospatial data content

standard for environmental hazards. A

comprehensive data content standard

supporting the study, management, and

remediation of environmental hazards
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would be beneficial to hazardous

materials managers, solid waste

engineers, and public works officers.

Benefits would also be realized in

emergency situations, when efficient

management and data sharing between

Federal and local agencies is imperative

to containing hazardous materials and

protecting the environment.

Development of Environmental

Hazard Standards through the FGDC

will provide an opportunity for broad

participation from national, state, and

local governments, municipalities,

professional societies, and private

industry. Environmental Hazard

Standards will also support the FGDC’s

integrated standard database project and

will provide new data sharing

opportunities for the National Spatial

Data Infrastructure (NSDI) (i.e., Federal,

state, and local governments, as well as

the private sector.)

Approach: The FWG will establish an

Environmental Hazards project team to

develop this Environmental Hazards

Standard. The project team will begin

development of this Environment

Hazards Standard using the

Environmental Hazards information

contained in the Tri Service Spatial Data

Standard (TSSDS). However, the project

team or the resulting standard will not

be constrained to the content extracted

from the TSSDS. The entity classes,

entity types, etc. may be enhanced and

modified to create a comprehensive

Environmental Hazard Data Content

standard that meets the diverse

requirements of Federal, state, and

community environmental data users.

The project team will solicit input from

a broad range of agencies and

environmental groups for development

of the standard.

The FWG will also maintain an

Environmental Hazards database

containing the entity/attribute/domain

information that can be used to support

the Standards Working Group (SWG)

integrated feature registry project.

Related Standards: As mentioned in

the approach paragraph, the TSSDS is a

related standard that includes

Environmental Hazards information.

Additional content added to the

Environmental Hazard standard (beyond

what is available from the TSSDS) will

be closely coordinated with the TriService CADD/GIS Technology Center

so that later versions of the TSSDS may

potentially incorporate this additional

information. This project will also be

coordinated with the Facilities

Identification project.

Other related standards (relevant to

domain values) are: EPA Order 2180.1,

June 26, 1987 standard for Chemical

Abstracts Service Registry Number Data

Standard for using CAS Registry

Number for identification of chemical

substances.

ANSI X3.50–1986, American National

Standard for information systems—

represnetations for U.S. customary, SI,

and other units to be used in systems

with limited character sets. NIST

Special Publication 811, 1995 Edition,

Guide for the Use of the International

System of Units (SI) for standardizing

units of measure.

Schedule: The FWG has formed an

Environmental Hazards project team to

begin work on the development of this

standard. The development of a working

draft Environmental Hazards Standard

is expected to take 9–12 months. Once

the FWG is satisfied with the content of

this Environmental Hazards Standard it

will be forwarded to the SWG for

consideration to go out for public

review. The FWG expects to have a

completed, approved Environmental

Hazard standard in 24 months.

Resources: The FWG has adequate

resources to accomplish the initial

development of this Environmental

Hazards Standard. If after review and

comment from other Federal Agencies

and the non-Federal sector there is

considerable additional content need,

then additional resources may be

required.

Potential Participants: The primary

participants will be the members of the

FWG which includes representatives

from Federal agencies, municipalities,

professional associations, and private

industry.

Target Authorization Body: The FWG

proposes pursing the development of

this Environmental Hazards Standard as

an FGDC standard. The FWG may

consider pursuing (at a later date) the

development of the Environmental

Hazards Standard as an ANSI (American

National Standards Institute) Standard

within ANSI’s technical committee for

GIS, NCITS L1. FGDC would serve as

the Target Authorization Body until this

Environmental Hazards Standard

becomes an ANSI Standard.

Dated: September 2, 1997.

John Fischer,

Acting Chief, National Mapping Division.

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BILLING CODE 4310–31–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana Liquor

Ordinance

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice is published in

accordance with authority delegated by

the Secretary of the Interior to the

Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs by

209 DM 8, and in accordance with the

Act of August 15, 1953, 67 Stat. 586, 18

U.S.C. § 1161, as interpreted by the

Supreme Court in, Rice v. Rehner, 463

U.S. 713 (1983). I certify that the

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana Liquor

Ordinance was duly adopted by

Resolution No. CHI–TC # 3–97 of the

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana Tribal

Council on January 2, 1997. The

ordinance provides for the regulation,

sale, possession and use of alcholic

liquor within the Tribe’s jurisdiction.

DATES: This ordinance is effective as of

September 9, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry

Cordova, Office of Tribal Services, 1849

C Street, N.W., MS 4641 MIB,

Washington, D.C. 20240–4001;

telephone (202)208–4401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana Liquor

Ordinance shall read as follows:

Title XIV—Tribal Licenses and Permits

Chapter 1. Liquor Licenses and Permits

Sec. 101. Conformity with State Law

and This Ordinance

The introduction, possession,

transportation, and sale of intoxicating

beverages shall be lawful within the

Indian country under the jurisdiction of

the Tribe, provided that such

introduction and sale are in conformity

with the laws of the State of Louisiana

and with the provisions of this

ordinance.

Sec. 102. Tribal License or Permit

Required

No person shall engage in the sale of

intoxicating beverages within the Indian

country under the jurisdiction of the

Tribe, unless duly licensed or permitted

to do so by the Tribe in accordance with

the terms of this Ordinance and the

State of Louisiana.

Sec. 103. Application for Tribal Liquor

License; Requirements

No tribal license shall issue under this

Ordinance except upon a sworn

application filed with the Council

containing a full and complete showing

of the following:

(a) Satisfactory proof that the

applicant is or will be duly licensed by

the State of Louisiana.

(b) Satisfactory proof that the

applicant is of good character and

reputation among the people of the