55268 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 205 / Thursday, October 23, 1997 / Notices

Delegations of Authority of the

Department of Health and Human

Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated

October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR

69296, October 20, 1980, as amended

most recently at 62 FR 46751, dated

September 4, 1997) is amended to

reflect a change in the official

administrative code for the Office of

Communication, Centers for Disease

Control And Prevention, as published at

62 FR 29142, dated May 29, 1997.

Section C–B, Organization and

Functions, is hereby amended as

follows:

Following the title for the Office of

Communication, change the official

standard administrative code

designation from (CA3) to (CAA).

Following the title for the Office of the

Director, Office of Communication,

change the official standard

administrative code designation from

(CA31) to (CAA1).

Following the title for the Division of

Health Communication, Office of

Communication, change the official

standard administrative code

designation from (CA32) to (CAA2).

Following the title for the Division of

Media Relations, Office of

Communication, change the official

standard administrative code

designation from (CA33) to (CAA3).

Dated: October 7, 1997.

David Satcher,

Director.

[FR Doc. 97–28083 Filed 10–22–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–18–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration

Office for Women’s Services; Notice of

Meeting

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is

hereby given of the meeting of the

Advisory Committee for Women’s

Services of the Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration

(SAMHSA) in November, 1997.

The meeting of the Advisory

Committee for Women’s Services will

include a discussion of and update on

policy and program issues relating to

women’s substance abuse and mental

health service needs at SAMHSA,

including the SAMHSA fiscal year 1998

budget and reauthorization; women in

senior level positions at SAMHSA;

gender issues in SAMHSA’s managed

care activities; FY 98 Knowledge

Development and Application Grants;

and future women’s policy and program

directions at SAMHSA. Public

comments are welcome. Please

communicate with the individual listed

as Contact below to make arrangements

to comment or to request special

accommodations for persons with

disabilities.

A summary of the meeting and/or a

roster of committee members may be

obtained from: Pamela M. Perry,

Executive Secretary, Advisory

Committee for Women’s Services, Office

for Women’s Services, SAMHSA,

Parklawn Building, Room 13–99, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857, Telephone: (301) 443–5184.

Substantive information may be

obtained from the contact whose name

and telephone number is listed below.

Committee Name: Advisory

Committee for Women’s Services.

Meeting Date(s): November 17–18,

1997.

Place: Versailles I Room, Holiday Inn

Hotel—Bethesda, 8120 Wisconsin

Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Open: November 17: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00

p.m. November 18: 8:30 a.m. to 12:00

p.m.

Contact: Pamela M. Perry, Room 13–

99, Parklawn Building, Telephone (301)

443–5184.

Dated: October 17, 1997.

Jeri Lipov,

Committee Management Officer, Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–28013 Filed 10-22-97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4162–20–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

and Plants; Extension of Listing

Priority Guidance for Fiscal Year 1997

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service (Service) announces an

extension of the fiscal year (FY) 1997

guidance for assigning relative priorities

to listing actions conducted under

section 4 of the Endangered Species Act

of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et

seq.) (Act). The FY 1997 guidance will

remain in effect until the FY 1998

appropriations bill for the Department

of the Interior becomes law and new

final guidance is published in the

Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Questions concerning this

notice should be submitted to the Chief,

Division of Endangered Species, U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, 1849 C Street,

N.W., Mail Stop 452 ARLSQ,

Washington, D.C. 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E.

LaVerne Smith, Chief, Division of

Endangered Species (see ADDRESSES

section) (telephone 703/358–2171).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Service adopted guidelines on

September 21, 1983 (48 FR 43098), that

govern the assignment of priorities to

species under consideration for listing

as endangered or threatened under

section 4 of the Act. The Service

adopted those guidelines to establish a

rational system for allocating available

appropriations to the highest priority

species when adding species to the lists

of endangered or threatened wildlife

and plants or reclassifying threatened

species to endangered status. The

system places greatest importance on

the immediacy and magnitude of

threats, but also factors in the level of

taxonomic distinctiveness by assigning

priority in descending order to

monotypic genera, full species, and

subspecies (or equivalently, distinct

population segments of vertebrates).

However, this system does not provide

for prioritization among different listing

actions such as preliminary

determinations, proposed listings, and

final listings.

The enactment of Pub. L. 104–6 in

April, 1995, rescinded $1.5 million from

the Service’s budget for carrying out

listing activities through the remainder

of FY 1995. Pub. L. 104–6 prohibited the

expenditure of the remaining

appropriated funds for final

determinations to list species or

designate critical habitat which, in

effect, placed a moratorium on those

activities. The net effect of the

moratorium and reductions in funding

was that the Service’s listing program

was essentially shut down. The

moratorium on final listings and the

budget constraints remained in effect

until April 26, 1996, when President

Clinton approved the Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act of 1996 and

exercised the authority that the Act gave

him to waive the moratorium. At that

time, the Service had accrued a backlog

of proposed listings for 243 species. The

extremely limited funding available to

the Service for listing activities

generally precluded petition processing

and the development of proposed

listings from October 1, 1995, through

April 26, 1996.

When the moratorium was lifted and

funds were appropriated for the

administration of the listing program,