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site, established last year, which

contains most of the same electronic

materials as well as additional

informational resources and links to

other pertinent Internet sites.

DATES: Comments by the agencies and

the public are invited and should be

submitted to OGE by December 8, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the

Office of Government Ethics, Suite 500,

1201 New York Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20005–3917, Attention:

James V. Parle.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James V. Parle, Chief, Office of

Information Resources Management,

Office of Government Ethics; telephone:

202–208–8000; TDD: 202–208–8025;

FAX: 202–208–8037; Internet E-mail

address: usoge@oge.gov (for E-mail

messages, the subject line should

include the following reference—

Comment on planned TEBBS

termination).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is

hereby given that, effective January 1,

1998, the Office of Government Ethics is

planning to terminate the operation of

its ‘‘The Ethics Bulletin Board System’’

(TEBBS). This notice is also being

posted on TEBBS and OGE’s Web site.

In light of the creation last year of OGE’s

new Web site on the Internet, OGE has

initially determined that TEBBS is no

longer needed for electronic

dissemination of OGE Government

ethics information to the agencies and

the public. Nonetheless, OGE invites

comments from the agencies and the

public on this planned termination of

TEBBS, to be received by December 8,

1997, and will carefully consider any

comments received before reaching a

final decision. If OGE does decide to

delay or reverse the planned

termination of TEBBS, OGE will publish

a further notice to this effect in the

Federal Register, as well as posting it on

both TEBBS and the OGE Web site.

The Office of Government Ethics

introduced TEBBS to the executive

branch ethics community at the

September 1992 Government Ethics

Conference. Since then, TEBBS has been

used to disseminate electronic copies of

OGE’s executive branchwide ethics

regulations, along with its advisory

memoranda and letters. The TEBBS

bulletin board also electronically

provides access to various ethics

program administration aids, such as

ethics reporting forms, training

materials, and OGE publications.

When OGE introduced the TEBBS

service in 1992, electronic bulletin

boards were the principal means for the

Government to disseminate information

electronically. However, since that time,

information technology has changed

significantly. Today, the World Wide

Web on the Internet has become the

primary electronic means of

disseminating information. The Office

of Government Ethics introduced its

own Web site at the September 1996

Government Ethics Conference.

The current uniform resource locator

(URL) address for OGE’s Internet World

Wide Web site is http://www.usoge.gov.

The OGE Web site contains, either onsite or via links to other Web sites, most

of the same electronic information that

is available on TEBBS as noted above,

as well as that on OGE’s ethics CD–

ROM, which OGE will continue to

publish twice a year. The Web site also

provides access to additional

informational resources, such as

electronic copies of pertinent

Government ethics laws and Executive

orders. Further, the Web site includes

all the current OGE forms and

publications in Adobe Acrobat portable

document format (PDF) files that can be

downloaded and used as needed by

agencies and their employees. The

Office of Government Ethics continually

updates its Web site as new material

becomes available for electronic

dissemination.

Response to OGE’s Web site has been

better than expected. Since OGE put its

Web site into service a year ago, the

number of ‘‘hits’’ (visits to a page or

downloading of a document) has grown

steadily. The volume now averages

some 34,000 ‘‘hits’’ a month. The Office

of Government Ethics expects this

number to continue to grow as it adds

additional functionality and information

to the site. Not surprisingly, there has

been a corresponding decrease in the

use of TEBBS. With OGE’s limited

resources, the largely redundant and

less flexible capabilities offered by

TEBBS has become too expensive to

operate and maintain. The additional

resources and capabilities of OGE’s Web

site should more than compensate for

the termination of the TEBBS electronic

bulletin board service.

Approved: October 31, 1997.

Stephen D. Potts,

Director, Office of Government Ethics.

[FR Doc. 97–29333 Filed 11–5–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Program Support Center; Agency

Information Collection Activities:

Proposed Collections; Comment

Request

The Department of Health and Human

Services, Program Support Center (PSC),

will periodically publish summaries of

proposed information collections

projects and solicit public comments in

compliance with the requirements of

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more

information on the project or to obtain

a copy of the information collection

plans and instruments, call the PSC

Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443–

2045.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

1. Application Packets for Real

Property for Public Health Purposes—

0937–0191—Revision

The Department of Health and Human

Services Administers a program to

convey or lease surplus real property to

States and their political subdivisions

and instrumentalities, to tax-supported

institutions, and to nonprofit

institutions to be used for health

purposes. State and local governments

and nonprofit organizations use these

applications to apply for excess/surplus,

underutilized/unutilized and off-site

Government real property. Information

in the application is used to determine

eligibility to purchase, lease, or use

property under the provisions of the

surplus property program. The

instructions have been reduced from six

(6) packets to three (3) to streamline and

consolidate the health and homeless

application processes. The

Environmental information form, used

to evaluate potential environmental

effects of a proposal as required by the

National Environmental Policy Act of

1969, is being revised to provide factual

data to support the response to each

question and to leave no doubt about

what conditions or adverse effects are
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being considered as well as to make it

more user friendly. Respondents: State,

Local or Tribal Governments; not-forprofit institutions; Total Number of

Respondents: 114 per calendar year;

Number of Responses per Respondent:

One response per request; Average

Burden per Response: 200 hours;

Estimated Annual Burden: 22,800

hours.

Send comments to Douglas F. Mortl,

PSC Reports Clearance Officer, Room

17A08, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Dated: October 30, 1997.

Lynnda M. Regan,

Director, Program Support Center.

[FR Doc. 97–29349 Filed 11–5–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–17–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 97F-0440]

Cytec Industries, Inc.; Filing of Food

Additive Petition

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is announcing

that Cytec Industries, Inc., has filed a

petition proposing that the food additive

regulations be amended to provide for

the safe use of 1,6-hexanediamine, N,N′-

bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)-,

polymers with morpholine-2,4,6-

trichloro-1,3,5-triazine reaction

products, methylated, as a stabilizer for

olefin polymers intended for use in

contact with food.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vir

D. Anand, Center for Food Safety and

Applied Nutrition (HFS-216), Food and

Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW.,

Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(sec. 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))),

notice is given that a food additive

petition (FAP 8B4562) has been filed by

Cytec Industries, Inc., c/o Keller and

Heckman, 1001 G St. NW., suite 500

West, Washington, DC 20001. The

petition proposes to amend the food

additive regulations in § 178.2010

Antioxidants and/or stabilizers for

polymers (21 CFR 178.2010) to provide

for the safe use of 1,6-hexanediamine,

N,N′-bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-

piperidinyl)-, polymers with

morpholine-2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine

reaction products, methylated, as a

stabilizer for olefin polymers complying

with 21 CFR 177.1520 intended for use

in contact with food.

The agency has determined under 21

CFR 25.32(i) that this action is of the

type that does not individually or

cumulatively have a significant effect on

the human environment. Therefore,

neither an environmental assessment

nor an environmental impact statement

is required.

Dated: October 16, 1997.

Alan M. Rulis,

Director, Office of Premarket Approval,

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

[FR Doc. 97–29347 Filed 11–5–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

Peripheral and Central Nervous

System Drugs Advisory Committee

Meeting; Cancellation

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is canceling the

meeting of the Peripheral and Central

Nervous System Drugs Advisory

Committee scheduled for November 18

and 19, 1997. The meeting was

announced in the Federal Register of

October 17, 1997 (62 FR 54118).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ermona B. McGoodwin or Danyiel

D’Antonio, Center for Drug Evaluation

and Research (HFD–21), Food and Drug

Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, 301–443–5455, or

FDA Advisory Committee Information

Line, 1–800–741–8138 (301–443–0572

in the Washington, DC area), code

12543.

Dated: October 30, 1997.

Michael A. Friedman.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations.

[FR Doc. 97–29348 Filed 11–5–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Notice of

Closed Meetings

Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the following

National Cancer Institute Special

Emphasis Panel (SEP) meetings:

Name of SEP: Phase II Clinical Trails of

New Chemopreventive Agents.

Date: November 18, 1997.

Time: 9:00 a.m. to adjournment.

Place: Double Tree Hotel-Rockville, 1750

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.

Contact Person: Wilna Woods, Ph.D.,

Scientific Review Administrator, National

Cancer Institute, NIH, Executive Plaza North,

Room 622B, 6130 Executive Boulevard, MSC

7405, Bethesda, MD 20892–7405, Telephone:

301/496–7903.

Purpose/Agenda: To review, discuss and

evaluate responses to Request for Proposal.

Name of SEP: Phase I Clinical Studies of

Chemopreventive Agents.

Date: November 29–20, 1997.

Time: November 19–9:00 a.m. to recess;

November 20–9:00 a.m. to adjournment.

Place: Double Tree Hotel-Rockville, 1750

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.

Contact Person: Wilna Woods, Ph.D.,

Scientific Review Administrator, National

Cancer Institute, NIH, Executive Plaza North,

Room 622B, 6130 Executive Boulevard, MSC

7405, Bethesda, MD 20892–7405, Telephone:

301/496–7903.

Purpose/Agenda: To review, discuss and

evaluate responses to Request for Proposal.

This notice is being published less than 15

days prior to the meeting due to the urgent

need to meet timing limitations imposed by

the review and funding cycle.

The meetings will be closed in accordance

with the provisions set for in secs. 552b(c)(4)

and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C. Proposals and

the discussions could reveal confidential

trade secrets or commercial property such as

patentable material and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

proposals, the disclosure of which would

constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of

personal privacy.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Numbers: 93.393, Cancer Cause and

Prevention Research; 93.394, Cancer

Detection and Diagnosis Research; 93.395,

Cancer Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer

Biology Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers

Support; 93.398, Cancer Research Manpower;

93.399, Cancer Control)

Dated: October 30, 1997.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

[FR Doc. 97–29359 Filed 11–5–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Notice of

Closed Meeting

Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice