62616 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 226 / Monday, November 24, 1997 / Notices

(301) 443–3474, FAX: (301) 443–3354,

e-mail: peason@hrsa.dhhs.gov.

Dated: November 14, 1997.

Claude Earl Fox,

Acting Administrator.

[FR Doc. 97–30782 Filed 11–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Proposed Special Factors for Grants

for Residency Training and Advanced

Education in the General Practice of

Dentistry Programs for Fiscal Year

1998

Grants for Residency Training and

Advanced Education in the General

Practice of Dentistry Programs are

authorized under section 749, title VII of

the Public Health Service Act, as

amended by the Health Professions

Education Extension Amendments of

1992, Pub. L. 102–408, dated October

13, 1992.

Proposed Special Factors

The following Special Factors are

proposed:

Special Factors

In determining the funding of

approved applications, the Secretary

will consider the following Special

Factors:

Community linkages—This special

factor may be addressed by the

establishment of academic-community

linkages, in particular linkages between

the training program and underserved

populations or communities.

Documentation of such linkages should

include verification that at least 20% of

residents’ training time occurs in one or

more underserved settings. Memoranda

of agreement and letters of support from

the community settings involved should

be included in the appropriate appendix

of the application.

Establishment of new PGY–1 training

positions—To address the

recommendations of expert panels such

as the Institute of Medicine and Pew

Commission on Health that a year of

post-doctoral training be available for all

dental graduates, and that the majority

of these positions be in general dentistry

programs, this special factor may be

addressed by the establishment of new

postgraduate year-one (PGY–1) training

positions, either through the

establishment of a new program or the

expansion of an existing program. An

increase in the number of PGY–2

positions does not address the intent of

this special factor.

Innovative training methods—

Examples of ways in which applicants

address this special factor might include

new sponsor/co-sponsor arrangements;

different organizational and

administrative structures; expanded

private/public sector affiliations and

setting linkages; and creative

applications for current instructional

telecommunications and computer

technologies.

Peer reviewers will take into

consideration the extent to which

proposals address these Special Factors

and adjust their individual technical

review scores accordingly.

An announcement will be made in the

HRSA Preview for grant programs which

will conduct competitive cycles in FY

1998.

The comment period is 30 days. All

comments received on or before

December 24, 1997 will be considered

before the final review criteria are

established. Written comments should

be addressed to: Bernice Parlak,

Division of Associated, Dental and

Public Health Professions, Bureau of

Health Professions, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Parklawn

Building, Room 8–101, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

Telephone: (301) 443–6853; FAX: (301)

443–1164.

All comments received will be

available for public inspection and

copying at the Division of Associated,

Dental and Public Health Professions, at

the above address, weekdays (Federal

holidays excepted) between the hours of

8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Dated: November 14, 1997.

Claude Earl Fox,

Acting Administrator.

[FR Doc. 97–30781 Filed 11–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4210–N–03]

Housing Opportunities for Persons

With AIDS Program; Announcement of

Funding Awards—Fiscal Year 1997

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding awards.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989, this notice

announces the funding decisions made

by the Department in a competition for

funding under the Fiscal year 1997

Housing Opportunities for Persons with

AIDS (NOPWA) program. The notice

contains the names of award winners

and the amounts of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Vos, Acting Director, Office of

HIV/AIDS Housing, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, Room

7154, 451 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202)

708–1934. the TTY number for the

hearing impaired is (202) 708–2565.

(These are not toll-free numbers).

Information on HOPWA, community

development and consolidated

planning, and other HUD programs may

also be obtained from the Community

Connections information center at 1–

800–998–999 (voice) or 1–800–483–

2209 (TTY); by email at

amcom@aspensys.com; or by internet at

gopher://amcom.aspensys.com. The

HUD Home Page address on the World

Wide Web is http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

purpose of the competition was to

award grants for housing assistance and

supportive services by three types of

projects: (1) Grants for special projects

of national significance which, due to

their innovative nature or their potential

for replication, are likely to serve as

effective models in addressing the needs

of low-income persons living with HIV/

AIDS and their families, including at

least one grant for National HOPWA

Technical Assistance; (2) grants for

projects under the HIV Multiplediagnoses Initiative (MDI) which, due to

their innovative nature or their potential

for replication, are likely to serve as

effective models in addressing the needs

of low-income persons living with HIV/

AIDS and their families who are also

homeless and have chronic alcohol and/

or other drug abuse problems and/or

serious mental illness; and (3) grants for

projects which are part of long-term

comprehensive strategies for providing

housing and related to services for lowincome persons living with HIV/AIDS

and their families in areas that do not

receive HOPWA formula allocations,

including additional funds for the

evaluation of MDI grant selected under

the 1996 competition.

The HOPWA assistance made

available in this announcement is

authorized by the AIDS Housing

Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), as

amended by the Housing and

Community Development Act of 1992

(Pub. L. 102–550, approved October 28,

1992) and was appropriated by the

Department’s appropriation, The

‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs and
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Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriation

Act, 1997’’ (Pub. L. 102–204, approved

September 26, 1996). The competition

was announced in a Notice of Funding

Availability (NOFA) published in the

Federal Register on May 7, 1997 (62 FR

25082). Applications were rated and

selected for funding on the basis of

selection criteria contained in that

Notice.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number for this program is

14.241.

A total of $19,600,000 was awarded

for 27 applications. In accordance with

section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42

U.S.C. 3545), the Department is

publishing the grantees and amounts of

the awards in Appendix A.

Dated: November 17, 1997.

Jacquie Lawing,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Community

Planning and Development.

Appendix A—FY 1997 HOPWA

Competitive Grants

Chart 1. Awards for Projects That Are

Part of Long Term comprehensive

Strategies (Non-Formula Areas)

Alaska Housing Finance Corporation,

Anchorage, Alaska, $572,800

New Mexico Mortgage Finance

Authority, Albuquerque and Gallup,

New Mexico, $1,100,000

Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage

Finance Corporation, Providence,

Cumberland and Cranston, Rhode

Island, $1,097,030

Wyoming Department of Health, Casper,

Wyoming, $288,640

Pima County Community services,

Tucson, Arizona, $639,196

Chart 2. Awards for Special Projects of

National Significane

The AIDS Project, Portland, Maine,

$1,064,194

AIDS Housing Corporation, Boston,

Massachusetts for the New England

region, $749,689

San Diego County, Department of

Housing and Community

Development, San Diego, San Marcos

and Vista, California, $1,053,800

North Carolina Department of

Environment, Health and Natural

Resources, Charlotte, Raleigh,

Greenville, Wilmington, and eastern

rural NC, $785,714

Kentucky Housing Corporation,

Louisville, Lexington, Dayton and

Covington, Kentucky, $901,323

Ho’omana’olana, Honolulu, Hawaii,

$1,028,797

Hudson Planning Group, Inc., New York

City, $334,750

Chart 3. Award for National HOPWA

Technical Assistance—SPNS

AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle,

Washington for nation-wide activities,

$1,030,000

Chart 4. Awards for the HIV MultipleDiagnoses Initiative

City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport,

Connecticut, $1,270,000

Church Avenue Merchants Block

Association (CAMBA), Brooklyn, New

York City, $1,199,901

AIDS Task Force of Alabama, Inc.,

Birmingham, Alabama, $1,270,000

The Salvation Army, Harbor Light

Multi-Service Center, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, $1,200,000

Catholic Community Services, Hudson

County Division, Jersey City, New

Jersey, $1,236,922

Local Health Council of East Central

Florida, Inc., Orlando, Florida,

$1,205,903

Center for Children & Families,

Manhattan, New York City,

$1,221,450

Chart 5. Additional Pat III Funds for

Evaluation of 1996 HIV MultipleDiagnoses Initiative Projects

Bernal Heights Housing Corporation,

San Francisco, California, $50,000

Housing Authority of Santa Cruz, Santa

Cruz Co., California, $50,000

Housing & Services Inc. (of South

Florida), Miami, Florida, $50,000

Baltimore Department of Housing and

Community Development, Baltimore,

Maryland, $50,000

Catholic Community Services, Jersey

City, New Jersey, $49,936

United Bronx Parents, Inc., New York

City, $50,000

Houston Regional HIV/AIDS Resource

Group, Inc., Houston, Texas, $50,000

Total for all 27 grants: $19,600,000

[FR Doc. 97–30612 Filed 11–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

North American Wetlands

Conservation Council; Meeting

Announcement

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The North American

Wetlands Conservation Council

(Council) will meet on December 10 to

review proposals for funding submitted

pursuant to the North American

Wetlands Conservation Act. Upon

completion of the Council’s review,

proposals will be submitted to the

Migratory Bird Conservation

Commission for funding approval. The

meeting is open to the public.

DATES: December 10, 1997, 9:00 A.M.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Tensas River National Wildlife

Refuge, Route 2, Box 295, Tallulah,

Louisiana, (318) 574–2664. The North

American Wetlands Conservation

Council Coordinator is located at the

Fish and Wildlife Service, Arlington

Square Building, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive,

Room 110, Arlington, Virginia 22203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Coordinator, North American Wetlands

Conservation Council, (703) 358–1784.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the North American

Wetlands Conservation Act (Pub. L.

101–233, 103 Stat. 1968, December 13,

1989, as amended), the North American

Wetlands Conservation Council is a

Federal-State-private body which meets

to consider wetland acquisition,

restoration, enhancement and

management projects for

recommendation to and final approval

by the Migratory Bird Conservation

Commission. Proposals from State,

Federal, and private sponsors require a

minimum of 50 percent non-Federal

matching funds.

Dated: November 14, 1997.

Daniel M. Ashe,

Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service.

[FR Doc. 97–30802 Filed 11–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–U

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO–050–1430–01, COC–60372, COC–60883,

and COC–60911]

Notice of Realty Action

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action, direct

sale of public lands in Boulder County,

CO.

SUMMARY: The following described land

has been examined and found suitable

for disposal by direct sale under Section

203 of the Federal Land Policy and

Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.

1713) at no less than the appraised fair

market value:

COC–60372

T. 1 N., R. 71 W., Section 6: portion of

Mineral Survey (M.S.) 18390, comprising

approximately 0.04 acres.