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criteria for each major topic are required

to submit their presentations in writing

at least four weeks before the meeting.

These will be shared with all presenters

at least 3 weeks before the meeting. The

presenters describing how each type of

specimen and/or technology satisfies, or

does not satisfy, the requirements (each

presentation is limited to 15 minutes)

are required to submit their

presentations in written form at least

two weeks before the meeting. These

will be shared with all presenters.

An agenda for this meeting and a

roster of board members may be

obtained from: Ms. Giselle Hersh,

Division of Workplace Programs, Room

13A–54, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 443–6014.

Substantive program information may

be obtained from the contact whose

name and telephone number is listed

below.

Committee Name: Drug Testing Advisory

Board.

Meeting Date: April 28–30, 1997.

Place: DoubleTree Hotel, 1750 Rockville

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

Open: April 28–30, 1997, 8:30 a.m.–5:00

p.m.

Contact: Donna M. Bush, Ph.D.; Executive

Secretary, Telephone: (301) 443–6014 and

FAX: (301) 443–3031.

Dated: February 12, 1997.

Jeri Lipov,

Committee Management Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 97–3956 Filed 2–18–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4170–N–04]

Notice of Native American Housing

Assistance and Self-Determination Act

of 1996 Implementation Meetings

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of implementation

meetings for the Native American

Housing Assistance and SelfDetermination Act of 1996.

SUMMARY: This notice announces

preliminary meetings sponsored by

HUD to develop the regulations

necessary to carry out the Native

American Housing Assistance and SelfDetermination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA)

(Pub. L. 104–330, approved October 26,

1996).

DATES: The meetings will be held on

February 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at

the National Office of Native American

Programs, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 1999 Broadway,

Suite 3390, Denver, CO.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dominic Nessi, Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Native American

Programs, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 1999 Broadway,

Suite 3390, Denver, CO; telephone (303)

675–1600 (voice) or 1–800–877–8339

(TTY for speech or hearing impaired

individuals). These are not toll-free

numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD will

hold a series of meetings on February

25, 26, 27, and 28, 1997 in the National

Office of its Office of Native American

Programs to discuss the regulatory

implementation of NAHASDA. The

meetings to be held on these dates will

be preliminary meetings to develop the

regulations necessary to carry out

NAHASDA.

On January 27, 1997 (62 FR 3976),

HUD published a notice announcing the

requirements necessary to provide for

the transition from the provision of

assistance for Indian tribes and Indian

housing authorities under the United

States Housing Act of 1937 and other

related provisions of law to the block

grant provision of assistance provided

under NAHASDA. The January 27, 1997

notice also provided notice of the

negotiated rulemaking process for the

development of regulations necessary to

implement the new block grant

program.

Dated: February 13, 1997.

Kevin Emanuel Marchman,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and

Indian Housing.

[FR Doc. 97–4135 Filed 2–18–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Proposed Agency Information

Collection Activities; Comment

Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

the Information Collection Request for

the Housing Assistance Application

requires renewal. The proposed

information collection requirement,

with no appreciable changes, described

below will be submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–

13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). The Bureau

is soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before April 21, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are

invited to submit written comments

regarding this proposal. Comments

should refer to the proposal by name

and/or OMB Control Number and

should be sent to June Henkel, Bureau

of Indian Affairs, Department of the

Interior, 1849 C Street, NW, MS–4603–

MIB, Washington, D.C. 20240.

All written comments will be

available for public inspection in Room

4603 of the Main Interior Building, 1849

C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. from

9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., Monday

through Friday, excluding legal

holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instructions should be directed to June

Henkel, Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Department of the Interior, 1849 C

Street, NW, MS–4603, Washington, D.C.

20240, and 202/208–3667. (This is not

a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The information collection is needed

to establish whether an applicant is

eligible to receive services under the

Housing Improvement Program (HIP)

and to establish the priority order in

which eligible applicants may receive

services under the program.

II. Method of Collection

The housing regulations at 25 CFR

Part 256 contain the program eligibility

and selection criteria (§ 256.6, .7) which

prospective applicants seeking program

services must demonstrate that they

meet. Information collected from

applicants under these regulations

provides eligibility and selection data

used by the local servicing housing

office to establish whether an applicant

is eligible to receive services under the

program and in what priority order the

applicants are eligible to receive

services. The local servicing housing

office may be a tribal housing office

under a Public Law 93–638, Indian SelfDetermination contract or a SelfGovernance annual funding agreement,

or the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Additionally, the data is used by the

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs to

establish whether a request for waiver of

a specific housing regulation is in the

best interest of the applicant and the

Federal government.
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III. Data

(1) Title of the Collection of

Information: Department of the Interior,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Housing

Assistance Application.

OMB Number: 1076–0084.

Expiration Date: February 28, 1997.

Type of Review: Renewal of a

currently approved information

collection.

(2) Summary of the Collection of

Information: The collection of

information provides pertinent data

concerning an applicant’s eligibility to

receive services under the Housing

Improvement Program and includes:

A. Applicant Information including:

Name, Current Address, Telephone

Number, Date of Birth, Social Security

Number, Tribe, Roll Number, Marital

Status, Name of Spouse, Date of Birth

(of spouse), Social Security Number (of

spouse), Tribe (of spouse), and Roll

Number (of spouse).

B. Family Information including:

Name, Date of Birth, Social Security

Number, Relationship to Applicant, and

Tribe/Roll Number.

C. Income Information including:

Earned and Unearned Income.

D. Housing Information including:

Location of the house to be repaired,

constructed or purchased; Description

of housing assistance for which

applying; Knowledge of receipt of prior

Housing Improvement Program

assistance, amount, to whom and when;

Ownership or rental; Availability of

electricity and name of electric

company; Type of sewer system; Water

source; Number of bedrooms; Size of

house; and, Bathroom facilities.

E. Land Information including: land

owner; legal status of land; or, type of

interest in land.

F. General Information including:

Prior receipt of services under the

Housing Improvement Program and

description of such; Ownership of other

housing and description of such,

Identification of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD) funded house and

current status of project; Identification

of other sources of housing assistance

for which the applicant has applied and

been denied assistance if applying for a

new housing unit or purchase of an

existing standard unit; and, advisement

and description of any severe health

problem, handicap or permanent

disability.

G. Applicant Certification including:

Signature of Applicant and Date, and

Signature of Spouse and Date.

(3) Description of the need for the

information and proposed use of the

information: Submission of this

information is required in order to

receive services under the Housing

Improvement Program. The information

is collected to determine applicant

eligibility for services and applicant

priority order to receive services under

the program.

(4) Description of likely respondents,

including the estimated number of

likely respondents, and proposed

frequency of response to the collection

of information: Description of likely

respondents: Individual members of

Indian tribes who are living on or near

a tribally, or by law, defined service

area.

Estimated number of respondents:

3,500.

Proposed frequency of response:

Annually or less frequently, depending

on length of waiting list, funding

availability and dynamics of service

population.

(5) Estimate of total annual reporting

and record keeping burden that will

result from the collection of

information:

Estimated time per application: The

reporting burden for this application is

estimated to average 1⁄2 hour per

response, including the time for

reviewing the instructions, gathering

and maintaining the data, and

completing and reviewing the form.

Estimated total Annual Burden Hours:

1750 hours.

Estimated total Record Keeping

Burden: 1300 hours.

Estimated Annual Record Keeping

Costs: $52,000 (1300 hours×$40.00 per

hour).

IV. Request for Comments

The Department of the Interior invites

comment on:

(a) Whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

agency, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

(b) the accuracy of the agencies’’

estimate of the burden (including hours

and cost) of the proposed collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(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 those

who are to respond, including through

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Burden means the total time, effort, or

financial resources expended by persons

to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose

or provide information to or for a

Federal agency. This includes the time

needed to review instructions; to

develop, acquire, install and utilize

technology and systems for the purpose

of collecting, validating, and verifying

information, processing and

maintaining information, and disclosing

and providing information; to train

personnel and to be able to respond to

a collection of information, to search

data sources, to complete and review

the collection of information; and to

transmit or otherwise disclose the

information.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to a collection of information

unless it displays a currently valid

Office of Management and Budget

control number.

Dated: February 11, 1997.

Ada E. Deer,

Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs.

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Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

Proposed Agency Information

Collection Activities; Comment

Request

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

the Information Collection Request for

the Payment for Appointed Counsel in

Involuntary Indian Child Custody

Proceedings in State Courts, codified at

25 CFR § 23.13, requires renewal. Before

submitting a request for reinstatement,

without change, of a previously

approved collection for which approval

has expired, to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), the

Department of the Interior is soliciting

public comments on this information

collection as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–

13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before April 21, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Betty Tippeconnie, Bureau of Indian

Affairs (Bureau), Department of the

Interior, 1849 C Street, NW, MS–4603

MB, Washington, D.C. 20240.

All written comments will be

available for public inspection in Room

4603 of the Main Interior Building, 1849

C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. from

9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., Monday