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Dockets Management Branch between 9

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne M. Kirchner, Office of Policy (HF–

23), Food and Drug Administration,

5600 Fishers Lane, rm. 14–72, Rockville,

MD 20857, 301–827–0867.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the

Federal Register of August 28, 1996 (61

FR 44396), FDA issued a final rule to

restrict the sale and distribution of

cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in

order to protect children and

adolescents. The final rule covers three

general classes of nicotine-containing

products: Cigarettes, cigarette tobacco,

and smokeless tobacco. The final rule

applies to manufacturers, distributors,

and retailers who make, distribute, or

sell such products.

Beginning on February 28, 1997,

Federal regulation will prohibit retailers

from selling cigarettes, cigarette tobacco,

or smokeless tobacco to persons under

the age of 18, and will require retailers

to verify the age of all customers under

the age of 27 by checking a

photographic identification for date of

birth. Under the current schedule,

starting August 28, 1997, the remaining

provisions of the rule will be effective,

except for the sponsorship provision,

which will be effective on August 28,

1998.

Under the Small Business Regulatory

Enforcement Act (Pub. 104–121), FDA is

announcing the availability of the

revised compliance guide which is

intended to help small businesses

comply with the requirements of the

new rule. An earlier version of the

compliance guide was previously

available on the Internet and in paper

form. The agency believes that the

rulemaking process provided ample

opportunity to comment on issues

concerning all the underlying regulatory

provisions of the rule. However, FDA is

soliciting comments on the guide itself

and may amend the guide periodically

as a result of comments received. The

agency is making available at this time

a revised compliance guide which

covers all of the access restrictions even

though it is the photographic

identification for date of birth

requirement that becomes effective first.

Therefore, in submitting comments,

persons should consider the

implementation dates of the provisions

described in the guide.

Dated: February 20, 1997.

William K. Hubbard,

Associate Commissioner for Policy

Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97–4793 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Special Project Grants and

Cooperative Agreements; Maternal and

Child Health Services; Federal SetAside Program; Comprehensive

Hemophilia Centers, Genetic Services,

and Maternal and Child Health

Improvement Projects

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

SUMMARY: The HRSA announces that

approximately $10.2 million in fiscal

year (FY) 1997 funds will be available

for grants and cooperative agreements

for the following activities: Maternal

and Child Health (MCH) Special

Projects of Regional and National

Significance (SPRANS), including

genetic disease testing, counseling and

information services; and special MCH

improvement projects (MCHIP) which

contribute to the health of mothers,

children, and children with special

health care needs (CSHCN). All awards

will be made under the program

authority of section 502(a) of the Social

Security Act, the MCH Federal SetAside Program. Within the HRSA,

SPRANS grants are administered by the

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

(MCHB). Grants for SPRANS research

and training are being announced in a

separate notice. No new SPRANS

hemophilia program grants will be

funded in FY 1997.

Of the approximately $52.1 million

available for SPRANS genetics and

MCHIP activities in FY 1997, about

$10.2 million will be available to

support approximately 63 new and

competing SPRANs renewal projects, at

a cost of about $161,900 per project. The

actual amounts available for awards and

their allocation may vary depending on

unanticipated program requirements

and the volume and quality of

applications. Awards are made for grant

periods which generally run from 1 to

5 years in duration. Funds for grants

under the MCH Federal Set-Aside

Program are appropriated by Public Law

104–208.

The Public Health Service (PHS) is

committed to achieving the health

promotion and disease prevention

objectives of Healthy People 2000, a

PHS-led national activity for setting

priority areas. The MCH Block Grant

Federal Set-Aside Program addresses

issues related to the Healthy People

2000 objectives of improving maternal,

infant, child and adolescent health and

developing service systems for children

with special health care needs. Potential

applicants may obtain a copy of Healthy

People 2000 (Full Report: Stock No.

017–001–00474–0) or Healthy People

2000 (Summary Report: Stock No. 017–

001–00473–1) through the

Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Office

Washington, DC 20402–9325

(telephone: 202–512–1800).

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and promote the non-use of

all tobacco products. In addition, Public

Law 103–227, the Pro-Children Act of

1994, prohibits smoking in certain

facilities (or in some cases, any portion

of a facility) in which regular or routine

education, library, day care, health care

or early childhood development

services are provided to children.

ADDRESSES: Federal Register notices

and application guidance for MCHB

programs are available on the World

Wide Web via the Internet at address:

http://www.os.dhhs.gov/hrsa/mchb.

Click on the file name you want to

download to your computer. It will be

saved as a self-extracting (Macintosh or)

WordPerfect 5.1 file. To decompress the

file once it is downloaded, type in the

file name followed by a <return>. The

file will expand to a WordPerfect 5.1

file.

For applicants for SPRANS grants and

cooperative agreements who are unable

to access application materials

electronically, a hard copy (Revised

PHS form 5161–1, approved under OMB

clearance number 0937–0189) may be

obtained from the HRSA Grants

Application Center. Requests should

specify the category or categories of

activities for which an application is

requested so that the appropriate forms,

information and materials may be

provided. The Center may be contacted

by: Telephone Number: 1–888–300–

HRSA, FAX Number: 301–309–0579, Email Address:

HRSA.GAC@ix.netcom.com. Completed

applications should be returned to:

Grants Management Officer, HRSA

Grants Application Center, 40 West

Gude Drive, Suite 100, Rockville,

Maryland 20850. Please indicate the

appropriate CFDA # for the application

being submitted (see table below).

DATES: Potential applicants are invited

to request application packages for the

particular program category in which

they are interested, and to submit their

applications for funding consideration.

Deadlines for receipt of applications

differ for the several categories of grants.

These deadlines are as follows:
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MCH FEDERAL SET-ASIDE COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR GENETIC SERVICES, AND MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ANTICIPATED DEADLINE, AWARD, FUNDING, AND PROJECT PERIOD

INFORMATION, BY CATEGORY FY 1997

CFDA No. Funding source/category Application deadline

Est. number of

awards

Est. amounts

available Project period

Category 1: Grants

93.110(A) .................... Genetic Services ............................................. April 28, 1997 ........ 21 $ 3.6 million ........ 3 years.

93.110(F) ..................... Integrated Services for CSHCN ...................... May 16, 1997 ......... 8–10 900,000 .............. 3–4 years.

93.110(I) ...................... State Fetal/Infant Mortality Review Support

Centers.

May 13, 1997 ......... 5 600,000 .............. 3 years.

93.110(U) .................... Data Utilization and Enhancement for State/

Community Infrastructure Building and

Managed Care.

June 30, 1997 ........ 15–17 1 million .............. 1–3 years.

Category 2: Cooperative Agreements

93.110(C) .................... Managed Care Policy and CSHCN ................ April 11, 1997 ........ 1 375,000 .............. 4 years.

93.110(G) .................... Partnership for Information and Communications.April 15, 1997 ........ 5 1.1 million ........... 5 years.

93.110(M) .................... Health, Mental Health and Safety for Schools June 3, 1997 .......... 1 200,000 .............. 4 years.

93.110(N) .................... Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent

Health.

June 17, 1997 ........ 1 100,000 .............. up to 5 years.

93.110(P) .................... Health and Safety in Child Care Settings ....... June 3, 1997 .......... 1 175,000 .............. 3 years.

93.110(O) .................... SIDS/OID Program Support Center ................ April 18, 1997 ........ 1 350,000 .............. 5 years.

Applications will be considered to

have met the deadline if they are either:

(1) Received on or before the deadline

date, or (2) postmarked on or before the

deadline date and received in time for

orderly processing. Applicants should

request a legibly dated receipt from a

commercial carrier or the U.S. Postal

Service, or obtain a legibly dated U.S.

Postal Service postmark. Private

metered postmarks will not be accepted

as proof of timely mailing. Late

applications will be returned to the

applicant.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for technical or programmatic

information should be directed to the

contact persons identified below for

each category covered by this notice.

Requests for information concerning

business management issues should be

directed to: Sandra Perry, Grants

Management Officer (GMO), Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Room 18–12, Rockville, Maryland

20857, telephone: 301–443–1440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Program Background and Objectives

Section 502 of the Social Security Act,

as amended by the Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1989,

requires that 12.75 percent of amounts

appropriated for the Maternal and Child

Health Services Block Grant in excess of

$600 million are set aside by the

Secretary of Health and Human Services

(HHS) for special Community Integrated

Service Systems (CISS) projects

authorized under Section 501(a)(3) of

the Act. Of the remainder of the total

appropriation, Section 502(a) of the Act

requires that 15 percent of the funds be

retained by the Secretary to support

(through grants, contracts, or otherwise)

special projects of regional and national

significance, research, and training with

respect to maternal and child health and

children with special health care needs

(including early intervention training

and services development); for genetic

disease testing, counseling, and

information development and

dissemination programs; for grants

(including funding for comprehensive

hemophilia diagnostic treatment

centers) relating to hemophilia without

regard to age; and for the screening of

newborns for sickle cell anemia, and

other genetic disorders and follow-up

services. The MCH SPRANS set-aside

was established in 1981. Support for

projects covered by this announcement

will come from the SPRANS set-aside.

Availability of FY 1997 funds for

MCH research and training grants is

being announced separately from other

SPRANS grants this year in order to

help potential applicants better

distinguish among very large numbers

of SPRANS categories and

subcategories. No new SPRANS

hemophilia program grants will be

funded in FY 1997.

Eligible Applicants

Any public or private entity,

including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b), is eligible to apply for grants or

cooperative agreements for project

categories covered by this

announcement. As noted in the

FUNDING CATEGORIES section below,

based on the subject matter of particular

categories or subcategories, applications

may be encouraged from or preference

for funding given to applicants with a

specified area of expertise.

Funding

Two categories of SPRANS awards are

open for competition in FY 1997: (1)

grants; and (2) cooperative agreements.

Category 1: Grants

Grants in the following 4

subcategories will be awarded in FY

1997:

Subcategory 1.1: Genetic Services

(CFDA #93.110A)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The purpose of these

grants is to improve the quality,

availability, accessibility, and

utilization of genetic services as an

integral component of comprehensive

maternal and child health care. Grants

will be awarded competitively to

support projects on priority topics

specified below.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $3.6 million.

• Number of Expected Awards: 21.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Priority topics for projects

include: (1) Genetics in primary care; (2)

genetic services networks; (3)

comprehensive care for Cooley’s

Anemia; (4) genetic services for

populations with ethnocultural barriers
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to care; (5) comprehensive care for

infants with Sickle Cell disease

identified through State newborn

screening programs; and (6) genetics in

managed care.

• Application Deadline: April 28,

1997.

• Contact Person: Jane Lin-Fu, M.D.,

telephone: 301–443–1080.

Subcategory 1.2: Integrated Services for

Children with Special Health Care

Needs (CFDA #93.110F)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The purpose of this

competition is to demonstrate

innovative and nationally replicable

models of community-based services in

two areas: (1) Reduction of barriers to

service integration for young children

with special health care needs and their

families. Funded activities will

demonstrate successful community

approaches for resolving Federal

Interagency Coordinating Council

(FICC) identified barriers to community

services for young children with

disabilities and their families. Projects

will demonstrate and make

recommendations on replicable

community-wide strategies in one or

more of the following areas: (a)

Coordination of program eligibility

requirements; (b) coordinated financing

of services; (c) shared data and

information systems; and (d)

coordination of early intervention

services with the medical home. All

models are expected to involve

substantive coordination and

participation with medical/health

homes and the broad system of

community services required by Part H

of the Individuals with Disabilities

Education Act (IDEA).

(2) Promoting the accessibility of

‘‘medical homes’’ (i.e., ongoing source

of health/medical care) for CSHCN and

their families through family/

professional partnerships. Funded

activities will support partnership

arrangements between families and

community health providers/managed

care organizations, and demonstrate that

these partnerships can be used to

establish or expand quality primary and

specialty care and supportive services

through collaborative working

relationships with other health, mental

health, education, social services, and

ancillary networks.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $900,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 8–10.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Proposals must be

developed, implemented, and

demonstrated at the community level

and in partnership with community

programs. Preference will be given to

public and private community-based

providers and programs; community/

State agency partnerships; and

community coalitions. Special

consideration will be given to

established community coalitions with

existing projects and models related to

this competition, including the member

communities of the ‘‘Communities Can’’

coalition, a national coalition of public/

private community partnerships serving

CSHCN. (A list of member communities

is included in the application kit.) For

area (2), preference for funding will be

given to managed care companies and

community-based organizations serving

culturally diverse, underserved

populations.

• Evaluation Criteria: See CRITERIA

FOR REVIEW; applications will be

reviewed, in addition, on the basis of

the extent to which they: (a)

demonstrate substantive involvement of

the medical home; (b) show evidence of

substantive family/professional

partnership in all aspects of the project;

(c) show potential for national

dissemination and replication; (d) show

evidence of partnership with the broad

early intervention community; and (e)

leverage the resources of other local,

state, and federally funded initiatives.

• Application Deadline: May 16,

1997.

• Contact Person: Bonnie Strickland,

Ph.D., or Diana Denboba, telephone:

301–443–2370.

Subcategory 1.3: State Fetal/Infant

Mortality Review Support Centers

(CFDA #93.110I)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This initiative is designed

to support State MCH agencies, or their

designees, to stimulate and promote

Fetal and Infant Mortality Review

Programs in communities in order to

enhance needs assessment and quality

improvement efforts. Projects will

support training and technical

assistance activities that would be

targeted to the particular needs within

the State. State centers would work

collaboratively with the national center

located at the American College of

Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

• Estimated Amount of this

competition: $600,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 5.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Preference for funding will

be given to Title V programs or their

designees.

• Evaluation Criteria: See CRITERIA

FOR REVIEW; application guidance

materials will specify final criteria.

• Application Deadline: May 13,

1997.

• Contact Person: Ellen Hutchins,

Sc.D., telephone: 301–443–9534.

Subcategory 1.4: Data Utilization and

Enhancement for State/Community

Infrastructure Building and Managed

Care (CFDA #93.110U)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The purpose of these

grants is to enable State MCH and

CSHCN programs to enhance the use of

qualitative and quantitative analytic

methods in local problem solving for

MCH populations. Awards are intended

to supplement or complement existing

data utilization activities and to foster

and strengthen continuing collaboration

among State and local public health

agencies, private sector efforts and

academic institutions. This initiative is

specifically designed to assist States,

local communities, and supporting

entities in the following categories: (1)

Developing, adapting and integrating a

sentinel model and system to assess the

benefits and risks to the health status of

children and families resulting from

State and private sector health, welfare

reform and, specifically, managed care

efforts in terms of quantitative and

qualitative measures focused upon

needs assessments, outcome measures,

systems performance, quality, efficacy,

effectiveness and efficiency; (2)

analyzing the economic implications of

maternal and child health programs

with the objective of augmenting the

capacity of State and local policy staff

to use, interpret and conduct economic

assessments; and (3) enhancing the use

of information technologies in State and

local MCH/CSHCN programs and

agencies.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $1 million.

• Number of Expected Awards: 15–

17.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Special consideration will be given to

proposals seeking to identify and track

emerging issues resulting from health

care structural, financial, and

demographic changes (e.g., health care

and welfare reform, managed care

waivers, population income shifts, etc.).

• Evaluation Criteria: See CRITERIA

FOR REVIEW; application guidance will

specify final criteria.

• Application Deadline: June 30,

1997.

• Contact Person: Russ Scarato,

telephone: 301–443–0701.

Category 2: Cooperative Agreements

Cooperative agreements in 6

subcategories will be awarded in FY

1997.

It is anticipated that substantial

Federal programmatic involvement will
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be required in these cooperative

agreements. This means that after

award, awarding office staff provide

technical assistance and guidance to, or

coordinate and participate in, certain

programmatic activities of award

recipients beyond their normal

stewardship responsibilities in the

administration of grants. Federal

involvement may include, but is not

limited to, planning, guidance,

coordination and participation in

programmatic activities. Periodic

meetings, conferences, and/or

communications with the award

recipient are held to review mutually

agreed upon goals and objectives and to

assess progress. Details on the scope of

Federal programmatic involvement in

cooperative agreements included in this

Notice, consistent with HRSA grants

administration policy, are included in

the application guidance kit for each

cooperative agreement subcategory.

Subcategory 2.1: Managed Care Policy

and CSHCN (CFDA #93.110C)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This cooperative

agreement will support a national policy

center to implement strategic planning

to assure the availability and

accessibility of comprehensive,

community-based, culturally competent,

and family-centered care to CSHCN and

their families in a managed care

environment. The center supported by

this agreement will advance the state of

the art and foster the ability of leaders

in the field to interact. It will: (1)

Analyze existing national epidemiologic

studies of CSHCN (currently defined as

children who have or are at increased

risk for chronic physical,

developmental, behavioral, or emotional

conditions and who also require health

and related services of a type or amount

beyond that required by children

generally); (2) monitor access to

necessary medical, health and related

services for CSHCN who are privately

insured, underinsured or uninsured, in

consultation with State and community

providers, Medicaid agencies and

families; and (3) support analyses of the

work of national workgroups addressing

critical issues for CSHCN in areas such

as quality of care, cost and utilization of

services, and provider networks; (4)

analyze the impact on CSHCN of

legislative and policy changes at the

national, state and local levels; and (5)

utilize the full range of available data

and information to make

recommendations for the successful

integration of managed care into the

community system of services for

CSHCN and their families.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $375,000.

• Number of expected Awards: 1.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preference: Preference will be given to

organizations with proven national

experience and an existing

infrastructure for policy analysis at the

national level on issues related to

chronic care in the emerging managed

care system.

• Application Deadline: April 11,

1997.

• Contact Person: Irene Forsman,

M.S., R.N. 301–443–9023.

Subcategory 2.2: Partnership for

Information and Communications (PIC)

(CFDA #93.110G)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The PIC program enhances

communication between the MCHB and

governmental, professional and private

organizations representing leaders and

policy makers concerned with issues

related to maternal and child health. It

facilitates dissemination of new

maternal and child health related

information to these policy and decision

makers and provides those individuals

and organizations with a means of

communicating issues directly to the

Maternal and Child Health program and

to each other. Presently, this program

consists of organizations representing

State Title V programs; State legislators;

private business, particularly selfinsured businesses; philanthropic

organizations; municipal health policy

makers; county health policy makers;

parent organizations; and other national

membership organizations.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $1.1 million.

• Number of Expected Awards: 5.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: For FY 1997, preference for

funding will be given to national

membership organizations representing

State Governors and their staffs; State

Health Officers; nonprofit and for-profit

managed care organizations; and

coalitions of organizations promoting

the health of mothers and infants.

• Application Deadline: April 15,

1997.

• Contact Person: Stuart Swayze,

M.S.W., telephone: 301–443–2917.

Subcategory 2.3: Health, Mental Health

and Safety for Schools (CFDA

#93.110M)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This cooperative

agreement, a collaborative effort by

HRSA and the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention, will support a

process that will result in development

of advisory guidelines for assuring basic

health and safety in Kindergarten-12

grade school settings. The standards

will be developed through a consensus

process, which relies upon exchanges

among groups of experts in specific

topical areas to determine the state of

the science and art. The guidelines will

consolidate the best features of the array

of guidelines, recommendations, and

standards presently in existence. They

will be made available to the field as a

model for State health and education

agencies and school districts to adopt or

adapt. This initiative is based upon the

process used to develop the National

Health and Safety Performance

Standards: Guidelines for Out of Home

Child Care, which are currently helping

States and communities to determine

appropriate child care settings. As with

the Child Care guidelines, this initiative

is expected to be a collaborative effort

among those organizations concerned

with health, safety and schools.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $200,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 1.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Preference for funding will

be given to organizations which have

credibility in the education community

and the capacity to address all aspects

of health services, health education, and

injury and violence prevention in the

school environment.

• Application Deadline: June 3, 1997.

• Contact Person: Stephanie Bryn,

M.Ph., telephone: 301–443–3513.

Subcategory 2.4: Partners in Program

Planning for Adolescent Health (CFDA

#93.110N)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This cooperative

agreement is part of a process to involve

organizations having an historic interest

in adolescent health in developing the

programming of HRSA’s Office of

Adolescent Health (OAH). The OAH

will collaborate with these organizations

in seeking policy guidance from and

providing programmatic information to

their memberships. Organizations

currently receiving support under this

program are the American Medical

Association, the American

Psychological Association, the

American Bar Association, and the

National Association of Social Workers.

This competition will allow for

expansion of this collaboration.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $100,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 1.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: For FY 1997, preference for

funding will be given to national

membership organizations representing

the professional discipline of nursing.
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Other professional disciplines may be

the focus of future competitions.

• Application Deadline: June 17,

1997.

• Contact Person: Trina Menden

Anglin, M.D., Ph.D., telephone: 301–

443–4026.

Subcategory 2.5: Health and Safety in

Child Care Settings (CFDA #93.110P)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This cooperative

agreement supports the development

and implementation of State-based

programs to expand the number of

public (public health nurses, nurse

practitioners, physicians, nutritionists,

dentists, mental health providers, and

others) and private sector (managed care

supported outreach staff and others)

health professionals trained to serve as

health care consultants to child care

programs. This project will serve as a

national model; it is an outgrowth of the

MCHB-sponsored National Health and

Safety Performance Standards:

Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care

Programs and will support promotion of

healthy development and increased

access to preventive health services and

safe physical environments for all

children.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $175,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 1.

• Application Deadline: June 3, 1997.

• Contact Person: Jane Coury,

telephone: 301–443–4566.

Subcategory 2.6: SIDS and Other Infant

Death Program Support Center (CFDA

#93.110O)

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: This cooperative

agreement will fund population-based

activities (e.g., systems analysis,

epidemiology, health promotion) in

support of development of communitybased services to reduce as much as

possible the risk of Sudden Infant Death

Syndrome (SIDS) and other infant

deaths, to appropriately support

families when an infant death does

occur, and will analyze standardized

information about infant deaths in the

hope of discovering factors which can

be ameliorated to reduce the risk of a

future infant death. Particular program

elements will include risk reduction,

peer support programs, services for hard

to reach populations, and monitoring

and reporting on SIDS and other infant

deaths. The awardee will identify

commonalities among processes

addressing fatal events in the MCH

population and determine if and how

these activities could be combined to

allow a more coherent approach to

addressing community mortality and

morbidity.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $350,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 1.

• Application Deadline: April 18,

1997.

• Contact Person: Paul Rusinko,

telephone: 301–443–2115.

Special Concerns

In keeping with the goals of

advancing the development of human

potential, strengthening the Nation’s

capacity to provide high quality

education by broadening participation

in MCHB programs of institutions that

may have perspectives uniquely

reflecting the Nation’s cultural and

linguistic diversity, and increasing

opportunities for all Americans to

participate in and benefit from Federal

public health programs, HRSA will

place a funding priority on projects from

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities (HBCU) or Hispanic

Serving Institutions (HSI) in all

categories and subcategories in this

notice for which applications from

academic institutions are encouraged.

This is in conformity with the Federal

Government’s policies in support of

White House Initiatives on Historically

Black Colleges and Universities

(Executive Order 12876) and

Educational Excellence for Hispanic

Americans (Executive Order 12900). An

approved proposal from a HBCU or HSI

will receive a 0.5 point favorable

adjustment of the priority score in a 4

point range before funding decisions are

made.

Evaluation Protocol

A maternal and child health

discretionary grant project, including

any SPRANS project, is expected to

incorporate a carefully designed and

well planned evaluation protocol

capable of demonstrating and

documenting measurable progress

toward achieving the project’s stated

goals. The protocol should be based on

a clear rationale relating the grant

activities, the project goals, and the

evaluation measures. Wherever

possible, the measurements of progress

toward goals should focus on health

outcome indicators, rather than on

intermediate measures such as process

or outputs. A project lacking a complete

and well-conceived evaluation protocol

as part of the planned activities may not

be funded.

Project Review and Funding

Within the limit of funds determined

by the Secretary to be available for the

activities described in this

announcement, the Secretary will

review applications for funds under the

specific project categories in the

FUNDING CATEGORIES section above

as competing applications and may

award Federal funding for projects

which will, in her judgment, best

promote the purpose of title V of the

Social Security Act; best address

achievement of Healthy Children 2000

objectives related to maternal, infant,

child and adolescent health and service

systems for children at risk of chronic

and disabling conditions; and otherwise

best promote improvements in maternal

and child health.

Criteria for Review

The criteria which follow are used, as

pertinent, to review and evaluate

applications for awards under all

SPRANS grants and cooperative

agreement project categories announced

in this notice. Further guidance

regarding review criteria is supplied in

application materials, which will

specify final criteria.

—The quality of the project plan or

methodology.

—The extent to which the project will

contribute to the advancement of

maternal and child health and/or

improvement of the health of children

with special health care needs;

—The extent to which the project is

responsive to policy concerns

applicable to MCH grants and to

program objectives, requirements,

priorities and/or review criteria for

specific project categories, as

published in program announcements

or guidance materials.

—The extent to which the estimated

cost to the Government of the project

is reasonable, considering the

anticipated results.

—The extent to which the project

personnel are well qualified by

training and/or experience for their

roles in the project and the applicant

organization has adequate facilities

and personnel.

—The extent to which, insofar as

practicable, the proposed activities, if

well executed, are capable of attaining

project objectives.

—The adherence of the project’s

evaluation plan to the requirements of

the EVALUATION PROTOCOL.

—The extent to which the project will

be integrated with the administration

of the Maternal and Child Health

Services block grants, State primary

care plans, public health, and

prevention programs, and other

related programs in the respective

State(s).

—The extent to which the application is

responsive to the special concerns
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and program priorities specified in

this notice.

Funding of Approved Applications

Final funding decisions for SPRANS

grants and cooperative agreements are

the responsibility of the Director,

MCHB. In considering scores for the

ranking of approved applications for

funding, preferences may be exercised

for groups of applications, e.g.,

applications from geographical areas

without previously funded projects in a

particular category vs. applications from

areas with previously funded projects.

Within any category of approved

projects, special consideration may be

given, i.e., the score of an individual

project may be favorably adjusted, if the

project addresses specific priorities or

categorical areas identified as meriting

special consideration.

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

This program is subject to the Public

Health System Reporting Requirements

(approved under OMB No. 0937–0195).

Under these requirements, the

community-based nongovernmental

applicant must prepare and submit a

Public Health System Impact Statement

(PHSIS). The PHSIS is intended to

provide information to State and local

health officials to keep them apprised of

proposed health services grant

applications submitted by communitybased nongovernmental organizations

within their jurisdictions.

Community-based nongovernmental

applicants are required to submit the

following information to the head of the

appropriate State and local health

agencies in the area(s) to be impacted no

later than the Federal application

receipt due date:

(a) A copy of the face page of the

application (SF 525).

(b) A summary of the project (PHSIS),

not to exceed one page, which provides:

(1) A description of the population to

be served.

(2) A summary of the services to be

provided.

(3) A description of the coordination

planned with the appropriate State and

local health agencies.

Executive Order 12372

The MCH Federal set-aside program

has been determined to be a program

which is not subject to the provisions of

Executive Order 12372 concerning

intergovernmental review of Federal

programs.

The OMB Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number is 93.110.

Dated: February 20, 1997.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement Advisory Board

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.

ACTION: Office of Surface mining

Reclamation and Enforcement Advisory

Board; Notice of renewal.

SUMMARY: This notice is published in

accordance with section 14(b)(1) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act

(FACA) 5 U.S.C. App. (1988). Following

consultation with the Administrator of

the General Services Administration,

notice is hereby given that the Secretary

of the Interior is renewing the charter of

an advisory committee known as the

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement Advisory Board.

The purpose of the Advisory Board is

to provide a forum to discuss a variety

of regulatory and reclamation issues of

concern to the public, primacy States

which regulate surface coal mining,

Indian tribes, environmental groups,

coal mine region residents, industry, the

Congress, and other State and Federal

agencies.

The Secretary of the Interior will

appoint members to the Advisory Board

that represent a cross section of those

who are interested in and directly

affected by regulatory and reclamation

activities. OSM will carefully monitor

membership to ensure that there is a

balance among those interests affected

by the Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201

et seq.).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Norman J. Hess, Office of Surface

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement,

U.S. Department of the Interior, 1951

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20240; Telephone 202–208–2635.

Certification

I hereby certify that the renewal of the

charter of the Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement Advisory

Board is necessary and in the public

interest in connection with the

performance of duties imposed on the

Department of the Interior by the

Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1201

et seq.).

Dated: February 10, 1997.

Bruce Babbitt,

Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 97–4788 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

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Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Decision and Availability of

Decision Documents on the Issuance

of Permits for Incidental Take of

Threatened and Endangered Species

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of decision and

availability of a Record of Decision on

the issuance of a permit for incidental

take of threatened and endangered

species.

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public

that a decision on the application for an

incidental take permit by the State of

Washington Department of Natural

Resources, pursuant to section

10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species

Act of 1973 (Act), has been made and

that the Record of Decision is available

upon request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Vogel or Craig Hansen, U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, or Steve

Landino, National Marine Fisheries

Service at the Pacific Northwest Habitat

Conservation Plan Program, 3704 Griffin

Lane SE, Suite 102, Olympia,

Washington 98501–2192; (360) 753–

9440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Decision

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s

decision is to adopt the Preferred

Habitat Conservation Plan Alternative,

issue a permit authorizing incidental

take of listed species, and agree to the

unlisted species provisions in the

Implementation Agreement, as

described in the final Environmental

Impact Statement. In the future, should

any of the currently unlisted species

that use the habitat types that occur

within the West-side Planning Units

(including the Olympic Experimental

State Forest) subsequently become

listed, the Washington Department of

Natural Resources may request that

those species be added to the incidental

take permit. This decision is based on

a thorough review of the alternatives

and their environmental consequences.

By adopting the preferred alternative

with its assurances that the mitigation

program and enforcement measures will

be implemented, all practicable means

to avoid or minimize harm have been

adopted.