58090 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 27, 2000 / Notices

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average

burden hours

per response

Total burden

hours

ACF–801 .......................................................................................................... 56 4 20 4320

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,320

In compliance with the requirements

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Administration for Children and

Families is soliciting public comment

on the specific aspects of the

information collection described above.

Copies of the proposed collection of

information can be obtained and

comments may be forwarded by writing

to the Administration for Children and

Families, Office of Information Services,

370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20047, Attn: ACF

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests

should be identified by the title of the

information collection.

The Department specifically requests

comments 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)

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information be 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.

Consideration will be given to

comments and suggestions submitted

within 60 days of this publication.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Proposed Information Collection

Activity; Comment Request Proposed

Projects

Title: TANF High Performance Bonus

Report.

OMB No.: 0970–0180.

Description: Public Law 104–193 (The

Personal Responsibility and Work

Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996)

established the Temporary Assistance

for Needy Families (TANF) Program. It

also included provisions for rewarding

States that attain the highest levels of

success in achieving the legislative goals

of that program. The purpose of this

collection is to obtain data upon which

to base the computation for measuring

State performance in meeting those

goals and for allocating the bonus grant

funds appropriated under the law.

States will not be required to submit

this information unless they elect to

compete for the bonus grants.

Respondents, therefore, may include

any of the 50 States, the District of

Columbia, and the U.S. Territories of

Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin

Islands. We are requesting extension of

this currently approved information

collection through November 30, 2001.

Respondents: States and Territorial

Government.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average

burden hours

per

response

Total burden

hours

ACF–200, TANF High Performance Bonus Report ......................................... 54 4 30 6,480

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,480

In compliance with the requirements

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Administration for Children and

Families is soliciting public comment

on the specific aspects of the

information collection described above.

Copies of the proposed collection of

information can be obtained and

comments may be forwarded by writing

to the Administration for Children and

Families, Office of Information Services,

370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20447, Attn: ACF

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests

should be identified by the title of the

information collection.

The Department specifically requests

comments 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)

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.

Consideration will be given to

comments and suggestions submitted

within 60 days of this publication.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Grant to National Adoption Center, Inc.

ACF/ACY/CB–2000–03

AGENCY: Administration on Children,

Youth and Families (ACYF), ACF,

DHHS.

ACTION: Notice of award.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

ACYF will award grant funds without

competition to the National Adoption

Center, Inc. (NAC), Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania. This grant is a sole source

award which will support the operation

of the National Adoption Information

Exchange and the continued

development, expansion and

implementation of a national Internetbased photo-listing activity. This award

is made noncompetitively after our

review of a proposal submitted by the

NAC.

Background

In 1983, the National Adoption Center

(then doing business as the Adoption

Center of Delaware Valley) received a

competitive grant award for a fieldinitiated proposal to develop a

computerized database of children freed

for adoption and waiting placement

from state child welfare agencies. This

database activity became known as the

National Adoption Exchange and had

been authorized in law in 1978 with the

passage of the Adoption Opportunities

Act. Currently, children are entered into

the database by caseworkers from 44

States, though all 50 States are members

of the exchange system and may enter

information on adoptable children into

the database. Subsequent to the

development of the database/exchange

in the mid-1990s, NAC developed a

small internet-based listing, with

accompanying photographs, of some of

the children, using privately generated

funds and in-kind expert services from

computer software corporations.

Currently, this photo listing has

expanded to include children from 43

State child welfare agencies.

In 1998, President Clinton announced

an initiative to mount a national

internet-based photo listing of children

adoptable from public child welfare

agencies. In FY 2000, the Congressional

Conference Report Language included a

reference to NAC by saying, ‘‘The

conference agreement includes $400,000

for the National Adoption Center to

develop a national adoption photo

listing service on the Internet.’’ The

Senate Report Language also referenced

NAC by saying ‘‘The Committee

recognizes that, under the Adoption and

Safe Families Act, States are required to

use all available resources to find homes

for children. The Committee is aware

that the National Adoption Center

operates a multi-state, technology-based

adoption clearinghouse to facilitate

placement of needy children with

adoptive parents. The Committee

understands that the Department plans

to implement a national adoption photo

listing service on the Internet to help

increase the number of adoptions. The

Committee supports the idea that a

national web site could include all

youngsters available in public adoptions

and will increase the likelihood that

children will find loving, stable homes.

The National Adoption Center has been

at the forefront of developing and

implementing technology-based

resources to help facilitate adoptions

and could be instrumental in creating a

national adoption web site.’’

Following our review of the proposal

submitted by the NAC for these

activities, this award is made

noncompetively. The NAC proposal

presents a unique opportunity to

produce important progress on a set of

tasks of significant interest to the

Department.

The project period will be for 24

months, beginning September 29, 2000

and ending September 30, 2001. The

grantee will be awarded $900,000

during the first twelve months of the

project period. The grantee may, in the

second twelve months of the project

period, be awarded additional

noncompetitive continuation funding of

up to $1.6 million, depending on the

availability of funds, satisfactory

performance by the grantee, and a

determination that such continued

funding would be in the best interest of

the government.

Authority: This award will be made

pursuant to the Adoption Opportunities:

Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and

Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978,

as amended [42 U.S.C. 5111]. (CFDA 93.652).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sally Flanzer, Children’s Bureau,

Administration on Children, Youth and

Families, 330 C Street, SW, Room 2429,

Washington, D.C. 20447; Telephone:

(202) 205–8914.

Dated: September 20, 2000.

Patricia Montoya,

Commissioner, Administration on Children,

Youth and Families.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 00F–0812]

Bayer Co.; Filing of Food Additive

Petition; Amendment; Withdrawal in

Part

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is amending the

filing notice for a food additive petition

filed by Bayer Co. to clarify that the

petitioner’s request to amend the food

additive regulations to provide for a

more descriptive term in place of

‘‘inhibitor of yeast,’’ for the safe use of

dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) will also

involve adding related limitations to 21

CFR 172.133. The agency is also

announcing the withdrawal of the

petitioner’s additional request to amend

the food additive regulations to provide

for the safe use of DMDC in

noncarbonated juice beverages

containing up to and including 100

percent juice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Martha D. Peiperl, Center for Food

Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS–

215), Food and Drug Administration,

200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204,

202–418–3077.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice

published in the Federal Register of

March 7, 2000 (65 FR 12014), FDA

announced that a food additive petition

(FAP 0A4718) had been filed by Bayer

Co., c/o McKenna & Cuneo LLP, 1900 K

St. NW., Washington, DC 20006–1108.

The petition proposed to amend the

food additive regulations in § 172.133

Dimethyl dicarbonate (21 CFR 172.133)

both to provide for the safe use of

DMDC in noncarbonated juice beverages

containing up to and including 100

percent juice and to provide for a more

descriptive term in place of ‘‘inhibitor of

yeast,’’ for the safe use of DMDC.

Upon further review of the petition,

FDA determined that, if granted, the

requested amendment of § 172.133 to

provide for a more descriptive term in

place of ‘‘inhibitor of yeast’’ for the safe

use of DMDC will also require adding

related limitations to this regulation.

Therefore, FDA is amending the filing

notice of March 7, 2000, to indicate that

this proposed amendment will involve

adding related limitations to § 172.133.

The petitioner’s additional request, to

amend the food additive regulations to

provide for the safe use of DMDC in

noncarbonated juice beverages

containing up to and including 100

percent juice, was converted to a food

contact substance notice (FCN 0035), 21

U.S.C. 348(h)(5). This request to amend

the food additive regulations was

withdrawn from the petition as of the

effective date of FCN 0035 (June 9,

2000).

The agency has determined under 21

CFR 25.30(I) that this action is of a type

that does not individually or

cumulatively have a significant effect on

the human environment. Therefore,