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adjustment for funds provided to the State for

the Individual and Family Grant program,

mobile home group site development under

Section 408, Temporary Housing, and Hazard

Mitigation Assistance. These funds will

continue to be reimbursed at 75 percent of

total eligible costs.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used

for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537,

Community Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora

Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis

Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services

Program; 83.541, Disaster Unemployment

Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression

Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family

Grant (IFG) Program; 83.544, Public

Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing

Program; 83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant

Program.)

James L. Witt,

Director.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA–1343–DR]

Ohio; Amendment No. 1 to Notice of a

Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice

of a major disaster for the State of Ohio,

(FEMA–1343–DR), dated September 26,

2000, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Madge Dale, Response and Recovery

Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, Washington, DC

20472, (202) 646–3772.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice

of a major disaster for the State of Ohio

is hereby amended to include Public

Assistance for the following area among

those areas determined to have been

adversely affected by the catastrophe

declared a major disaster by the

President in his declaration of

September 26, 2000:

Greene County for Public Assistance

(already designated for Individual

Assistance).

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used

for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537,

Community Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora

Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis

Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services

Program; 83.541, Disaster Unemployment

Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression

Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family

Grant (IFG) Program; 83.544, Public

Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing

Program; 83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant

Program)

James L. Witt,

Director.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant

Amounts

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: FEMA gives notice that we

are increasing the statewide per capita

impact indicator under the Public

Assistance program for disasters

declared on or after October 1, 2000.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Madge Dale, Response and Recovery

Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, Washington, DC

20472, (202) 646–3772.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 44 CFR

206.48 prescribes that we (FEMA) must

adjust the statewide per capita impact

indicator under the Public Assistance

program to reflect changes in the

Consumer Price Index for All Urban

Consumers published by the

Department of Labor.

We give notice that we are increasing

the statewide per capita impact

indicator to $1.04 for all disasters

declared on or after October 1, 2000.

We base the adjustments on an

increase in the Consumer Price Index

for All Urban Consumers of 3.4 percent

for the 12-month period ended in

August 2000. The Bureau of Labor

Statistics of the U.S. Department of

Labor released the information on

September 15, 2000.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.

83.516, Disaster Assistance)

Dated: October 6, 2000.

James L. Witt,

Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

and the Assistant Secretary for Health

have taken final action in the following

case:

Randall P. French, Ph.D., Fox Chase

Cancer Center: Based on the report of an

investigation conducted by the Fox

Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) and

additional analysis conducted by ORI in

its oversight review, the U.S. Public

Health Service (PHS) finds that Dr.

French, postdoctoral associate, FCCC,

engaged in scientific misconduct by

fabricating published research

supported by National Cancer Institute

(NCI), National Institutes of Health

(NIH), grants T32 CA09035 and P30

CA06927.

Specifically, Dr. French fabricated

research results published in

Developmental Biology 217:62–76,

2000, by falsely claiming in the text and

Table 1 that he had assayed mouse

embryos transgenic for a modified DNA

construct (cG5/lacZ-F) for a study on the

expression of cGATA–5 transcription

factor during heart development in

mice. An erratum replacing the

fabricated data was published by the

authors in Developmental Biology

223:463, 2000.

Dr. French has accepted the PHS

finding and has entered into a Voluntary

Exclusion Agreement with PHS in

which he has voluntarily agreed for a

period of three (3) years, beginning on

September 28, 2000:

(1) To exclude himself from serving in

any advisory capacity to PHS, including

but not limited to service on any PHS

advisory committee, board, and/or peer

review committee;

(2) That any institution that submits

an application for PHS support for a

research project on which Dr. French’s

participation is proposed or that uses

Dr. French in any capacity on PHS

supported research, or that submits a

report of PHS-funded research in which

Dr. French is involved, must

concurrently submit a plan for

supervision of his duties to the funding

agency for approval. The supervisory

plan must be designed to ensure the

scientific integrity of Dr. French’s

research contribution. The institution

must also submit a copy of the

supervisory plan to ORI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Director, Division of Investigative

Oversight, Office of Research Integrity,

5515 Security Lane, Suite 700,

Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 443–5330.

Chris Pascal,

Director, Office of Research Integrity.

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