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implementation of this order. This

ADM, the NEPA Desk Guide, and

related direction governs GSA

compliance with NEPA and related legal

authorities.

6.b. NEPA Liaison.

6.b.(1) Is the principal GSA advisor on

NEPA-related requirments, including

but not limited to compliance with

NEPA and the coordination of NEPA

compliance with the requirements of the

laws and regulations listed in Appendix

1 of the NEPA Desk Guide.

6.b.(2) Provides expert advise on

NEPA-related matters to GSA Heads of

Services, Business Lines, and Regional

Administrators.

6.b.(3) Provides intra-agency and

interagency liaison and coordination on

NEPA-related matters on a national

basis.

6.b.(4) Provides the periodically

updates GSA program guidance, after

consultation with the General Counsel,

Heads of Services, Business Lines, and

Regional Administrators.

6.b.(5) Provides education and

training within GSA pertinent to

implementation of NEPA and related

authorities.

6.b.(6) Coordinates with GSA’s

Environmental Executive in maintaining

a record of GSA’s environmental

activities, and in advancing the national

environmental policy articulated in

NEPA and other statues and executive

orders.

6.b.(7) Serves as GSA representative

in coordination with outside groups at

the national level regarding NEPArelated matters.

6.c. Regional Administrators.

6.c.(1) Are accountable for execution

of GSA’s responsibilities under NEPA

and related authorities with respect to

actions under their jurisdiction.

6.c.(2) Serve as the responsible agency

official under CEQ regulations with

respect to the environmental effects of

actions under their jurisdiction.

6.c.(3) Maintain NEPA Regional

Environmental Quality Advisors

(REQA) within their staffs, augmented

as necessary through interagency

agreements and contracts, to ensure

regional interdisciplinary competence

in environmental matters.

6.c.(4) In consultation with the NEPA

Liaison, ensure that all regional staff

with responsibility for planning,

approving, and implementing

construction, repair, alteration, site and

facility acquisition, real property

management, maintenance, and real

property disposal receive appropriate

training in how to carry out GSA’s

responsibilities under NEPA and related

authorities.

6.d. GSA Environmental Executive.

6.d.(1) Serves as GSA’s Environmental

Executive under Executive Order 12873.

6.d.(2) Coordinates with the NEPA

Liaison to ensure agency-wide

consistency in areas of shared or related

responisiblity, and in advancing the

national environmental policy

articulated in NEPA and other statutes

and executive orders.

6.e. Heads of Services and Business

Lines.

6.e.(1) Serve as the responsible agency

officials under CEQ regulations for

actions subject to their approval.

6.e.(2) Ensure accountability for

implementation of the policy set forth in

this order.

6.e.(3) In consultation with the NEPA

Liaison, ensure that staff responsible for

supporting the functions of the

responsible agency official under CEQ

and related authorities receive

appropriate training in how to carry out

GSA’s responsibilities.

6.f. The Office of General Counsel.

6.f.(1) Is responsible for legal

interpretation of NEPA and related

authorities, and represents GSA in

litigation under such authorities.

6.f.(2) Advises the NEPA Liaison

during the development and delivery of

guidance and training.

7. Administrative Guidance.

7.a. The NEPA Liaison has overall

program responsibility for establishing

procedures, training, and professional

standards, and for maintaining

interagency administrative

responsibilities and relationships. These

functions will be carried out at the

working level by a professional NEPA

Liaison staff.

7.b. Heads of Services and Business

Lines will assist and cooperate with the

NEPA Liaison in the development and

delivery of training, as well as

procedural and program guidance, and

act as coordinators for program needs of

the Services and Business lines on a

national basis.

7.c. Regional Business Lines have

responsibility for ensuring that NEPA

compliance responsibilities are

satisfied, and the policy articulated in

paragraph 5 of this order is followed,

with respect to their programs and

projects. In consultation with the REQA,

the Business Lines will utilize

interdisciplinary professional expertise

in their implementation of NEPA

responsibilities.

8. Implementation of NEPA and

Related Authorities.

8.a. In accordance with applicable

regulations and standards, and with

program guidance provided by the

NEPA Liaison, the responsible agency

official shall:

8.a.(1) Ensure that the applicable

requirements of NEPA and related

authorities are met in a timely manner

during planning for any GSA action, in

a manner consistent with the policy

articulated in paragraph 5 of this order.

8.a.(2) Ensure that mitigation

measures established through review of

actions under NEPA and related

authorities are carried out as part of

implementing the actions.

8.a.(3) Ensure that the means by

which GSA has met its responsibilities,

and the costs involved in doing so, are

fully documented.

8.b. All Heads of Service, Business

Lines, and Regional Offices will employ

the PBS NEPA Desk Guide, issued and

periodically updated by the NEPA

Liaison, as guidance in carrying out this

order.

9. Effective Date. Every effort shall be

made to implement the provisions of

this order immediately.

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BILLING CODE 2820–BR–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Federal Financial Participation in State

Assistance Expenditures; Federal

Matching Shares for Temporary

Assistance to Needy Families,

Medicaid, Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or

Disabled Persons and State Children’s

Health Insurance Program for October

1, 2001 through September 30, 2002

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Medical

Assistance Percentages and Enhanced

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages

for Fiscal Year 2002 have been

calculated pursuant to the Social

Security Act (the Act). These

percentages will be effective from

October 1, 2001 through September 30,

2002. This notice announces the

calculated ‘‘Federal Medical Assistance

Percentages’’ and ‘‘Enhanced Federal

Medical Assistance Percentages’’ that

we will use in determining the amount

of Federal matching in State medical

assistance (Medicaid), State Children’s

Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

expenditures, and for the annual

reconciliation of contingency funds

under Title IV–A. The table gives figures

for each of the 50 States, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin

Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and

the Northern Mariana Islands. Programs

under title XIX of the Act exist in each

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jurisdiction; programs under titles I, X,

and XIV operate only in Guam and the

Virgin Islands; while a program under

title XVI (AABD) operates only in

Puerto Rico. Programs under title XXI

began functioning in fiscal year 1998.

The percentages in this notice apply to

State expenditures for assistance

payments, medical services and medical

insurance services (except family

planning which is subject to a higher

matching rate). The statute provides

separately for Federal matching of

administrative costs.

Sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B) of

the Act require the Secretary of Health

and Human Services to publish these

percentages each year. The Secretary is

to figure the percentages, by formulas in

sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B), from

the Department of Commerce’s statistics

of average income per person in each

State and in the Nation as a whole. The

percentages are within the upper and

lower limits given in those two sections

of the Act. The statute specifies the

percentages to be applied to the District

of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin

Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and

the Northern Mariana Islands.

The ‘‘Federal medical assistance

percentages’’ are for Medicaid. These

percentages will also be used for the

annual reconciliation of any

Contingency funds received under the

Temporary Assistance for Needy

Families program.

The ‘‘Enhanced Federal Medical

Assistance Percentages’’ are for use in

the State Children’s Health Insurance

Program under Title XXI, and in the

Medicaid program for certain children

for expenditures for medical assistance

described in sections 1905(u)(2) and

1905(u)(3). There is no specific

requirement to publish these

percentages. We include them in this

notice for the convenience of the States.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The percentages listed

will be effective for each of the four

quarter-year periods in the period

beginning October 1, 2001 and ending

September 30, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Tolbert or Robert Stewart,

Office of Health Policy, Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Planning and

Evaluation, Room 442E Hubert H.

Humphrey Building, 200 Independence

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201,

(202) 690–6870.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 93.588–Temporary Assistance

for Needy Families; 93.563–Child Support

Enforcement; 93.659–Adoption Assistance;

93.778–Medical Assistance Program; 93.767–

State Children’s Health Insurance Program)

Dated: November 6, 2000.

Donna E. Shalala,

Secretary of Health and Human Services.

FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PERCENTAGES AND ENHANCED FEDERAL

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PERCENTAGES, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1,

2001–SEPTEMBER 30, 2002

[Fiscal Year 2002]

State

Federal medical assistance percentages

Enhanced

federal medical assistance percentages

Alabama ........ 70.45 79.32

Alaska ........... 53.01 67.11

American

Samoa* ..... 50.00 65.00

Arizona .......... 64.98 75.49

Arkansas ....... 72.64 80.85

California ....... 51.40 65.98

Colorado ....... 50.00 65.00

Connecticut ... 50.00 65.00

Delaware ....... 50.00 65.00

District of

Columbia** 70.00 79.00

Florida ........... 56.43 69.50

Georgia ......... 59.00 71.30

Guam* ........... 50.00 65.00

Hawaii ........... 56.34 69.44

Idaho ............. 71.02 79.71

Illinois ............ 50.00 65.00

Indiana .......... 62.04 73.43

Iowa .............. 62.86 74.00

Kansas .......... 60.20 72.14

Kentucky ....... 69.94 78.96

Louisiana ...... 70.30 79.21

Maine ............ 66.58 76.61

Maryland ....... 50.00 65.00

Massachusetts ........... 50.00 65.00

Michigan ....... 56.36 69.45

Minnesota ..... 50.00 65.00

Mississippi .... 76.09 83.26

Missouri ........ 61.06 72.74

Montana ........ 72.83 80.98

Nebraska ...... 59.55 71.69

Nevada ......... 50.00 65.00

New Hampshire .......... 50.00 65.00

New Jersey ... 50.00 65.00

New Mexico .. 73.04 81.13

New York ...... 50.00 65.00

North Carolina 61.46 73.02

North Dakota 69.87 78.91

Northern Mariana

Islands* ..... 50.00 65.00

Ohio .............. 58.78 71.15

Oklahoma ..... 70.43 79.30

Oregon .......... 59.20 71.44

Pennsylvania 54.65 68.26

Puerto Rico* 50.00 65.00

Rhode Island 52.45 66.72

South Carolina ............. 69.34 78.54

South Dakota 65.93 76.15

Tennessee .... 63.64 74.55

Texas ............ 60.17 72.12

Utah .............. 70.00 79.00

Vermont ........ 63.06 74.14

Virgin Islands* 50.00 65.00

FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PERCENTAGES AND ENHANCED FEDERAL

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PERCENTAGES, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1,

2001–SEPTEMBER 30, 2002—Continued

[Fiscal Year 2002]

State

Federal medical assistance percentages

Enhanced

federal medical assistance percentages

Virginia .......... 51.45 66.02

Washington ... 50.37 65.26

West Virginia 75.27 82.69

Wisconsin ..... 58.57 71.00

Wyoming ....... 61.97 73.38

* For purposes of section 1118 of the Social

Security Act, the percentage used under titles

I, X, XIV, and XVI and Part A of title IV will be

75 per centum.

** The value in the table was set for the

state plan under titles XIX and XXI and for

capitation payments and DSH allotments

under those titles. For other purposes, including programs remaining in Title IV of the Act,

the percentage for DC is 50.00.

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BILLING CODE 4154–05–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

Title: Child Care and Development

Fund Plan for States/Territories.

OMB No.: 0970–0114.

Description: The Child Care and

Development Fund (CCDF) Plan for

States and Territories is required from

the child care Lead Agency by section

658E of the Child Care and

Development Block Grant Act of 1990

(P.L. 101–508), 42 U.S.C. 9858. The

implementing regulations for the

statutorily required Plan are at 45 CFR

98.10 through 98.18. The Plan,

submitted on the ACF–118, is required

biennially and remains in effect for two

years. This Plan, provides ACF and the

public with a description of, and

assurance about, the State’s child care

program. The ACF–118 is approved

through October 31, 2001 making it

available to States and Territories

needing to submit Plan Amendments

through the end of the FY 2001 Plan

Period. However, in July 2001, States

and Territories will be required to

submit their FY 2002–2003 Plans.

Consistent with the statute and

regulations, ACF requests extension of

the ACF–118 with minor corrections