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flood insurance coverage unless an

appropriate public body adopts

adequate floodplain management

measures with effective enforcement

measures. The communities listed no

longer comply with the statutory

requirements, and after the effective

date, flood insurance will no longer be

available in the communities unless

they take remedial action.

Regulatory Classification

This final rule is not a significant

regulatory action under the criteria of

section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866 of

September 30, 1993, Regulatory

Planning and Review, 58 FR 51735.

Paperwork Reduction Act

This rule does not involve any

collection of information for purposes of

the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.

Executive Order 12612, Federalism

This rule involves no policies that

have federalism implications under

Executive Order 12612, Federalism,

October 26, 1987, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp.,

p. 252.

Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice

Reform

This rule meets the applicable

standards of section 2(b)(2) of Executive

Order 12778, October 25, 1991, 56 FR

55195, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 309.

List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 64

Flood insurance, Floodplains.

Accordingly, 44 CFR part 64 is

amended as follows:

PART 64—[AMENDED]

1. The authority citation for Part 64

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.;

Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 3 CFR,

1978 Comp., p. 329; E.O. 12127, 44 FR 19367,

3 CFR, 1979 Comp., p. 376.

§ 64.6 [Amended]

2. The tables published under the

authority of § 64.6 are amended as

follows:

64.6 LIST OF ELIGIBLE COMMUNITIES

State and location Community

No.

Effective date authorization/

cancellation of sale of flood

insurance in community

Current Effective Map Date

Date certain Federal assistance no longer available in

special flood hazard areas

Region V

Michigan: Drummond Island,

township of, Chippewa County.

260803 April 16, 1987, Emerg., September 30, 1987, Reg. November 20, 2000.11–20–00 Do.

Onota, township of, Alger

County.

260345 April 7, 1986, Emerg., December 18, 1986, Reg. November 20, 2000.-do- do.

Note to table: Code for reading third column: Emerg.—Emergency; Reg.—Regular; Susp.—Suspension.

Dated: November 21, 2000.

Michael J. Armstrong,

Associate Director for Mitigation.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

45 CFR Parts 270 and 276

Bonus to Reward States for High

Performance Under the TANF Program

and Data Collection and Reporting

Requirements for States and Indian

Tribes Under Welfare-to-Work Grants

AGENCY: Administration for Children

and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Final rules; correction and

removal.

SUMMARY: This document contains three

actions. First, we are correcting two

words in the high performance bonus

final regulations, published August 30,

2000. Second, we are revising or

updating two statements in the

preamble to these regulations for clarity.

Third, we are removing from the Code

of Federal Regulations the interim final

regulations on Welfare-to-Work data

collection, published October 29, 1998,

as the Department of Labor now has

responsibility for all data collection on

this program.

DATES: These actions are effective

December 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sean Hurley, Office of Planning,

Research and Evaluation, at (202) 401–

9297 or Ann Burek, Office of Family

Assistance, at (202) 401–4528.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Correction to Final Rule 45 CFR Part

270: Bonus to Reward States for High

Performance under the TANF Program

We published final regulations for

awarding high performance bonuses to

States under the Temporary Assistance

for Needy Families (TANF) Program on

August 30, 2000 (65 FR 52814). The

final regulations specified the measures

on which we will base high

performance bonus awards and the

funds allocation formula.

The measures specified in § 270.4(d)

are based on the participation by lowincome families in the Medicaid/State

Children’s Health Insurance Program

(SCHIP). In § 270.4(d), we are making

two word changes:

1. § 270.4(d)(1)(i) as published on

August 30, 2000, reads as follows:

‘‘Beginning in FY 2002, we will

measure the number of individuals

receiving TANF benefits who are also

enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP, who

leave TANF in a calendar year and are

enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP in the

fourth month after leaving TANF

assistance, and who are not receiving

TANF assistance in the fourth month as

a percentage of individuals who left

TANF in the fiscal year and are not

receiving TANF assistance in the fourth

month after leaving.’’

In this section, we are making one

correction. We are deleting the word

‘‘calendar’’ and substituting the word

‘‘fiscal.’’ We are measuring performance

based on the fiscal year, rather than the

calendar year.

2. § 270.4(d)(2)(ii) as published on

August 30, 2000, reads as follows:

‘‘For any given year, we will compare

a State’s performance on this

improvement measure to its

performance in the previous year,

beginning with a comparison of FY 2000

to FY 2001, based on a quarterly

submission by the State as determined

by matching individuals (adults and

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children) who have left TANF

assistance and who are not receiving it

in the fourth month with Medicaid or

SCHIP enrollment data.’’

In this section, we are deleting the

word ‘‘it’’ and substituting the words

‘‘TANF assistance’’ for clarity.

B. Revisions to Preamble Language

In the preamble to the final

regulations for the high performance

bonus, we listed a number of other

TANF regulations we had published.

That list included the September 23,

1998 publication of the Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking covering the

annual reports of State child poverty

rates in relation to the TANF program

(63 FR 52814). We are updating this

information to note that the final

regulation regarding child poverty and

the TANF program was published on

June 23, 2000 (65 FR 39233).

Also in the preamble to the high

performance bonus final regulations, on

page 52820 we summarized the major

changes in and provisions of the final

rule. We are revising item #13 regarding

the child care measure to clarify the

fiscal years the various components of

the child care measure are in effect. The

revised language reads as follows:

‘‘Bases competition in FY 2002 on a

child care measure which focuses on

child care accessibility (the percent of

CCDF-eligible children receiving

services) and affordability (assessed

family co-payments), using data the

States currently report to us under the

CCDF program; in FY 2003, a

component on child care quality is

added based on State reimbursement

rates.’’

C. Removal of 45 CFR Part 276: Data

Collection and Reporting Requirements

for States and Indian Tribes under

Welfare-to-Work Grants

We are removing 45 CFR part 276, the

data collection and reporting

requirements pertaining to participants

in the WtW program, because the

Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations

Act (Pub. L. 106–113), signed into law

on November 29, 1999, revised the data

collection and reporting requirements

for the Welfare-to-Work (WtW) program

under sections 403(a)(5) and 411 of the

Social Security Act (Act) to place all the

responsibility with the Department of

Labor (DOL). At the time we published

the interim final rule (October, 1998),

DOL and the Department of Health and

Human Services shared these

responsibilities.

The Omnibus Consolidated

Appropriations Act also removed the

WtW participant reporting requirements

from section 411 of the Act.

The legislation that created the WtW

program was in the Balanced Budget

Act of 1997, Pub. L. 105–33. DOL’s

implementation of this legislation

included the publication of an interim

final rule on November 18, 1997 (62 FR

615588). This interim final rule

specified program and administrative

requirements, including financial

reporting requirements, for formula

grantees and competitive grantees. We

(ACF) published an interim final rule on

October 29, 1998, to implement the

reporting requirements related to

participant characteristics in the WtW

program that were contained in section

411 of the Act.

When the Omnibus Appropriations

Act placed responsibility for all data

collection with the DOL, the

Employment and Training

Administration (ETA) of DOL published

a notice of proposed information

collection requirements for the WtW

program on August 20, 2000 (65 FR

51034). Specifically, the notice

requested public comment on revisions

to two DOL quarterly status reports, i.e.,

ETA #9068—Report by Formula

Grantees and ETA #9068–1—Report by

Competitive Grantees. The DOL

revisions included reporting of WtW

participant data consistent with the

amendments under the Omnibus

Appropriations Act.

D. Waiver of Notice and Comment

Procedures

The Administrative Procedure Act (5

U.S.C. 553(b)(B)) requires that the

Department publish a notice of

proposed rulemaking unless the

Department finds, for good cause, that

such notice is impracticable,

unnecessary, or contrary to the public

interest. In this instance, this notice

involves only a withdrawal of

regulations that are no longer valid and

two minor editorial corrections.

Accordingly, the Department has

determined that it would be

unnecessary and contrary to the public

interest to use notice and comment

procedures in issuing these

amendments.

E. Impact Analysis

No impact analysis is needed for these

amendments.

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List of Subjects

45 CFR Part 270

Grant programs—social programs;

Poverty, Public assistance programs;

Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements.

45 CFR Part 276

Administrative practice and

procedure; Employment; Manpower

training programs; Penalties; Public

assistance programs; Reporting and

recordkeeping requirements; Vocational

education.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Programs: No.93.558 Temporary Assistance

for Needy Families (TANF) Program; State

Family Assistance Grants; Tribal Family

Assistance Grants; Assistance Grants to

Territories; Matching Grants to Territories;

Supplemental Grants for Population

Increases; Contingency Fund; High

Performance Bonus; Decrease in Illegitimacy

Bonus. Also, No.17.253 Welfare-to-Work

Grants to States and Localities)

Dated: November 17, 2000.

Brian Burns,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information

Resources Management.

For the reasons set forth in the

preamble, 45 CFR part 270 is amended

to make two corrections, and 45 CFR

part 276 is removed as follows:

PART 270—HIGH PERFORMANCE

BONUS AWARDS

1. The authority citation for part 270

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 603(a)(4).

§ 270.4 [Corrected]

2. In § 270.4(d)(1)(i), the word

‘‘calendar’’ is revised to read ‘‘fiscal’’.

3. In § 270.4(d)(2)(ii), the word ‘‘it’’ is

revised to read ‘‘TANF assistance’’.

PART 276—DATA COLLECTION AND

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR

STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES UNDER

WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS

[REMOVED]

4. Part 276 is removed from chapter

II of title 45 of the Code of Federal

Regulations.

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