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Estimated costs to the respondents

consists of their time; time is estimated

using a rate of $10.00 per hour for

patients and the public; $30.00 for

vendors, regulators, organizations and

$55.00 for health care professionals. The

estimated annual costs to respondents

for each year for which the generic

clearance is requested is $24,531

annually. A contract has been let with

a vendor to provide assistance in survey

administration. The estimated annual

cost of this contract is $25,000. There is

no capital costs to report.

Requests for Comments

Written comments and/or suggestions

from the public and affected agencies

are invited on one or more of the

following points: (1) Whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the Clinical Center and

the agency, including whether the

information shall have practical utility;

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s

estimate of the burden of the proposed

collection of information, including the

validity of the methodology and

assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (4)

Ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including the use of

automated, electronic, mechanical, or

other technological collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request more information on the

proposed project, to obtain a copy of the

data collection plans and instruments,

or to submit comments, contact: Dr.

David K. Henderson, Deputy Director

for Clinical Care, Warren G. Magnuson

Clinical Center, National Institutes of

Health, Building 10, Room 2C 146, 9000

Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland

20892, or call non-toll free: (301) 496–

3515, or e-mail your request or

comments, including your address to

dhenderson@cc.nih.gov.

Comments Due Date

Comments regarding this information

collection are best assured of having

their full effect if received on or before

February 5, 2001.

Dated: November 18, 2000.

David K. Henderson,

Deputy Director for Clinical Care, CC.

[FR Doc. 00–31214 Filed 12–6–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4621–N–02]

Community Planning and Development

Formula Programs: Assisting Persons

With Disabilities—Recipients’

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

Responsibilities and Involvement of

Persons With Disabilities in Planning

Actions

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, and Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and

Equal Opportunity, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to reemphasize the responsibility of

Community Planning and Development

formula grant program recipients to: (1)

Affirmatively further fair housing which

includes analyzing compliance with the

multifamily design and construction

requirements of the Fair Housing Act

(the Act); and (2) include individuals

with disabilities in the citizen

participation process for the

development of Consolidated Plans and

Annual Action Plans.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bryan Greene, Office of Fair Housing

and Equal Opportunity, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, 451

Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC

20410; telephone (202) 708–1145 (this is

not a toll-free number), or Terry Buss,

Office of Community Planning and

Development, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410;

telephone (202) 708–2504 (this is not a

toll-free number). Persons with hearing

or speech impairments may access these

numbers via TTY by calling the toll-free

Federal Information Relay Service at 1–

800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Every three to five years, each State

and local government that is a recipient

of HUD formula grant funds through the

Community Development Block Grant

Program, HOME Investment

Partnerships Program, Housing

Opportunities for Persons With AIDS

Program or the Emergency Shelter Grant

Program must submit a complete

Consolidated Plan that assesses its

priority housing and homeless needs,

including the needs of persons with

disabilities, and establishes a strategic

plan for addressing these needs. (In this

notice, the term ‘‘jurisdictions’’ (or

‘‘jurisdiction’’) refers to States and local

governments that are recipients of this

funding.)

Annually, jurisdictions must submit

the Action Plan component of the

Consolidated Plan which describes how

these funds will be used. When

preparing its Consolidated Plan and its

Action Plans, the jurisdiction must

include the participation of its citizens

in accordance with its citizen

participation plan. The citizen

participation plan must provide for and

encourage citizens to participate in the

development of the Consolidated Plan,

including any substantial amendments

to the Consolidated Plan, and

preparation of the Annual Performance

Report. Jurisdictions are also expected

to take whatever actions are appropriate

to encourage the participation of all its

citizens, including minorities and nonEnglish speaking persons, as well as

persons with disabilities.

In its annual submission to HUD, each

recipient jurisdiction must submit a

certification required by the Community

Development Block Grant regulations

(24 CFR 570.601(a)(2)) and the

Consolidated Plan regulations (24 CFR

91.225(a)(1), 91.325(a)(1) [States] and

91.425(a)(1) [Consortia]) that it will

affirmatively further fair housing. The

jurisdiction’s affirmatively furthering

certification means that the jurisdiction

will conduct an analysis to identify

impediments to fair housing choice

within the jurisdiction, take appropriate

actions to overcome the effects of any

impediments identified through that

analysis, and maintain records reflecting

the analysis and actions taken. If the

jurisdiction is not undertaking these

actions, the Department may reject the

certification and disapprove the

Consolidated Plan.

The analysis of impediments (AI) to

fair housing choice includes an

assessment of conditions, both public

and private, affecting fair housing

choice. The amendments to the Act in

1988 made it unlawful to discriminate

against persons because of disability,

including the failure to make

multifamily residential structures built

for first occupancy after March 13, 1991

accessible to persons with disabilities.

The Act requires that all units in an

elevator building with four or more

units be accessible to persons with

disabilities. In a non-elevator building

with four or more units, all ground floor

units must be accessible to such

persons. These requirements apply

whether the building is privately or

publicly constructed and owned.

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Recommended Actions To Meet These

Responsibilities

HUD encourages jurisdictions that are

recipients of funds covered by the

Consolidated Plan to make outreach

efforts to ensure that persons with

disabilities are consulted and have an

equal opportunity to participate in

developing the jurisdiction’s analysis of

needs and plans for the use of Federal

and other resources. HUD staff in the

State and Area Community Planning

and Development and Fair Housing and

Equal Opportunity Offices can be

consulted in helping develop outreach

efforts and a significant amount of

information is found on HUD’s

homepage on the Internet at

www.hud.gov.

During the new five-year

Consolidated Plan cycle that begins in

Fiscal Year 2001, Consolidated Plan

jurisdictions are strongly encouraged to

periodically review and update their

AIs, as appropriate, to give the same

attention to impediments to fair housing

choice for persons with disabilities as is

provided for other bases of

discrimination such as race that have

been prohibited by the Act since its

inception in 1968. HUD in its review of

Annual Action Plan submissions and

during on-site reviews, will consider

whether jurisdictions are giving

appropriate attention in their Action

Plans to compliance with the

accessibility requirements of the Act by

both private and public housing

providers.

Jurisdictions are also encouraged to

take other actions to advance fair

housing choice for persons with

disabilities in support of their

certification to affirmatively further fair

housing. Recent HUD House

Appropriations report language would

direct HUD, when reviewing

Consolidated Plans, to take into

consideration a community’s adoption

of a building code that satisfies the Act’s

accessibility requirements along with

the community’s other efforts to remove

impediments to fair housing (see H.

Rep. 106–674).

With respect to building codes, HUD

encourages elected officials and those

engaged in housing and community

development programs to determine

whether the jurisdiction’s building code

is inconsistent in any respect with the

Act’s accessibility requirements. HUD’s

recently completed review of the four

model building codes for consistency

with the Act can assist with this

determination because most local

building codes are derived from one or

more national model codes. HUD’s final

report reviewing the model building

codes was published in the Federal

Register on March 23, 2000 (65 FR

15740).

In its March 23, 2000 final report,

HUD identified those areas of the model

building codes that were not consistent

with the accessibility requirements of

the Act, and included recommended

language for addressing these variations.

Since that time, HUD has been working

with the model code organizations and

other interested persons in developing

proposed code language to address the

findings in the Department’s final report

with respect to the International

Building Code 2000.

HUD also encourages jurisdictions to

find ways to inform builders and

architects as early as possible in the

project design phase, but certainly no

later than the issuance of a building

permit, of the need to comply with the

accessibility requirements of the Act.

Dated: December 1, 2000.

Joseph A. D’Agosta,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Community Planning and Development.

Eva M. Plaza,

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and

Equal Opportunity.

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BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Receipt of Applications for

Permit

Endangered Species

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et

seq.):

Applicant: Zoological Society of San Diego,

San Diego, CA, PRT–036157

The applicant requests a permit to

import three male and three female

captive born Przewalski’s wild horse

(Equus p. przewalskii) from the Calgary

Zoo, Calgary Alta, Canada for the

purpose of enhancement of the survival

of the species through captive

propagation.

Applicant: Bell Bud, Houston, TX, PRT–

036529

The applicant requests a permit to

import the sport-hunted trophy of one

male bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus

dorcas) culled from a captive herd

maintained under the management

program of the Republic of South Africa,

for the purpose of enhancement of the

survival of the species.

Applicant: Triple S Game Farm, Edmond,

OK, PRT–35441

The applicant requests a permit to

export biological samples of the

following endangered pheasant species:

imperial (Lophura imperialis), Edward’s

(Lophura edwardsi), Swinhoe’s

(Lophura swinhoii), white-eared

(Crossoptilon crossoptilon), browneared (Crossoptilon mantchuricum),

cheer (Catreus wallichi), Elliot’s

(Syrmaticus ellioti), bar-tailed

(Syrmaticus humiae), mikado

(Syrmaticus mikado); to Dr. Ettore

Randi, National Institute of Wildlife,

Ozzano Emilia, Italy, for scientific

research for the purpose of

enhancement of the survival of the

species.

Applicant: Marc A. Cheramie, Golden

Meadow, LA, PRT–036303

The applicant requests a permit to

import the sport-hunted trophy of one

male bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus

dorcas) culled from a captive herd

maintained under the management

program of the Republic of South Africa,

for the purpose of enhancement of the

survival of the species.

Applicant: Jeffrey R. Powell, Yale University,

Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

New Haven CT, PRT–036010

The applicant requests a permit to reexport 171 blood samples collected from

Galapagos tortoises (Geochelone nigra)

to Michel C. Milinkovitch, Unit of

Evolutionary Genetics, Dept. of

Molecular Biology, Free University of

Belgium, Gosselies, Belgium, for the

purpose of scientific research. The

samples were originally collected by the

applicant from wild tortoises in the

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, and

imported to the United States under

permit no. US784934.

Applicant: Wildlife Conservation Society,

Bronx, NY, PRT–811776

The applicant requests re-issuance of

a permit to import feathers dropped

from wild and captive-born birds, which

are obtained through various

international institutions and through

collecting conducted during field

studies, for the purpose of the scientific

research. This notification covers

activities conducted by the applicant

over a five year period.

Written data or comments should be

submitted to the Director, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, Division of

Management Authority, 4401 North

Fairfax Drive, Room 700, Arlington,

Virginia 22203 and must be received by

the Director within 30 days of the date

of this publication.