9442 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 41 / Monday, March 3, 1997 / Notices

Contact Person: Shirley H. Maltz,

Parklawn, Room 9–101, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: 301, 443–

3936.

Committee Name: National Institute of

Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel.

Date: March 18, 1997.

Time: 3 p.m.

Place: Parklawn, Room 9C–18, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Contact Person: Emeline M. Otey,

Parklawn, Room 9C–18, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: 301, 443–

4868.

The meetings will be closed in accordance

with the provisions set forth in secs.

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C.

Applications and/or proposals and the

discussions could reveal confidential trade

secrets or commercial property such as

patentable material and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

applications and/or proposals, the disclosure

of which would constitute a clearly

unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Numbers 93.242, 93.281, 93.282)

Dated: February 25, 1997.

LeVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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Chairpersons, Board of Scientific

Counselors for Institutes, Centers and

Divisions at the National Institutes of

Health, Notice of Meeting

Notice is hereby given of a meeting

scheduled by the Deputy Director for

Intramural Research at the National

Institutes of Health with the

Chairpersons of the Boards of Scientific

Counselors. The Boards of Scientific

Counselors are an advisory group to the

Scientific Directors of the Intramural

Research Programs at the NIH. This

meeting will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

on June 23, 1997, at the NIH, 9000

Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, Building

1, Room 151. The meeting will include

a discussion of policies and procedures

that apply to the regular review of NIH

intramural scientists and their work,

with special emphasis on clinical

research.

Individuals who plan to attend and

need special assistance, such as sign

language interpretation or other

reasonable accommodations, should

contact Ms. Audrey Boyle at the Office

of Intramural Research, NIH, Building 1,

Room 114, Telephone (301) 496–1921 or

Fax (301) 402–4273 in advance of the

meeting.

Dated: February 14, 1997.

Ruth Kirschstein,

Deputy Director, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4123–N–03]

Public Housing/Section 8 Moving to

Work Demonstration Program;

Extension of Application Deadline

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: On December 18, 1996, HUD

published a notice inviting public

housing agencies and Indian housing

authorities to submit applications for

the Public and Indian Housing/Section

8 Moving to Work demonstration

program (‘‘MTW’’). The December 18,

1996 notice set an application

submission deadline for MTW of March

18, 1997.

This notice extends the MTW

application submission deadline from

March 18, 1997 to May 19, 1997. The

deadline is being extended to give

public housing agencies and Indian

housing authorities the time necessary

to adequately prepare their applications,

and, in particular, to allow sufficient

time for a thorough and constructive

planning process, including a public

hearing. This notice also provides

clarification on several provisions of the

December 18, 1996 notice.

Except for the extension of the

application submission deadline made

by this notice, and subject to the

clarifications made by this notice, all of

the requirements of the December 18,

1996 notice remain in effect.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 3, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen I. Holmquist, Policy

Development Advisor, or Beth M.

Cooper, Program Analyst, Office of

Public and Indian Housing, Room 4116,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202)

708–0713. For hearing or speech

impaired persons, this number may be

accessed via TTY by contacting the

Federal Information Relay Service at 1–

800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

(1) General

The Public and Indian Housing/

Section 8 Moving to Work

demonstration program (‘‘MTW’’) offers

public housing agencies and Indian

housing authorities (HAs) the

opportunity to design and test

innovative housing and self-sufficiency

strategies for low-income families by

permitting HAs to combine funds from

several HUD programs into a single pool

and by exempting HAs from existing

public and Indian housing and Section

8 certificate and voucher program rules,

as approved by HUD.

HUD is authorized to select up to 30

HAs that administer the public and

Indian housing and Section 8 programs

to participate in MTW, which was

authorized by section 204 of the

Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and

Appropriations Act of 1996 (Pub. L.

104–134, 110 Stat. 1321). The statutory

purposes of MTW are to give HAs the

flexibility to design and test various

approaches for providing and

administering housing assistance that

reduce cost and achieve greater cost

effectiveness; provide work incentives

to promote resident self-sufficiency; and

increase housing choices for lowincome families.

To achieve these goals, each selected

HA will have considerable flexibility in

determining how to use Federal funds,

as long as the HA meets specified

criteria. Furthermore, the selected HAs

will be permitted to combine funds from

the public and Indian housing operating

and modernization programs, and from

the Section 8 tenant-based rental

assistance program, for uses which meet

the purposes of the demonstration.

Funds used in the demonstration

(whether combined or not) are generally

not subject to statutory and regulatory

requirements of the public and Indian

housing and Section 8 programs.

On December 18, 1996 (61 FR 66855),

HUD published a notice inviting

applications for MTW. That notice

described the application submission

requirements and the criteria to be used

by HUD in evaluating applications. It

also established an application

submission deadline of March 18, 1997.

(2) Clarifications

Several provisions of the December

18, 1996 notice require clarification, as

follows:

(a) For HA’s that are not subject to

PHMAP because they only administer

the Section 8 program, HUD will

determine the HA’s score for evaluation

criterion 1, ‘‘HA Management

Performance’’, using objective criteria

that assess HA management capability

based on relative performance in

meeting the requirements of the Section

8 program;

(b) The December 18, 1996 notice

advised HAs to assume a 3-year term for

their MTW plans. HUD expects that the

actual term of each HA’s demonstration

will be stated in the MTW Agreement

negotiated between HUD and the HA

following the HA’s selection for MTW.

No MTW proposal will be implemented