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amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the following Center

for Scientific Review Special Emphasis

Panel (SEP) meetings:

Purpose/Agenda: To review individual

grant applications.

Name of SEP: Behavioral and

Neurosciences.

Date: May 1, 1998.

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Place: NIH, Rockledge 2, Room 5160,

Telephone Conference.

Contact Person: Dr. Samuel Rawlings,

Scientific Review Administrator, 6701

Rockledge Drive, Room 5160, Bethesda,

Maryland 20892, (301) 435–1243.

This notice is being published less than 15

days prior to the above meeting due to the

urgent need to meet timing limitations

imposed by the grant review and funding

cycle.

Name of SEP: Multidisciplinary Sciences.

Date: May 31–June 1, 1998.

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Key Bridge Marriott, Arlington, VA.

Contact Person: Dr. Lee Rosen, Scientific

Review Administrator, 6701 Rockledge Drive,

Room 5116, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, (301)

435–1711.

Name of SEP: Behavioral and

Neurosciences.

Date: June 22–23, 1998.

Time: 8:30 a.m.

Place: Ramada Inn, Rockville, MD.

Contact Person: Dr. Joe Marwah, Scientific

Review Administrator, 6701 Rockledge Drive,

Room 5188, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, (301)

435–1253.

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 Nos. 93.306, 93.333, 93.337, 93.393–

93.396, 93.837–93.844, 93.846–93.878,

93.892, 93.893, National Institutes of Health,

HHS)

Dated: April 20, 1998.

LaVeen Ponds,

Acting Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of

Closed Meetings

Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the following Center

for Scientific Review Special Emphasis

Panel (SEP) meetings:

Purpose/Agenda: To review individual

grant applications.

Name of SEP: Microbiological and

Immunological Sciences.

Date: May 5, 1998.

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Place: NIH, Rockledge 2, Room 4182,

Telephone Conference.

Contact Person: Dr. William Branche,

Scientific Review Administrator, 6701

Rockledge Drive, Room 4182, Bethesda,

Maryland 20892, (301) 435–1148.

This notice is being published less than 15

days prior to the above meeting due to the

urgent need to meet timing limitations

imposed by the grant review and funding

cycle.

Name of SEP: Clinical Sciences.

Date: May 20, 1998.

Time: 11:00 a.m.

Place: NIH, Rockledge 2, Room 4106,

Telephone Conference.

Contact Person: Ms. Josephine Pelham,

Scientific Review Administrator, 6701

Rockledge Drive, Room 4106, Bethesda,

Maryland 20892, (301) 435–1786.

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 Nos. 93.306, 93.333, 93.337, 93.393–

93.396, 93.837–93.844, 93.846–93.878,

93.892, 93.893, National Institutes of Health,

HHS)

Dated: April 22, 1998.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Cooperative Agreement With the

National Association of State Mental

Health Program Directors

AGENCY: Center for Mental Health

Services, SAMHSA, HHS.

ACTION: Cooperative agreement to

support a technical assistance center for

States in planning mental health

services.

SUMMARY: This notice is to provide

information to the public concerning a

planned grant from the Center for

Mental Health Services (CMHS) to the

National Association of State Mental

Health Program Directors to fund the

Technical Assistance Center (TA Center)

for State Mental Health Planning. If the

application is recommended for

approval by the Initial Review Group,

and the CMHS National Advisory

Council concurs, funds will be made

available. This is not a formal request

for applications. Assistance will be

provided only to the National

Association of State Mental Health

Program Directors.

Authority/Justification

The cooperative agreement will be

made under the authority of section

1948(a) of the Public Health Service Act,

as amended (42 U.S.C. 300x–58). A

single source award will be made to the

National Association of State Mental

Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)

based on its close relationship with the

single State mental health authorities

(SMHAs). This relationship provides

NASMHPD with a unique qualification

to carry out the activities of this

cooperative agreement, which require

such an affiliation with the State

agencies. As the organization

representing all State mental health

agencies, NASMHPD is the only

organization whose membership is

composed of the persons directly

responsible for the administration of

public mental health policies in the

respective States. NASMHPD enjoys a

full 59-State and territorial membership

of the Mental Health Services Block

Grant recipients, as well as a full,

continuous, and fruitful communication

with the leadership and staff of these

agencies. It thus has staff who are

uniquely knowledgeable about the

needs of the States, and is in a unique

position to assess the actual and verified

needs of the States for technical

assistance.

Background

One of the primary goals of the

Community Mental Health Services

Block Grant is to assist States in the

creation of a comprehensive,

community-based system of care for

adults with severe mental illness and

children with serious emotional

disturbances. The burden of providing

for mental health services lies primarily

with the States. Block grant legislation

requires CMHS to collaborate with the

States in meeting this obligation by

helping them to determine their needs

and by cooperating with them in

identifying appropriate technical

assistance to help them in planning

ways of meeting their programmatic

obligations.

The primary goals of this program are:
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(1) To assist States in the

implementation of their mental health

block grant plans and the enhancement

of their comprehensive coordinated

systems of care to better serve adults

with severe mental illness and children

with serious emotional disturbance;

(2) To promote the development of

the Mental Health Planning Councils so

they can assist the States in

implementing mental health block grant

plans and enhance their systems of care;

(3) To collaborate with stakeholders

in the mental health system in the

expansion and dissemination of

knowledge and practices that will result

in long-lasting improvements in the

design, delivery, and evaluation of

public mental health services;

(4) To assist States in developing

mental health systems that are

consumer oriented, sensitive to family

member needs, and culturally

competent;

(5) To be able to determine the

‘‘unmet need’’ and assist States in

developing strategies to ensure that the

gap is bridged between the need for

services and service availability and

delivery.

NASMHPD, through its needs

assessment surveys, frequent contact in

‘‘meet me’’ telephone conferences, focus

groups, semi-annual meetings, and

electronic communication channels, can

rapidly address information to the

specific needs of the States, its

members, and evaluate member

response, and can communicate

technical mental health information

from the States to the TA Center and

vice versa. Such capability provides a

singular benefit to the States in that

information that is invaluable to

program success but generally

unavailable because of Federal process

requirements becomes available to

States through NASMHPD’s close

organizational relationship with its

members.

Because of its research activities, this

organization is also able to identify the

prime movers in the mental health field,

and to enlist them in the creation of

authority-articulated clinical,

management, and fiscal model

standards. Also through NASMHPD’s

membership, the TA Center’s

knowledge base and technical assistance

extends to the State mental health

planning councils, to block grant subrecipient programs, and thence to

consumers and their families.

Availability of Funds

The project will be for a 3-year period

with $700,000 available for the first

year. Future year funding will depend

on the availability of funds and program

performance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marie Danforth, M.S.W. or Velva Taylor

Spriggs, L.I.S.W., CMHS/SAMHSA,

Parklawn Building, Room 15C–26, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857. Telephone (301) 443–4257.

Dated: April 21, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV–040–1610–00]

Draft Caliente Management Framework

Plan Amendment and Environmental

Impact Statement for the Management

of Desert Tortoise Habitat

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the

Draft Caliente Management Framework

Plan amendment and environmental

impact statement for the management of

desert tortoise habitat, Lincoln County,

NV; and notice of 90 day public

comment period.

SUMMARY: The Draft Plan Amendment/

Environmental Impact Statement for the

Caliente Management Framework Plan

would implement management goals

and actions for Bureau of Land

Management (BLM)-administered desert

tortoise habitat in Lincoln County,

Nevada. The Mojave desert tortoise

(Gopherus agassizii) was listed as a

threatened species in 1990, based on

declining numbers in some areas of its

range. These goals and actions,

recommended in the U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service’s approved Desert

Tortoise (Mojave Population) Recovery

Plan, would assist the recovery and

delisting of the desert tortoise in the

Northeastern Mojave Recovery Unit.

This amendment is required to comply

with the Endangered Species Act of

1973 which mandates that all federal

agencies will conserve and recover

listed species within their

administrative units. The accompanying

EIS satisfies the National Environmental

Policy Act, which mandates that federal

agencies analyze the environmental

consequences of major federal action.

The planning area for this amendment

consists of approximately 754,600 acres

of public land in southern Lincoln

County, administered by the Caliente

Field Station, within BLM’s Ely District.

No private lands would be directly

affected by management direction

described under the Proposed Action or

alternatives. The planning area is

located within the Northeastern Mojave

Recovery Unit, as defined by the

Recovery Plan. The document discusses

several alternatives for the protection of

desert tortoise habitat and recovery of

the species.

DATES: Public Meetings will be held on

June 17, 1998 at the Texas Station, 2101

Texas Star Lane in North Las Vegas, NV

between 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on June

18, 1998 at the Caliente Youth Center in

Caliente, NV between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

The Caliente public meeting will be

held in conjunction with the MojaveSouthern Great Basin Resource

Advisory Council. Written comments on

the Draft EIS will be accepted until

August 14, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Public comments may be

sent to: Bureau of Land Management,

Ely Field Office, Gene L. Drais, Project

Manager, HC 33 Box 33500, Ely, NV

98301–9408.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Write to the above address or call Gene

L. Drais, Project Manager at (702) 289–

1880.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Proposed Action would assist desert

tortoise recovery, while minimizing

effects on human activities that occur

within Desert Tortoise habitat. It

includes recommendations derived from

the Recovery Plan and public input,

multiple use considerations, as well as

management actions designed to be

consistent with those proposed by

adjacent BLM districts. The Proposed

Action would: (1) Designate three Areas

of Critical Environmental Concern

(ACECs); (2) implement management

prescriptions for desert tortoise habitat

outside of the ACECs; (3) ensure BLM

participation in a USFWS-developed

environmental education program; and

(4) implement a USFWS-approved

interagency monitoring program. The

three ACECs, totaling 212,500 acres,

would protect 83 percent of designated

critical habitat.

Management prescriptions, designed

to improve desert tortoise habitat,

would modify or restrict some multiple

uses, including livestock grazing, offhighway vehicle recreation, land use

authorizations, and mineral

development within the ACECs. Section

7 consultation would continue to be

conducted with the USFWS on any

federal action that might affect listed

species.

Alternative A (Habitat Management

Alternative) contains management goals