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political subdivision applicable to the

same aspect of performance of a

Manufactured Home that are not

identical to the Federal Manufactured

Home construction and safety standard.

By Federal Register Notice dated

February 26, 1997 (62 FR 8664), the

Department requested of the public

nominations for persons interested in

being appointed, in one of the three

general categories cited above, as

members of the National Manufactured

Home Advisory Council. A total of 52

nominations were received, and from

that number 24 have been selected by

the Secretary to serve on the Council. In

addition, one person has been selected

as an alternate in each of the three

categories. All appointments to the

Council shall be effective for a period of

2 years from the publication date of this

Notice in the Federal Register.

Selections

Those persons selected by the

Secretary to serve on the National

Manufactured Home Advisory Council

are listed below by the major interest

category which they represent and the

localities and States from which they

come:

Consumer

Berger, Jack, Harrisburg, PA

Cook, Clarence, Shelby, Township, MI

Gaberlavage, George J., Washington,

D.C.

Maskiell, George E., Concord, NH

Nanni, James, Yonkers, NY

Ryan, James V., Potomac, MD

Bowman, Mary Beth, Little Rock, AR

Williams, William, Largo, FL

Shelton, Gladys, Athens, GA Alternate

Government

Boyer, John F., Jr., Harrisburg, PA

Byrd, Arnold J., Albany, NY

Cammarosano, Michael F., Baton Rouge,

LA

Cullum, Fred B., Burlingame, CA

Denman, Ann McK., Austin, TX

Lee, Allen D., Portland, OR

McCullough, Robert A., Toms River, NJ

Zingeser, Joel P., Gaithersburg, MD

Bryant, William R., Anne Arundel Co.,

MD, Alternate

Industry

Chambliss, Charles W., Elkhart, IN

Henry, Robert J., Riverside, CA

Huddleston, Roger, Mahomet, IL

Hug, William, Phoenix, AZ

Hussey, Edward, Goshen, IN

Weidner, Samuel V., Elkhart, IN

Wells, Jack, Syracuse, NY

Wells, Walter E., West Middlebury, IN

Allen, George F., Jr., Indianapolis, IN,

Alternate

Dated: May 29, 1998.

Art Agnos,

Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Deputy Federal Housing

Commissioner.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4374–N–02]

Manufactured Housing Construction

and Safety Standards: Notice

Announcing the Selection of a Private

Consensus Standards Development

Organization

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of selection of a private

consensus standards development

organization.

SUMMARY: By a Federal Register Notice

published on August 6, 1997 (62 FR

42382), HUD requested statements of

interest from organizations interested in

coordinating and developing

suggestions for changes to the Federal

Manufactured Home Construction and

Safety Standards (FMHCSS). HUD

would consider these suggestions for

adoption into the FMHCSS, through

HUD’s regular notice-and-comment

rulemaking process. Through a similar

process completed 10 years ago, HUD

had selected the Council of American

Building Officials to help develop and

maintain recommended standards.

Based upon the statements of interest

received in response to the August 7,

1997, Notice, HUD is announcing the

selection of the National Fire Protection

Association (NFPA) for this purpose.

HUD will, however, continue to

consider standards developed by

organizations and persons other than

NFPA for incorporation into the

FMHCSS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David R. Williamson, Director, Office of

Consumer and Regulatory Affairs,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Room 9156, 451 7th

Street SW, Washington DC 20410–0500;

telephone (202) 708 6401, or on e-mail

through Internet at

DavidlR.lWilliamson@hud.gov. For

hearing and speech impaired persons,

the telephone number may be accessed

by calling the Federal Information Relay

Service at 1–800–877–8339. (Other than

the ‘‘800’’ number, these telephone

numbers are not toll free.)

Background

The National Manufactured Housing

Construction and Safety Standards Act

of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401–5426), initiated

a program that, in part, provides for the

establishment by the Department of

standards by which all Manufactured

Homes are constructed. It further

provides for preemption by these

standards of all standards of a State or

political subdivision applicable to the

same aspect of performance of a

Manufactured Home that are not

identical to the Federal Manufactured

Home construction and safety standard.

In the August 6, 1997 Federal

Register Notice, the Department

requested statements of interest from

private organizations to administer a

voluntary process for the development

of suggested Manufactured Housing

standards. The Department was seeking

to use a private consensus standards

development organization to speed up

the process of developing new standards

to the benefit of both the consumer and

the industry. Among other

requirements, the Department wanted

assurances that the submitting

organization would seek to ensure that

its suggestions for changes to the

FMCHSS reflect a balance of interests

and that the submitting organization

would be willing to give priority

consideration to developing suggestions

for standards identified by the

Department as requiring prompt

attention. The Department further stated

that by use of this standards

development process it would not

relinquish its responsibility and

authority under the Act to establish and

enforce the FMHCSS. The Department

hopes, however, that under most

circumstances, standards developed by

this voluntary standards body would be

accepted as submitted for publication as

a proposed rule and it would go through

the full notice-and-comment rulemaking

set out in the Administrative Procedure

Act (5 U.S.C. 553). Finally, the

Department listed what it wished to see

in the statements of interest and the

criteria to be used in reviewing them. A

similar process had been used by the

Department when it announced the first

selection of a voluntary standards

development organization (CABO).

Selection

In response to the August 6, 1997

Federal Register Notice, the Department

received several sets of comments and

two entities responded with proposals

for selection as HUD’s consensus

standards development organization.

These were the Council of American

Building Officials and the National Fire
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Protection Association. The Department

carefully evaluated these proposals in

relation to the criteria for reviewing

statements of interest. Subsequent to

that it invited each organization to come

to HUD and meet with program officials,

both to respond to identical questions

posed to each organization and to

permit each organization to present any

matter to HUD officials that it deemed

appropriate and ask any questions.

Following these meetings the

Department gave further consideration

to which entity should be selected.

Based upon the foregoing, the

Department announces the selection of

the National Fire Protection Association

to be a consensus standards

development organization to develop

and maintain recommended standards

for the Manufactured Housing program.

NFPA will thus replace the selection of

CABO made in 1988. There is no

agreement between the Department and

the NFPA that obligates the NFPA to

develop recommended standards or that

obligates the Department to use or pay

for the development of recommended

standards. This selection in no way

precludes any other individual or entity

from making recommendations to the

Department regarding program

standards; such recommendations will

also be reviewed and considered by the

Department for incorporation into the

FMHCSS, as required by law.

Dated: May 29, 1998.

Art Agnos,

Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Deputy Federal Housing

Commissioner.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Recreation Lakes Study;

Notice of Interest Briefing

AGENCY: National Recreation Lakes

Study.

ACTION: Notice of Interest Briefing on

National Recreation Lakes Study.

SUMMARY: The Omnibus Parks and

Public Land Management Act of 1996

authorizes a presidential commission to

review the demand for recreation at

Federal lakes, and to develop

alternatives for enhanced recreation

uses, primarily through innovative

public/private partnerships. This

briefing will provide information on the

study and allow for ideas to be

expressed. Commissioner designee, Dr.

John Zirschky, Acting Assistant

Secretary of the Army, will be in

attendance.

DATES: June 11, 1998, starting at 10 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The briefing location is in

the first floor Auditorium of the South

Interior Building, 1951 Constitution

Ave. NW. Please have photo

identification available for admission

into the building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeanne Whittington, 202–219–7104.

Dated: May 29, 1998.

Jana Prewitt,

Executive Director, National Recreation Lakes

Study.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC); Public Review of the ‘‘Spatial

Data Transfer Standard, Part 5: Raster

Profile and Extensions’’

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The FGDC is sponsoring a

public review of the draft ‘‘Spatial Data

Transfer Standard, Part 5: Raster Profile

and Extensions’’.

The FGDC recognizes that standards

must meet the needs and recognize the

views of State and local governments,

academia, industry, and the public. The

purpose of this notice is to solicit such

view. The FGDC invites the community

to review, test, and evaluate the

proposed standard. Comments are

encouraged about the content,

completeness, applicability, and

usability of the proposed standard.

The FGDC anticipates that the

proposed standard will be adopted as

Federal Geographic Data Committee

standard after updating or revision. The

standard may be forwarded to voluntary

standards bodies for adoption if interest

warrants such actions.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before July 20, 1998.

CONTACT AND ADDRESSES: Requests for

written copies of the standard should be

addressed to ‘‘Spatial Data Transfer

Standard, Part 5: Raster Profile and

Extensions’’, FGDC Secretariat (attn:

Jennifer Fox), U.S. Geological Survey,

590 National Center, 12201 Sunrise

Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia, 20192;

telephone 703–648–5514; facsimile

703–648–5755; or Internet at

gdc@usgs.gov. The standard may be

downloaded from this Internet address:

ftp://www.fgdc.gov/Standards/

Documents/Standards/SDTSlPt5/.

Reviewer’s comments may be sent to

the FGDC via Internet mail to: gdcsdtsras@www.fgdc.gov. Reviewer

comments may also be sent to the FGDC

Secretariat at the above address. Please

send one hardcopy version of the

comments and a soft copy version,

preferably on a 3.5x3.5 diskette in

WordPerfect 5.0 or 6.0/6.1 format.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)

defines a general mechanism for the

transfer of geographically referenced

spatial data and its supporting metadata,

i.e., attributes, data quality reports,

coordinate reference systems, security

information, etc. The overriding

principle that SDTS promotes is that the

spatial data transfer should be selfdocumenting. The data set in SDTS

should contain all of the information

that is needed to assess and (or) use the

data for any appropriate GIS

application. The SDTS base

specification (Parts 1, 2 and 3) is

implemented via profiles of SDTS. A

SDTS profile, in general terms, may be

defined as a limited subset of the

standard, designed for use with a

specific type of data model, i.e.,

topological vector, point, grid, image,

etc. Specific choices are made for

encoding possibilities not addressed,

left optional, or left with numerous

choices within the SDTS base

specification. A profile may also specify

extensions to the base standard to

address changing technologies, and to

take advantage of other industry

standards. For raster image data, there

are numerous standards, with various

properties, restrictions, and degrees of

implementation. The SDTS Raster

Profile and Extensions (SRPE) permits

the use of two common industry

standards for image data: Basic Image

Interchange Format (BIIF) and Tagged

Image File Format (TIFF). The BIIF

defines a general mechanism for the

transfer of image data and any support

data, i.e. image parameters,

visualization parameters, compression

parameters, text annotations, symbols,

etc. BIIF is an ANSI/ISO standard and

is in wide the use in the commercial

military community (formerly NITF).

TIFF is a general purpose image file

format that is used widely for simple

image applications.

For answers to questions related to

the content of the standard please

contact the Federal Geographic Data

Committee (FGDC) Subcommittee on

Base Cartographic Data, attn. Mark

Demulder, U.S. Geological Survey, 511

National Center, Reston, VA 20192.