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information using a one page

questionnaire that will ask applicants to

provide input so that the symposium

will better meet their specific needs in

order to implement their AHR plans.

More specifically, they will be asked to

select the preferred dates for the

symposium (weekend or weekday

dates). This will allow President Clinton

to announce the dates of the symposium

in mid-June, when he announces the ten

AHR nominations to receive designation

this year.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information that NRCS collects from the

AHR applicants that choose to respond,

will be used only by the symposium

planning team. Based on the applicants

responses the team will then develop an

agenda that includes topics of specific

interest, tools and information that will

help them complete their AHR plans.

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other-forprofit; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 126.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 31.5.

Emergency approval for this

information collection has been

requested by June 1, 1998.

Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1944–L, Tenant

Grievance and Appeals Procedure.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0046.

Summary of Collection: The Rural

Housing Service (RHS) is authorized,

under Sections 514, 515, and 521 of the

Housing Act of 1949, to provide loans

and grants to eligible recipients of the

development of rural rental/cooperative

and labor housing. Such multiple family

housing projects are intended to meet

the housing needs of persons or families

who have moderate, low- and very-low

incomes, senior citizens, the

handicapped and domestic farm

laborers. RHS is responsible for assuring

the public that the housing projects

financed are managed and operated as

mandated by Congress. For this reason,

the Agency implemented a grievance

and appeals procedure on October 27,

1980, for tenants, members and

applicants for occupancy in multiple

family housing financed by RHS. The

procedure requires certain information

to be collected whenever a tenant

wishes to appeal adverse actions by

owners/managers of multi-family

housing project financed by RHS.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information collected is used to notify

tenants of the reasons for the adverse

actions and to ascertain the viewpoint of

the tenant. The information is used in

the course of trying to resolve the

grievance. The consequence of not

collecting the information is that

tenants, members or applicants would

not be able to exercise their rights

provided by the Tenant Grievance

Appeals procedure.

Description of Respondents:

Individuals or households; Business or

other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 360.

Frequency of Respondents:

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 83.

Food and Nutrition Service

Title: Servicing Cases Where

Unauthorized Loan or Other Financial

Assistance Was Received—Community

and Business Programs, 7 CFR 1951–O.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0103.

Summary of Collection: On occasion,

the Rural Housing Service (RHS), Rural

Business-Cooperative Service (RBS),

Rural Utilities Service (RUS), and the

Farm Service Agency (FSA) encounter

cases where unauthorized assistance

was received by a borrower or grantee

for which there was no regulatory

authorization or for which the recipient

was not eligible. In situations where

unauthorized assistance may have been

given, the Agencies must collect certain

financial information to assist in the

determination that the assistance

received was unauthorized.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information submitted by borrowers or

grantees is evaluated by local Rural

Development and FSA employees. The

information is used to review the case

to confirm whether unauthorized

assistance was received and to make

necessary account adjustments.

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 14.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 12.

Farm Service Agency

Title: Dairy Production Disaster

Assistance Program—7 CFR 1439.

OMB Control Number: 0560–New.

Summary of Collection: Under P.L.

105–174, Disaster Assistance

Supplemental, the Commodity Credit

Corporation Fund has been amended to

appropriate $6,800,000 to implement a

Dairy Production Disaster Assistance

Program. The program will provide

payments to dairy producers for losses

of milk that had been produced but not

marketed or for diminished production

due to natural disasters designated

pursuant to a Presidential or Secretarial

declaration requested from November

27, 1997 through May 1, 1998. The Farm

Service Agency will collect information

from dairy producers applying for

assistance.

Need and Use of the Information: FSA

will collect information on business

records from producers to verify that

their milk or dairy production losses did

occur. The business record collection

will be used by the FSA County Office

personnel to determine the eligibility

and amount of assistance in accordance

with the published regulation. FSA

considers the information collection to

be essential to make prudent eligibility

and assistance determinations and to

maintain the credibility of such a

program being administered after the

losses occurred.

Description of Respondents: Farms.

Number of Respondents: 25,000.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 50,000.

Emergency approval for this

information collection has been

requested by June 8, 1998.

Nancy Sternberg,

Departmental Information Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food and Nutrition Service

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request—The Impacts of

Time Limits on Unemployed AbleBodied Adults Without Dependents

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service,

USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this

notice announces the intention of the

Food and Nutrition Service to request

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approval of data collection for

the study, The Impacts of Time Limits

on Unemployed Able-Bodied Adults

Without Dependents.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be

received by August 3, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Send comments and

requests for copies of this information

collection to: Alberta Frost, Director,

Office of Analysis and Evaluation, Food

and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department

of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,

Alexandria, VA 22302.

Comments are invited on: (a) whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance
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of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (b) 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; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond, including

use of appropriate, automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

All comments will be summarized

and included in the request for Office of

Management and Budget approval of the

information collection. All comments

will become a matter of public record.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alberta Frost, (703) 305–2017.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: The Impacts of Time Limits on

Unemployed Able-Bodied Adults

Without Dependents.

OMB Number: Not yet assigned.

Expiration Date: Not applicable.

Type of Request: New collection of

information.

Abstract: With the passage of the

Personal Responsibility and Work

Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,

Pub.L. 104–193, (PRWORA), ablebodied adults without dependents are

subject to a time limit on receipt of food

stamps unless they work or participate

in an approved work or training

program. PRWORA gives states many

options in their implementation of these

provisions, including who to exempt,

what type of employment and training

(E&T) services to offer, and how to track

recipients to ensure compliance with

the work requirement and time limit.

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is

conducting a study, The Impacts of

Time Limits on Unemployed AbleBodied Adults Without Dependents, to

describe how the time limits have

actually been implemented and to count

the number of persons affected by the

time limits. Addressing these two

objectives of the study requires

collection of new information, both

about how the time limits have been

implemented and about the program

participants that have been affected.

FNS plans two data collection activities

related to policy implementation. First,

a telephone survey of state, county, and

local Food Stamp Program (FSP) staff

will be conducted in all 50 states.

Second, in-person visits will be

conducted to five state FSP offices, and

to an advocacy organization and three

local offices in each of these five states.

FNS plans three data collection

activities to obtain information on the

number of persons affected by the

policy. First, tabulated data will be

requested from all 50 states on the

number and characteristics of persons

exempt from the time limits, persons

subject to the time limits, persons

meeting the work requirements, and

persons disqualified because of the time

limits. Second, micro-level

administrative case-record data will be

requested from five states for use in

conducting supplemental analysis.

Third, if a subset of states is unable to

provide tabulated data, case-record

information will be extracted from up to

20 local offices across this set of states.

Estimate of Burden: The estimated

public reporting burden associated with

the telephone interviews is as follows:

state FSP director and manager of local

office operations interviewed together

(50 minutes), state E&T manager (30

minutes), local FSP director (10

minutes), local caseworker manager and

local FSP director interviewed together

(30 minutes), local E&T manager (25

minutes), county FSP director (15

minutes). The estimated public

reporting burden associated with the

site visits is as follows: meeting with

state FSP director and manager of local

office operations (3 hours); meeting with

state E&T manager and assistant (1.5

hours); meeting with member of a state

advocacy group (1.5 hours); meeting

with local FSP director, manager of

local office operations, and E&T

manager together (3 hours); group

interview with 4 caseworkers (1.5

hours). The estimated public reporting

burden associated with the automated

data collection is as follows: preparation

of tabulated data (16 hours), preparation

of administrative case-record data (16

hours), assistance related to case-record

extraction (16 hours).

Respondents: The respondents

associated with the telephone interview

and site visits are listed above.

Automated data experts in state and

local FSP offices will prepare the

tabulated data and administrative caserecord data files. Caseworker managers

in local FSP offices will provide

assistance related to case-record

extraction.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

Telephone interviews will be conducted

with 418 respondents, and 130

individuals will be interviewed during

the site visits. Approximately 75

individuals will assist with the

preparation of automated data files and

case-record extraction.

Estimated Number of Responses per

Respondent: All data collection

protocols will be administered once per

respondent. The state FSP director, state

manager of local office operations, and

state E&T manager from five states will

participate in both the national

telephone survey and in-person

interviews. The local office FSP director

will be contacted twice as part of the

national survey—once to introduce the

study and set up the local interview and

again to participate with the casework

manager in the telephone interview.

Estimated Total Burden on

Respondents: 1,719 hours.

Dated: May 22, 1998.

George A. Braley,

Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition

Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Klamath Provincial Advisory

Committee (PAC)

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Klamath Provincial

Advisory Committee will meet on June

18 and 19, 1998 at the Bayshore Inn

Conference Room, 3500 Broadway,

Eureka, California. On June 18, the

meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and

adjourn at 5:00 p.m. The meeting on

June 19 will resume at 8:00 a.m. and

adjourn at 3:00 p.m. Agenda items to be

covered include: (1) follow-up to the

joint 3PAC/SCERT meeting; (2) province

fuels discussion; (3) watershed analysis

concerns on the East Fork/Smokey

Creek Watershed Analysis (ShastaTrinity National Forests) and

opportunities for doing watershed

analysis differently; (4) follow-up on

rechartering the Memorandum of

Understanding for the IAC/PACs; and

(5) public comment periods. All PAC

meetings are open to the public.

Interested citizens are encouraged to

attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Connie Hendryx, USDA, Klamath

National Forest, 1312 Fairlane Road,

Yreka, California 96097; telephone 530–

841–4468.

Dated: May 26, 1998.

Michael P. Lee,

Acting Forest Supervisor.

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