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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Meeting

Pursuant to section10(a) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

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

is hereby given of a meeting of the

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Board of

Scientific Advisors on June 22–23, 1998

in Conference Room 10, Building 31C,

National Institutes of Health, 9000

Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland.

This meeting will be open on June 22

from 8 a.m. to recess and on June 23

from 8 a.m. to adjournment. Agenda

items will include the following: NCI

Director’s Report; Deputy Director of

Extramural Science’s Reports;

Legislative Update; Scientific

Presentation(s); Concept Reviews;

program review updates and reports,

and discussions pertaining to new and

ongoing Board business. Attendance by

the public will be limited to space

available.

Individuals who plan to attend and

need special assistance such as sign

language interpretation or other

reasonable accommodations and

additional information pertaining to the

meeting should contact Dr. Paulette S.

Gray, Executive Secretary, NCI Board of

Scientific Advisors, 6130 Executive

Blvd., EPN, Rm. 600C, Bethesda, MD

20892 (301–496–4218).

This notice is being published less

than 15 days prior to the meeting due

to the urgent need to meet timing

limitations imposed by the review and

funding cycle.

Dated: June 9, 1998.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, National

Institutes of Health.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Deafness and

Other Communication Disorders;

Closed Meeting

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

meeting.

The meeting will be closed to the

public in accordance with the

provisions set forth in sections

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

as amended. The grant applications and

the discussions could disclose

confidential trade secrets or commercial

property such as patentable material,

and personal information concerning

individuals associated with the grant,

applications, the disclosure of which

would constitute a clearly unwarranted

invasion of personal privacy.

Name of Committee: National Institute on

Deafness and Other Communication

Disorders Special Emphasis Panel.

Date: June 30, 1998.

Time: 7:30 AM to 5 pm.

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant

applications.

Place: 5520 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy

Chase, MD 20815.

Contact Person: Richard S. Fisher,

Scientific Review Administrator, Scientific

Review Branch, Division of Extramural

Activities, NIDCD/NIH, 6210 Executive

Blvd., Room 400C, MSC–7180, Bethesda, MD

20892, 301–496–8683.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 93.173, Biological Research

Related to Deafness and Communicative

Disorders, National Institutes of Health, HHS)

Dated: June 9, 1998.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, National

Institutes of Health.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Diabetes and

Digestive and Kidney Disease Meeting:

Congressionally-Directed Diabetes

Research Working Group

The Congressionally-Directed

Diabetes Research Working Group is

seeking public comment on future

directions for diabetes and diabetesrelated research funded by the National

Institutes of Health (NIH).

In report language accompanying the

fiscal year 1998 appropriations for the

NIH and the National Institute of

Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney

Diseases (NIDDK), both the House of

Representatives and the Senate urged

the NIH Director, in collaboration with

the Director of the NIDDK, to establish

an external Diabetes Research Working

Group. Further, the Congress charged

the Working Group with developing a

comprehensive plan for NIH-funded

diabetes research that would include

recommendations for future diabetes

research initiatives and directions. The

plan is to be submitted to the Congress

in November 1998.

Notice is hereby given of the meeting

of the Congressionally-Directed Diabetes

Research Working Group to take place

on July 9, 1998. The meeting will run

approximately from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

in Conference Room D of the William H.

Natcher Building, National Institutes of

Health, Bethesda, Maryland. A two-hour

portion of this open meeting—from

approximately 10:00 a.m. until

approximately 12:00 p.m., will be

reserved for the Working Group to hear

public comment from private citizens

and from individuals representing

voluntary health, research, and

professional organizations, and other

organizations concerned about diabetes

will be made in the order in which

requests are made to the Working Group

and shall not exceed five minutes in

length. Written statements of

unspecified length may also be

submitted to the Working Group.

Persons and organizations having an

interest in making a statement during

the open session of the Working Group

meeting, and/or in submitting a written

statement to the Working Group, should

contact Ms. Carol Feld, Executive

Secretary, Diabetes Research Working

Group, at 301–496–6623 this is not a

toll-free number) on or before July 1.

Dated: June 9, 1998.

Ms. Carol Feld,

Executive Secretary of the CongressionallyDirected Diabetes Research Working Group.

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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.

Note: This announcement extends the

deadline for comment stated in an

announcement published June 4, 1998, until

September 5, 1998.

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

views. 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.
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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 September 5, 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 3.5×3.5 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 with in 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

supporting data, i.e. image parameters,

visualization parameters, compression

parameters, text annotations, symbols,

etc. BIIF is an ANSI/ISO standard and

is in wide 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.

Dated: June 9, 1998.

Richard E. Witmer,

Chief, National Mapping Division, U.S.

Geological Survey.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Information Collection Submitted to

the Office of Management and Budget

for Review Under the Paperwork

Reduction Act

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act (44 U. S. C. 3506(c)(2)(A)

is soliciting comments on the proposed

information collection for the Child

Abuse and Neglect Reporting Form.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Copies of the documents contained in

the information collection request may

be obtained by contacting Larry Blair,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Tribal

Services, 1849 C Street NW., MS–4603–

MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208–2479.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

August 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Your comments and

suggestions on the requirements should

be made directly to Larry Blair, Bureau

of Indian Affairs, Office of Tribal

Services, 1849 C Street, NW., MS–4603–

MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208–2479.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Child Abuse and Neglect

Reporting Form, OMB No. 1076-(new)

information collection complies with

the requirements of 25 CFR Part 23, the

Indian Child Welfare Act, and as

required by Pub. L. 95–608, the Indian

Child Welfare Act of 1978, and Pub. L.

99–570, the Indian Alcohol and

Substance Abuse Prevention and

Treatment Act of 1986. The collection is

also required by Pub. L. 101–630, the

Indian Child Protection and Family

Violence Prevention Act. The

information is collected from tribes and

BIA agencies and consolidated at the

area office for the purpose for gathering

data to determine the number of child

abuse and neglect cases and types of

assistance provided. The data is used to

determine the number of cases

involving alcohol and substance abuse,

involving recurring episodes, and those

involving minor siblings. The data is

used to track the number of cases

reported to appropriate authorities and

to gather information pertaining to

treatment and prevention of family

violence. The data is also used by the

administering agency or tribe to review

program implementation, to benchmark

program service population and to

identify areas in need of additional

services. The headquarters office uses

the data to prepare the annual program

budget justification.

An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to a collection of information

unless it displays a currently valid OMB

control number.

II. Request for Comments

We specifically request your

comments concerning:

1. Whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the BIA,

including whether the information will

have practical utility;

2. The accuracy of the BIA’s estimate

of the burden of the information

collection, including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

3. The quality, utility, and clarity of

the information to be collected; and,

4. How to minimize the burden of the

information collection on those who are

to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other forms of

information technology.

III. Data

Title of the Collection of Information:

U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau

of Indian Affairs, Child Abuse and

Neglect Reporting Form.