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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 93.866, Aging Research,

National Institutes of Health)

Dated: June 25, 1998.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Environmental

Health Sciences; 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

meetings.

The meetings will be closed to the

public in accordance with the

provisions set forth in sections

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

as amended. The contract proposals and

the discussions could disclose

confidential trade secrets or commercial

property such as patentable material,

and personal information concerning

individuals associated with the contract

proposals, the disclosure of which

would constitute a clearly unwarranted

invasion of personal privacy.

Name of Committee: National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences Special

Emphasis Panel SBIR Topic 52—Better

Nitrone Spin Trap for Oxygen Centered

Radicals.

Date: July 16, 1998.

Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Agenda: To review and evaluate contract

proposals.

Place: NIEHS, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive,

Building 4401, Conference Room 3446,

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

(Telephone Conference Call).

Contact Person: David Brown, MPH, Nat’l

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,

P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC

27709, (919) 541–4964.

Name of Committee: National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences Special

Emphasis Panel SBIR Topic 54—Device/

Capability for Quantitative Assessment of

Bone Strength in Rodents.

Date: July 17, 1998.

Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant

applications.

Place: NIEHS, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive,

Building 4401, Conference Room 3446,

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

(Telephone Conference Call).

Contact Person: David Brown, MPH, Nat’l

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,

P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC

27709, (919) 541–4964.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 93.115, Biometry and Risk

Estimation—Health Risks from

Environmental Exposures; 93.142, NIEHS

Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety

Training; 93.143, NIEHS Superfund

Hazardous Substances—Basic Research and

Education; 93.894, Resources and Manpower

Development in the Environmental Health

Sciences; 93.113, Biological Response to

Environmental Health Hazards; 93.114,

Applied Toxicological Research and Testing,

National Institutes of Health, HHS)

Dated: June 25, 1998.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4281–N–05]

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection: Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information

collection.

SUMMARY: For the Federal

Empowerment Zone Initiative (Round

One and Round Two), the proposed

information collection requirements

described below will be submitted to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and approval by

September 1, 1998 for a three year

period. as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act. The Department is

soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due date: August 31,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments should refer to

the proposal by name and/or OMB

Control Number and should be sent to:

Sheila Jones, Reports Liaison Officer,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Room

7232, Washington, DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Selvaggi, (202) 708–3773, ext

4647 (this is not a toll-free number) for

copies of the proposed forms and other

available documents.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department is submitting the proposed

information collections to OMB for

review and approval, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). OMB

has previously extended its approval of

control number 2506–0148 through

August 31, 1998; that extension covers

information collections for the Round

Two 1998 application process as well as

for periodic reporting and responses to

warning letters for Round One (1994)

and Round Two (1998) programs.

This Notice solicits comments

concerning the proposed collection for

information for both the Round Two

(1998) Urban Empowerment Zone

Initiative (including the application

process, periodic reporting, and

responding to warning letters) and the

Round One (1994) Urban Empowerment

Zone and Enterprise Community

Initiative (including periodic reporting,

and responding to warning letters),

during the three year period starting

September 1, 1998. Commenters may

wish to: (1) evaluate whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper management of

the Urban Empowerment Zone Initiative

by the agency, including whether or not

the information has practical utility; (2)

evaluate the accuracy of HUD’s estimate

of the burden of the proposed collection

of information; (3) enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond. This

Notice also lists the following

information:

Title of Proposal: 1998 Urban

Empowerment Zone Program (Round

Two)/1994 Urban Empowerment Zone

and Enterprise Community Program

(Round One).

OMB Control Number: 2506–0148.

Description of the need for the

information and proposed use: The

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 amended

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

of 1993 to authorize the Secretary of

HUD to designate 15 more urban

empowerment zones. These statutes

together require three sets of data. First,

applicants for EZ designates must

submit data (a) demonstrating their

eligibility to apply, (b) addressing

problems/needs in the proposed zone

area and described in their proposed

strategic plan, (c) determined by the

applicant to be related to measuring

success of the proposed implementation

plan, measuring any lack of progress in

achieving the activities in the proposed

implementation plan, and justifying any

boundary changes for the zone. Second,

the statutes require HUD to review,

periodically, the progress of designated

urban communities (both Round 1 of

1994 and Round 2 of 1998) in carrying

out their implementation programs and

achieving the goals of their strategic

plans. The Secretary is directed to

collect such periodic and other data as

deemed necessary for the review of the

designees’ progress. A third set of data
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is required in those rare cases where

HUD would send a decertification

warning letter to a designee, which then

would submit data needed to rebut a

proposed decertification.

A. Data for a Round Two 1998 EZ

Application. Information to be collected

consists of statutorily required data

related to poverty by census tract; other

measures of pervasive poverty,

unemployment and economic/social

distress; overall population by tract; and

geographic data as to size and

configuration.

B. Data for Round One and Round

Two Periodic Reports. These data

consist of a short narrative of progress

by the designee and individual progress

reports on each project they describe in

their implementation plans.

C. Data refuting Possible

Decertification. In instances where

warning letters may be sent to Round

One or Round Two designees, the

collection burden would consist of

narrative and data they select in order

to rebut the federal argument for

decertification.

How the information is planned to be

used to further the proper performance

of functions of the agency. HUD will use

the applicant information as part of its

respective review and approval

procedures for selecting the 1998 EZ

designees. This will be a one-time

process. And for both the 72 Round One

designees and the 15 Round Two

communities which are designated,

HUD will require the periodic reports to

be submitted annually. The designees’

annual progress reports provide

management information for HUD,

oversight information for the Vice

President’s Community Empowerment

Board, and status reporting for the

Congress. These periodic reviews also

provide the basis for HUD to continue

or revoke a designation during the tenyear life of the federal program. For

potential decertifications, HUD would

use the designees’ rebuttal information

to make a final decision regarding

decertification.

Description of the likely respondents,

including the estimated number of likely

respondents, and proposed frequency of

response to the collection of

information:

HUD anticipates that 225

communities will apply in 1998 for

Round Two designation; for the

subsequent ten year designation period,

HUD estimates that 15 Round Two

designees will submit annual progress

reports and 72 Round One designees

will submit annual progress reports for

the remainder of their ten year periods.

Possibly five de-certification warning

letters may require rebuttal by

designees.

Agency form numbers, if applicable:

Nomination for a Federal Empowerment

Zone, HUD 40003 (5–98).

Members of affected public: Units of

Local Government and States; NonProfit Organization; Interested Members

of the Public.

Estimate of the total reporting and

recordkeeping burden that will result

from the collection of information:

Number of Round Two applicants:

225.

Total burden hours (@ 50 hours per

response): 11,250.

Number of Annual Progress Reports;

15 Round Two @ 15 hrs: 225.

72 Round One @ 15 hrs: 1080.

Number of Rebuttals—5 @ 20 hours:

100.

Total Estimated Annual Burden

Hours: 12,655.

Status of the proposed information

collection: The public was twice invited

to comment on the accuracy of this

information collection burden, via a

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection published in the Federal

Register on January 23, 1998, and via an

Interim Notice of Rulemaking published

in the Federal Register in April 16,

1998. HUD received no public

comments in response to either

publication. This Notice now informs

the public that HUD is seeking OMB

approval for three years of the control

number 2506–0148, for continuing

management of the urban EZ programs

(Round One and Round Two).

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.

Dated: June 26, 1998.

Kenneth Williams,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant

Programs, CPD.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4356–N–09]

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection: Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

will be submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act. The Department is

soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due date: August 31,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments should refer to

the proposal by name and/or OMB

Control Number and should be sent to:

Wayne Eddins, Reports Liaison Officer,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Room

4176, Washington, DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Vyllorya Evans, Office of Multifamily

Housing, telephone number (202) 708–

2866 (this is not a toll-free number) for

copies of the proposed forms and other

available documents.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department is submitting the proposed

information collection to OMB for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35, as amended).

This Notice is soliciting comments

from members of the public and

affecting agencies concerning the

proposed collection of information to:

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information; (3) Enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) Minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond; including

through the use of appropriate

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

This Notice also lists the following

information:

Title of Proposal: Application for

Project Mortgage Insurance.

OMB Control Number, if applicable::

2502–0029.

Description of the need for the

information and proposed use: This

notice requests an extension of the use

of Forms HUD–92013, HUD–92013–

NHICF, 92013–HOSP, 90213

Supplement, applications for

Multifamily Mortgage Insurance and

their supporting exhibits that make up

the basic application package for FHAinsurance on multifamily projects as

authorized by Sections 207, 220, 221,

231, 232, 241, 242 of the National

Housing Act. These project applications

are submitted by project sponsors

seeking feasibility determinations and

by mortgagees applying for a