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B. Annual Reporting Burden

Respondents: 55; annual responses:

220; average hours per response: 1;

burden hours: 220.

Copy of Proposal

A copy of this proposal may be

obtained from the GSA Acquisition

Policy Division (MVP), Room 4011, GSA

Building, 1800 F Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20405, or by

telephoning (202) 501–3822, or by

faxing your request to (202) 501–3341.

Dated: June 15, 1998.

Ida M. Ustad,

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of

Acquisition Policy.

[FR Doc. 98–16303 Filed 6–18–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6820–61–M

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request: Proposed New Public

Financial Disclosure Access Customer

Service Survey

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics

(OGE).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: After this first round notice

and public comment period, OGE plans

to submit the information collection

proposed in this notice to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review and three-year approval under

the Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Comments by the public and

agencies on this proposed information

collection are invited and should be

received by September 2, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to

William E. Gressman, Associate General

Counsel, Office of Government Ethics,

Suite 500, 1201 New York Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20005–3917.

Comments may also be sent

electronically to OGE’s Internet E-mail

address at usoge@oge.gov (for E-mail

messages, the subject line should

include the following reference—

‘‘Proposed Public Financial Disclosure

Access Customer Service Survey

Paperwork Comment’’).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Gressman at the Office of Government

Ethics; telephone: 202–208–8000, ext.

1110; TDD: 202–208–8025; FAX: 202–

208–8037. A copy of the proposed

survey may be obtained, without charge,

by contacting Mr. Gressman.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Government Ethics is planning to

submit, after this notice and comment

period, the following proposed

customer service survey form for the

collection of information to OMB for

review under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. chapter 35) and three-year

approval thereunder.

The Office of Government Ethics is

planning to assess, through the

proposed ‘‘Public Financial Disclosure

Access Customer Service Survey’’ form,

requester satisfaction with the service

provided by OGE in responding to

requests by members of the public for

access to copies of Standard Form (SF)

278 Executive Branch Personnel Public

Financial Disclosure Reports on file

with the Office. Most of the SF 278

reports available at OGE are those filed

by executive branch Presidential

appointees subject to Senate

confirmation. Requests for access to SF

278 reports are made pursuant to the

special public access provision of

section 105 of the Ethics in Government

Act of 1978 (the Ethics Act), as codified

at 5 U.S.C. appendix, § 105, and 5 CFR

2634.603 of OGE’s executive

branchwide regulations thereunder, by

completing an OGE Form 201, ‘‘Request

to Inspect or Receive Copies of SF 278

Executive Branch Personnel Public

Financial Disclosure Report or Other

Covered Record.’’ The survey forms will

be distributed to requesters along with

their copies of requested SF 278 reports,

with instructions asking them to

complete and return the survey to OGE

via the self-contained postage-paid

postcards (the reverse side of the survey

form, when folded, becomes a

preaddressed postcard). The purpose of

the survey will be to determine through

customer responses how well OGE is

responding to such requests and how

the Agency can improve its customer

service in this important area.

Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction

Act, OGE is not including in its public

burden estimate for the new access

customer service survey form the

limited number of access requests filed

by other Federal agencies or Federal

employees. Nor is OGE including in that

estimate the also limited number of

requests for copies of other records

covered under the special Ethics Act

public access provision (such as

certificates of divestiture), since the

survey will only be sent to persons who

request copies of SF 278 reports. As so

defined and assuming a 100% return

rate, the total number of access survey

forms for copies of SF 278s estimated to

be filed annually at OGE over the next

three years by members of the public

(primarily by news media

representatives, public interest group

members and private citizens) is 186.

This estimate is based on a calculation

of the average number of underlying

access requests for copies of SF 278

reports received at OGE over the past

two calendar years—1996 (152 requests)

and 1997 (220 requests). The estimated

average amount of time to read the

instructions on the new customer

service survey form and complete the

form is three minutes. Thus, the overall

estimated annual public burden for the

proposed OGE Public Financial

Disclosure Access Customer Service

Survey will be nine hours (186 forms X

3 minutes per form, with the number of

hours rounded off from 9.3 to 9).

Public comment is invited on each

aspect of OGE’s proposed new access

customer service survey form, as set

forth in this notice, including

specifically views on: the need for and

practical utility of this new collection of

information; the accuracy of OGE’s

public burden estimate; the potential for

enhancement of quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and the minimization of

burden (including the possibility of use

of information technology).

Comments received in response to

this notice will be summarized for, and

may be included with, the forthcoming

OGE request for OMB three-year

paperwork approval for this new

proposed information collection. At that

time, after this notice and comment

period, OGE will publish a second

paperwork notice in the Federal

Register to inform the public and

Federal agencies.

Approved: June 15, 1998.

F. Gary Davis,

Deputy Director, Office of Government Ethics.

[FR Doc. 98–16285 Filed 6–18–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6345–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Assistant Secretary for Planning and

Evaluation; Notice Inviting

Applications for New Award for Fiscal

Year 1998; Grants to States to Support

Child Indicator Initiatives

AGENCY: The Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

(ASPE).

ACTION: Announcement of the

availability of grant funds and request

for applications from states to make

advancements in developing and using

indicators of children’s health and wellbeing in state and local policy work.

SUMMARY: The Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation