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Number of Respondents: 1,250.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 45

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 937.5 hours.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total Annual Cost (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $14,062.50.

Description: The Corporation has been

working on and conducting

accomplishment surveys for all of its

programs to assess the direct

accomplishments of volunteers and

members in their communities and at

their workstations. In the past,

accomplishment data has been collected

for the Retired and Senior Volunteer

Program (RSVP) only once as part of a

test study conducted in 1996 for the

Corporation by Westat, Inc., an

independent evaluation contractor.

‘‘Accomplishments’’ refer to the

immediate, measurable outputs, or

products of the services provided by the

senior volunteers.

III. Senior Companion Program (SCP)

Accomplishment Survey

Agency: Corporation for National and

Community Service.

Title: Senior Companion Program

(SCP) Accomplishment Survey.

OMB Number: None.

Agency Number: None.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Public and private

non-profit institutions served by FGP

volunteers.

Number of Respondents: 1,250.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 45

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 937.5 hours.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total Annual Cost (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $14,062.50.

Description: The Corporation has been

working on and conducting

accomplishment surveys for all of its

programs to assess the direct

accomplishments of volunteers and

members in their communities and at

their workstations. To date,

accomplishment data has not been

collected for the SCP. Therefore, the

Corporation seeks an accomplishment

survey for the SCP. ‘‘Accomplishments’’

refer to the immediate, measurable

outputs, or products of the services

provided by the senior volunteers.

IV. Background

The Corporation published a Notice

in the Federal Register (63 FR 1832,

dated January 12, 1998), for the 60-day

public comment period. In response to

the 60-day public comment period on

its proposed National Senior Service

Corps Activities, Inputs and

Accomplishments Surveys, 323 written

comments were received broken down

as follows: 37 on the SCP Survey, 77 on

the FGP Survey, and 209 on the RSVP

Survey. Approximately half of the

project directors felt that the survey

would be burdensome to a station

supervisor. Thirty-eight percent of

project directors suggested that Project

Directors were better suited to fill out

the survey because of station

supervisors workload, lack of

information, and potential damage to

the project director/station supervisor

relationship.

With respect to administration, almost

all of the Foster Grandparent project

directors stated that summer

administration was not advised, as

schools are closed over the summer. A

tailored survey approach was suggested

by a quarter of RSVP project directors

because the survey was too long. Onefifth of the Senior Companions project

directors and one-third of the Foster

Grandparent project directors

commented that their stations do not

participate in professional activities.

Lastly, approximately one-third of all

project directors supplied specific

wording, graphics or formatting

suggestions. Based on the comments

received, the Survey instruments,

administration process and time line

were revised. Changes can be

summarized as follows:

• Administration of the Project

Profile and Volunteer Activity (PPVA)

data collection will be suspended for

1998 (and will resume in 1999) to

reduce overall administrative burden as

projects modify existing input-based

data collection systems to include more

outcome-oriented information on

accomplishments.

• The Surveys will now be mailed to

Project Directors instead of directly to

Station Supervisors. Project Directors

will work with stations selected for the

samples in reporting the data.

• The deadline for submission of

completed surveys will be delayed to

September 30, 1998, to avoid potential

reporting difficulties for stations such as

schools which experience summer

down-time.

• The RSVP Survey will be

customized for each selected station to

include only those BHN (Basic Human

Needs) service codes specific to that

station’s operations.

• BHN service code definitions,

which were designed to accommodate

the broadest range of service activities

in Senior Corps programs, were

customized for the FGP and SCP

Surveys to provide specific examples

more applicable to these programs.

• Refinements were made in wording,

format, and instructions.

Dated; June 16, 1998.

Kenneth L. Klothen,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 98–16508 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

AGENCY: Office of the Special Assistant

to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for

Gulf War Illnesses, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

In compliance with Section

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the

Special Assistant to the Deputy

Secretary of Defense for Gulf War

Illnesses announces public information

collections and seeks public comment

on the provisions thereof. Comments are

invited on: (a) whether the proposed

collections of information are necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed information collection; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the information collection on

respondents, including through the use

of automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all

comments received by August 21, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and

recommendations on the proposed

information collection should be sent to

the Office of the Special Assistant to the

Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf

War Illnesses, 5113 Leesburg Pike, Suite

901, Falls Church, VA 22041, ATTN:

Mr. Bob Menig.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request more information on this

proposed information collection please

write to the above address, or call the

Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf

War Illnesses at (703) 578–8500.

Title and OMB Number: Office of the

Special Assistant to the Deputy

Secretary of Defense for Gulf War

Illnesses—Generic Clearance; OMB

Number 0704–[To be determined.]

Needs and Uses: The information

collections addressed by this notice are
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necessary to facilitate the investigations

of the Office of the Special Assistant for

Gulf War Illnesses into the experiences

of Gulf War veterans during the war that

may be related to the illnesses

experienced by some Gulf War veterans.

The information collected will be used

to determine which Gulf War veterans

may have further information about

potential exposure incidents, to

discover if there are any other observed

incidents of exposure, to contribute to a

better understanding of the events

during and after the Gulf War, and to

encourage veterans to enroll in a

Department of Defense or Veterans

Affairs medical program.

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households.

Annual Burden Hours: 1,572.

Number of Respondents: 3,143.

Responses per Respondent: 1.

Average Burden per Response: 30

Minutes.

Frequency: On occasion.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Information on Each Collection

Covered by This Notice

Chemical/Biological Incident Survey

Respondents are Gulf War veterans

whose units were in the vicinity of a

positive chemical/biological detection,

alarm, or other reported incident. The

purpose of this survey is to develop

investigational leads to assist

investigators in their search for

confirmation of the presence or use of

chemical or biological agents during the

Gulf War.

Possible Weapons Sites

Respondents are Gulf War veterans

who served in units that reported

possible storage sites for chemical or

biological weapons agents. The purpose

of this survey is to develop possible

investigational leads that may assist

investigators in their search for

confirmation of the presence or use of

chemical or biological agents during the

Gulf War.

Depleted Uranium

Respondents are Gulf War veterans

who served in units that may have

placed them in contact with equipment

potentially contaminated with depleted

uranium (DU). Veterans will include

personnel who were in or on U.S.

combat vehicles at the time they were

struck by DU munitions fired from U.S.

tanks and personnel who were in

contact with equipment either as a

member of unit involved in retrograde

operations, or as a member of a battle

damage assessment team.

Pesticide Exposure Survey

Respondent are Gulf War veterans.

Outreach letters will be mailed to Gulf

War veterans based on their unit

assignment during the Gulf War and

their period of deployment. Calls will be

made to respondents to ask information

on experiences with pesticides during

the Gulf War deployment.

Pesticides Use/Application

Gulf War veterans who served as

physicians, environmental science

officer, entomologists, preventive

medicine specialists, field sanitation

teams members, and veterans who

served in logistics and supply positions

will be contacted to determine which

pesticides were used (including those

purchased locally) and how they were

employed in the Gulf during Operations

Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Water Contamination

Respondents will be preventive

medicine specialists, field sanitation

specialists, and transportation personnel

involved with the maintenance of water

transport vehicles who served in the

Gulf War.

Food Contamination

Respondent will be preventive

medicine specialists, field sanitation

specialists, and food service personnel

to determine what steps were taken to

ensure the safety of the food provided

to Gulf War troops.

Oil Well Fires

Respondents will be Gulf War

veterans who reported contract with oil

well fires in calls to the DoD Incident

Reporting Line. Veterans will be

contacted to get first hand accounts of

their experience with oil well fire

smoke, precautions they took, and the

duration of their exposure under the oil

well fire plume.

Retrograde Equipment

Respondents will be Gulf War veterans

involved in vehicle cleaning operations prior

to vehicles being shipped from the Gulf and

personnel who accompanied vehicles during

their retrograde shipment.

Armed Services Medical Department

Personnel

Respondents will be medical

personnel who served in the Gulf War.

These personnel will be contacted to

complete a survey of their experiences

with medical surveillance, vaccine

administration, and medical

recordkeeping during the Gulf War

deployment.

Combat Stress Control

Respondents will be military

chaplains who served in the Gulf War.

These chaplains will be surveyed to

understand their experiences as

participants in combat stress control.

Enemy Prisoners of War

Respondents will be Gulf War

veterans who served in military police

or medical units that were involved in

the processing and treatment of enemy

prisoners of war during the Gulf War

deployment.

Petroleums, Oils, and Lubricants

Respondents will be Gulf War

veterans who served in units during the

Gulf War deployment that were

involved in the acquisition, distribution,

and use of petroleums, oils, and

lubricants.

Personnel Deployed on Designated

Deployments

Respondents will be former members

of the Armed Services (including active

and reserve component) who served

during designated deployments.

Personnel will be surveyed about their

perceptions and experiences with

Medical Force Protection, Medical

Surveillance, and health support during

the designated deployment.

Dated: June 16, 1998.

Patricia L. Toppings,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 98–16435 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Air Force

Intent To Grant an Exclusive Patent

License

Pursuant to the provisions of Part 404

of Title 37, code of Federal Regulations,

which implements Public Law 96–517,

the Department of the Air Force

announces its intention to grant Beam

Tech Corporation (hereafter Beam

Tech), a Texas Corporation, an exclusive

license under: United States Patent

Application Serial No. 08/933,561 filed

in the names of Jill E. Parker, John L.

Alls, and Johnathan L. Kiel on

September 19, 1997 for a

‘‘Diazodenitrification in Manufacture of

Recombinant Bacterial Biosensors.’’

The license described above will be

granted unless an objection thereto,

together with a request for an

opportunity to be heard, if desired, is

received in writing by the addressee set

forth below within sixty (60) days from