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Director, Center for Devices and

Radiological Health (21 CFR 5.53).

Dated: December 1, 1997.

Joseph A. Levitt,

Deputy Director for Regulations Policy, Center

for Devices and Radiological Health.

[FR Doc. 98–153 Filed 1–5–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

Appointment of Performance Review

Board (PRB) Members

The Health Care Financing

Administration (HCFA) announces the

names of new and current members of

the Performance Review Board as

required by 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4). HCFA’s

PRB consists of: Mary May Smith,

Chairperson; David S. Cade; Richard S.

Foster; Barbara S. Cooper; A. Peter

Bouxsein; Linda A. Ruiz; and Charles R.

Booth.

For further information, contact the

Director, Human Resources

Management Group, Office of Internal

Customer Support, Teresa A. Smith,

7500 Security Boulevard, Room C2–09–

27, Baltimore, Maryland 21244–1850,

telephone number 410–786–5489.

Dated: December 17, 1997.

Teresa A. Smith,

Director, Human Resources Management

Group.

[FR Doc. 98–211 Filed 1–5–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4120–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration

Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 Funding

Opportunities

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability.

SUMMARY: The Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration

(SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health

Services and Center for Substance

Abuse Prevention announce the

availability of FY 1998 funds for grants

and/or cooperative agreements for the

following activities. These activities are

discussed in more detail under Section

4 of this notice. This notice is not a

complete description of the activities;

potential applicants must obtain a copy

of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA)

before preparing an application.

Activity Application

deadline

Estimated

funds available (million)

Estimated

number of

awards

Project period (years)

State Incentive Program ................................................................................................... 03/06/98 $42.0 12–18 3

HIV/AIDS Education ......................................................................................................... 04/03/98 2.0 7–9 3

Child Mental Health Initiative ............................................................................................ 04/03/98 8–12 8–12 5

Note: SAMHSA plans to publish additional

notices of available funding opportunities for

FY 1998 in subsequent issues of the Federal

Register.

The actual amount available for

awards and their allocation may vary,

depending on unanticipated program

requirements and the volume and

quality of applications. Awards are

usually made for grant periods from one

to three years in duration. FY 1998

funds for activities discussed in this

announcement were appropriated by the

Congress under Public Law 105–78.

SAMHSA’s policies and procedures for

peer review and Advisory Council

review of grant and cooperative

agreement applications were published

in the Federal Register (Vol. 58, No.

126) on July 2, 1993.

The Public Health Service (PHS) is

committed to achieving the health

promotion and disease prevention

objectives of Healthy People 2000, a

PHS-led national activity for setting

priority areas. The SAMHSA Centers’

substance abuse and mental health

services activities address issues related

to Healthy People 2000 objectives of

Mental Health and Mental Disorders;

Alcohol and Other Drugs; Clinical

Preventive Services; HIV Infection; and

Surveillance and Data Systems.

Potential applicants may obtain a copy

of Healthy People 2000 (Full Report:

Stock No. 017–001–00474–0) or

Summary Report: Stock No. 017–001–

00473–1) through the Superintendent of

Documents, Government Printing

Office, Washington, DC 20402–9325

(Telephone: 202–512–1800).

General Instructions: Applicants must

use application form PHS 5161–1 (Rev.

5/96; OMB No. 0937–0189). The

application kit contains the GFA

(complete programmatic guidance and

instructions for preparing and

submitting applications), the PHS 5161–

1 which includes Standard Form 424

(Face Page), and other documentation

and forms. Application kits may be

obtained from the organization specified

for each activity covered by this notice

(see Section 4).

When requesting an application kit,

the applicant must specify the particular

activity for which detailed information

is desired. This is to ensure receipt of

all necessary forms and information,

including any specific program review

and award criteria.

The PHS 5161–1 application form and

the full text of each of the activities (i.e.,

the GFA) described in Section 4 are

available electronically via SAMHSA’s

World Wide Web Home Page (address:

http://www.samhsa.gov). The GFAs are

also available on SAMHSA’s Bulletin

Board (800–424–2294 or 301–443–

0040).

Application Submission: Unless

otherwise stated in the GFA,

applications must be submitted to:

SAMHSA Programs, Center for

Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, Suite 1040, 6701 Rockledge

Drive MSC–7710, Bethesda, Maryland

20892–7710*

(* Applicants who wish to use express mail

or courier service should change the zip code

to 20817)

Application Deadlines: The deadlines

for receipt of applications are listed in

the table above. Please note that the

deadlines may differ for the individual

activities.

Competing applications must be

received by the indicated receipt dates

to be accepted for review. An

application received after the deadline

may be acceptable if it carries a legible

proof-of-mailing date assigned by the

carrier and that date is not later than

one week prior to the deadline date.
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Private metered postmarks are not

acceptable as proof of timely mailing.

Applications received after the

deadline date and those sent to an

address other than the address specified

above will be returned to the applicant

without review.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for activity-specific technical

information should be directed to the

program contact person identified for

each activity covered by this notice (see

Section 4).

Requests for information concerning

business management issues should be

directed to the grants management

contact person identified for each

activity covered by this notice (see

Section 4).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To

facilitate the use of this Notice of

Funding Availability, information has

been organized as outlined in the Table

of Contents below. For each activity, the

following information is provided:

• Application Deadline.

• Purpose.

• Priorities.

• Eligible Applicants.

• Grants/Cooperative Agreements/

Amounts.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number.

• Contacts

• Application Kits.

Table of Contents

1. Program Background and Objectives

2. Special Concerns

3. Criteria for Review and Funding

3.1 General Review Criteria

3.2 Funding Criteria for Scored

Applications

4. Special FY 1998 Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Activities

4.1 Cooperative Agreements

4.1.1 National Youth Substance Abuse

Prevention, Initiative—State Incentive

Cooperative Agreements for CommunityBased Action (State Incentive Program)

4.1.2 Cooperative Agreements for the

Mental Health Care Provider Education

in HIV/AIDS Program II (HIV/AIDS

Eduction)

4.2 Grants

4.2.1 Comprehensive Community Mental

Health Services for Children and their

Families (Child Mental Health Initiative)

5. Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement

7. Executive Order 12372

1. Program Background and Objectives

SAMHSA’s mission within the

Nation’s health system is to improve the

quality and availability of prevention,

early intervention, treatment, and

rehabilitation services for substance

abuse and mental illnesses, including

co-occurring disorders, in order to

improve health and reduce illness,

death, disability, and cost to society.

Reinventing government, with its

emphases on redefining the role of

Federal agencies and on improving

customer service, has provided

SAMHSA with a welcome opportunity

to examine carefully its programs and

activities. As a result of that process,

SAMHSA moved assertively to create a

renewed and strategic emphasis on

using its resources to generate

knowledge about ways to improve the

prevention and treatment of substance

abuse and mental illness and to work

with State and local governments as

well as providers, families, and

consumers to effectively use that

knowledge in everyday practice.

SAMHSA’s FY 1998 Knowledge

Development and Application (KD&A)

agenda is the outcome of a process

whereby providers, services researchers,

consumers, National Advisory Council

members and other interested persons

participated in special meetings or

responded to calls for suggestions and

reactions. From this input, each

SAMHSA Center developed a ‘‘menu’’

of suggested topics.

The topics were discussed jointly and

an agency agenda of critical topics was

agreed to. The selection of topics

depended heavily on policy importance

and on the existence of adequate

research and practitioner experience on

which to base studies. While

SAMHSA’s FY 1998 KD&A programs

will sometimes involve the evaluation

of some delivery of services, they are

services studies and application

activities, not merely evaluation, since

they are aimed at answering policyrelevant questions and putting that

knowledge to use.

SAMHSA differs from other agencies

in focusing on needed information at

the services delivery level, and in its

question-focus. Dissemination and

application are integral, major features

of the programs. SAMHSA believes that

it is important to get the information

into the hands of the public, providers,

and systems administrators as

effectively as possible. Technical

assistance, training, preparation of

special materials will be used, in

addition to normal communications

means.

SAMHSA also continues to fund

legislatively-mandated services

programs for which funds are

appropriated.

2. Special Concerns

SAMHSA’s legislatively-mandated

services programs do provide funds for

mental health and/or substance abuse

treatment and prevention services.

However, SAMHSA’s KD&A activities

do not provide funds for mental health

and/or substance abuse treatment and

prevention services except sometimes

for costs required by the particular

activity’s study design. Applicants are

required to propose true knowledge

application or knowledge development

and application projects. Applications

seeking funding for services projects

under a KD&A activity will be

considered nonresponsive.

Applications that are incomplete or

nonresponsive to the GFA will be

returned to the applicant without

further consideration.

3. Criteria for Review and Funding

Consistent with the statutory mandate

for SAMHSA to support activities that

will improve the provision of treatment,

prevention and related services,

including the development of national

mental health and substance abuse goals

and model programs, competing

applications requesting funding under

the specific project activities in Section

4 will be reviewed for technical merit in

accordance with established PHS/

SAMHSA peer review procedures.

3.1 General Review Criteria

As published in the Federal Register

on July 2, 1993 (Vol. 58, No. 126),

SAMHSA’s ‘‘Peer Review and Advisory

Council Review of Grant and

Cooperative Agreement Applications

and Contract Proposals,’’ peer review

groups will take into account, among

other factors as may be specified in the

application guidance materials, the

following general criteria:

• Potential significance of the

proposed project;

• Appropriateness of the applicant’s

proposed objectives to the goals of the

specific program;

• Adequacy and appropriateness of

the proposed approach and activities;

• Adequacy of available resources,

such as facilities and equipment;

• Qualifications and experience of the

applicant organization, the project

director, and other key personnel; and

• Reasonableness of the proposed

budget.

3.2 Funding Criteria for Scored

Applications

Applications will be considered for

funding on the basis of their overall

technical merit as determined through

the peer review group and the

appropriate National Advisory Council

(if applicable) review process.

Other funding criteria will include:

• Availability of funds.

Additional funding criteria specific to

the programmatic activity may be
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included in the application guidance

materials.

4. Special FY 1998 Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Activities

4.1 Cooperative Agreements

Two major activities for SAMHSA

cooperative agreement programs are

discussed below. Substantive Federal

programmatic involvement is required

in cooperative agreement programs.

Federal involvement will include

planning, guidance, coordination, and

participating in programmatic activities

(e.g., participation in publication of

findings and on steering committees).

Periodic meetings, conferences and/or

communications with the award

recipients may be held to review

mutually agreed-upon goals and

objectives and to assess progress.

Additional details on the degree of

Federal programmatic involvement will

be included in the application guidance

materials.

4.1.1 National Youth Substance Abuse

Prevention Initiative—State Incentive

Cooperative Agreements for

Community-Based Action (State

Incentive Program)

• Application Deadline: March 6,

1998

• Purpose: To reverse the trend in

drug use by youth, the State Incentive

Cooperative Agreements for

Community-Based Action calls upon

Governors to set a new course of action

that will assess needs, identify gaps and

channel or redirect resources (consistent

with the requirements of the funding

source) to implement comprehensive

strategies for effective youth substance

abuse prevention. This program gives

States the opportunity to develop an

innovative process for using these

special incentive funds in a different

way so as to complement and enhance

existing prevention efforts. Through this

State-led process, individual citizens

can be encouraged to play a more

forceful role in their community’s antidrug efforts; and additional resources

can be mobilized to support promising

prevention approaches across systems

and settings.

The State Incentive Program will

support the States in coordinating and

redirecting all prevention resources

available within the State and in

developing a revitalized, comprehensive

prevention strategy that will make

optimal use of those resources. With

these redirected resources and a viable

prevention strategy in place, Governors

can more effectively mobilize local

citizens—youth, families, communities,

schools and workplaces—to work

proactively with State and local

prevention organizations.

Therefore, the State Incentive Program

has a two-fold purpose:

(1) Governors should coordinate,

leverage and/or redirect, as appropriate,

and legally permissible, all substance

abuse prevention resources (funding

streams and programs) within the State

that are directed at communities,

families, schools and workplaces in

order to fill gaps with effective and

promising prevention approaches

targeted to marijuana and other drug use

by youth. Any redirection of Federal

funds, however, must be consistent with

the terms and conditions of such

funding and all other Federal laws.

(2) States should develop a

revitalized, comprehensive State-wide

strategy aimed at reducing drug use by

youth through the implementation of

promising community-based prevention

efforts derived from sound scientific

research findings.

• Priorities: None.

• Eligible Applicants: Eligibility is

limited to the Office of the Governor so

that a consistent State-wide strategy on

substance abuse prevention will be

implemented by the Governor and

comprehensively evaluated as to

effectiveness in the strategies used.

Eligibility is limited to the Office of the

Governor in those entities that receive

the Substance Abuse Prevention and

Treatment Block Grant (SAPT), Title

XIX, Part B, Subpart II of the Public

Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 300x-21,

et seq. (hereinafter referred to as

‘‘States’’). That grant sets aside 20

percent of the funds for primary

prevention activities. This set-aside is a

large resource available to the State for

prevention activities and, along with the

resources available under this

announcement and other resources

available to the State for substance

abuse prevention activities, should be

used to assist the Governor in

implementing a State-wide strategy.

By restricting eligibility to the

Governor’s Office, SAMHSA/CSAP

believes optimal conditions and

incentives needed to establish a

successful State Incentive Program are

assured. The Governor’s leadership and

involved commitment to youth

substance abuse prevention, coupled

with the infrastructure previously

developed through the substance abuse

Block Grant funds can spur the renewed

support of organizations throughout the

State and ensure that substance abuse

prevention aimed at youth remains a

high-priority, comprehensive, and

systemically integrated State-wide

effort.

For this State Incentive Program,

SAMHSA/CSAP strongly supports State

use of existing prevention expertise and

resources that already reside in the

Alcohol and Drug Single State Agency

(SSA), which continues to fund

prevention strategies through the

Substance Abuse Prevention and

Treatment Block Grant. Therefore,

SAMHSA/CSAP encourages Governors

to include a significant role for the SSA

in the development, planning and

implementation of State efforts under

this cooperative agreement. For

example, the SSA director or his/her

designee could serve as the project

director for the cooperative agreement,

thereby serving in a key leadership and

oversight capacity.

• Cooperative Agreements/Amounts:

It is estimated that approximately $42

million will be available to support

approximately 12–18 awards under this

cooperative agreement announcement in

FY 1998. In determining award

amounts, consideration will be given to

the State’s population, substance abuse

prevention needs, and the cost

requirements of the proposed plan.

Accordingly, it is expected that awards

will range from $2 million to $3 million.

Final award amounts and the actual

number of awards made will depend on

the number and quality of applications

received, and on consideration of the

relative cost reasonableness of projects

approved for funding.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number: 93.230

• Program Contact: For programmatic

or technical assistance, contact: Dave

Robbins or Dan Fletcher, DSCSD,

Systems Applications Branch, Center for

Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services,

Administration, Rockwall II Building,

9th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857, (301) 443–0369.

• Grants Management Contact: For

business management assistance,

contact: Peggy Jones, Division of Grants

Management, OPS, Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Services,

Administration, Rockwall II Building,

Room 630, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

Maryland 20857, (301) 443–9666.

• Application Kits: Application kits

are available from: National

Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug

Information (NCADI), P.O. Box 2345,

Rockville, MD 20847–2345, 1–800–729–

6686; 1–800–487–4889 TDD, Via

Internet: www.health.org (Go into the

Forum Section of the Web site, click on

‘‘CSAP FY 98 Grant Opportunities.’’)

Visually impaired: Disk versions of

the application may be requested.
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4.1.2 Cooperative Agreements for the

Mental Health Care Provider Education

in HIV/AIDS Program II (HIV/AIDS

Education)

• Application Deadline: April 3,

1998.

• Purpose: The purpose of this

cooperative agreement program is

twofold: (1) To disseminate to mental

health care service providers state-ofthe-art knowledge about how to identify

and treat the psychological and the

neuropsychiatric sequelae of HIV/AIDS;

and (2) to develop knowledge on how to

be more effective in the dissemination

of this knowledge.

The latter includes an assessment,

through a multisite evaluation, of both

the use and usefulness of this

knowledge for providers of HIV/AIDS

specific mental health care services (the

assessment protocol and measures are

being developed under a separate

contract).

Applications are being solicited for 6

to 8 established education sites (funds

will not be available to develop new

HIV/AIDS education projects) to

provide education/training

(incorporating the required activities

outlined in the Guidance for Applicants,

GFA) to a minimum of 1,000 individual

mental health care service providers per

year, per site, for 3 years. At least five

(5) provider groups must be included in

the training project (e.g., psychiatrists,

psychologists, social workers, medical

students, primary care residents,

psychiatry residents, nurses, counselors,

the clergy and other spiritual providers).

Applications are also being sought for

a coordinating/technical assistance

center to provide overall coordination of

the program. The role of the

coordinating center will be to (1)

provide leadership and guidance to the

education sites on the implementation

of the multisite evaluation, (2) manage

and analyze the common data collected

across education sites, and (3) provide

technical assistance to the sites in

modifying their projects based on the

multisite evaluation interim findings.

• Priorities: None.

• Eligible Applicants: Applications to

be an education site or the coordinating

center may be submitted by

organizations such as units of State or

local governments and by domestic

private nonprofit and for-profit

organizations such as community-based

organizations, universities, colleges, and

hospitals. Applications from

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities, Hispanic Serving

Institutions and Tribal Colleges and

Universities are encouraged.

Applicants may apply to be either an

education site or a coordinating center,

or both; however, separate applications

must be submitted.

• Cooperative Agreements/Amounts:

It is estimated that approximately $1.6

million will be available to support

approximately 6 to 8 education site

awards under this GFA in FY 1998. The

average award is expected to range from

$200,000 to $300,000 in total costs

(direct+indirect). It is also estimated

that approximately $400,000 in total

costs (direct+indirect) will be available

to support one (1) coordinating center

award under this GFA in FY 1998.

Actual funding levels will depend upon

the availability of appropriated funds.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number: 93.230.

• Program Contact: For programmatic

or technical assistance contact: Barbara

J. Silver, Ph.D., Director, Mental Health

Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS

Program II, Office of the Associate

Director for Medical Affairs, Center for

Mental Health Services, Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration, Parklawn Building,

Room 15–81, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443–7817.

• Grants Management Contact: For

business management assistance,

contact: Stephen Hudak, Grants

Management Specialist, Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration, Parklawn Building,

Room 15C–05, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443–

4456.

• Application Kits: Application kits

are available from: National Mental

Health Services, Knowledge Exchange

Network (KEN), P.O. Box 42490,

Washington, DC 20015, Voice: (800)

789–2647, TTY: (301) 443–9006, FAX:

(301) 984–8796.

The full text of the GFA is available

electronically via the Center for Mental

Health Services Knowledge Exchange

Network (KEN) (voice line 800–789–

2647 or Electronic Bulletin Board 800–

790–2647).

4.2 Grants

4.2.1 Comprehensive Community

Mental Health Services for Children and

their Families (Child Mental Health

Initiative)

• Application Deadline: April 3,

1998.

• Purpose: Under Section 561(a) of

the Public Health Service Act grants

will be awarded to implement, in one or

more communities, a broad array of

community-based and family-focused

services for children with serious

emotional disturbance and their

families, including individualized case

planning and coordination, and to

enable communities to integrate childand family-serving agencies, including

health, mental health, substance abuse

treatment, child welfare, education, and

juvenile justice into a local

comprehensive system of care. The

statute further requires that an

evaluation of the system(s) of care

implemented under the Program be

conducted and that it include, among

other things, longitudinal studies of the

outcomes of services provided by such

systems.

The primary goal of the program is to

successfully implement systems of care

at the grant sites. A second goal after

implementing systems of care, is

evaluation of the outcomes of services

delivered under the system. This will be

accomplished through a national multisite evaluation conducted under a

separate contract and grantees will be

required to cooperate with the multi-site

evaluation contractor. The final goal of

the Program is to use the results of both

the system development efforts of each

service site and the results of the

descriptive, process and outcome

evaluation to shape future program

direction with proven exemplary

practices that work best for children and

their families.

• Priorities: None.

• Eligible Applicants: Eligible entities

include States (as defined in Section 2

of the PHS Act), political subdivisions

of States, and Indian tribes or tribal

organizations (as defined in Section 4(b)

and Section 4(c) of the Indian SelfDetermination and Education

Assistance Act). Applications from all

State level, political subdivisions of

States (e.g., counties, cities), tribe or

tribal organization child-serving

agencies are allowed. In order for an

entity to be eligible, a plan must be in

place for the development of a system

of care for community-based services for

children with a serious emotional

disturbance approved by the Secretary

of the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services per Section 564(b) of

the PHS Act. For the purposes of this

program, an approved State Mental

Health Plan for Children and

Adolescents with Serious Emotional

Disturbance, submitted under Public

Law 102–321, will be accepted as such

a plan.

• Grants/Amounts: Approximately

$8–12 million will be available to

support 8 to 12 awards under this GFA

in FY 1998. Actual funding will depend

upon the availability of funds at the

time of award. These grants are for a

period of 5 years; it is anticipated that

approximately $1 million will be

available to each grantee in year one; $1

million in year two; $2 million in year
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three, $1.5 million in year four, and $1.5

million in five. An applicant must

arrange and demonstrate the availability

of match of non-Federal funds in

mandated ratios.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number: 93.104.

• Program Contact: For programmatic

or technical assistance, contact: Gary De

Carolis, Chief, Child, Adolescent, and

Family Branch, Division of Knowledge

Development and Systems Change

Center for Mental Health Services/

SAMHSA, Room 18–49, Parklawn

Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857, (301) 443–1333/FAX (301)

443–3693, Internet:

gdecarol@samhsa.gov.

For grants management issues,

contact:

Stephen Hudak, Grants Management

Officer, Office of Program Services/

SAMHSA, Room 15C–05, Parklawn

Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857, (301) 443–4456/FAX (301)

594–2336, Internet:

shudak@samhsa.gov.

• Application kits, contact:, National

Mental Health Services, Knowledge

Exchange Network (KEN), P.O. Box

42490, Washington, D.C. 20015, Voice:

(800) 789–2647, TTY: (301) 443–9006,

FAX: (301) 984–8796.

• CMHS intends to sponsor two

technical assistance workshops for

potential applicants: February 10–11,

1998 in Denver, Colorado and February

23–24, 1998 in Washington, D.C. For

more information, potential applicants

may contact: Ken Currier, Director,

Technical Assistance Operations,

National Resource Network for Child

and Family Mental Health Services,

Washington Business Group on Health,

777 North Capitol Street, N.E., Suite

800, Washington, D.C. 20002, (202) 408–

9320/FAX (202) 408–9332, Internet:

currier@wbgh.com.

5. Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

The Public Health System Impact

Statement (PHSIS) is intended to keep

State and local health officials apprised

of proposed health services grant and

cooperative agreement applications

submitted by community-based

nongovernmental organizations within

their jurisdictions.

Community-based nongovernmental

service providers who are not

transmitting their applications through

the State must submit a PHSIS to the

head(s) of the appropriate State and

local health agencies in the area(s) to be

affected not later than the pertinent

receipt date for applications. This

PHSIS consists of the following

information:

a. A copy of the face page of the

application (Standard form 424).

b. A summary of the project (PHSIS),

not to exceed one page, which provides:

(1) A description of the population to

be served.

(2) A summary of the services to be

provided.

(3) A description of the coordination

planned with the appropriate State or

local health agencies.

State and local governments and

Indian Tribal Authority applicants are

not subject to the Public Health System

Reporting Requirements.

Application guidance materials will

specify if a particular FY 1998 activity

described above is/is not subject to the

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements.

6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy

Statement

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

and contract recipients to provide a

smoke-free workplace and promote the

non-use of all tobacco products. In

addition, Public Law 103–227, the ProChildren Act of 1994, prohibits smoking

in certain facilities (or in some cases,

any portion of a facility) in which

regular or routine education, library,

day care, health care, or early childhood

development services are provided to

children. This is consistent with the

PHS mission to protect and advance the

physical and mental health of the

American people.

7. Executive Order 12372

Applications submitted in response to

all FY 1998 activities listed above are

subject to the intergovernmental review

requirements of Executive Order 12372,

as implemented through DHHS

regulations at 45 CFR Part 100. E.O.

12372 sets up a system for State and

local government review of applications

for Federal financial assistance.

Applicants (other than Federally

recognized Indian tribal governments)

should contact the State’s Single Point

of Contact (SPOC) as early as possible to

alert them to the prospective

application(s) and to receive any

necessary instructions on the State’s

review process. For proposed projects

serving more than one State, the

applicant is advised to contact the SPOC

of each affected State. A current listing

of SPOCs is included in the application

guidance materials. The SPOC should

send any State review process

recommendations directly to: Office of

Extramural Activities Review,

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration, Parklawn

Building, Room 17–89, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

The due date for State review process

recommendations is no later than 60

days after the specified deadline date for

the receipt of applications. SAMHSA

does not guarantee to accommodate or

explain SPOC comments that are

received after the 60-day cut-off.

Dated: December 30, 1997.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98–192 Filed 1–5–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4162–20–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Receipt of Applications for

Permit

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to Section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et

seq.):

PRT–837246

Applicant: Language Research Center,

Georgia State University, Decatur, GA.

The applicant requests a permit to

export one female Sumatran orangutan

(Pongo pygmaeus abelii) to the Japan

Monkey Center, Inuyama City, Japan for

the purpose of the enhancement of the

survival of the species through a

breeding loan for captive propagation.

PRT–837412

Applicant: Wildlife Conservation Society,

Bronx, NY.

The applicant requests a permit to

export a collection of pathology slides to

the Guadalajara Zoo, Mexico for the

purpose of scientific research. This

collection includes samples obtained

opportunistically from endangered

mammals (Rhinoceros unicornis, Papio

sphinx, Pudu pudu, Nasalis larvatus,

Bos gaurus,Gazella leptoceros, Equus

grevyi, Cervus nippon), endangered

reptiles (Geochelone radiata), and

endangered birds (Lophura swinhoii,

Geronticus eremita, Tragopan blythi,

Macrocephalon maleo).

Written data or comments should be

submitted to the Director, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, Office of Management

Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive,

Room 700, Arlington, Virginia 22203

and must be received by the Director

within 30 days of the date of this

publication.

The public is invited to comment on

the following application for permits to

conduct certain activities with marine

mammals. The application was