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a. Program Design (60%)

i. Getting Things Done

• Well-documented compelling

community need(s).

• Well-designed activities with

measurable goals and objectives that

meet community needs.

• Well-defined roles for participants

that lead to measurable outcomes/

impact.

• Effective involvement of target

community in planning/

implementation.

• Ability to provide or secure

effective technical assistance.

ii. Strengthening Communities.

• Strong community partnerships

including well-defined roles for

community partners.

• Potential for sustainability,

innovation and/or replicability of

project activities.

• Enhanced capacity of organizations

and institutions.

• Mobilization of community

resources, including volunteers.

• Bring together persons of diverse

backgrounds.

iii. Participant Development.

• Effective plans for recruiting,

developing, training, supervising, and

recognizing participants.

• Well-designed activities that

promote an ethic of service/civic

responsibility.

• Well-designed plan to engage

participants in high quality servicelearning as defined by the Corporation.

• Learn to serve together with persons

of diverse backgrounds.

b. Organizational Capacity (25%)

• Ability to provide sound

programmatic and fiscal oversight.

• Sound track record in the issue

area(s) to be addressed by the project.

• Well-defined roles for staff/

administrators.

• Well-designed plans or systems for

self-assessment, evaluation and

continuous improvement.

c. Budget/Cost-Effectiveness (15%)

• Budget adequately supports

program design.

• Applicant organization/host agency

is committed to securing resources for

program implementation and/or

sustainability.

• Cost-effective within program

guidance.

3. Subcategories Within Program Design

To reflect the differences between

Learn and Serve America, National

Senior Service Corps,

AmeriCorps*VISTA, and

AmeriCorps*State and National, the

Corporation proposes to apply different

values to the three subcategories within

Program Design for each category of

national service program. Thus, while

Program Design will uniformly

constitute 60% of an organization’s

evaluation, the Corporation may, for

each national service program, place a

different value on getting things done,

strengthening communities and

fostering participant development, as

follows:

AmeriCorps*State and National:

Getting things done in communities—

things that would not have gotten done

but for AmeriCorps—has been the core

purpose for AmeriCorps*State and

National. Program emphasis is placed

on well-designed program activities that

result in direct and demonstrable

benefits that are both needed and valued

by communities. Strengthening

communities is mainly accomplished by

mobilizing community resources and

enhancing the capacity of organizations

and institutions in order to achieve

sustainability. AmeriCorps* State and

National programs are required to

develop specific strengthening

communities and participant

development objectives with

demonstrable outcomes.

AmeriCorps*VISTA shifts the

emphasis and gets things done more by

mobilizing community resources and

developing the capacity of community

organizations. Strengthening

communities is at the heart of

AmeriCorps*VISTA’s mission. The

potential for sustainability, enhanced

capacity, and mobilization of

community resources (including

volunteers), encompasses

AmeriCorps*VISTA’s most significant

program measures and forms the basis

of virtually all overall program

evaluation activity.

Learn and Serve America’s definition

of getting things done must include

measures of service-learning. A major

concern is how participants will learn

while engaging in projects that get

things done and benefit the community.

Learn and Serve emphasizes lasting

impact on the community as a result of

community involvement and school or

institutional change. Increasing the

acceptance of service-learning as a

pedagogy and tool for strengthening

communities is an essential goal of the

program. Within Learn and Serve

America appropriate participant

development occurs through welldesigned service-learning experiences

that have as an integral component,

positive community impact.

The National Senior Service Corps’

incorporation of Programming for

Impact has placed a new and significant

emphasis on getting things done. Aside

from the previous focus of providing a

volunteer opportunity, there is an

emphasis on channeling and utilizing

the capabilities of participants to

address critical community and human

needs. The traditional Senior Corps

philosophy is that participant

development is very important.

However, the starting point must be

good, solid roles and activities viewed

by the community as valued and

important, that establish a context

within which participant development

occurs.

Within Program Design, the

Corporation will consider the three

subcategories in descending order of

importance, as follows:

AmeriCorps*State and National

(1) Getting Things Done

(2) Participant Development

(3) Strengthening Communities

AmeriCorps*VISTA

(1) Strengthening Communities

(2) Getting Things Done

(3) Participant Development

Learn and Serve America

Getting Things Done—equal

Strengthening Communities—equal

Participant Development—equal

National Senior Service Corps

(1) Getting Things Done

(2) Strengthening Community

(3) Participant Development

Dated: July 14, 1998.

Kenneth L. Klothen,

General Counsel.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Waiver of 10 U.S.C. 2534 for Certain

Defense Items Produced in the United

Kingdom

AGENCY: Department of Defense, (DoD).

ACTION: Notice of waiver of 10 U.S.C.

2534 for certain defense items produced

in the United Kingdom.

SUMMARY: The Under Secretary of

Defense (Acquisition and Technology) is

waiving the limitation of 10 U.S.C. 2534

for certain defense items produced in

the United Kingdom (UK). 10 U.S.C.

2534 limits DoD procurement of certain

items to sources in the national

technology and industrial base. The

waiver will permit procurement of items

enumerated from sources in the UK.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This waiver is effective

for one year, beginning August 4, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Walter Henderson, OUSD (A&T),

Director of Defense Procurement,

Foreign Contracting, Room 3C762, 3060
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Subsection (a) of 10 U.S.C. 2534

provided that the Secretary of Defense

may procure the items listed in that

subsection only if the manufacturer of

the item is part of the national

technology and industrial base.

Subsection (i) of 10 U.S.C. 2534

authorizes the Secretary of Defense to

exercise the waiver authority in

subsection (d), on the basis of the

applicability of paragraph (2) or (3) of

that subsection, only if the waiver is

made for a particular item listed in

subsection (a) and for particular foreign

country. Subsection (d) authorizes a

waiver if the Secretary determines that

application of the limitation ‘‘would

impede the reciprocal procurement of

defense items under a memorandum of

understanding providing for reciprocal

procurement of defense items’’ and if he

determines that ‘‘that country does not

discriminate against defense items

produced in the United States to a

greater degree than the United States

discriminates against defense items

produced in that country.’’ The

Secretary of Defense has delegated the

waiver authority of 10 U.S.C. 2534(d) to

the Under Secretary of Defense

(Acquisition and Technology).

DoD has a reciprocal procurement

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

with the UK that was signed on

December 4, 1994.

The Under Secretary of Defense

(Acquisition and Technology) finds that

UK does not discriminate against

defense items produced in the United

States to a greater degree that the United

States discriminates against defense

items produced in the UK, and also

finds that application of the limitation

in 10 U.S.C. 2534 against defense items

produced in the UK would impede the

reciprocal procurement of defense items

under the MOU.

Under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2534,

the Under Secretary of Defense

(Acquisition and Technology) has

determined that application of the

limitation of 10 U.S.C. 2534(a) to the

procurement of any defense item

produced in the UK that is listed below

would impede the reciprocal

procurement of defense items under the

MOU with the UK.

On the basis of the foregoing, the

Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition

and Technology) is waiving the

limitation in 10 U.S.C. 2534(a) for

procurements of any defense item listed

below that is produced in the UK. This

waiver applies only to the limitations in

10 U.S.C. 2534(a). It does not apply to

any other limitation, including sections

8016 and 8073 of the National Defense

Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1998

(Pub. L. 105–56). This waiver applies to

procurements under solicitations issued

on or after the effective date of this

waiver. For contracts entered into prior

to the effective date of this waiver, this

waiver applies to procurements of the

defense items listed below under—

(1) Subcontracts entered into on or

after such effective date, provided the

prime contract is modified to provide

the Government adequate consideration

such as lower cost or improve

performance; and

(2) Options that are exercised after

such effective date if the option prices

are adjusted for any reason other than

the application of the waiver, and if the

contract is modified to provide the

Government adequate consideration

such as lower cost or improved

performance.

List of Items to Which This Waiver

Applies

1. Air circuit breakers.

2. Welded shipboard anchor and

mooring chain with a diameter of four

inches or less.

3. Gyrocompasses.

4. Electronic navigation chart systems.

5. Steering controls.

6. Pumps.

7. Propulsion and machinery control

systems.

8. Totally enclosed lifeboats.

9. Ball and roller bearings.

Michele P. Peterson,

Executive Editor, Defense Acquisition

Regulations Council.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences.

TIME AND DATE: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,

August 3, 1998.

PLACE: Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences, Board of Regents

Conference Room (D3001), 4301 Jones

Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814–4799.

STATUS: Open—under ‘‘Government in

the Sunshine Act’’ (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)).

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

8:30 a.m.—Meeting—Board of Regents

(1) Approval of Minutes—May 15,

1998

(2) Faculty Matters

(3) Departmental Reports

(4) Financial Report

(5) Report—President, USUHS

(6) Report—Dean, School of Medicine

(7) Report—Dean, Graduate School of

Nursing

(8) Comments—Chairman, Board of

Regents

(9) New Business

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Bobby D. Anderson, Executive

Secretary of the Board of Regents, (301)

295–3116.

Linda Bynum,

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer,

Department of Defense.

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