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Hispanic, and Anglo volunteers. Senior

Companions assist the frail elderly with

household tasks and companionship.

Ten of its volunteer stations are

located on Pueblos. Each Pueblo has its

own language. The program works

closely with its site managers/

supervisors who are bilingual

employees of the individual Pueblo

governments and generally are residents

of the Pueblos. Senior Companions

serve on their own Pueblos and walk to

the homes of their clients.

Due to language and cultural barriers

these supervisors assist with all areas of

the program. They are familiar with the

population in their individual Pueblos

and use this knowledge to assist with

recruitment, placement, and training.

Each Pueblo celebrates ‘‘Days of Feast’’

separately. In order to honor individual

feasts, the program has adjusted the

‘‘leave time’’ for Pueblo volunteers.

Each volunteer is given paid leave to

celebrate his or her Pueblo’s feast. This

is one of the ways the program remains

culturally sensitive.

ACCION International, a VISTA

project sponsor, is a nonprofit that fights

poverty through microlending. ACCION

Chicago did outreach to home-based

businesses that rarely have access to

capital. A VISTA found that many of the

women make ends meet through

programs such as Mary Kay cosmetics.

The VISTA worked with the ACCION

loan officer to develop a loan product

specifically for these women and has

organized bilingual information sessions

throughout Chicago neighborhoods.

Bring New Jersey Together is an

AmeriCorps program in Jersey City,

New Jersey that seeks to bridge the

cultural and linguistic barriers

separating new Americans from the rest

of the community. AmeriCorps

members serve LEP community

members by translating documents and

escorting them to places such as

medical appointments, the grocery

stores, or anywhere else where a

translator may be necessary. The

primary languages of the program are

Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese, but

also Albanian, Creole, Indian languages,

and others depending on the influx of

refugees.

The New Jersey Commission built a

partnership with the International

Institute of New Jersey, which had

provided services to the immigrant

community for fifty years, to establish

an AmeriCorps program that served the

needs of the community. The best

practice aspect of this example is that

program was designed in partnership

with an established organization instead

of starting a brand new AmeriCorps

project to address this issue.

The Honolulu Chinese Citizenship

Tutorial Program is a service-learning

project site in the Champus Compact

National Center for Community Colleges

‘‘2+4=Service on Common Ground’’.

The University of Hawai’i at Monoa’s

College of Social Sciences collaborated

with the Kapl’olani Community College,

Chaminade University, the Chinese

Community Action Coalition and Child

and Family Service.

Local bilingual college students serve

as tutors (during a 10-week session) for

Chinese immigrants to help them pass

their citizenship exams. The immigrants

are recruits by visiting adult education

classes, through Chinese radio

programs, flyers, and Chinese language

newspapers. The Chinese Community

Action Coalition provides the

curriculum and resources such as

Scrabble, books, word-picture matching

games, and card games for constructing

simple English sentences.

The tutorial sessions focus on passing

the INS exam and conversational

English. Many of the immigrants are

senior citizens. The classes are held in

Chinatown. Since the project began,

about 1,000 immigrants and refugees

have enrolled. Over 300 students have

participated as tutors and approximately

one-third of the Chinese immigrants

became citizens.

Transitional House, Santa Barbara,

C.A., is a facility that primarily serves

homeless Hispanic women. The services

are tailored to meet the needs of each

family to help women and their

children move from homelessness and

unemployment to employment and

permanent housing. The VISTAs

assigned to the project are bilingual. The

clientele is 60% monolingual Spanish

speakers.

The VISTAs are creating a Career

Development Curriculum that is fully

translated into Spanish and members

host seminars about immigration and

consumer credit counseling services.

There was a need to improve

communication with clients. One of the

VISTAs developed ‘‘halfsheets’’, one

side in Spanish, the other in English,

that explain the services offered by

Transition House.

The VISTAs are responsible for

placement of children in daycare to

enable parents to work. They

accompany families to childcare

providers to assist with translation and

to help make the families feel at ease

with placing their children in childcare.

Dated: January 9, 2001.

Wendy Zenker,

Chief Operating Officer, Corporation for

National and Community Service.

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BILLING CODE 6050–28–U

DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES

SAFETY BOARD

Sunshine Act Meeting

Pursuant to the provision of the

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5

U.S.C. § 552b), notice is hereby given of

the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety

Board’s (Board) meeting described

below.

TIME AND DATE OF MEETING: 9 a.m.,

February 13, 2001.

PLACE: The Defense Nuclear Facilities

Safety Board, Public Hearing Room, 625

Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 300,

Washington, DC 20004.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Defense

Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

(‘‘Board’’) will convene the fourteenth

quarterly briefing regarding the status of

progress of the activities associated with

the Department of Energy’s

Implementation Plan for the Board’s

Recommendations 95–2, Integrated

Safety Management (‘‘ISM’’). Specific

topics will include the status of ISM

implementation in the DOE complex

and key actions at DOE Headquarters to

fully implement ISM. The status of

implementing Recommendation 98–1,

Integrated Safety Management

(Response to Issues Identified by the

Office of Internal Oversight) will also be

presented. Specific matters related to

Recommendation 98–1 will include the

status of the Corrective Action

Management team, the corrective action

tracking system, and the

implementation of issues identified

during the Recommendation 98–1

verification review. Finally, the status of

implementing Recommendation 2000–2,

Configuration Management, Vital Safety

Systems, will be discussed. Topics will

include the Recommendation 2000–2

Executive Team membership, roles and

responsibilities, as well as the status of

commitments in the Recommendation

2000–2 Implementation Plan.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Richard A. Azzaro, General Counsel,

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,

625 Indiana Avenue, NW., Suite 700,

Washington, DC 20004, (800) 788–4016.

This is a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

reserves its right to further schedule and

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otherwise regulate the course of this

meeting, to recess, reconvene, postpone

or adjourn the meeting, and otherwise

exercise its authority under the Atomic

Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

Dated: January 10, 2001.

John T. Conway,

Chairman.

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BILLING CODE 3670–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection Requests

AGENCY: Department of Education

(DOE).

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management Group, Office

of the Chief Information Officer, invites

comments on the proposed information

collection requests as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to

submit comments on or before March

19, 2001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires

that the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) provide interested

Federal agencies and the public an early

opportunity to comment on information

collection requests. OMB may amend or

waive the requirement for public

consultation to the extent that public

participation in the approval process

would defeat the purpose of the

information collection, violate State or

Federal law, or substantially interfere

with any agency’s ability to perform its

statutory obligations. The Leader,

Regulatory Information Management

Group, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, publishes that notice containing

proposed information collection

requests prior to submission of these

requests to OMB. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g., new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment. The Department of

Education is especially interested in

public comment addressing the

following issues: (1) Is this collection

necessary to the proper functions of the

Department; (2) will this information be

processed and used in a timely manner;

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;

(4) how might the Department enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (5) how

might the Department minimize the

burden of this collection on the

respondents, including through the use

of information technology.

Dated: January 10, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Education Research and

Improvement

Type of Review: Extension.

Title: Standards for Evaluation of the

Performance of OERI Grants,

Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs; Businesses or

other for-profit; Not-for-profit

institutions.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 1.

Burden Hours: 1.

Abstract: P.L. 103–227 reauthorized

the Office of Educational Research and

Improvement (OERI) and required the

Assistant Secretary to establish

standards for evaluating the

performance of recipients of OERI

grants, cooperative agreements, and

contracts (20 U.S.D. 6011 (I)(2)(B)(ii)).

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request may be

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, or

should be addressed to Vivian Reese,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, DC

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIOlIMGlIssues@ed.gov or

faxed to 202–708–9346. Please specify

the complete title of the information

collection when making your request.

Comments regarding burden and/or the

collection activity requirements should

be directed to Kathy Axt at her internet

address KathylAxt@ed.gov.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Education.

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management Group, Office

of the Chief Information Officer invites

comments on the submission for OMB

review as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to

submit comments on or before February

15, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Lauren Wittenberg, Acting

Desk Officer, Department of Education,

Office of Management and Budget, 725

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503 or should be electronically

mailed to the internet address

Lauren_Wittenberg@omb.eop.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires

that the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) provide interested

Federal agencies and the public an early

opportunity to comment on information

collection requests. OMB may amend or

waive the requirement for public

consultation to the extent that public

participation in the approval process

would defeat the purpose of the

information collection, violate State or

Federal law, or substantially interfere

with any agency’s ability to perform its

statutory obligations. The Leader,

Regulatory Information Management

Group, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, publishes that notice containing

proposed information collection

requests prior to submission of these

requests to OMB. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g. new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment.

Dated: January 10, 2001.

John Tressler,

Leader, Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of the Undersecretary

Type of Review: New.

Title: Evaluation of the State Grants

Program and Teacher Recruitment

Grants Program of Title II of the Higher

Education Act.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden: