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Casper, Wyoming; First Interstate Bank,

Ltd., Los Angeles, California; and First

Interstate Central Bank, Calabasas,

California.

Wells Fargo & Company San

Francisco, California; to acquire First

Interstate Resource Finance Associates,

Newport Beach, California, and thereby

engage in making, servicing, and

acquiring loans, pursuant to §

225.25(b)(1) of the Board’s Regulation Y,

Liberty Brokerage, Inc., New York, New

York, and thereby engage in securities

brokerage activities, pursuant to §

225.25(b)(15) of the Board’s Regulation

Y, and Star System, Inc., California, and

thereby engage in data transmission

services through an electronic fund

transfer network, pursuant to §

225.25(b)(7) of the Board’s Regulation Y.

Comments on this application must

be received by December 22, 1995.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, December 1, 1995.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 95–29822 Filed 12–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

New and Pending Demonstration

Project Proposals Submitted Pursuant

to Section 1115(a) of the Social

Security Act: November 1995

AGENCY: Administration for Children

and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice lists new

proposals for welfare reform and

combined welfare reform/Medicaid

demonstration projects submitted to the

Department of Health and Human

Services for the month of November,

1995. It includes both those proposals

being considered under the standard

waiver process and those being

considered under the 30 day process.

Federal approval for the proposals has

been requested pursuant to section 1115

of the Social Security Act. This notice

also lists proposals that were previously

submitted and are still pending a

decision and projects that have been

approved since November 1, 1995. The

Health Care Financing Administration is

publishing a separate notice for

Medicaid only demonstration projects.

Comments: We will accept written

comments on these proposals. We will,

if feasible, acknowledge receipt of all

comments, but we will not provide

written responses to comments. We

will, however, neither approve nor

disapprove new proposals under the

standard application process for at least

30 days after the date of this notice to

allow time to receive and consider

comments. Direct comments as

indicated below.

ADDRESSES: For specific information or

questions on the content of a project

contact the State contact listed for that

project.

Comments on a proposal or requests

for copies of a proposal should be

addressed to: Howard Rolston,

Administration for Children and

Families, 370 L’Enfant Promenade,

S.W., Aerospace Building, 7th Floor

West, Washington DC 20447. FAX: (202)

205–3598 PHONE: (202) 401–9220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

Under Section 1115 of the Social

Security Act (the Act), the Secretary of

Health and Human Services (HHS) may

approve research and demonstration

project proposals with a broad range of

policy objectives.

In exercising her discretionary

authority, the Secretary has developed a

number of policies and procedures for

reviewing proposals. On September 27,

1994, we published a notice in the

Federal Register (59 FR 49249) that

specified (1) the principles that we

ordinarily will consider when

approving or disapproving

demonstration projects under the

authority in section 1115(a) of the Act;

(2) the procedures we expect States to

use in involving the public in the

development of proposed demonstration

projects under section 1115; and (3) the

procedures we ordinarily will follow in

reviewing demonstration proposals. We

are committed to a thorough and

expeditious review of State requests to

conduct such demonstrations.

On August 16, 1995, the Secretary

published a notice in the Federal

Register (60 FR 42574) exercising her

discretion to request proposals testing

welfare reform strategies in five areas.

Since such projects can only incorporate

provisions included in that

announcement, they are not subject to

the Federal notice procedures. The

Secretary proposed a 30 day approval

process for those provisions. As

previously noted, this notice lists all

new or pending welfare reform

demonstration proposals under section

1115. Where possible, we have

identified the proposals being

considered under the 30 day process.

However, the Secretary reserves the

right to exercise her discretion to

consider any proposal under the 30 day

process if it meets the criteria in the five

specified areas and the State requests it

or concurs.

II. Listing of New and Pending

Proposals for the Month of November,

1995

As part of our procedures, we are

publishing a monthly notice in the

Federal Register of all new and pending

proposals. This notice contains

proposals for the month of November,

1995.

Project Title: California—Work Pays

Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend Work Pays

Demonstration Project by adding

provisions to: reduce benefit levels by

10% (but retaining the need level);

reduce benefits an additional 15% after

6 months on assistance for cases with an

able-bodied adult; time-limit assistance

to able-bodied adults to 24 months, and

not increase benefits for children

conceived while receiving AFDC.

Date Received: 3/14/94.

TYPE: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Glen Brooks, (916)

657–3291.

Project Title: California—Assistance

Payments Demonstration Project

(Amendment).

Description: Would amend the

Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project by: exempting certain categories

of AFDC families from the State’s

benefit cuts; paying the exempt cases

based on grant levels in effect in

California on November 1, 1992; and

renewing the waiver of the Medicaid

maintenance of effort provision at

section 1902(c)(1) of the Social Security

Act, which was vacated by the Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals in its decision

in Beno v. Shalala.

Date Received: 8/26/94.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916)

657–2367.

Project Title: California—Work Pays

Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the Work

Pays Demonstration Project by adding

provisions to not increasing AFDC

benefits to families for additional

children conceived while receiving

AFDC.

Date Received: 11/9/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916)

657–2367.

Project Title: California—School

Attendance Demonstration Project.
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Description: In San Diego County,

require AFDC recipients ages 16–18 to

attend school or participate in JOBS.

Date Received: 12/5/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916)

657–2367.

Project Title: Connecticut—A Fair

Chance—Modification.

Description: Proposed modifications

would: establish time limits; disregard

earnings for time-limited recipients up

to poverty level; reduce benefit increase

for additional children by one-half;

require minor parents to live with adult;

change redetermination, verification,

and reporting requirements; provide

employer tax credits for hiring AFDC

recipients; require biometric

identification as condition of eligibility

for unit; establish two-tier payment

system for new residents; simplify and

conform AFDC and Food Stamp rules

on resources; allow 24 weeks of job

search without child care guarantee;

change good cause criteria regarding

participation; change JOBS sanctions;

apply uniform sanction policy for JOBS,

child support, and voluntary quits;

extend transitional Medicaid to two

years; provide transitional child care

while income below 75% of state

median; limit the application period for

transitional child care to 6 months after

leaving AFDC; establish fee for child

care for AFDC recipients; serve noncustodial parents under JOBS.

Date Received: 8/10/95.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Nancy Wiggett, (203)

424–5329.

Project Title: Georgia—Jobs First

Project.

Description: In ten pilot counties,

would replace AFDC payment with paid

employment; extend transitional

Medicaid to 24 months; eliminate 100

hour employment rule for eligibility

determination in AFDC-UP cases.

Date Received: 7/5/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending (not

previously published).

Contact Person: Nancy Meszaros,

(404) 657–3608.

Project Title: Hawaii—Families Are

Better Together.

Description: Statewide, would

eliminate 100-hour, attachment to the

work force, 30 day unemployment and

principal wage earner criteria for AFDCUP families.

Date Received: 5/22/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia Murakami,

(808) 586–5230.

Project Title: Illinois—Six Month

Paternity Establishment Demonstration.

Description: In 20 counties, would

require the establishment of paternity,

unless good cause exists, within 6

months of application or

redetermination as a condition of AFDC

and Medicaid eligibility for both mother

and child; would deny Medicaid to

children age 7 and under, exclude

children from filing rules, and exempt

Department from making protective

payments to eligible children, when

custodial parent has not cooperated in

establishing paternity; delegate the

establishment of paternity in

uncontested cases to caseworkers who

perform assistance payment or social

service functions under title IV–A or

XX.

Date Received: 7/18/95.

Title: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Karan D. Maxson,

(217) 785–3300.

Project Title: Kansas—Actively

Creating Tomorrow for Families

Demonstration.

Description: Would, after 30 months

of participation in JOBS, make adults

ineligible for AFDC for 3 years; replace

$30 and 1/3 income disregard with

continuous 40% disregard; disregard

lump sum income and income and

resources of children in school; count

income and resources of family

members who receive SSI; exempt one

vehicle without regard for equity value

if used to produce income; allow only

half AFDC benefit increase for births of

a second child to families where the

parent is not working and eliminate

increase for the birth of any child if

families already have at least two

children; eliminate 100-hour rule and

work history requirements for UP cases;

expand AFDC eligibility to pregnant

women in 1st and 2nd trimesters;

extend Medicaid transitional benefits to

24 months; eliminate various JOBS

requirements, including those related to

target groups, participation rate of UP

cases and the 20-hour work requirement

limit for parents with children under 6;

require school attendance; require

minors in AFDC and NPA Food Stamps

cases to live with a guardian; make work

requirements and penalties in the AFDC

and Food Stamp programs more

uniform; and increase sanctions for not

cooperating with child support

enforcement activities.

Date Received: 7/26/94.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Faith Spencer, (913)

296–0775.

Project Title: Louisiana—Individual

Responsibility Project.

Description: Statewide, would limit

AFDC benefits to 24 months out of a 60

month period for able-bodied recipients

with extensions where the individual

has been actively seeking employment,

where job availability is unfavorable,

where the individual loses a job for

factors unrelated to his job performance,

or where the individual requires up to

one year to complete employment

related education or training; require

each child to attend school and be

immunized or the child will be removed

from the budget group; and applies a

full family sanction where the parent

has declined or refused an opportunity

for full-time employment, without good

cause.

Date Received: 9/22/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Sammy Guillory,

(504) 342–4089.

Project Title: Maine—Welfare to Work

Program.

Description: Statewide, would require

caretaker relatives to sign a family

contract; require participation in

parenting classes and health care

services; provide one-time vendor

payments in lieu of AFDC for the

purpose of obtaining/retaining

employment; provide voucher payments

to both married and unmarried minor

parents; limit JOBS exemptions; expand

eligibility for Transitional Medicaid and

Child Care and replace sliding-scale fees

with flat-rate fees; reduce Transitional

Medicaid reporting requirements;

disregard entire value of one vehicle;

and apply any federal savings to the

JOBS program services. In selected sites,

implement ASPIRE-Plus, a subsidized

employment program, would cash out

food stamps, divert AFDC benefits and

pass through all child support collected

to families who participate in ASPIREPlus.

Date Received: 9/20/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Susan Dustin, (207)

287–3104.

Project Title: Mississippi—A New

Direction Demonstration Program—

Amendment.

Description: Requests amendments to

the Work First Component (operating in

Adams, Harrison, Hinds, Jones, Lee and

Washington counties) of the Mississippi

New Direction Demonstration Project

which would: provide transitional

Medicaid and child care to AFDC

families even if they have not received

AFDC for at least three months; and

permit JOBS sanctions to be imposed for

exempt clients that volunteer for JOBS

and then drop out without good cause.
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Date Received: 11/20/95.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Larry Temple, (601)

359–4476.

Project Title: New Hampshire—

Earned Income Disregard Demonstration

Project.

Description: AFDC applicants and

recipients would have the first $200

plus 1⁄2 the remaining earned income

disregarded.

Date Received: 9/20/93.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Avis L. Crane, (603)

271–4255.

Project Title: New Hampshire—New

Hampshire Employment Program and

Family Assistance Program.

Description: Statewide, would replace

AFDC with Employment Program

administered by both Employment

Security Agency and Family Assistance

Program; require job search and other

employment-related activities for first

26 weeks of receipt followed by workrelated activities for 26 weeks; eliminate

JOBS target group funding requirement

and change JOBS reporting

requirements; require recipients

attending post-secondary or part-time

vocational training to participate in

work-related activities; eliminate JOBS

services priority for volunteers;

establish limits for provision of

transportation and other JOBS services

based on activity and local conditions;

eliminate remoteness as exemption from

JOBS; require non-custodial parents to

participate in JOBS; increase earned

income disregard to 50%; eliminate

AFDC–UP eligibility requirements;

allow transitional case management for

up to one year; raise resource limit to

$2,000 and exclude one vehicle and life

insurance policies; pass through child

support directly to family; take SSI

income into account in determining

eligibility/payment; eliminate

conciliation and apply JOBS sanction of

50% of AFDC benefits for three months

followed by no payment for three

months, allowing option to increase

initial sanction up to 100%; exempt

pregnant women from JOBS only during

third trimester; for minor parents cases,

include in assistance unit any parent or

sibling living in the home; eliminate

gross income test; disregard educational

grants; allow emergency assistance for

families with employment-related

barriers; allow State to eliminate the

certificate option for child care and

development block grant funds and use

of these funds for capital improvement;

eliminate ceiling on At Risk Child Care

funds; provide that FFP for AFDC not be

reduced during life of demonstration;

fund computer system modifications at

80% FFP; require pregnant recipients to

cooperate with child support; require

that AFDC apply for Medicaid as a unit

and not individually; eliminate

requirement of receipt of AFDC for 3 of

last 6 months in order to receive

transitional Medicaid; and allow State

to require that some individuals be

assigned to a managed care program;

substitute outcome measures for JOBS

participation rates; change participation

requirements for parents with children

under 6, UP recipients and minors;

establish a medical deduction; increase

the sanction for non-cooperation with

child support; exempt individuals with

significant employment barriers from

JOBS; treat lump sum income and all

real property, except a home, as a

resource; and use 20% of gross earned

income as a Medicaid disregard. Also

contains various Food Stamp waivers.

Date Received: 9/18/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek,

(603) 271–4442.

Project Title: New Hampshire—New

Hampshire Employment Program.

Description: In three pilot sites, would

require work after 6 months of AFDC

receipt; eliminate the exemption from

JOBS for women in the second trimester

of pregnancy; eliminate the JOBS

exemption for caretaker of a child under

3 but not less than 1 year of age; replace

the earned income disregard of $90 and

$30 and 1⁄3 with a 50% disregard which

is not time-limited; raise the resource

limit for recipients to $2,000; disregard

full value of one vehicle per adult for

applicants and recipients; apply a full

family sanction voluntarily quitting a

job or refusing to accept a job; apply a

sanction of reducing the payment

standard by 30% for one month for

failure to comply with JOBS in the first

instance, by 60% in the second instance

for one month, and in the third instance

apply a full-family sanction for three

months or until compliance; and require

non-custodial parents to participate in

JOBS.

Date Received: 10/6/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek,

(603) 271–4442.

Project Title: North Carolina—Work

First Program.

Description: Statewide would

eliminate increase in AFDC benefits

resulting from a birth of a child, limit

JOBS exemptions, require a selfsufficiency contract, and limit AFDC

receipt to 24 cumulative months.

Families who reach the time limit could

not reapply for 3 years. The contract

would require: Cooperation with child

support; child immunizations and

medical check-ups; school attendance;

and that teen parents live with a parent/

adult and graduate from high school.

Failure to sign the contract would result

in denial of the AFDC application.

Failure to comply would result in the

loss of the adult’s AFDC benefits and

(starting with the second sanction)

Medicaid coverage for a minimum of: 3

months for the first sanction, 3 months

for the second, 6 months for the third,

and 3 years for the fourth. The State

would offer new applicants a one-time

payment in lieu of AFDC; expand

AFDC–UP eligibility; raise the resource

limit to $3,000 and the vehicle asset

limit to $5,000 for AFDC and Food

Stamps; and provide for automatic food

stamps eligibility for AFDC-eligible

families.

Date Received: 9/20/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Kevin Fitzgerald,

(919) 733–3055.

Project Title: North Carolina—

Cabarrus County Work Over Welfare

Demonstration Project.Description: In

Cabarrus County, would require AFDC

and Food Stamps applicants and

recipients, with exemptions, to sign an

agreement to participate in employment

and training for up to 40 hours per

week; would divert AFDC and Food

Stamps benefits to private employers to

supplement wages; and would disregard

those wages for AFDC, Food Stamps,

and Medicaid eligibility (for NPA

participants). Also, would extend the

$30 and 1⁄3 disregard to 2 years for

unsubsidized earnings. Individuals who

not comply would be denied AFDC,

Food Stamps, and Medicaid (unless

pregnant) according to the following

schedule: first, until compliance;

second: for a minimum of 4 months; and

third and subsequently: for a minimum

of 8 months. Adults who do not sign an

agreement would be denied AFDC, Food

Stamps, and Medicaid (unless pregnant)

until they sign.

Date Received: 10/5/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Kevin Fitzgerald,

(919) 733–3055.

Project Title: Ohio—Ohio First.

Description: Statewide, would replace

current earned income disregards with

$250 and 1⁄2 for twelve months for

recipients; eliminate the work history

requirement for married parents in

AFDC-UP cases; eliminate 100-hour rule

for AFDC-UP; disregard of stepparent
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income for four months; increase the

vehicle asset limit; use established

vacancies for subsidized employment

slots; require applicant job search as a

condition of family eligibility; maintain

food stamp benefit levels when the

AFDC benefit is reduced as a result of

sanction; impose progressive sanctions

for noncompliance with JOBS leading to

whole family sanctions; establish that

failure to comply with JOBS equates to

failure to comply with work program

requirements under the Food Stamp

Program; limit AFDC eligibility to 36

months out of any 60 month period,

unless exempt; allow the IV-D agency to

determine good cause for

noncooperation with Child Support

Enforcement; change penalty for failure

to cooperate with Child Support

provisions to include a whole family

sanction if the failure continues for two

years; change penalty for fraud to

include ineligibility for all assistance

unit members until payments received

fraudulently have been repaid; require

development and signing of a selfsufficiency contract as a condition of

eligibility for the assistance unit; require

pregnant women receiving Medicaid to

participate in substance abuse screening

as part of prenatal care; implement

sanctions for failure to cooperate with

substance abuse screening leading to

whole family sanctions.

Date Received: 10/27/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Joel Rabb, (614) 466–

3196.

Project Title: Oklahoma—Untitled.

Description: In four pilots conducted

in five counties each, would (1) extend

transitional child care to up to 24

months; (2) require that all children

through age 18 be immunized and

require that responsible adults with

preschool age children participate in

parent education or enroll the children

in Head Start or other preschool

program; (3) not increase AFDC benefits

after birth of additional children, but

provide voucher payment for the

increment of cash benefits that would

have been received until the child is

two years old; and (4) pay lesser of

AFDC benefit or previous state of

residence or Oklahoma’s for 12 months

for new residents.

Date Received: 10/27/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Raymond Haddock,

(405) 521–3076.

Project Title: Oregon—Oregon Option.

Description: As a statewide project,

would incorporate waivers already

approved in 1992 for JOBS Welfare

Program and in 1994 for the JOBS Plus

Demonstration with previously pending

waiver requests to increase vehicle asset

limit and extend transitional child care.

Requests guaranteed level of federal

funding, with funds not used for

benefits to be used for other community

support or prevention programs. Also

would, with some exceptions, limit

receipt of AFDC benefits to no more

than 24 out of 84 months for families

with employable parents; allow case

manager to determine JOBS exemptions

on an individual basis; eliminate the

time restrictions on job search; impose

progressive sanctions, leading to fullfamily ineligibility, for non-compliance

with JOBS; require ineligible alien

parents of AFDC children to participate

in JOBS; require counseling for

recipients with substance abuse

problems; require teen parents to live in

an adult-supervised setting; discontinue

the AFDC-UP program from June

through September each year and

eliminate the 100-hour rule and work

history requirements; increase asset

limit to $2,500 for non-JOBS

participants and $10,000 for JOBS

participants, and treat lump-sum

payments as an asset; require annual

AFDC eligibility redeterminations;

modify the rules for potential liability

under EBT.

Date Received: 7/10/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Neely, (503) 945–

5607.

Project Title: Oregon—Expansion of

the Transitional Child Care Program.

Description: Provide transitional child

care benefits without regard to months

of prior receipt of AFDC and provide

benefits for 24 months.

Date Received: 8/8/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Jim Neely, (503) 945–

5607.

Project Title: Oregon—Increased

AFDC Motor Vehicle Limit.

Description: Would increase

automobile asset limit to $9000.

Date Received: 11/12/93.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Jim Neely, (503) 945–

5607.

Project Title: Pennsylvania—School

Attendance Improvement Program

Description: In 7 sites, would require

school attendance as condition of

eligibility.

Date Received: 9/12/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia H. O’Neal,

(717) 787–4081.

Project Title: Pennsylvania—Savings

for Education Program.

Description: Statewide, would exempt

as resources college savings bonds and

funds in savings accounts earmarked for

vocational or secondary education and

disregard interest income earned from

such accounts.

Date Received: 12/29/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia H. O’Neal,

(717) 787–4081.

Project Title: South Carolina—Family

Independence Program.

Description: Statewide, would, with

exceptions, time limit AFDC benefits to

families with able bodied adults to 24

months out of 120 months, not to

exceed 60 months in a lifetime;

eliminate increase in AFDC benefit

resulting from birth of children 10 or

more months after the family begins

AFDC receipt, but provide benefits to

such children in the form of vouchers

for goods and services permitting child’s

mother to participate in education,

training, and employment-related

activities; eliminate deprivation

requirements, principal earner

provisions, work history requirements,

and 100-hour rule for AFDC–UP;

increase AFDC resource limit to $2,500

and disregard as resources one vehicle

with a market value up to $10,000, the

balance in an Individual Development

Account (IDA) up to $10,000, and the

cash value of life insurance; disregard

from income up to $10,000 in lump sum

payments deposited in an IDA within 30

days of receipt, earned income of

children attending school, and interest

and dividend income up to $400;

require participation in a family skills

training program; require certain AFDC

recipients to submit to random drug

tests and/or participate in alcohol or

drug treatment; require children to

attend school; increase amount of child

support passed through to AFDC

recipients; require more extensive

information for child support

enforcement purposes; modify JOBS

exemptions and good cause criteria, and

increase sanctions for non-compliance;

make job search a condition of

eligibility; allow non-custodial parents

of AFDC children to participate in JOBS;

pay transitional grant equaling 3 percent

of the maximum family grant following

employment; and provide transitional

grant Medicaid and child care for 12

months from the date of employment for

cases previously closed due to time

limit.

Date Received: 6/12/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.
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Contact Person: Linda Martin (804)

737–6010.

Project Title: Texas—Achieving

Change for Texans.

Description: Statewide, would

implement requirement for a personal

responsibility agreement which

addresses issues such as child support

cooperation, early medical screening for

children, work requirements, drug and

alcohol abuse, school attendance, and

parenting skills training; would limit

the caretaker exemption from

employment services, disregard the

earned income and resources from

earnings of a child, set resource limits

which promote independence from

AFDC, eliminate work history and 100-

hour rules for otherwise eligible twoparent families. In Bexar County would

time-limit AFDC benefits to 12, 24, and

36 months depending on education and

job experience, with extensions of the

time-limit based on severe personal

hardship, or in cases where the State

could not provide supportive services,

or the where the local economy was in

such state that the recipient could not

reasonably be expected to find

employment, if State funds are available

to continue assistance. Transitional

Medicaid and child care services would

be provided to individuals who exhaust

their time-limited cash benefits. In two

metropolitan statistical areas establish

Individual Development Accounts to

promote the transition to independence

from AFDC, through allowable account

deductions for education, business startup costs and the like. In Fort Bend

County would allow at recipient option,

one-time AFDC cash emergency

assistance payments of $1,000 in lieu of

ongoing regular AFDC payments with

prohibition from applying for regular

AFDC for a period of 12 months from

date of receipt. In Dallas-Fort Worth

would require electronic imaging

(fingerprinting combined with

photographic identification).

Date Received: 10/6/95.

Title: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Kent Gummerman,

(512) 438–3743.

Project Title: Utah—Untitled.

Description: Statewide, would

exclude the value of a vehicle for AFDC

recipient families, including those also

receiving Food Stamps. Would not

apply to initial eligibility determination.

Date Received: 10/3/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bill Biggs, (801) 538–

4337.

III. Listing of Approved Proposals since

November 1, 1995

None.

IV. Requests for Copies of a Proposal

Requests for copies of an AFDC or

combined AFDC/Medicaid proposal

should be directed to the

Administration for Children and

Families (ACF) at the address listed

above. Questions concerning the content

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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program, No. 93562; Assistance Payments—

Research)

Dated: December 1, 1995.

Howard Rolston,

Director, Office of Planning, Research and

Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 95–29823 Filed 12–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P

Agency for Health Care Policy and

Research

Availability of Draft Clinical Practice

Guideline on Smoking Cessation for

Pre-Publication Review

AGENCY: Agency for Health Care Policy

and Research.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Agency for Health Care

Policy and Research (AHCPR)

announces the availability of a draft

AHCPR-sponsored clinical practice

guideline on smoking cessation for prepublication review. This guideline is

being produced by a multidisciplinary

private-sector panel of experts convened

by AHCPR. The expert panel will not

respond to individual comments but

will consider all comments in

determining revisions to the guideline.

Individuals interested in obtaining a

copy of the draft guideline for review

must agree not to disclose its content to

the public prior to its publication by

AHCPR.

DATES: Comments must be postmarked

by January 4, 1996.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Agency for Health Care Policy and

Research is responsible for the

development of clinical practice

guidelines that may be used by

physicians, other health care

practitioners, educators, and consumers

to assist in determining how diseases,

disorders, and other health conditions

can most effectively and appropriately

be prevented, diagnosed, treated, and

clinically managed. The AHCPR

facilitates the development of guidelines

by establishing private-sector panels

who are responsible for their content.

A private-sector panel of health care

experts and consumers was formed in

May, 1994 to develop a clinical practice

guideline to improve the effectiveness of

smoking cessation activities. A public

meeting was also held in November,

1994 for the panel to receive comments

and information relevant to

development of the guideline. The panel

has reviewed and synthesized the

literature on this topic and drafted a set

of conclusions and recommendations

based on the best available scientific

data and expert judgment.

A draft of these conclusions and

recommendations is now undergoing

peer review by a substantial number of

individuals and groups who are

knowledgeable about smoking cessation

programs and related activities. With

this notice, the panel and AHCPR are

also making the draft guideline available

to any person who wishes to review and

comment on it, so long as the person

agrees to honor the confidentiality of

this draft (as specified below).

After review of all comments

received, the panel will revise the draft

guideline and prepare the clinical

practice guideline on smoking cessation.

Potential reviewers should note that

AHCPR may disclose the names of the

guideline reviewers at the same time the

guideline is published. The AHCPR may

also release the review comments after

the guideline is published. However, the

comments will not be attributed to

specific reviewers.

Confidentiality Statement for Reviewers

During the review process, and until

published by AHCPR, the guideline is

confidential. It may not be quoted,

distributed, or copied without the prior

written consent of the panel chair.

All requests for the draft guideline

must include the following

confidentiality statement signed by the

requestor:

In order to protect the integrity of the

panel’s deliberative process and its final

product, I agree that: I will not release,

publicly present, publish, have published, or

otherwise disseminate any portion of the

draft Smoking Cessation guideline.

Signature llllllllllllllll

Date llllllllllllllllll

Affiliation lllllllllllllll

Name (printed or typed) lllllllll

Request for Draft Guideline

To receive a copy of the draft

guideline, requests must include:

Requestor’s name; Affiliation (business

or organization); Address (including zip

code); Telephone and Fax numbers;

Signed confidentiality statement; and

Information on reviewer’s computer

resources, if applicable, (needed to