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Condition Initial action Repetitive action

2. Prior to further flight, fabricate a

placard with the following words

in letters at least 0.10-inch in

height and install this placard

within the pilot’s clear view close

to the pressurization controls:

‘‘AIRPLANE MUST BE OPERATED UNPRESSURIZED’’, and

prior to further flight, insert a

copy of this AD into the Limitations Section of the FAA-approved Airplane Flight Manual

(AFM).

2. Repeat the inspection specified in paragraph (b) of this AD at intervals not to exceed 25 hours TIS or 30 calendar days, whichever occurs first, provided the sum total of all cracks does not exceed 4.3

inches in combined length. Replace the window and continue the

actions necessary under the ‘‘With cracks found where the sum

total of all cracks meets or exceeds 4.3 inches in combined length’’

condition column.

If cracks are found where the sum

total of all cracks meets or exceeds 4.3 inches in combined

length.

Prior to further flight, replace the

window with a new window of

like design in accordance with

the applicable maintenance

manual.

Reinspect initially between 10 and 20 hours TIS after replacing the

window to ensure that no damage has occurred after installation,

and thereafter at intervals not to exceed 1,000 hours TIS or 12 calendar months, whichever occurs first, provided no cracks are found.

Use applicable condition column entry to determine compliance

times if cracks are found.

With cracks found that are less

than .30 inches (as specified in

the applicable service information referenced in paragraph

(d)(2) of this AD) provided the

sum total of all cracks does not

exceed 4.3 inches in combined

length.

Reinspect within 25 hours TIS or

30 calendar days, whichever occurs first.

Continue this reinspection at intervals not to exceed 25 hours TIS or

30 calendar days, whichever occurs first, provided no crack is

found that is .30 inches or greater or the combined length of all

cracks exceeds 4.3 inches in combined length. Use applicable condition column entry to determine compliance times if any of these

crack limits are met.

With no cracks found after one of

the inspections required by this

AD.

Reinspect within 1,000 hours TIS

and 12 calendar months after

the last inspection, whichever

occurs first.

Reinspect at intervals not to exceed 1,000 hours TIS or 12 calendar

months, whichever occurs first, provided no cracks are found. Use

applicable condition column entry to determine compliance times if

cracks are found.

(d) The following specifies the service

bulletins that contain the procedures to

accomplish the required inspections:

Models Service bulletins

(1) For acrylic cabin windows:

SA26–T and SA26–AT ......................................... 26–56–20–042, Issued: November 28, 1988, Revised: February 7, 1991.

SA226–T and SA226–T(B) ................................... 226–56–001, Issued: February 2, 1983, Revised: November 26, 1991.

SA226–AT and SA226–TC ................................... 226–56–002, Issued: March 3, 1983, Revised: May 29, 1992.

SA227–AT, SA227–AC, and SA227–BC ............. 227–56–002, Issued: January 5, 1984, Revised: May 29, 1992, and April 1, 1993.

SA227–TT ............................................................. 227–56–001, Issued: February 2, 1983, Revised: November 26, 1991.

(2) For acrylic cockpit side windows:

SA26–T and SA26–AT ......................................... 26–56–10–038, Issued: October 8, 1984, Revised: February 7, 1991.

SA226–T, SA226–T(B), SA226–AT, and SA226–

TC.

226–56–003, Issued: September 13, 1984, Revised: November 2, 1989.

SA227–AT, SA227–AC, SA227–BC, and SA227–

TT.

227–56–003, Issued: September 13, 1984, Revised: November 2, 1989.

Note 4: The repetitive inspections required

by this AD are also referenced in the FAAapproved Fairchild Airframe Airworthiness

Limitations Manual, ST–UN–M001.

(e) Special flight permits may be issued in

accordance with sections 21.197 and 21.199

of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR

21.197 and 21.199) to operate the airplane to

a location where the requirements of this AD

can be accomplished.

(f) An alternative method of compliance or

adjustment of the initial or repetitive

compliance times that provides an equivalent

level of safety may be approved by the

Manager, Airplane Certification Office

(ACO), FAA, 2601 Meacham Boulevard, Fort

Worth, Texas 76193–0150. The request shall

be forwarded through an appropriate FAA

Maintenance Inspector, who may add

comments and then send it to the Manager,

Fort Worth ACO.

Note 5: Information concerning the

existence of approved alternative methods of

compliance with this AD, if any, may be

obtained from the Fort Worth ACO.

Note 6: Alternative methods of compliance

approved in accordance with AD 93–19–06

(superseded by this action) are not

considered approved as alternative methods

of compliance with this AD.

(g) All persons affected by this directive

may obtain copies of the document referred

to herein upon request to Fairchild Aircraft,

P.O. Box 790490, San Antonio, Texas 78279–

0490; or may examine this document at the

FAA, Central Region, Office of the Assistant

Chief Counsel, Room 1558, 601 E. 12th

Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

(h) This amendment supersedes AD 93–

19–06, Amendment 39–8705.

Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on April

19, 1996.

Henry A. Armstrong,

Acting Manager, Small Airplane Directorate,

Aircraft Certification Service.

[FR Doc. 96–10308 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

20 CFR Part 416

[Regulations No. 16]

RIN 0960–AD75

Supplemental Security Income for the

Aged, Blind, and Disabled; Charging

Administration Fees for Making State

Supplementary Payments; Interest

Charging on State Supplementary

Payment Funds

AGENCY: Social Security Administration,

(SSA).

ACTION: Proposed rules.

SUMMARY: We propose to revise our

rules to bring them into accord with

statutory changes which require the

Social Security Administration (SSA) to

charge the States an administration fee

for making supplementary payments on

behalf of States and authorize SSA to

charge the States an additional services

fee for performing services at the request

of States not customarily provided. We

also propose to conform our regulations

to reflect the requirements of the law

regarding the transfer of funds from

States to SSA for use in making

supplementary payments.

DATES: To be sure that your comments

are considered, we must receive them

no later than June 25, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

submitted in writing to the

Commissioner of Social Security, P.O.

Box 1585, Baltimore, MD 21235, sent by

telefax to (410) 966–2830, sent by E-mail

to ‘‘regulations@ssa.gov’’, or delivered

to the Division of Regulations and

Rulings, Social Security Administration,

3–B–1 Operations Building, 6401

Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD

21235, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

on regular business days. Comments

may be inspected during these same

hours by making arrangements with the

contact person shown below.

The electronic file of this document is

available on the Federal Bulletin Board

(FBB) at 9:00 A.M. on the date of

publication in the Federal Register. To

download the file, modem dial (202)

512–1387. The FBB instructions will

explain how to download the file and

the fee. This file is in WordPerfect

format and will remain on the FBB

during the comment period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Henry D. Lerner, Legal Assistant,

Division of Regulations and Rulings,

Social Security Administration, 6401

Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,

(410) 965–1762 for information about

these rules. For information on

eligibility or claiming benefits, call our

national toll-free number, 1–800–772–

1213.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

These proposed regulations reflect the

provisions of section 13731 of Public

Law 103–66 (the Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1993) and

Public Law 101–453 (the Cash

Management Improvement Act (CMIA)

of 1990) as amended by Public Law

102–589 (the Cash Management

Improvement Act Amendments of

1992). From the inception of the

supplemental security income (SSI)

program in January 1974 through

September 1993, SSA did not have the

authority to charge States for the costs

it incurred in administering mandatory

and optional State supplementary

payment programs. During that same

period of time, SSA did not have

specific authority to charge States for

the costs it incurred in performing, at

the request of the States, services not

customarily provided in the

administration of State supplementary

payment programs.

Section 13731 of Public Law 103–66,

effective for supplementary payments

made for any month beginning on or

after October 1, 1993, requires SSA to

charge the States an administration fee

for making supplementary payments on

behalf of States and authorizes SSA to

charge the States an additional services

fee for performing services at the request

of States not customarily provided.

The CMIA requires that transfers of

funds from the States to SSA for the

payment of supplementary payments be

timed to coincide as closely as possible

with disbursements of those funds to

eligible individuals. In the case of

certain States, transfers which do not

occur on due dates and/or which are not

in appropriate amounts will cause the

imposition of an interest liability on

either the States or on the Federal

Government in accordance with the

regulations of the United States

Department of the Treasury

implementing the CMIA. The provisions

of the CMIA were effective on the later

of July 1, 1993, or the first day of the

State’s fiscal year beginning in 1993.

Prior to the effective date of the CMIA,

no interest liability was incurred by

either the States or the Federal

Government on the transfer of funds to

SSA for use in making State

supplementary payments.

Present Policy

At the outset of the SSI program,

States were encouraged to supplement

the Federal benefit. As an incentive to

provide a supplement, States that agreed

to make optional supplementary

payments and signed an agreement to

have those payments administered by

the Federal Government would not be

charged a fee for Federal administration.

States required to pay mandatory

supplementary payments could also

enter into agreements providing for

Federal administration of those

payments at no cost to the States. States

electing Federal administration were

required to periodically transfer to SSA

only amounts equal to the expenditures

made by SSA for supplementary

payments. This former requirement is

still reflected in the current regulations

at §§ 416.2010(c) and 416.2090(a).

On October 1, 1993, pursuant to

amendments made to the Social

Security Act (the Act) and to section

212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66 by

section 13731 of Public Law 103–66,

SSA began charging States that had

elected Federal administration of

optional and/or mandatory State

supplementary payments a fee for

administering those payments. The

administration fee is charged monthly

and is derived by multiplying the

number of State supplementary

payments made by SSA on behalf of a

State for a month by the applicable

dollar rate for the fiscal year (FY), as

prescribed in section 13731 of Public

Law 103–66. The dollar rates are as

follows: for FY 1994, $1.67; for FY 95,

$3.33; for FY 96, $5.00; and, for FY 1997

and each succeeding FY, $5.00 or such

different rate as determined by SSA to

be appropriate for any particular State,

taking into account the complexity of

administering the State’s supplementary

payment program. The number of

supplementary payments made by SSA

in a month is the total number of checks

issued, and direct deposits made, to

recipients in that month, that are

composed in whole or in part of State

supplementary funds. The number of

supplementary payments include, for

example, recurring monthly payments

(ongoing monthly payments to

individuals who maintain eligibility

from the previous month); supplemental

payments (payments certified after the

date established for the regular transfer

of payment data to the United States

Department of the Treasury); daily

payments (non-recurring initial claims

or post-entitlement payments including

one-time payments such as those made

to correct underpayments); erroneous

payments (overpayments and payments

to ineligibles); split payments (multiple

check payments resulting from the

systems safeguard limiting single checks

to an amount not greater than
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$49,999.99); unnegotiated check

payments (payments by check not

presented for payment by the recipient

within 180 days of issuance);

replacement checks (duplicate checks

issued when recipients allege

nonreceipt of original check issuances);

and, installment payments (payments

made over a period of months, the sum

of which is equal to amounts due

recipients).

Section 13731 of Public Law 103–66

also authorizes SSA to charge a State an

additional services fee if, at the request

of the State, SSA agrees to provide the

State with additional services beyond

the level customarily provided in the

administration of State supplementary

payments. SSA is not required to

perform any additional services

requested by a State and may, at its sole

discretion, refuse to perform those

additional services. An additional

services fee charged a State may be a

one-time charge or, if the furnished

services result in ongoing costs to the

Federal Government, a monthly or less

frequent charge to the State for

providing such services. Section 13731

of Public Law 103–66 requires that the

additional services fee be in an amount

that SSA determines is necessary to

cover all costs (including indirect costs)

incurred by the Federal Government in

furnishing the additional services. Prior

to the effective date of section 13731 of

Public Law 103–66, SSA had no specific

authority to impose additional services

fees.

The CMIA was enacted to ensure

greater efficiency, effectiveness and

equity in the exchange of funds between

the Federal Government and the States.

For purposes of Federal administration

of State supplementary payments, the

CMIA requires that the transfer of funds

from the States to SSA for use in making

supplementary payments be timed to

coincide as closely as possible with the

actual payment of those funds to

recipients. While all States are required

to comply with the funding techniques

of the CMIA, pursuant to the

implementing regulations of the United

States Department of the Treasury at 31

CFR Part 205, only those States whose

State supplementary payment programs

meet the requirements of a major

Federal assistance program in their

respective States are subject to the

interest liability provisions of the CMIA.

For those States, transfers of

supplementary payment funds to SSA

which are not made on due dates and/

or are not made in appropriate amounts

will cause the imposition of an interest

liability on either the State, or the

Federal Government. Currently, SSA

administers the supplementary payment

programs of 26 States and the District of

Columbia. The supplementary payment

programs of 12 of those States and the

District of Columbia meet the

requirements of a major Federal

assistance program and, thus, are

subject to the interest liability

provisions of the CMIA.

Each month, States are notified of the

amount of funds they must transfer to

SSA to be used in the succeeding month

to make supplementary payments and to

pay administration fees. Notification is

made, generally, 7 work days before the

end of the month. For purposes of

complying with the funding technique

requirements of the CMIA and its

implementing regulations, all State

funds must be received by SSA by the

fifth Federal business day following the

day the regularly recurring monthly

supplementary payments are issued.

This date is the State supplementary

payment transfer date and represents

the dollar-weighted average day of

clearance of all SSI/State supplementary

payment checks and direct deposits

made to individuals in a month. Section

1616(d) of the Act and section 212(b)(3)

of Public Law 93–66, as amended by

section 13731 of Public Law 103–66,

require that the States pay

administration fees on the same day

they transfer to SSA the amounts

necessary to make State supplementary

payments. However, the provisions of

the CMIA apply only to the amounts

transferred to SSA for use in making

supplementary payments. Therefore, the

interest provisions of the CMIA are

inapplicable to the payment of

administration fees not made on transfer

dates and/or not made in appropriate

amounts. However, administration fee

payment delinquencies by States are

subject to the provisions of the claims

collection regulations at 45 CFR part 30,

which include the imposition of interest

on amounts due SSA. These Department

of Health and Human Services

regulations remain applicable after

March 30, 1995, to the assessment of

interest on delinquent administration

fees by SSA pursuant to section 106(b)

of Public Law 103–296, the Social

Security Independence and Program

Improvements Act of 1994.

It is not possible for SSA to forecast

the precise amount of State

expenditures that will be made in the

subsequent month. Therefore, the

amounts transferred on the State

supplementary payment transfer date

are based on estimates made by SSA.

After the close of the month for which

the amounts are transferred, when final

expenditure figures become available,

those amounts will be revealed to be

either more or less than actually

expended, therefore triggering an

interest liability on either the State or

the Federal Government. Current

regulations do not reflect the CMIA

requirement that supplementary

payment funds be transferred to SSA on

the date of average clearance of SSI/

supplementary payments, nor do they

authorize the charging or payment of

interest by either SSA or the States with

regard to the transfer of State

supplementary payment funds.

Proposed Policy

We propose to amend the regulations

at §§ 416.2010(b) and 416.2090 to reflect

the provisions section 13731 of Public

Law 103–66 that require SSA to charge

States an administrative fee for

administering their State supplementary

payments and authorize SSA to charge

States an additional services fee for

services not customarily performed.

Examples of services not customarily

provided States and thus, for which an

additional fee will be charged if SSA

agrees to perform them, are presented

below. The list is not intended to be

inclusive. Any and all additional

services performed by SSA at the

request of a State will be subject to the

services fee, including:

• The collection and/or verification of

additional information in the claims or

redetermination process which SSA

does not now typically or usually

collect and/or verify;

• The modification of a

supplementary payment level variation

or replacement of a supplementary

payment level variation, resulting in a

variation more labor intensive or

otherwise more costly to administer

than variations normally administered

by SSA;

• The modification or expansion of

the existing SSI Quality Assurance

sample that would increase the level of

reporting usually performed by SSA;

• The development and issuance of

notices to SSI/State supplementary

payment recipients in the State beyond

those normally provided;

• The revision of State supplementary

payment amounts which requires

software changes in the SSI payment

system not otherwise necessary. Such

revisions would be other than the

customary revisions associated with

annual cost-of-living adjustments to the

Federal benefit rate;

• The provision of more detailed or

frequent accounting data or reports; and

• A service that would require SSA to

engage in software development or

modification and/or reprogramming

efforts not normally undertaken.

We also propose to amend the

regulations at § 416.2090(a)(2) to
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provide, consistent with our present

procedure, that all State funds to be

used by SSA to make monthly

supplementary payments and to pay

administration fees for that month, as

estimated by SSA, must be on deposit

with SSA by the fifth Federal business

day following the day the regularly

recurring monthly supplementary

payments are issued. This paragraph

would also provide that any additional

services fees are to be on deposit with

SSA on the date specified by SSA. In

addition, we propose to amend

§ 416.2090(b) to clarify that

administration and additional services

fees are included in SSA’s accounting of

State funds and to reflect the fact that

SSA and the States may now incur

interest charges with respect to the

adjustment and accounting of State

supplementary payment funds in

accordance with the CMIA and

implementing regulations of the United

States Department of the Treasury.

We also propose to make technical

revisions to the regulations in Subpart T

that are unrelated to the provisions of

OBRA of 1993 and the CMIA. Section

184 of Public Law 97–248, enacted

September 3, 1982, phased out the holdharmless provisions of the Social

Security Act. In order to reflect the fact

that these provisions are now obsolete,

we propose to delete the hold-harmless

regulations at §§ 416.2010(b) (except for

the last sentence which is unrelated to

the hold-harmless protection and which

will be inserted at the end of

§§ 416.2005(d)), 416.2080, 416.2082,

and 416.2085 per SSA’s June 1, 1995,

report to President Clinton on

Eliminating and Improving Regulations,

and to amend the regulations at

§§ 416.2050(b)(1) and 416.2090 (a)(2)

and (d). Section 416.2010(d) will be

redesignated as § 416.2010(c) and will

be revised to indicate that agreements

will renew automatically one year after

the date they are signed for a period of

one year unless the State or SSA gives

written notice not to renew at least 90

days before the beginning of the new

period. The regulations now provide

that the agreements will run until June

30, the Federal government’s former end

of a fiscal year. This proposed change

takes into consideration the fact that

States have not signed their agreements

on one uniform date. Finally, these

proposed rules would, in the sections

being amended, replace all references to

the Secretary of Health and Human

Services with references to SSA to

reflect Public Law 103–296 which,

effective March 31, 1995, established

SSA as an independent agency separate

from the Department of Health and

Human Services.

Regulatory Procedures

Executive Order 12866

We have consulted with the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) and

determined that these rules do not meet

the criteria for a significant regulatory

action under Executive Order 12866.

Thus, they were not subject to OMB

review.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

We certify that these proposed rules

will not have a significant economic

impact on a substantial number of small

entities. Therefore, a regulatory

flexibility analysis as provided in Public

Law 96–354, the Regulatory Flexibility

Act, is not required.

Paperwork Reduction Act

These proposed rules impose no

reporting/recordkeeping requirements

subject to OMB clearance.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 96.006, Supplemental Security

Income)

List of Subjects in 20 CFR Part 416

Administrative practice and

procedure, Aged, Blind, Disability

benefits, Public assistance programs,

Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements, Supplemental security

income.

Dated: April 16, 1996.

Shirley Chater,

Commissioner of Social Security.

Subpart T of part 416 of chapter III of

title 20 of the Code of Federal

Regulations is proposed to be amended

as follows:

PART 416 —[AMENDED]

Subpart T—[Amended]

1. The authority citation for subpart T

of part 416 continues to read as follows:

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1616, 1618, and

1631 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.

902(a)(5), 1382e, 1382g, and 1383); sec. 212,

Pub. L. 93–66, 87 Stat. 155 (42 U.S.C. 1382

note); sec. 8(a), (b)(1)–(b)(3), Pub. L. 93–233,

87 Stat. 956 (7 U.S.C. 612c note and 1431

note and 42 U.S.C. 1382e note); secs. 1(a)–(c)

and 2(a), 2(b)(1), 2(b)(2), Pub. L. 93–335, 88

Stat. 291 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note, 1382e note).

2. Section 416.2005 is amended by

revising paragraph (a), removing ‘‘the

Secretary’’ and adding ‘‘SSA’’ in the

heading and each time it appears in

paragraphs (b)–(d) and adding a

sentence to the end of paragraph (d) to

read as follows:

§ 416.2005 Administration agreements

with SSA.

(a) Agreement-mandatory only.

Subject to the provisions of paragraph

(d) of this section, any State having an

agreement with the Social Security

Administration (SSA) under

§ 416.2001(c) may enter into an

administration agreement with SSA

under which SSA will make the

mandatory minimum supplementary

payments on behalf of such State. An

agreement under § 416.2001(c) and an

administration agreement under this

paragraph may be consolidated into one

agreement.

* * * * *

(d) * * * If the State elects options

available under this subpart (specified

in §§ 416.2015 through 416.2035), such

options must be specified in the

administration agreement.

3. Section 416.2010 is amended by

removing paragraph (b), redesignating

paragraphs (c) through (f) as paragraphs

(b) through (e), removing ‘‘the

Secretary’’ and adding ‘‘SSA’’ each time

it appears in paragraphs (a), (d) and (e),

and by revising redesignated paragraphs

(b) and (c) to read as follows:

§ 416.2010 Essentials of the administration

agreements.

* * * * *

(b) Administrative costs. (1) SSA shall

assess each State that had elected

Federal administration of optional and/

or mandatory State supplementary

payments an administration fee for

administering those payments. The

administration fee is assessed and paid

monthly and is derived by multiplying

the number of State supplementary

payments made by SSA on behalf of a

State for any month in a fiscal year by

the applicable dollar rate for the fiscal

year. The number of supplementary

payments made by SSA in a month is

the total number of checks issued and

direct deposits made to recipients in

that month, that are composed in whole

or in part of State supplementary funds.

The dollar rates are as follows:

(i) For fiscal year 1994, $1.67;

(ii) For fiscal year 1995, $3.33;

(iii) For fiscal year 1996, $5.00; and

(iv) For fiscal year 1997 and each

succeeding fiscal year, $5.00, or such

different rate as determined by SSA to

be appropriate for any particular State,

taking into account the complexity of

administering the State’s supplementary

payment program.

(2) SSA shall charge a State an

additional services fee if, at the request

of the State, SSA agrees to provide the

State with additional services beyond

the level customarily provided in the

administration of State supplementary
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payments. The additional services fee

shall be in an amount that SSA

determines is necessary to cover all

costs, including indirect costs, incurred

by the Federal government in furnishing

the additional services. SSA is not

required to perform any additional

services requested by a State and may,

at its sole discretion, refuse to perform

those additional services. An additional

services fee charged a State may be a

one-time charge or, if the furnished

services result in ongoing costs to the

Federal Government, a monthly or less

frequent charge to the State for

providing such services.

(c) Agreement period. The agreement

period for a State which has elected

Federal administration of its

supplementary payments will extend for

one year from the date the agreement

was signed unless otherwise designated.

The agreement will be automatically

renewed for a period of one year unless

either the State or SSA gives written

notice not to renew, at least 90 days

before the beginning of the new period.

For a State to elect Federal

administration, it must notify SSA of its

intent to enter into an agreement,

furnishing the necessary payment

specifications, at least 120 days before

the first day of the month for which it

wishes Federal administration to begin,

and have executed such agreement at

least 30 days before such day.

* * * * *

4. Paragraph (b)(1) of section 416.2050

is amended by removing the phrase ‘‘(as

defined in § 416.2085(e))’’ and removing

‘‘the Secretary’’ and adding ‘‘SSA’’ each

time it appears.

§ 416.2080 [Removed]

5. Section 416.2080 is removed.

§ 416.2082 [Removed]

6. Section 416.2082 is removed.

§ 416.2085 [Removed]

7. Section 416.2085 is removed.

8. Section 416.2090 is amended

removing ‘‘the Secretary’’ and adding

‘‘SSA’’ each time it appears in

paragraph (c), by removing the phrase

‘‘for purposes of § 416.2080’’ at the end

of paragraph (d), and by revising the

section heading and paragraphs (a) and

(b) to read as follows:

§ 416.2090 State funds transferred for

supplementary payments.

(a) Payment transfer and adjustment.

(1) Any State which has entered into an

agreement with SSA which provides for

Federal administration of such State’s

supplementary payments shall transfer

to SSA:

(i) An amount of funds equal to SSA’s

estimate of State supplementary

payments for any month which shall be

made by SSA on behalf of such State;

(ii) An amount of funds equal to

SSA’s estimate of administration fees for

any such month determined in the

manner described in § 416.2010(b)(1);

and

(iii) If applicable, an amount of funds

equal to SSA’s determination of the

costs incurred by the Federal

government in furnishing additional

services for the State as described in

§ 416.2010(b)(2).

(2) In order for SSA to make State

supplementary payments on behalf of a

State for any month as provided by the

agreement, the estimated amount of

State funds referred to in paragraph

(a)(1)(i) of this section, necessary to

make those payments for the month,

together with the estimated amount of

administration fees referred to in

paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section, for

that month, must be on deposit with

SSA on the State supplementary

payment transfer date, which is the fifth

Federal business day following the day

in the month that the regularly recurring

monthly supplemental security income

payments are issued. The additional

services fee referred to in paragraph

(a)(1)(iii) of this section, shall be on

deposit with SSA on the date specified

by SSA. The amount of State funds paid

to SSA for State supplementary

payments and the amount paid for

administration fees will be adjusted as

necessary to maintain the balance with

State supplementary payments paid out

by SSA on behalf of the State, and

administration fees owed to SSA,

respectively.

(b) Accounting of State funds. (1) As

soon as feasible, after the end of each

calendar month, SSA will provide the

State with a statement showing,

cumulatively, the total amounts paid by

SSA on behalf of the State during the

current Federal fiscal year; the fees

charged by SSA to administer such

supplementary payments; any

additional services fees charged the

State; the State’s total liability therefore;

and the end-of-month balance of the

State’s cash on deposit with SSA.

(2) SSA shall provide an accounting

of State funds received as State

supplementary payments,

administration fees, and additional

services fees, within three calendar

months following the termination of an

agreement under § 416.2005.

(3) Adjustments will be made because

of State funds due and payable or

amounts of State funds recovered for

calendar months for which the

agreement was in effect. Interest will be

incurred by SSA and the States with

respect to the adjustment and

accounting of State supplementary

payments funds in accordance with

applicable laws and regulations of the

United States Department of the

Treasury.

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[FR Doc. 96–10058 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4190–29–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 117

[CGD08–96–003]

RIN 2115–AE47

Drawbridge Operation Regulation;

Lower Grand River, LA

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY: At the request of the Iberville

Parish School Board, the Coast Guard is

considering a change to the regulation

governing the operation of the pontoon

drawbridge on LA State Road 77 across

the Lower Grand River (Intracoastal

Waterway, Morgan City to Port Allen,

Alternate Route), mile 47.0 at Grosse

Tete, Iberville Parish, Louisiana:

The proposed regulation would

require that the bridge open on signal;

except that from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and

from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday

through Friday, other than Federal

holidays, and only during the months

when local schools are in session, the

bridge would be permitted to remain

closed to navigation for the

uninterrupted crossing of school bus

and other vehicular traffic.

Presently, the draw of the bridge is

required to open on signal, except that

from 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. and from 2:30

p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,

other than Federal holidays, and only

during the months when local schools

are in session, the bridge need not open

for navigation.

This action would extend the closure

time in the morning and afternoon by

one-half hour to accommodate school

buses which must adhere to schedules

based on new staggered starting times

for the Iberville Parish Schools. This

action would benefit school children in

their timely arrival at school, while still

providing for the reasonable needs of

navigation.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before June 25, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

mailed to Commander (ob), Eighth Coast

Guard District, 501 Magazine Street,

New Orleans, Louisiana 70130–3396, or