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sampling frame and first stage of data

collection for other major surveys,

including the Medical Expenditure

Panel Survey, the National Survey of

Family Growth, and the National Health

and Nutrition Examination Survey. By

linking to the NHIS, the analysis

potential of these surveys increases. The

NHIS has long been used by

government, university, and private

researchers to evaluate both general

health and specific issues, such as

cancer, AIDS, and childhood

immunizations. Journalists use its data

to inform the general public. It will

continue to be a leading source of data

for the Congressionally-mandated

‘‘Health US’’ and related publications,

as well as the single most important

source of statistics to track progress

toward the National Health Promotion

and Disease Prevention Objectives,

‘‘Healthy People 2,000.’’

Because of survey integration and

changes in the health and health care of

the U.S. population, demands on the

NHIS have changed and increased,

leading to a major redesign which was

tested and partially implemented in

1996. Improved information technology

was included, especially computer

assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).

This clearance is for the first full year

of data collection using the redesigned

NHIS data system. This data collection,

planned for January-December 1997,

will result in publication of new

national estimates of health statistics

and release of public use micro data

files. The new data system is expected

to be in the field for at least 10 years.

The total cost to respondents is

estimated at $697,500.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/

respondent

Average

burden/response (in

hrs.)

Total Burden (in hrs.)

Family ............................................................................................................................... 42,000 1 0.5 21,000

Sample adult ..................................................................................................................... 42,000 1 0.5 21,000

Sample child ..................................................................................................................... 18,000 1 0.25 4,500

Total ....................................................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 46,500

3. National Coal Workers’ Autopsy

Study Consent Release and History

Form—(0920–0021)—Revision—Under

the Federal Coal Mine Health & Safety

Act of 1977, PL91–173 (amended the

Federal Coal Mine & Safety Act of 1969),

the Public Health Service has developed

a nationwide autopsy program

(NCWAS) for underground coal miners.

The Consent Release and History Form

is primarily used to obtain written

authorization from the next-of-kin to

perform an autopsy on the deceased

miner. The study is a service program to

aid surviving relatives in establishing

eligibility for black lung compensation.

Because a basic reason for the postmortem exam is research (both

epidemiological and clinical), included

are a minimum of essential information

regarding the deceased miner, his

occupational history, and his smoking

history. The data collected will be used

by the staff at NIOSH for research

purposes in defining the diagnostic

criteria for coal workers’

pneumoconiosis (black lung) and will

be correlated with pathologic changes

and x-ray findings. The total cost to

respondents is estimated at $1,250.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/

respondent

Average

burden/response (in

hrs.)

Total Burden (in hrs.)

Pathologist.

Invoice .............................................................................................................................. 300 1 .05 25

Report ............................................................................................................................... 300 1 .05 25

Next-of-Kin ........................................................................................................................ 300 1 .15 75

Total ....................................................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 125

Wilma G. Johnson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 96–11598 Filed 5–8–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

Administration for Children and

Families

New and Pending Demonstration

Project Proposals Submitted Pursuant

to Section 1115(a) of the Social

Security Act: April 1996

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 April, 1996. 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 April 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.
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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 April, 1996

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 April, 1996.

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—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—Assistance

payments Demonstration Project/

California Work Pays Demonstration

Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the

Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays

Demonstration Project by adding

provisions to California to allow two

additional AFDC benefit reductions: (1)

reduce the Maximum Aid Payment

(MAP) by 4.9 percent across-the-board

statewide; and (2) divide California

counties into two regions based on

housing costs, and reduce both the Need

Standard and the MAP in the region

with the lower costs. In addition, the

State is requesting blanket authority for

future reductions in AFDC payment

levels in conjunction with welfare

reform state law changes.

Date Received: 3/13/96.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916)

657–2367.

Project Title: California—Assistance

Payments Demonstration Project/

California Work Pays Demonstration

Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the

Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays

Demonstration Project by adding

provisions to allow one additional

provision: income of a senior parent

living in the same household with a

minor parent with a dependent child

will not be deemed to the minor

parent’s child.

Date Received: 3/13/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916)

657–2367.

Project Title: Florida—Family

Responsibility Act.

Description: Statewide, would require

dependent children and caretaker

relatives under age 18 to remain in

school; pay half the AFDC benefit

increment for the first child conceived

by an AFDC recipient and provide no

cash benefits for a second or subsequent

child; exclude from the AFDC budget

child support payments for children

subject to the family cap; require AFDC

recipients not participating in JOBS or

actively seeking employment to engage

in 20 hours per week of community

employment or work experience.

Date Received: 10/4/95.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Sallie P. Linton, (904)

921–5572.

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

AFDC–UP 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
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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.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Karan D. Maxson,

(217) 785–3300.

Project Title: Indiana—Impacting

Families Welfare Reform

Demonstration—Amendments.

Description: Statewide, proposes

expansions and amendments to current

demonstration to impose a lifetime 24-

month limit on cash assistance and

categorical Medicaid eligibility (12

months for resident alien); allow 1

month AFDC credit (to a maximum of

24 at any one time) for each 6

consecutive months full-time

employment; count each month of

AFDC receipt from another state within

the previous 3 years as 1 month against

the lifetime limit; restrict permissible

‘‘specified relatives’’ for AFDC children

and minor parents; extend AFDC,

Medicaid, and food stamp fraud

disqualification penalties; establish 3

unexcused absences per year as the

statewide definition of unacceptable

school attendance; provide a voucher

equal to 50% of assistance amount for

family cap child for goods and services

related to child care; divert AFDC grants

to subsidize child care costs; establish

an option for an employed AFDC

recipient to receive guaranteed child

care or an AFDC payment equal to the

family’s benefit before employment;

require a child’s mother to establish

paternity as a condition of eligibility for

the child and the caretaker; establish

additional conditions of eligibility for

AFDC; impose penalties for illegal drug

use; base CWEP hours on the combined

value of AFDC and Medicaid assistance;

make JOBS volunteers subject to the

same sanctions as mandatory

participants; continue eligibility for

AFDC recipients until countable income

reaches 100% of the federal poverty

guidelines; expand voluntary quit

definition and penalties; impose income

limits on transitional Medicaid and

child care and limit each to 12 months

in a person’s lifetime; with some

exceptions, deny Medicaid under all

coverage provisions to those determined

ineligible as a result of AFDC welfare

reform provisions; restrict Medicaid

payments made to employees with

employer’s health care benefits to the

lesser of the employee’s insurance

premium or the amount the state would

otherwise pay; and require minor

parents to live with a legally responsible

adult and count the income and

resources of non-parent adults.

Additional provisions: Food Stamp

recipients could be required to

participate CWEP and job search;

increase AFDC and Food Stamp

penalties for non-compliance with

CWEP and job search; require

cooperation with child support as

condition of eligibility for Food Stamps.

Date Received: 12/14/95; Amendment

received 2/6/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: James H. Hmurovich,

(317) 232–4704.

Project Title: Kansas—Actively

Creating Tomorrow for Families

Demonstration.

Description: Amended pending

demonstration to provide that the

demonstration would: replace $30 and

1/3 income disregard with continuous

40% disregard; disregard lump sum

income, income and resources of

children in school and interest income;

count income and resources of adults,

and at State option children, who

receive SSI; exempt one vehicle without

regard for equity value; eliminate 100-

hour rule and work history

requirements for UP cases; expand

AFDC eligibility to pregnant women in

1st and 2nd trimesters; eliminate eight

week job search limitation; allow

alcohol and drug screening and

treatment as a JOBS activity; eliminate

the 20-hour work requirement limit for

parents with children under 6; delay the

effective date of changes in household

composition; make work requirements

in the AFDC and Food Stamp programs

more uniform; and increase sanctions

for not cooperating with child support

enforcement activities and violations of

employment and JOBS requirements.

Date Received: 7/26/94; amendment

received 4/30/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New (Amendment).

Contact Person: Diane Dystra, (913)

296–3028.

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: Maryland.

Description: Statewide, would

expand, with some modifications,

previously approved Family Investment

Program (FIP) pilot county provisions to

be statewide and introduce new

provisions: replace the current $90 and

$30-and-one-third exclusions with a flat

20% earned income deduction, 50% for

self-employed earned income; limit the

child care disregard to $175 in all cases;

allow case managers to set AFDC

certification periods up to 1 year and

require eligibility to be re-established

before the end of each certification

period; modify JOBS exemption

requirements; allow $2,000 in countable

resources and exclude one vehicle per

household, life insurance, and certain

real property; count stepparent income

only if it is more than 50% of the

poverty level; allow non-custodial

parents and stepparents to participate in

JOBS; provide welfare avoidance grants

of up to 3 months benefit amount (up

to 12 months in special circumstances);

allow IV-A child care funds in lieu of

AFDC for families diverted from cash

assistance; impose immediate fullfamily sanctions for fraud and for failure

to cooperate with JOBS or child support

enforcement requirements; reduce the

adverse notification period to 5 days;

eliminate the $50 child support passthrough; allow only 1 assistance unit

per family or payee; eliminate

deprivation as an eligibility factor;

change treatment of lump sums;

eliminate JOBS assessment and

employability plans; and modify JOBS

program requirements.

Date Received: 4/26/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Kathy Cook, (410)

767–7055.

Project Title: Michigan—To

Strengthen Michigan Families

Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Statewide, would require

minor parents to live with their parent

or other suitable adult; and require

minor parents who have not graduated
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from high school to attend school as a

condition of family eligibility.

Date Received: 4/26/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Dan Cleary, (517)

335–0015.

Project Title: Minnesota Family

Investment Program (MFIP)

(Amendment)

Description: Would amend MFIP by

adding Ramsey County as an MFIP site.

MFIP provisions include: a

consolidation of AFDC, Food Stamps,

and the State’s Family General

Assistance program into one cash grant,

with a single set of rules and

procedures; eligibility based on net

income only; an asset limit of $2,000,

with an exemption for vehicles with a

combined equity value of up to $4,500;

elimination of the 100-hour and work

history rules for two-parent families; a

benefit equal to the maximum grant

increased by 20 percent, minus net

income (net income excludes 38 percent

of gross earnings), but benefits may not

exceed the maximum grant level, which

equals the combined value of AFDC and

Food Stamps; child care is paid directly

to the child care provider, up to the

county maximum rate; a 10 percent

grant reduction for non-compliant

parents; mandatory participation in

MFIP employment and training services

for non-exempt, long-term recipients.

MFIP operates in seven counties and the

amendment would add Ramsey County.

Date Received: 3/29/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Chuck Johnson (612)

297–4727.

Project Title: Minnesota—Work First

Program.

Description: In pilot counties, would

provide vendor payments in lieu of

regular AFDC benefits for applicants’

rent and utilities for up to six months;

sanction for at least six months jobready applicants who fail to comply

with job search and other applicants

who fail to participate in JOBS

orientation; and require part-time CWEP

of unemployed, nonexempt job-ready

individuals who fail to participate in job

search for 32 hours/week or who after

eight weeks of job search are not

employed for at least 32 hours/week or

not self-employed with a net income

equal to the family’s AFDC benefit.

Individuals who refuse to participate in

CWEP or are terminated from a CWEP

job would incur a whole family sanction

and become ineligible for AFDC for at

least six months. Non-job-ready

participants would be assigned

appropriate education and training.

Post-placement services would be

provided for up to 180 days and

Transitional Child Care and Medicaid

without regard to AFDC receipt in 3 of

the 6 months preceding ineligibility.

Date Received: 4/4/96.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Gus Avenido, (612)

296–1884.

Project Title: Minnesota—AFDC

Barrier Removal Project.

Description: Statewide, would expand

AFDC-UP eligibility; treat minor parents

living with a caretaker parent on AFDC

as a separate filing unit and disregard

the caretaker parents’ earned income up

to 200 percent of the federal poverty

guideline; disregard earned income of

dependent children who are at least

half-time students as well as all their

savings deposited into an individual

development account; increase the autoequity limit to $4,500; cease recovering

overpayments (once every two years per

case) due to an individual’s new

employment resulting in ineligibility;

and determine AFDC benefit amount for

a family in which all members have

resided in the State for less than 12

months based on the payment standard

of the state of immediate prior residence

if less than Minnesota’s.

Date Received: 4/4/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Ann Sessoms, (612)

296–0978.

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
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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: Oklahoma—Welfare

Self-Sufficiency Initiative.

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 for 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: 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.

Contact Person: Linda Martin (804)

737–6010.

Project Title: Tennessee—Families

First.

Description: Statewide, would impose

18 month time limit with 60 month

lifetime limit on cash assistance for nonexempt families (extensions available

under certain circumstances); require

full-time (40 hours) work or

combination of work and other activities

such as education, training, or job

search, unless exempt; eliminate many

JOBS exemptions including lowering

youngest-child exemption to those with

a child less than 16 weeks of age;

remove limits on periods of job search;

impose a family cap with no increase in

benefits for additional children; require

unmarried teen parents without high

school diploma or GED to participate in

education or other approved activity;

deny AFDC for three months if

recipients voluntarily quit job or if

applicant voluntarily quits employment

within two months of AFDC

application; impose whole family

sanction for noncompliance with

employment, training or work

preparation activities; impose sanctions

without a prior conciliation period;

provide transitional child care and

transitional Medicaid for 18 months and

without regard to months of AFDC

receipt; change earned income

disregards; eliminate the 100-hour rule,

work history and quarters of work

requirements when AFDC recipient

marries and disregard new stepparent’s

income up to set limit; hold harmless

child support arrearages owed by the

new husband/wife to his/her child in

the new family unit as long as the

parent continues to reside in the home;

require that applicants and recipients

sign Personal Responsibility Plan as

condition of eligibility and assure that

children attend school, receive regular

immunizations and health checks, and

the caretaker cooperates with child

support enforcement; impose significant

sanction for failure of children to attend

school or obtain immunizations; impose

whole family sanction for failure to

cooperate with child support

enforcement; deny AFDC for 10 years

for those convicted of fraudulently

receiving benefits from two states

simultaneously; allow low-income

entrepreneurs to establish special

accounts up to $5,000; conform AFDC

and Food Stamp rules by increasing

resource limit to $2,000 and counting

lump sum income as a resource in the

month received and after, if retained;

and increase auto limit to $4,600. In 12

counties allow individual development

accounts up to $5,000 and in 1 county

operate a Responsible Fatherhood

Demonstration Pilot using IV–D funds.

Date Received: 5/1/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Glenda Shearon,

(615) 313–5652.
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Project Title: Utah—Single-Parent

Employment Demonstration

(Amendments).

Description: Would amend the current

Single Parent Employment

Demonstration (SPED), requiring

preschool children to be immunized

and other children to attend school;

considering as a single filing unit each

family with a child in common,

including all children in the household

related to either parent; permitting

parents removed from the grant due to

non-cooperation or fraud to remain

eligible for JOBS services, including

support services; and allowing a ‘‘best

estimate’’ of earnings in lieu of actual

earnings so long as estimate is within

$100 of actual earnings. These

amendments would initially be limited

to the Kearns office and later expanded

to other SPED sites.

Date Received: 2/7/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bill Biggs, (801) 538–

4337.

III. Listing of Approved Proposals Since

April 1, 1995

Project Title: Iowa—Family

Investment Plan (Amendments).

Contact Person: Ann Weibers, (515)

281–7714.

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

of a proposal should be directed to the

State contact listed for the proposal.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program, No. 93562; Assistance Payments—

Research.)

Dated: May 6, 1996.

Howard Rolston,

Director, Office of Planning, Research and

Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 96–11628 Filed 5–8–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 96N–0115]

Agency Information Collection

Activities; Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Extension

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is announcing an

opportunity for public comment on the

proposed collection of certain

information by the agency. Under the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Federal agencies are required to publish

notice in the Federal Register

concerning each proposed collection of

information, including each proposed

extension of an existing collection of

information, and to allow 60 days for

public comment in response to the

notice. This notice solicits comments on

reporting and recordkeeping

requirements for firms that process

acidified foods and thermally processed

low-acid foods in hermetically sealed

containers.

DATES: Submit written comments on the

collection of information by July 8,

1996.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

on the collection of information to the

Dockets Management Branch (HFA–

305), Food and Drug Administration,

12420 Parklawn Dr., rm. 1–23,

Rockville, MD 20857. All comments

should be identified with the docket

number found in brackets in the

heading of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charity B. Smith, Office of Information

Resources Management (HFA–250),

Food and Drug Administration, 5600

Fishers Lane, rm. 16B–19, Rockville,

MD 20857, 301–827–1686.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal agencies

to provide a 60-day notice in the

Federal Register concerning each

proposed collection of information,

including each proposed extension of an

existing collection of information.

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR

1320.3(c). To comply with this

requirement, FDA is publishing notice

of the proposed collection of

information listed below.

With respect to the following

collection of information, FDA invites

comments on: (1) Whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of FDA’s

functions, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

(2) the accuracy of FDA’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility,

and clarity of the information to be

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques,

when appropriate, and other forms of

information technology.

Food Canning Establishment

Registration, Process Filing and

Recordkeeping for Acidified Foods and

Thermally Processed Low-Acid Foods

in Hermetically Sealed Containers (21

CFR 108.25(c)(1) and (c)(2), (d), (e), (g);

108.35(c)(1), (c)(2), (d), (e), (f), (h);

113.60(c); 113.83; 113.87; 113.89;

113.100; 114.80(b); 114.89; 114.100(a)

through (d)) (OMB Control Number

0910–0037—Extension).

Under the Federal Food, Drug, and

Cosmetic Act (the act), FDA is

authorized to prevent the interstate

distribution of food products that may

be injurious to health or that are

otherwise adulterated, as defined in

section 402 of the act (21 U.S.C. 342).

Under the authority granted to FDA by

section 404 of the act (21 U.S.C. 344),

FDA regulations require registration of

food processing establishments, filing of

process or other data, and maintenance

of processing and production records for

acidified foods and thermally processed

low-acid foods in hermetically sealed

containers. These requirements are

intended to ensure safe manufacturing,

processing, and packing procedures and

to permit FDA to verify that these

procedures are being followed.

Improperly processed low-acid foods

present life-threatening hazards if

contaminated with foodborne

microorganisms, especially Clostridium

botulinum. The spores of Clostridium

botulinum must be destroyed or

inhibited to avoid production of the

deadly toxin that causes botulism. This

is accomplished with good

manufacturing procedures, which must

include the use of adequate heat

processes or other means of

preservation.

To protect the public health, FDA

regulations require that each firm that

manufactures, processes, or packs

acidified foods or thermally processed

low-acid foods in hermetically sealed

containers for introduction into

interstate commerce register the

establishment with the Food and Drug

Administration using Form FDA 2541

(21 CFR 108.25(c)(1) and 108.35(c)(2)).

In addition to registering the plant, each

firm is required to provide data on the

processes used to produce these foods,

using Form FDA 2541a for all methods

except aseptic processing, or Form FDA

2541c for aseptic processing of low-acid

foods in hermetically sealed containers

(21 CFR 108.25(c)(2), 108.35(c)(2)). Plant

registration and process filing may be

accomplished simultaneously. Process

data must be filed prior to packing any

new product, and operating processes