Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25499

acetate in a 100 mg/mL strength on the

market because the 400 mg/mL strength,

which Upjohn also marketed, was

viewed as a more convenient strength

for the approved indication of

adjunctive therapy and palliative

treatment of inoperable recurrent and

metastatic endometrial or renal

carcinoma.

Dated: May 15, 1996.

William K. Hubbard,

Associate Commissioner for Policy

Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96–12760 Filed 5–21–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Mental Health;

Notice of Meeting

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is

hereby given of the meeting of the

following National Institute of Mental

Health Special Emphasis Panel.

The meeting will be open to the

public to provide concept review of

proposed contract or grant solicitations.

Individuals who plan to attend and

need special assistance, such as sign

language interpretation or other

reasonable accommodations, should

inform the contact person named below

in advance of the meeting.

Name of Committee: National Institute of

Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel

(Telephone Conference Call)

Date: May 22, 1996.

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Place: Parklawn Building, Room 9–105,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Agenda: To provide concept review for a

contract project entitled ‘‘Pilot Study of

Verapamil in Females with Bipolar

Disorder.’’

Contact Person: Michael J. Moody,

Contracts Review Coordinator, Parklawn

Building, Room 9–105, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone 301, 443–

3367.

This notice is being published less

than 15 days prior to the above meeting

due to the urgent need to meet timing

limitations imposed by the review and

funding cycle.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Numbers 93.242, 93.281, 93.282)

Dated: May 16, 1996.

Anna Snouffer,

Committee Management Specialist, NIH.

[FR Doc. 96–12857 Filed 5–17–96; 1:41 pm]

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration

Programmatic Supplement to the

Cooperative Agreement With the

National Association of State Mental

Health Program Directors

AGENCY: Center for Mental Health

Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration

(SAMHSA), HHS.

ACTION: Planned single-source

supplemental award to assist State

mental health, substance abuse, and

Medicaid officials to develop pragmatic

performance measures and outcome

indicators for use in Medicaid managed

behavioral health care contracting.

SUMMARY: This notice is to provide

information to the public concerning a

planned programmatic supplement to

an ongoing cooperative agreement

between the Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services

Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for

Mental Health Services (CMHS) and the

National Association of State Mental

Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).

The ongoing cooperative agreement

funds the Technical Assistance Center

for State Mental Health Planning. The

programmatic supplement is being

provided to address a need that arose

from the recommendations of the

SAMHSA Conference—Partnerships for

Change. The conference highlighted

national and State trends in organizing

and financing public mental health and

substance abuse care. Federal and State

officials received strong encouragement

to expand their collaboration across

levels of government and between

mental health, substance abuse, and

Medicaid agencies to prepare for rapid

changes in their roles, responsibilities,

and funding. A particularly acute need

identified was a core set of quality

assurance and performance measures

that public purchasers of managed

behavioral health care services could

use to monitor the new contracting

mechanism. In the absence of a core set

of measures, it is possible that persons

with severe and persistent mental

illnesses, chronic substance abuse

disorders, and children and adolescents

with serious emotional problems may be

placed into managed care systems with

inadequate safeguards and controls. In

fact, the network of community-based

services that has been developed with

great difficulty over the last three

decades may be jeopardized if public

sector managed care contracts lack

essential performance standards and

quality assurance guidelines.

The NASMHPD Board of Directors, in

close collaboration with the NASMHPD

Research Institute, and the Boards of

Directors of the National Association of

State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors

(NASADAD) and the American Public

Welfare Association (APWA), have all

identified as their top mutual priority

the development of performance

measurement indicators that could be

used by States that are letting contracts

for Medicaid managed behavioral health

care. NASMHPD, which represents the

State mental health agencies in every

State, has a long history of facilitating

the voluntary collection of uniform

mental health data across States.

NASMHPD has worked with State

mental health agencies and CMHS on

the Mental Health Statistics

Improvement Program (MHSIP) to foster

the collection, analysis, and reporting of

data which are useful for systems

management, policy decisions,

evaluation, performance assessment,

and research in the States, as well as

nationally. State health care reform

efforts and the introduction of managed

care financial arrangements have placed

new demands on States for quality

assurance and accountability

information. NASMHPD’s Technical

Assistance Center cooperative

agreement with CMHS represents a

unique capacity that does not exist

anywhere else. The NASMHPD

Technical Assistance Center works

closely with every State mental health

agency. A supplement to the existing

cooperative agreement will allow the

NASMHPD Technical Assistance Center

to develop a consensus among State

mental health, substance abuse, and

Medicaid agencies around the collection

of information about managed care that

can be used internally by States for

quality assurance and contract

monitoring purposes, while, at the same

time, assuring cooperation across States

so that data items and data collection

procedures are uniform so that valid

national and cross-state comparisons

can be made. Therefore, SAMHSA’s

CMHS has determined that a

supplement to the existing cooperative

agreement with NASMHPD should be

made to carry out this important work.

This notice is not a request for

applications; only NASMHPD is eligible

to apply for the supplement to the

existing cooperative agreement. If the

NASMHPD supplemental application is

recommended for approval by the

Special Review Committee, funds will

be made available.

Authority: The programmatic supplement

to the ongoing cooperative agreement will be

made under the authority of Section 1948(a)
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of the Public Health Service Act, as amended

(42 USC 300x–58).

AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS: The

programmatic supplement will be for a

6-month period with up to $80,000 total

costs (direct and indirect costs)

available for that period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard J. Bast, CMHS Division of State

and Community Development Systems,

Room 15C–26 Parklawn Building (301–

443–4257) or Eric Goplerud, SAMHSA

Managed Care Initiative, Room 12C–10

Parklawn Building (301–443–4456). The

mailing address is: 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, Maryland 20857.

Dated: May 14, 1996.

Richard Kopanda,

Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 96–12649 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4162–20–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK–962–1410–00–P; Notice for Publication

F–14920–A]

Alaska Native Claims Selection

In accordance with Departmental

regulation 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is

hereby given that a decision to issue

conveyance under the provisions of Sec.

14(a) of the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act of December 18, 1971, 43

U.S.C. 1601, 1613(a), will be issued to

Arviq Incorporated for approximately

5,189 acres. The lands involved are in

the vicinity of Platinum, Alaska, within

T. 14 S., R. 74 W., Seward Meridian,

Alaska.

A notice of the decision will be

published once a week, for four (4)

consecutive weeks, in The Tundra

Drums. Copies of the decision may be

obtained by contacting the Alaska State

Office of the Bureau of Land

Management, 222 West Seventh

Avenue, #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513–

7599 ((907) 271–5960).

Any party claiming a property interest

which is adversely affected by the

decision, an agency of the Federal

government or regional corporation,

shall have until June 20, 1996 to file an

appeal. However, parties receiving

service by certified mail shall have 30

days from the date of receipt to file an

appeal. Appeals must be filed in the

Bureau of Land Management at the

address identified above, where the

requirements for filing an appeal may be

obtained. Parties who do not file an

appeal in accordance with the

requirements of 43 CFR Part 4, Subpart

E, shall be deemed to have waived their

rights.

Elizabeth Sherwood,

Land Law Examiner, ANCSA Team, Branch

of 962 Adjudication.

[FR Doc. 96–12721 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–$$–P

State of Arizona Resource Advisory

Council Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Arizona Resource Advisory

Council Meeting, notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

fifth meeting of the Arizona Resource

Advisory Council. The meeting will be

held June 13, 1996, beginning at 8:30

a.m. in the Washington Room at the

Bureau of Land Management National

Training Center, 9828 N. 31st Avenue,

Phoenix, Arizona. The agenda items to

be covered at the business meeting

include review of previous meeting

minutes, report to the Council on

Standards and Guidelines briefings with

Federal and State organizations,

discussion of standards and guidelines

draft working group document,

discussion of an open forum session for

the Council to receive information from

other organizations within Arizona, and

a report from the Public Relations

working group. A public comment

period will take place at 11:30 a.m. on

June 13, 1996 for any interested publics

who wish to address the Council.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Clinton Oke or Ken Mahoney, Bureau of

Land Management, Arizona State Office,

3707 North 7th Street, Phoenix, Arizona

85014, (602) 650–0512.

Michael A. Ferguson,

Deputy State Director, Resource Planning, Use

and Protection Division.

[FR Doc. 96–12753 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

[ID–990–01–1020–00)]

Notice of Meeting

SUMMARY: The Lower Snake River

District Resource Advisory Council will

conduct a field tour to examine U.S. Air

Force proposed alternative locations for

new target and emitter sites on public

lands in Owyhee County.

DATES: June 3, 1996. The field tour will

depart from the Lower Snake River

District Office at 6:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The Lower Snake River

District Office is located at 3948

Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barry Rose, Lower Snake River District

Office (208–384–3393).

Dated: May 15, 1996.

Barry Rose,

Public Affairs Specialist.

[FR Doc. 96–12722 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–GG–P

[NV–930–1430–01; N–58667]

Intent To Prepare a Planning

Amendment to the Lahontan Resource

Management Plan/Notice of Recreation

and Public Purposes Act

Classification: Churchill County, NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a

plan amendment and environmental

document and notice of classification of

land.

SUMMARY: The following described

public land in Churchill County,

Nevada has been examined and

determined to be suitable for

classification pursuant to the Recreation

and Public Purposes Act of 1926, as

amended (43 U.S.C. 869 et seq.):

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 16 N., R. 29 E.,

Sec. 19, E1⁄2SE1⁄4.

Sec. 20, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, SW1⁄4,

W1⁄2SE1⁄4.

This public land is within an area

currently identified in the Lahontan

Resource Management Plan (RMP) for

retention in federal ownership for

multiple uses. The Bureau of Land

Management will consider amending

the RMP to change the land designation

of up to 400 acres, from retention status

to disposal status. The amendment and

associated environmental document

will also analyze the suitability of the

land for conveyance to the City of

Fallon for use as a landfill. Conveyance

may only occur if the plan amendment

is approved.

DATES AND ADDRESSES: Interested

persons may submit comments

regarding the proposed plan amendment

to the District Manager, Carson City

District Office, 1535 Hot Springs Road,

Suite 300, Carson City, Nevada 89706

until June 20, 1996. Additionally, for a

period of 45 days from the date of

publication, interested persons may

submit comments regarding the land

classification for public purposes

appropriate under the Recreation and

Public Purposes Act. Comments on the

classification are restricted to whether

the land is physically suited for

development for public purposes,