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Vol. 61, No. 102

Friday, May 24, 1996

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Willamette Provincial Interagency

Executive Committee (PIEC), Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Willamette PIEC

Advisory Committee will meet on

Wednesday, June 19 and Thursday June

20, 1996. The meeting on June 20th will

be held in Conference Room ‘‘A’ of the

Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kurse Way (just

off Gateway Street); Springfield, Oregon

97477; phone (541) 726–4769 or 1–800–

626–1900. The meeting is scheduled to

begin at 1:00 p.m. and conclude at

approximately 4:00 p.m. Topics

tentatively scheduled on the agenda

include: (1) Advisory Committee

involvement in flood assessment and

restoration, (2) Update on activities by

agency managers, and (3) a public

forum.

The meeting is open to the public and

opportunity will be available to address

the Advisory Committee during the

public forum. Time allotted for

individual presentations to the

committee will be limited to 3–5

minutes each. Written comments are

encouraged and can be submitted prior

to the meeting.

On Thursday, June 20th, the Advisory

Committee will tour areas on the Eugene

District Bureau of Land Management

(BLM) and Willamette National Forest.

The trip will begin at the Eugene

District of the BLM, 2890 Chad Drive;

Eugene, Oregon 97401; at 7:45 a.m. and

will end at the BLM District Office at

about 4:00 p.m. Focus of the field trip

will be on watershed restoration

projects, impacts of the February

flooding, and watershed analysis.

Citizens are also welcome to join the

June 20th field review but must provide

their own transportation. Travel will be

on double- and single-lane paved and

improved-gravel roads.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For more information regarding this

meeting, contact Neal Forrester,

Designated Federal Official; Willamette

National Forest, 211 East Seventh

Avenue; Eugene, Oregon 97401; (541)

465–6924.

Dated: May 20, 1996.

Marsha Scutvick,

Administration Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–13126 Filed 5–23–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

Rural Housing Service

Notice of Request for Extension of a

Currently Approved Information

Collection

AGENCY: The Rural Housing Service,

USDA.

ACTION: Proposed collection; comments

request.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this

notice announces the Rural Housing

Service’s (RHS) intention to request an

extension for a currently approved

information collection in support of the

program for ‘‘Self-Help Technical

Assistance Grants’’ (FmHA Instruction

1944–I).

DATE: Comments on this notice must be

received by July 23, 1996 to be assured

of consideration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David J. Adams, Senior Loan Specialist,

Single Family Housing Processing

Division, RHS, U.S. Department of

Agriculture, Ag Box 0783, Washington,

D.C. 20250, Telephone (202) 720–1532.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Self-Help Technical Assistance

Grants.

OMB Number: 0575–0043.

Expiration Date of Approval:

November 30, 1996.

Type of Request: Extension of a

currently approved information

collection.

Abstract: This subpart set forth the

policies and procedures and delegate

authority for providing Technical

Assistance funds to eligible applicants

to finance programs of technical and

supervisory assistance for self-help

housing, as authorized under Section

523 of the Housing Act of 1949 loan

program under U.S.C. 42, Section 1472.

This financial assistance may pay part

of all of the cost of developing,

administering, or coordinating program

of technical and supervisory assistance

to aid very low- and low-income

families in carrying our self-help

housing efforts in rural areas. The

primary purpose is to fund

organizations that are willing to locate

and work with families that otherwise

do not qualify as homeowners, are

below the 50 percent of median

incomes, and living in substandard

housing.

RHS will be collecting information

from non-profit organizations to enter

into grant agreements. These non-profit

organizations will give technical and

supervisory assistance, and in doing so,

they must develop a final application

for Section 523 grant funds. This

application contain Agency forms that

contain essential information for making

a determination of eligibility.

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting

for this collection of information is

estimated to average 1.13 per response.

Respondents: Individual or

households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

100.

Estimated Number of Responses per

Respondents: 22.9.

Estimated Total Annual Burden of

respondents: 2,640.

Copies of this information can be

obtained from the Director, Regulations

and Paperwork Management Division at

(202) 720–9725.

Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the function of RHS, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of

RHS’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Comments may be sent to the Director,

Regulations and Paperwork

Management Division, U.S. Department