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3. Budgetary considerations.

Executive Order 12372 Review

Applications are subject to

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs as governed by Executive

Order (E.O.) 12372. E.O. 12372 sets up

a system for State and local government

review of proposed Federal assistance

applications. Applicants should contact

their state Single Point of Contact

(SPOC) as early as possible to alert them

to the prospective applications and

receive any necessary instructions on

the State process. For proposed projects

serving more than one State, the

applicant is advised to contact the SPOC

for each affected State. A current list of

SPOCs is included in the application

kit. If SPOCs have any State process

recommendations on applications

submitted to CDC, they should send

them to Sharron P. Orum, Grants

Management Officer, Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), 255 East

Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta, GA

30305, no later than 45 days after the

application deadline date (the

appropriation for this financial

assistance program was received late in

the fiscal year and would not allow for

an application receipt date which would

accommodate the 60-day State

recommendation process period). The

Program Announcement Number and

Program Title should be referenced on

the document. The granting agency does

not guarantee to ‘‘accommodate or

explain’’ State process

recommendations it receives after that

date.

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

This program is not subject to the

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number is 93.135.

Other Requirements

Human Subjects

If the proposed project involves

research on human subjects, the

applicant must comply with the

Department of Health and Human

Services Regulations, 45 CFR Part 46,

regarding the protection of human

subjects. Assurance must be provided to

demonstrate that the project will be

subject to initial and continuing review

by an appropriate institutional review

committee. The applicant will be

responsible for providing assurance in

accordance with the appropriate

guidelines and form provided in the

application kit.

Women, Racial, and Ethnic Minorities

It is the policy of the CDC and the

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR) to ensure that

individuals of both sexes and the

various racial and ethnic groups will be

included in CDC/ATSDR-supported

research projects involving human

subjects, whenever feasible and

appropriate. Racial and ethnic groups

are those defined in OMB Directive No.

15 and include American Indian,

Alaskan Native, Asian, Pacific Islander,

Black and Hispanic. Applicants shall

ensure that women, racial and ethnic

minority populations are appropriately

represented in applications for research

involving human subjects. Where clear

and compelling rationale exist that

inclusion is inappropriate or not

feasible, this situation must be

explained as part of the application. In

conducting review for scientific merit,

review groups will evaluate proposed

plans for inclusion of minorities and

both sexes as part of the scientific

assessment of scoring.

This policy does not apply to research

studies when the investigator cannot

control the race, ethnicity and/or sex of

subjects. Further guidance to this policy

is contained in the Federal Register,

Vol. 60, No. 179, pages 47947–47951,

dated Friday, September 15, 1995.

Application Submission and Deadlines

The original and five copies of the

application PHS 398 form (Revised 5/

95, OMB No. 0925–0001) must be

submitted to Sharron P. Orum, Grants

Management Officer, Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), 255 East

Paces Ferry Road, NE., Room 314,

Mailstop E–18, Atlanta, GA 30305, on or

before July 15, 1996.

1. Deadline: Applications shall be

considered as meeting the deadline if

they are either:

(a) Received on or before the deadline

date; or

(b) Sent on or before the deadline date

and received in time for submission to

the objective review group. (Applicants

must request a legibly dated U.S. Postal

Service postmark or obtain a legibly

dated receipt from a commercial carrier

or U.S. Postal Service. Private metered

postmarks shall not be acceptable as

proof of timely mailing.)

2. Late Applications: Applications

which do not meet the criteria in 1.(a)

or 1.(b) above are considered late

applications. Late applications will not

be considered in the current

competition and will be returned to the

applicant.

Where To Obtain Additional

Information

A complete program description,

information on application procedures,

an application package, and business

management technical assistance may

be obtained from Glynnis D. Taylor,

Grants Management Specialist, Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), 255 East

Paces Ferry Road, NE., Room 314,

Mailstop E–18, Atlanta, GA 30305,

telephone (404) 842- 6508, by fax (404)

842–6513, or by Internet or CDC

WONDER electronic mail at

<gld1@opspgo1.em.cdc.gov>.

Programmatic technical assistance may

be obtained from Patricia L. Riley,

C.N.M., M.P.H., Director, Health

Promotion Disease Prevention Research

Center Program, or Donald E. Benken,

M.P.H., Health Education Specialist,

National Center for Chronic Disease

Prevention and Health Promotion,

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), 4770 Buford

Highway, NE., Mailstop K–30, Atlanta,

GA 30341–3724, telephone (404) 488–

5395 or by Internet or CDC WONDER

electronic mail at

<pyr0@ccdod1.em.cdc.gov> or

<dxb0@ccdash1.em.cdc.gov>.

Please refer to Program

Announcement Number 641 when

requesting information and submitting

an application.

Potential applicants may obtain a

copy of ‘‘Healthy People 2000’’ (Full

Report, Stock No. 017–001–00474–0) or

‘‘Healthy People 2000’’ (Summary

Report, Stock No. 017–001–00473–1)

referenced in the ‘‘Introduction’’

through the Superintendent of

Documents, Government Printing

Office, Washington, DC 20402–9325,

telephone (202) 512–1800.

There may be delays in mail delivery

and difficulty in reaching the CDC

Atlanta offices during the 1996 Summer

Olympics. Therefore, CDC suggests

using Internet, following all instructions

in this announcement and leaving

messages on the contact person’s voice

mail for more timely responses to any

questions.

Dated: June 3, 1996.

Joseph R. Carter,

Acting Associate Director for Management

and Operations, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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Administration for Children and

Families

New and Pending Demonstration

Project Proposals Submitted Pursuant

to Section 1115(a) of the Social

Security Act: May 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 May, 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 May 1, 1995. The Health

Care Financing Administration is

publishing a separate notice for

Medicaid only demonstration projects.

Comments: We will accept written

comments on these proposals. We will,

if feasible, acknowledge receipt of all

comments, but we will not provide

written responses to comments. We

will, however, neither approve nor

disapprove new proposals under the

standard application process for at least

30 days after the date of this notice to

allow time to receive and consider

comments. Direct comments as

indicated below.

ADDRESSES: For specific information or

questions on the content of a project

contact the State contact listed for that

project.

Comments on a proposal or requests

for copies of a proposal should be

addressed to: Howard Rolston,

Administration for Children and

Families, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW.,

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 May, 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 May, 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
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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—Pursuit Of New

Opportunities (PONO).

Description: Would limit benefits to

60 months in a lifetime for all

households except those exempt from

work requirements; for all non-exempt

households, progressively reduce the

grant amount, by 20% after 2 months,

then in annual stages to 50% in the fifth

year of eligibility; exclude the income of

dependent, minor student recipients

from the 185% Gross Income Test;

require all non-high school graduate or

non-GED certified minor parent heads of

households to participate in educational

activities; use a Benefit Reduction Rate

formula to allow participants to offset

progressive grant reductions by keeping

a larger portion of any earned income;

eliminate all of AFDC–UP categorical

requirements; strengthen JOBS

participation requirements by

eliminating certain exemptions such as,

remoteness due to excessive travel time,

current work activity, the non-principal

earner in a two parent household, or

full-time VISTA participants, etc.; allow

families to retain up to $5,000 in

resources; disregard one motor vehicle,

regardless of equity value, needed for

self-sufficiency purposes; delete the $50

child support pass-through; disregard

all student loans, grants and

scholarships as income.

Date Received: 05/07/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New (replaces

previous pending application).

Contact Person: Kristine Foster, (808)

586–5729.

Project Title: Illinois—Six Month

Paternity Establishment Demonstration.

Description: In 20 counties, would

require the establishment of paternity,

unless good cause exists, within 6

months of application or

redetermination as a condition of AFDC

and Medicaid eligibility for both mother

and child; would deny Medicaid to

children age 7 and under, exclude

children from filing rules, and exempt

Department from making protective

payments to eligible children, when

custodial parent has not cooperated in

establishing paternity; delegate the

establishment of paternity in

uncontested cases to caseworkers who

perform assistance payment or social

service functions under title IV–A or

XX.

Date Received: 7/18/95.

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: Pending.

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
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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: Pending.

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

from high school to attend school as a

condition of family eligibility.

Date received: 4/26/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Dan Cleary, (517)

335–0015.

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: Pending.

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.

Minnesota has amended this

application to include a proposed

provision in which families who have

resided in the State of Minnesota for

less than 30 days would not be eligible

for AFDC with the following exceptions:

(1) Either the child or caretaker relative

was born in Minnesota; (2) either the

child or caretaker relative has resided in

the State for 365 consecutive days in the

past; (3) either the child or the caretaker

relative went to Minnesota to join a

close relative who has resided in the

State for at least one year; or (4) the

caretaker relative went to Minnesota to

accept a bona fide offer of employment

for which he or she was eligible. For

purposes of the exemption close relative

is defined as a parent, grandparent,

brother, sister, spouse, or child. The

State would allow county agencies to

waive the 30 day requirement in cases

of emergency or where unusual

hardship would result from denial of

benefits.

Date Received: 4/4/96; amendment

received 5/28/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New (Amendment

only).

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
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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 States 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 States

to require that some individuals be

assigned to a managed care program;

substitute outcome measures for JOBS

participation rates; change participation

requirements for parents with children

under 6, UP recipients and minors;

establish a medical deduction; increase

the sanction for non-cooperation with

child support; exempt individuals with

significant employment barriers from

JOBS; treat lump sum income and all

real property, except a home, as a

resource; and use 20% of gross earned

income as a Medicaid disregard. Also

contains various Food Stamp waivers.

Date Received: 9/18/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek,

(603) 271–4442.

Project Title: New Hampshire—New

Hampshire Employment Program.

Description: In three pilot sites, would

require work after 6 months of AFDC

receipt; eliminate the exemption from

JOBS for women in the second trimester

of pregnancy; eliminate the JOBS

exemption for caretaker of a child under

3 but not less than 1 year of age; replace

the earned income disregard of $90 and

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

is not time-limited; raise the resource

limit for recipients to $2,000; disregard

full value of one vehicle per adult for

applicants and recipients; apply a full

family sanction voluntarily quitting a

job or refusing to accept a job; apply a

sanction of reducing the payment

standard by 30% for one month for

failure to comply with JOBS in the first

instance, by 60% in the second instance

for one month, and in the third instance

apply a full-family sanction for three

months or until compliance; and require

non-custodial parents to participate in

JOBS.

Date Received: 10/6/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek,

(603) 271–4442.

Project Title: New York—Learnfare

Program.

Description: Would phase in

statewide a provision that would require

AFDC children in grades 1 through 6 to

attend school regularly by mandating a

sanction of removal of the child’s needs

from the budget group for three months

in those cases, where after counseling,

the child has 5 or more unexcused

absences in a quarter. Benefits for

parents will be terminated, for failure

without good cause, to sign the release

form for educational records.

Date Received: 5/31/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Jeff Gaskell, (518)

486–3415.

Project Title: New York—Intentional

Program Violation Demonstration.

Description: Statewide would change

the sanction for Intentional Program

Violations making the period of

ineligibility of the person committing

the violation dependant on both the

number of offenses and the amount of

the overpayment incurred as a result of

the violation.

Date Received: 5/31/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Jeff Gaskell, (518)

486–3415.

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 or previous state of

residence or Oklahoma’s for 12 months

for new residents.

Date Received: 10/27/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Raymond Haddock,

(405) 521–3076.

Project Title: 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 Recevied: 12/29/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia H. O’Neal,

(717) 787–4081.

Project Title: Tennessee—Families

First.

Description: Description: Statewide,

would impose 18 month time limit with

60 month lifetime limit on cash

assistance for non-exempt 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
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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: Pending.

Contact Person: Glenda Shearon,

(615) 313–5652.

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.

Project Title: Virginia—Virginia

Independence Program (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the

Virginia Independence Program to

require AFDC applicants and recipients

(including specified relatives other than

a parent) to provide information

sufficient to identify the non-custodial

parent. Failure to provide the required

information would result in sanctions.

In any case where an applicant/

recipient does not claim good cause or

good cause does not exist, an affidavit

from the custodial parent attesting to the

lack of information about the noncustodial parent/putative father, in and

of itself, would not meet the definition

of cooperation. If the first two genetic

tests exclude the named putative

fathers, the State will impose a sanction

until paternity is established. If a

relative other than the parent maintains

that he does not know the identity of the

child’s parent and has no way to help

identify the parent, the sanction would

not be imposed.

Date Received: 5/24/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending (amended

provisions not previously published).

Contact Person: Barbara Cotter, (804)

692–1811.

Project Title: Wisconsin—Work Not

Welfare and Pay for Performance

Projects (Amendments).

Description: Statewide, would lower

the JOBS exemption from a parent

whose youngest child is one year old or

younger to a parent whose youngest

child is 12 weeks old or younger;

require up to 40 hours a week in CWEP

regardless of the amount of the family’s

AFDC grant and require participation in

substance abuse and mental health

treatment, as appropriate; include

intentional failure or voluntary quit in

a work component as a failure to

cooperate with JOBS and apply JOBS

program sanctions to the entire family;

and limit AFDC receipt to 60 months in

a lifetime, with exemptions and case-bycase extensions. The state would extend

child care to families earning up to 165

percent of poverty with graduated copayments based on the cost of care, and

change IV–A cases headed by a nonneedy non-legally responsible relative to

IV–E cases and provide cases headed by

an adult SSI recipient a special childonly grant supplement in lieu of the

regular AFDC payment for the child.

Both types of cases would be exempt

from the time limit and work

requirements. Further, the state would

require minor parents to live with a

parent or in an adult-supervised setting.

Also the state would establish a

competitive process for selection of

contractors to administer county

programs.

Date Received: 5/8/96; Amendments

received 5/17/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Jean Sheil, (608) 266–

0613.

Project Title: Wisconsin—Wisconsin

Works (W2).

Description: Statewide, would

establish performance standards for the

administration of Wisconsin Works

(W2) along with a competitive process

for selection of contractors to administer

county programs. The State would

provide—but not guarantee—work

positions, child care and health care

coverage to families (as defined by the

State), whose gross income does not

exceed 115 percent of the federal

poverty level (FPL), whose resources do

not exceed $2,500 (excluding a

homestead), and whose total auto equity

assets do not exceed $10,000, with a 60-

day State residency requirement for

eligibility. The State would count all

earned and unearned income, including

child support (which will be paid

directly to the custodial parent), except

for EITC when determining W2

eligibility. The State would require

participation in substance abuse and

mental health treatment, as appropriate;

exempt from a work requirement

parents with a child less than 12 weeks

old; and provide for an appeal process

for W2 eligibility and benefit decisions.

The State would review an individual

W2 agency’s financial eligibility

decision only if the applicant petitions

the State within 15 days of the decision

and would not pay benefits pending a

decision. Applicants would be required

to search for unsubsidized employment

during eligibility determination, and

would be denied eligibility if they

refused a bona fide offer of employment

in the 180 days prior to application. The

State would automatically refer all W2

participants to child support for

services. The State would require minor

parents to live with a parent or in an

adult-supervised setting to receive W2

non-employment/non-cash benefits,

e.g., financial planning assistance, case

management; but minor parents would

not be eligible for W2 employment/cash

benefits. Teen children must attend

school regularly. The state would

provide children whose parents are SSI

recipients a payment of $77.

The W2 payment amount would be

determined according to job placement:

unsubsidized job, trial job (including up

to $300 per month wage subsidy to

employer), community service job

(benefit of $555 per month), and
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transitional placement (benefit of $518

per month). Community service Jobs

would require 30 hours per week of

work plus 10 hours per week of

education and training; transitional

placement jobs would require 28 hours

per week of work plus 12 hours of

education and training. In addition

CWEP participation would be increased

up to 40 hours per week. The State

would sanction individuals $4.25 per

each hour of non-participation in work

requirements. In addition sanctions

would be imposed upon the entire

family for refusal to participate, without

good cause, in a W2 employment

position. Three refusals to participate in

any W2 employment category would

result in permanent ineligibility for that

category. To assist families with onetime expenses, the State would provide

Job Access Loans for employment

support needs, e.g., car repair, uniforms,

etc; and would extend child care to

families earning up to 165 percent of

poverty with graduated co-payments

based on family income and the

category of care used. Child care would

only be provided to children under 13.

The State would limit participation to

24 months in any one W2 employment

position and would limit lifetime

eligibility for benefits to 60 months,

with extensions on a case-by-case basis;

the 60-month limit would apply to

certain JOBS participants beginning July

1, 1996. The State would change AFDC

cases headed by a non-legally

responsible relative to a IV-E case;

provide job search assistance and case

management to non-custodial parents

with a child support order; impose

stricter sanctions for non-cooperation

with child support; and permanently

deny W2 employment after three

Intentional Program Violations. Benefit

overpayments will be recouped for

intentional violations at a rate set by the

State. Corrective payments would not be

made for underpayments. Eligibility for

Emergency Assistance for certain

homeless persons would be limited to

once in a 36-month period unless the

homelessness was caused by domestic

abuse, and the State would allow

displacement of regular employees by

W2 participants in certain cases: i.e.,

partial displacement (reduction in

hours); impairment of existing contracts;

infringement upon promotional

opportunities; and filling of any

established unfilled position.

The State would eliminate

transitional Medicaid and expand

Medicaid (i.e., the W2 Health Plan) to

families with gross income up to 165 of

FPL, who would then remain eligible

until their income increases to 200

percent of FPL; and would incorporate

a mandatory HMO enrollment or

primary provider program for W2

participants. Participants would be

required to pay a share of W2 Health

Plan premiums according to a sliding

scale, and the State would impose

stricter Medicaid sanctions for noncooperation with child support. The

State would merge the Food Stamps

E&T program with the W2 Work

Program; modify the Food Stamps work

program exemptions; eliminate the Food

Stamps gross income test; require

nutrition education for Food Stamps

recipients; and cash out food stamps.

Date Received: 5/29/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Jean Sheil, (608) 266–

0613.

Project Title: Wyoming—New

Opportunities and New

Responsibilities—Phase II

(Amendments).

Description: Proposes expansion of

original demonstration statewide and

amendments to the current

demonstration to establish a 5-year

lifetime limit on cash assistance for

adults, beginning with time on AFDC

from July 1, 1987 (with limited

exemptions and extensions); require

school attendance for teen parents who

do not have a high school education or

its equivalent; pursue child support

from the absent minor parent’s parents;

freeze benefits based on household size

10 months after initial qualification;

replace existing earnings disregards for

recipients (except no disregard will

apply for recipients disqualified due to

fraud, education time limits, illegal

alien) with a maximum earned income

disregard of $200 for recipients; expand

pay-for-performance from AFDC-UP to

the regular AFDC population, with

limited exemptions, where failure to

perform any item in the self-sufficiency

plan would cause disqualification of the

parent for AFDC, Food Stamps, and

Medicaid; reduce the grant by $40 when

a nonexempt child fails to meet the

performance requirements; require ablebodied applicants and recipients to do

job search for up to 16 weeks unless

otherwise exempted; terminate the case

when there is loss of contact with the

client for 1 month after nonpayment for

failure to meet the performance

requirements; exclude the earned

income and resources of a dependent

child who is a full-time high school

student; allow payment of the supplied

shelter grant for households with a SSI

recipient, unmarried minor parents, or

recipients disqualified for other reasons

(fraud, education time limits, illegal

aliens); exclude one licensed vehicle

with a fair market value of less than

$12,000; increase the resource limit to

$2,500 for those in compliance with, or

exempted from, the performance

requirements; and exclude veteran’s

service connected disability

compensation if the annual income is

less than the poverty level.

Date Received: 5/13/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending (provisions

not previously published).

Contact Person: Marianne Lee, (307)

777–6849.

III. Listing of Approved Proposals Since

May 1, 1995

Project Title: Minnesota Family

Investment Program (MFIP)

(Amendment).

Contact Person: Chuck Johnson (612)

297–4727.

Project Title: South Carolina—Family

Independence Program.

Contact Person: Linda Martin (804)

737–6010.

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: June 4, 1996.

Karl Koerper,

Director, Division of Economic Independence,

Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

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BILLING CODE 4184–01–P

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer

Matching Programs—Department of

Veterans Affairs

AGENCY: Administration for Children

and Families, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice of a Computer Matching

Program to Comply with Public Law

(Pub. L.) 100–503, the computer

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of

1988.

SUMMARY: In compliance with Public

Law (Pub. L.) 100–503, the Computer

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of

1988, we are publishing a notice of a

computer matching program that ACF

will conduct on behalf of itself, the

Health Care Financing Administration

(HCFA), the Food and Consumer

Service (FCS), utilizing Veterans Affairs

pension and compensation information