Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2001 / Notices 10663

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Housing Service

Notice of Availability of Funding and

Requests for Proposals for Guaranteed

Loans Under the Section 538

Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing

Program; Correction

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service

(RHS) corrects a notice published

December 26, 2000 (65 FR 81650–

81656). This action is taken to correct

the point scoring of the selection criteria

in paragraph VIII(A), (B), and (E). This

action is being taken so that interest

credit requests may be scored as they

are received, on an individual basis, to

determine if the threshold criteria of 70

points have been met.

Accordingly, the notice published

December 26, 2000, (65 FR 81650–

81656), is corrected as follows:

On page 81655, in the second column,

Item VIII(A), the third sentence, ‘‘The

proposals will be given a point score

starting with the project located in the

area with the lowest population

receiving 20 points, the next 19 points

and so forth, until up to 20 projects have

received points.’’ should read

‘‘Population points will be awarded as

follows:

Population Points

Less than 10,000 .......................... 20

10,001–14,999 .............................. 15

15,000–16,999 .............................. 5

17,000–20,000 .............................. 0

On page 81655, in the third column,

Item VIII(B), the second sentence, ‘‘The

proposals will be given a point score

starting with the community having the

lowest median income receiving 20

points, the next 19 points and so forth

until up to 20 proposals have received

points.’’ should read ‘‘Median income

points will be awarded as follows:

Median income (dollars) Points

Less than 25,000 .......................... 20

25,000–29,999 .............................. 15

30,000–34,999 .............................. 10

35,000–40,000 .............................. 5

More than 40,000 ......................... 0

On page 81656, in the first column,

Item VIII(E), the second sentence, ‘‘The

proposals will be ranked in order of this

percentage with the proposal with the

highest percent receiving 20 points, the

next 19 points and so forth until up to

20 projects have received points.’’

should read ‘‘Percentage of 3–5 bedroom

points will be awarded as follows:

Percentage of 3–5 bedrooms Points

100 ................................................ 20

At least 75 .................................... 15

At least 50 .................................... 10

At least 25 .................................... 5

Less than 25 ................................. 0

Dated: February 2, 2001.

Obediah G. Baker, Jr.,

Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.

[FR Doc. 01–3969 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List Additions and

Deletion

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Additions to and deletion from

the procurement list.

SUMMARY: This action adds to the

Procurement List commodities and

services to be furnished by nonprofit

agencies employing persons who are

blind or have other severe disabilities,

and deletes from the Procurement List a

service previously furnished by such

agencies.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 19, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800,

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Louis R. Bartalot (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July

21, September 22 and December 29,

2000, the Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled published notices (65 FR

45358, 57313 and 82974) of proposed

additions to and deletion from the

Procurement List:

Additions

After consideration of the material

presented to it concerning capability of

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide

the commodities and services and

impact of the additions on the current

or most recent contractors, the

Committee has determined that the

commodities and services listed below

are suitable for procurement by the

Federal Government under 41 U.S.C.

46–48c and 41 CFR 51–2.4.

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

commodities and services to the

Government.

2. The action will not have a severe

economic impact on current contractors

for the commodities and services.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodities and services to the

Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the commodities and

services proposed for addition to the

Procurement List.

Accordingly, the following

commodities and services are hereby

added to the Procurement List:

Commodities

EMM Tray, Plastic

7240–00–NSH–0001

Cloth, High Performance

7920–00–NIB–0194

7920–00–NIB–0390

7920–00–NIB–0394

7920–00–NIB–0395

7920–00–NIB–0396

7920–00–NIB–0397

7920–00–NIB–0398

Services

Janitorial/Custodial

NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW.,

Washington, DC

Laborer, Multi-Tasks Support Services

Postwide, Fort Hood, Texas, Mailroom

Operation, USDA, Rural Development

Agency, St. Louis, Missouri

This action does not affect current

contracts awarded prior to the effective

date of this addition or options that may

be exercised under those contracts.

Deletion

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities.

2. The action will not have a severe

economic impact on future contractors

for the service.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

service to the Government.