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• The property owner(s) must have
sole, legally documented authority to
represent the property or facility or
assemblage for the Government’s
consideration. No speculative offers will
be considered.
• The site must be within an
approximately 25 minute or 30 mile
distance from the Cincinnati airport.
• The site must have reasonably
direct access from the Interstate(s) or
other major roadway arteries.
• The site must be proximate to
existing support services such as
restaurants/ eateries, hotels/ motels or
other approved retail and/or commercial
uses to support the Government’s
workforce.
• Existing facilities must comply
with, or must be capable of being
upgraded to, the most current versions
of the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC),
the Department of Defense (DoD)
Minimum Anti-terrorism Standards for
Buildings and the ISC Security Design
Criteria for Federal Buildings with CDC
project specific planning criteria, to be
considered.
• Only property within the State of
Ohio will be considered.
SITE
• The site must encompass a
minimum of 14 developable acres with
the following characteristics:
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• No deed restrictions or encumbrances
that may potentially restrict the
Government’s use of the developable
portion(s) of the site.
• Soil type and subsurface conditions
suitable for low- and mid-rise development
consistent with that described in the
solicitation.
• Appropriate zoning or other land use
control designation that would allow
research/office uses as specified in the
Government’s solicitation.
• The site must be contiguous.
• Preference shall be given to sites
that have favorable configuration in
shape and dimensions so as to afford the
most flexibility for site planning for the
proposed development.
• The site must be served by or
proximate to basic utilities including,
but not limited to, water, sanitary and
storm sewer, natural gas, and electricity.
• The property owner(s) must either
certify in writing that no environmental
condition exists or is pending, as
defined by Federal, State or local
jurisdiction law, regulation or ordinance
that would potentially restrict the
Government’s use of the site as stated in
the NOI, or identify any such
condition(s), if known. The Government
would keep this information
confidential to the extent allowed under
Federal law.
• The property owner(s) must
identify any Federal, State or locally
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documented historic, archaeological or
cultural resources located on or
immediately adjacent to the site, if
known.
• The property owner(s) must provide
a certified ALTA/ ACSM Boundary,
Topographical and Utility (BTU) survey
of the site, prepared by a qualified,
licensed surveyor, that identifies the
legal dimensions and boundaries of the
site, all lakes, stream or other bodies of
water, all major natural features of the
site such as hills and ravines, public or
private roads, power transmission,
natural gas, electric distribution, or
other utility lines below ground, ongrade, or suspended, and any-and-all
other encumbrances to the site.
• The property owner(s) must
identify any existing buildings or other
improvements on the site, and if such
improvements would be demolished by
the Property owner(s) or the
Government prior to development of the
site; or if the Government is to evaluate
the improvements for future NIOSH
occupancy and use.
GSA will first identify sites that can
meet these basic criterions for the
project, and will then use the NEPA
process analyze the impacts of the
potential sites that have been screened
down to a short list for final
consideration. GSA will solicit
community input throughout this
process, and will incorporate
community comments into the decision
process before any decisions are made.
As part of the Public Scoping process,
GSA will solicit comments in writing
through advertisements in the local
newspapers and public meetings once
potential sites have been identified.
Comments will be directed to: Mr. Phil
Youngberg, Environmental Manager
(4PT), General Services Administration
(GSA), 77 Forsyth Street, Suite 450,
Atlanta, GA 30303.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Phil Youngberg via FAX: 404-562-0790,
or Email: phil.Youngberg@gsa.gov.
Signed:
June 6, 2006.
Philip B. Youngberg,
Environmental Manager 4PHD
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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
OFFICE
Financial Management and Assurance;
Government Auditing Standards
AGENCY:
Government Accountability
Office.
ACTION:
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SUMMARY: One June 9, 2006, the U.S.
Government Accountability Office
(GAO) issued an exposure draft of
proposed revisions to Government
Auditing Standards (GAGAS) (also
known as the Yellow Book) (GAO–06–
729g). To help ensure that the standards
continue to meet the needs of the audit
community and the public it serves, the
Comptroller General of the United
States appointed the Advisory Council
on Government Auditing Standards to
review the standards and recommend
necessary changes. The Advisory
Council includes experts in financial
and performance auditing drawn from
all levels of government, private
enterprise, public accounting, and
academia. This exposure draft of the
standards includes the Advisory
Council’s suggestions for proposed
changes. We are currently requesting
public comments on the proposed
revisions in the exposure draft.
The proposed 2006 revision to
GAGAS will be the fifth revision since
the standards were first issued in 1972.
The 206 Yellow Book exposure draft
seeks to emphasize the critical role of
high quality government audits in
achieving credibility and accountability
in government. the overall focus of the
proposed 2006 revised standards
includes an increased emphasis on
audit quality and ethics and an
extensive update of the performance
audit standards to include a specified
level of assurance with the context of
risk and materiality. In addition, this
proposed revision modernizes GAGAS,
with updates to reflect major
developments in the accountability and
audit environment. Clarifications have
also been made throughout the
standards.
Comments will be accepted
through August 15, 2006.
DATES:
A copy of the exposure draft
can be obtained on the Internet on
GAO’s Home Page https://www.gao.gov/
govaud/ybk01.htm.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Hrapsky, Senior Project
Manager, at (202) 512–9535 or Jeanette
Franzel, Director, Financial
Management and Assurance at (202)
512–9471.
To ensure
that your comments are considered by
GAO and the Advisory Council in their
deliberations, please submit them by
August 15, 2006. Please send your
comments electronically to https://
yellowbook@gao.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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[Public Law 67–13, 42 Stat. 20 (June 10,
1921)]
Jeanette Franzel,
Director, Financial Management and
Assurance.
[FR Doc. 06–5393 Filed 6–13–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Request for Information: Development
and Implementation of Electronic
Benefits Transfer System for Victims
of Disaster To Receive Federal and
State Benefits
Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: HHS invites all comments,
suggestions, recommendations and
creative ideas on the feasibility of
establishing a system of Electronic
Benefits Transfer (EBT) as a simple,
comprehensive, and efficient means to
deliver to disaster victims the Federal,
State and local human services for
which they qualify. This Request for
Information (RFI) is intended to provide
ideas for consideration, and may or may
not result in a future procurement.
DATES: Responses should be submitted
to the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) on or before 5 p.m.,
EDT, August 14, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Electronic responses are
preferred and should submitted at:
https://www.hhs.gov/emergency/rfi/.
Please click on ‘‘E-mail comments
now.’’ Written comments will also be
accepted. Please send to: Department of
Health and Human Services, Room
404E, 200 Independence Ave, SW.,
Washington, DC 20201, Attention: DES
RFI Response.
Public Access: This RFI and all
responses will be made available to the
public in the HHS Public Reading
Room, 200 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC. Please call 202–690–
7453 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays, to arrange access to the Public
Reading Room. The RFI and all
responses will also be made available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.hhs.gov/emergency/rfi. Any
information you submit, including
addresses, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses, and personally identifiable
information, will be made public. Do
not send proprietary, commercial,
financial, business confidential, trade
secret or personal information that
should not be made public.
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During the
summer months of 2005, Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita dramatically impacted
the lives of over four million people
across nearly 93,000 square miles of the
Gulf Coast region. The hurricanes and
subsequent flooding resulted in the
evacuation of New Orleans, marking the
first time a major American city has
been completely evacuated. Beginning
with landfall on August 29, hundreds of
thousands of individuals had immediate
needs for food, housing, medical care,
and other critical health and human
services. Due to the conditions
immediately following the hurricanes,
however, many of these individuals
lacked the ability or resources necessary
to access in a timely and efficient
manner much needed local, State and
Federal benefit programs and services
that were available to them.
To rectify this, the White House
detailed recommendations in The
Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina:
Lessons Learned to refine the disaster
readiness and response capabilities of
nearly all Federal agencies. For one task
in particular, the Department of Health
and Human Services was assigned to
improve the delivery of assistance to
disaster victims by developing a simple,
comprehensive and efficient system
designed to maximize the ease of health
and human services benefit delivery.
The system would also have safeguards
against fraud and it could be used to
help track movements of displaced
victims.
To do so, HHS is soliciting
information regarding approaches for
establishing a system by which victims
of disasters can access multiple benefits
and services in a secure and
confidential way through magnetic
stripe cards, smart cards, biometrics, or
other innovative methods. HHS is
interested in the views and
recommendations of individuals and
organizations on the best way to
develop this capability, with particular
regard to receiving information on the
creation of systems that incorporate
magnetic stripe cards, smart cards,
biometrics, and other innovative tools or
software to streamline benefits delivery.
HHS encourages all potentially
interested parties—individuals,
consumer groups, associations,
governments, non-governmental
organizations, and commercial
entities—to respond. To facilitate
review of the responses we ask
respondents to reference the question
number with their response.
The purpose of this request for
information is to elicit comments and
ideas on how to deliver to victims of
disaster streamlined access to Federal,
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State and local health and human
services benefits and services for which
they qualify.
Questions for Response
1. Current Programs
a. What are the key features of
Federal-, State-, and locallyimplemented variations of EBT systems
already in place?
i. What types of EBT tools are being
used (e.g., magnetic stripe cards, smart
cards, electronic funds transfers,
biometrics, or other innovative
methods)?
ii. What types of benefits are being
provided through these systems (e.g.,
income support, medical care, food and
nutrition, social insurance, education,
child care, loans, unemployment
compensation, and housing assistance)?
iii What information about
individuals accessing services could be
obtained through the EBT tool (e.g.
name, address)?
b. How are these systems managed?
i. How could an emergency EBT
system interface with existing state
systems?
ii. What governance structure is
appropriate for this system?
iii. Who are the interested parties?
iv. How should interested parties
interact? What are their roles and
responsibilities?
v. What internal controls should be in
place to monitor program abuses and
minimize program fraud?
c. What previous efforts have been
made at the Federal, State or local
government levels to consolidate the
delivery of multiple benefits and
services, and what was learned from
those experiences?
2. Feasibility of Emergency EBT System
a. How would it be possible for
individuals who are victims of disasters
to receive benefits from multiple
programs at a single relief facility?
b. What benefits—Federal, State and
local—could be included? How could a
person get access to services that are not
direct cash benefits (e.g., education,
medical care, mental health services or
child care)?
c. How could the system be used for
short-term benefits immediately
following a disaster?
d. What are the training and staffing
requirements for implementation of a
multiple program EBT delivery system
for victims of disasters?
e. What regional differences or statespecific differences in EBT systems are
there that need to be factored in? How
would questions of system
interoperability or differences in state
benefit systems be addressed?
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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
Financial Management and Assurance; Government Auditing Standards
AGENCY: Government Accountability Office.
ACTION: Notice of document availability.
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SUMMARY: One June 9, 2006, the U.S. Government Accountability Office
(GAO) issued an exposure draft of proposed revisions to Government
Auditing Standards (GAGAS) (also known as the Yellow Book) (GAO-06-
729g). To help ensure that the standards continue to meet the needs of
the audit community and the public it serves, the Comptroller General
of the United States appointed the Advisory Council on Government
Auditing Standards to review the standards and recommend necessary
changes. The Advisory Council includes experts in financial and
performance auditing drawn from all levels of government, private
enterprise, public accounting, and academia. This exposure draft of the
standards includes the Advisory Council's suggestions for proposed
changes. We are currently requesting public comments on the proposed
revisions in the exposure draft.
The proposed 2006 revision to GAGAS will be the fifth revision
since the standards were first issued in 1972. The 206 Yellow Book
exposure draft seeks to emphasize the critical role of high quality
government audits in achieving credibility and accountability in
government. the overall focus of the proposed 2006 revised standards
includes an increased emphasis on audit quality and ethics and an
extensive update of the performance audit standards to include a
specified level of assurance with the context of risk and materiality.
In addition, this proposed revision modernizes GAGAS, with updates to
reflect major developments in the accountability and audit environment.
Clarifications have also been made throughout the standards.
DATES: Comments will be accepted through August 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the exposure draft can be obtained on the Internet
on GAO's Home Page https://www.gao.gov/govaud/ybk01.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Hrapsky, Senior Project
Manager, at (202) 512-9535 or Jeanette Franzel, Director, Financial
Management and Assurance at (202) 512-9471.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To ensure that your comments are considered
by GAO and the Advisory Council in their deliberations, please submit
them by August 15, 2006. Please send your comments electronically to
http://yellowbook@gao.gov.
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[Public Law 67-13, 42 Stat. 20 (June 10, 1921)]
Jeanette Franzel,
Director, Financial Management and Assurance.
[FR Doc. 06-5393 Filed 6-13-06; 8:45 am]
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