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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

45 CFR PART 1307

RIN 0970-AB04

 

Program Performance Standards for Head Start Programs Serving 
Infants, Toddlers, and Pregnant Women

AGENCY: Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration 
for Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Withdrawal of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

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SUMMARY: This document announces the withdrawal of an NPRM published on 
June 19, 1990 (55 FR 24899), on Program Performance Standards for Head 
Start Programs Serving Infants, Toddlers and Pregnant Women. A new NPRM 
will be published in the near future on the same subject matter in 
response to recent reauthorization legislation which amended the Head 
Start Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Denice Glover, (202) 205-8552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 19, 1990, the Administration on 
Children, Youth and Families published an NPRM (55 FR 24899) requesting 
comments from the public on proposed requirements governing the 
operation of Head Start programs serving infants, toddlers and pregnant 
women. That action was taken to provide standards so that Head Start 
programs which serve the target population could ensure the provision 
of quality service. We are hereby withdrawing that NPRM.
    Recent Head Start reauthorization legislation, included in Public 
Law 103-252, the Human Services Amendments of 1994 (enacted, May 18, 
1994) amends the Head Start Act to require, among other things, 
promulgation of new standards for services to infants and toddlers and 
their families under the Head Start program. Specifically, the Human 
Services Amendments of 1994 add to the Head Start Act a new section 
645A on ``Programs for Families with Infants and Toddlers'', which 
includes a requirement for the development and publication of standards 
on the new section by December 30, 1994. In order to comply with this 
provision in the Act, we must develop new proposed requirements on 
which the public must have an opportunity to comment. Therefore, it is 
necessary to withdraw the previous NPRM.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Number 13.600, 
Project Head Start)

    Dated: August 4, 1994.
Mary Jo Bane,
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families.
    Approved: August 3, 1994.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-22252 Filed 9-9-94; 8:45 am]
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