Grant Awards for Special Projects to Center for Law and Education, National Employment Law Project and National Health Law Program.

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Grant Awards for Special Projects to Center for Law and

Education, National Employment Law Project and National Health Law

Program.

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation.

ACTION: Announcement of intention to award grants.

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SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation hereby announces its intention

to award one-time, nonrecurring grants in amounts indicated to the

Center for Law and Education ($15,000), the National Employment Law

Project ($10,000) and the National Health Law Program ($75,000).

The one-time grants will be awarded pursuant to authority conferred

by section 1006(a)(3) of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, as

amended. This public notice is issued with a request for comments and

recommendations within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of

publication of this notice. The grant award will not become effective

and grant funds will not be distributed prior to expiration of this 30-

day period.

DATES: All comments and recommendations must be received by 5pm on or

before September 26, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of Program Services,

Legal Services Corporation, 750 First Street, NE, 11th Floor,

Washington, DC 20002-4250.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phyllis Doriot, Office of Program

Services, (202) 336-8825.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Legal Services Corporation is the

national organization charged with administering federal funds provided

for civil legal service to the poor. Each Center is a recipient of LSC

funding for the provision of support services to all direct delivery

legal services recipients. The Center for Law and Education's project

will support and improve advocacy on education and training programs

funded under the Higher Education Act. The National Employent Law's

``Job, Employment, Education and Training (JET) Pilot Project''

proposes to collaborate with local advocates in Philadelphia to develop

and implement a comprehensive and coordinated research and advocacy

project on increasing job opportunities. The Health Care Law Proposal

submitted by the National Health Law Program envisions facilitating the

work of legal services programs in gathering data on proposed changes

in laws affecting recipients of public benefits and distributing

information to affected programs.

Dated: August 22, 1994.

Leslie Q. Russell,

Assistant to the Director Office of Program Services.

[FR Doc. 94-21067 Filed 8-25-94; 8:45 am]

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