institutions, and in homes for disadvantaged, dependent, or neglected children.

Their main purpose is to help provide for the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of children by affording them close, personal, and continuing relations with an adult. They furnish a fresh note of love and intimacy often missing in institutional environments. Among other responsibilities, they feed and dress children, read, play games, and tell stories to them, and aid in speech and physical therapy so that these troubled children know that someone cares about them.

RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER
PROGRAM (RSVP)

The purpose of RSVP is to create a variety of meaningful opportunities for persons of retirement age to participate, through volunteer service, more fully in the life of their communities.

RSVP projects are planned, organized, and operated at the local level, and developed under the auspices of an established organization able to generate local financial support.

Volunteers must be at least 60 years of age, and be willing and able to serve on a regular basis. There are no income or educational requirements. They perform every kind of service according to preference and needs, and serve in a variety of settings, including courts, schools, parks, libraries and museums, day care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, youth activities, economic development agencies, and other community service outlets.

SENIOR COMPANION PROGRAM

The Senior Companion Program provides meaningful part-time, volunteer opportunities for low-income older persons to render, in a mutually beneficial relationship, supportive person-toperson services to adults (21 years of age and over) with special needs in health-, education-, and welfarerelated settings.

Under the sponsorship and supervision of an approved agency, the Senior Companion serve; in a variety of settings: hospitals, institutions for the physically, emotionally or mentally handicapped, correctional facilities, senior day-care settings, and private homes. The Senior Companion serves each assigned adult on a frequent and regular basis each week for as long as necessary.

The Senior Companion receives a stipend which enables him to serve without cost to himself and to fill a useful role in society. The program also benefits the volunteer stations where the scope of regular duties often makes it impossible for professional personnel to give personal attention to individual adults for whom this added dimension of care is particularly needed.

UNIVERSITY YEAR FOR ACTION (UYA) UYA was begun in July 1971 as a pilot program enabling students from participating colleges and universities to spend a year off campus working to mobilize university and community resources in the elimination of local poverty and poverty-related problems.

The program's unique feature is that participating students continue to receive academic credit toward graduation during their period of service. Also, by making available their expertise, energy, and resources, the Nation's institutions of higher learning are able to actively express their concern for poverty in America, and are afforded opportunities for tangible contributions toward helping people to solve their own problems, while at the same time enhancing the learning experience of the students.

UYA volunteers are chosen according to guidelines set by their college or university. The college also trains them, normally for a 3-4 week period, for the specific project to which they will be assigned. Students serve full-time for a year under the guidance of a local sponsoring organization, receive an

average of $200 a month for living expenses, and live in the community they serve. Projects concentrate on health and medical services, community planning, economic development, housing improvement, consumer education, legal counseling, the administration of justice, youth services, and education.

THE NATIONAL STUDENT

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM (NSVP)

NSVP encourages and supports independent student service-learning programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels by providing written, technical assistance training programs for directors and administrators of service-learning programs, and on-site

consultation. NSVP grants no funds and does not control local efforts in any way.

YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM

The Youth Challenge Program (YCP) offers young people (ages 14-21) meaningful opportunities to provide volunteer service to poverty communities and to work toward the solution of poverty-related problems. Schools, colleges, and other public or nonprofit organizations qualifying as eligible sponsors, develop YCP projects in conjunction with organizations that can use youth manpower in supplementing their efforts toward the elimination of poverty problems.

It is the intent of YCP that young persons who are volunteers be granted academic credit or recognition, such as release time from their school studies, so that their services can be provided. Volunteer settings include day care centers, nurseries, nursing homes, home rehabilitation projects, and other community service projects.

The sponsor agency is urged to develop a broad-based community coalition in support of volunteer efforts and to mobilize resources so that the projects undertaken by the YCP volunteers can be continued when ACTION funding is concluded.

Sources of Information

In all cases, information or assistance may be obtained by directing inquiries to or contacting ACTION's Washington headquarters or any of its regional and recruiting offices. Frequently, information is available from local post offices. Address specific inquiries as indicated below.

EMPLOYMENT

Persons interested in employment with the Agency should address inquiries to ACTION, Personnel Management DiI vision, Washington, D.C. 20525.

PUBLICATIONS

Write to ACTION, Office of Recruitment, Washington, D.C. 20525 for general literature and for recruitment material. A variety of technical publications relating to training and programming in the Peace Corps and to appropriate technologies developed in

the field can be obtained through

ACTION, Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange, Washington, D.C. 20525.

VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT

Persons interested in volunteering for service with either the Peace Corps or VISTA should address headquarters inquiries to ACTION/Peace Corps or ACTION/VISTA, Washington, D.C. 20525. Those seeking general information about other ACTION programs may call 800-424-8580 toll free. They may also write or contact any regional or recruiting office, or ACTION/Office of Recruitment, Washington, D.C. 20525.

FOSTER GRANDPARENT PROGRAM/RSVP Information be obtained from may ACTION regional offices, or by writing to ACTION/RSVP or ACTION! Foster Grandparent Program, Washington, D.C. 20525.

UYA

Write ACTION/University Year for ACTION, Washington, D.C. 20525.

PEACE CORPS PARTNERSHIP

Persons and groups interested in participating in Partnership projects should call 800-424-8580, extension 27 or 28, toll free.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, ACTION, Washington, D.C. 20525. Phone, 202-254-7526.

Approved.

MARY LEYLAND,

Acting Assistant Director for Administration and Finance.

ROBERT A. ANTHONY, Chairman.

WALTER GELLHORN.

MARION EDWYN HARRISON.

BETTY SOUTHARD MURPHY.

EDWARD C. SCHMULTS. RICHARD C. VAN DUSEN. RICHARD E. WILEY.

EDWIN A. ZIMMERMAN. (3 VACANCIES)

The Administrative Conference of the United States was established as a permanent independent agency by the Administrative Conference Act (5 U.S.C. 571-576) enacted in 1964. The statutory provisions prescribing the organization and activities of the Conference are based in part upon the experience of two temporary Conferences called by the President in 1953 and 1961, each of which operated for a period of 18 months.

MEMBERSHIP

The Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a 5-year term. The Council, which is the executive board, consists of the Chairman and 10 other members appointed by the President for 3-year terms. Federal officials named to the Council may constitute no more than one-half of the total Council membership. In addition to the Chairman and the other members of the Council, the membership of the Administrative Conference is composed of 44 high-level officials designated from 37 departments and agencies of the Federal Government (or their designees) and 36 private lawyers, university faculty members,

and others specially informed in law and government. Members representing the private sector are appointed by the Chairman, with the approval of the Council, for 2-year terms. The Chairman is the only full-time compensated member.

The entire membership is divided. into nine committees, each assigned a broad area of interest as follows: Agency Decisional Processes; Agency Organization and Personnel; Claims Adjudications; Compliance and Enforcement Proceedings; Grants, Benefits, and Contracts Programs; Informal Action; Judicial Review; Licenses and Authorizations; Ratemaking and Economic Regulation; and Rulemaking and Public Information. The membership meeting in plenary session is called the Assembly of the Administrative Conference, which by statute must meet at least once, and customarily meets twice, each year.

ACTIVITIES

Subjects for inquiry are developed by the Chairman, the Council, the committees, and the Assembly. The comImittees, with staff assistance, conduct. thorough studies of these subjects and develop proposed recommendations and supporting reports. The recom

mendations are evaluated by the Council and, if ready for Assembly consideration, are distributed to the membership with the supporting reports and are placed on the agenda of the next plenary session. The Assembly has complete authority to approve, amend, remand, or or reject reject recommendations presented by the committees. The deliberations of the Assembly are public.

Although the Administrative Conference has the authority only to recommend changes in administrative procedures, the Chairman is authorized to encourage the departments and agencies to adopt the recommendations of the Conference and is required by the Administrative Conference Act to transmit to the President and to Congress an annual report and interim reports concerning the activities of the Conference, including reports on the implementation of its recommendations.

Recommendations adopted by the Conference may call for new legislation or for action on the part of affected agencies. A substantial number of recommendations have been implemented and others are in the process of implementation.

The Chairman is authorized to make independent inquiries into procedural matters he considers important for Conference consideration, including matters proposed by individuals inside or outside the Government. The purpose of conducting inquiries into such

individual problems is not to review the results in particular cases, but rather to determine whether the problems should be made the subject of Conference study in the interests of developing fair and effective procedures for such cases.

Upon the request of the head of a department or agency, the Chairman is authorized to furnish advice and assistance on matters of administrative procedure. The Conference collects information and statistics from departments and agencies and publishes such reports as it considers useful for evaluating and improving administrative processes. The Conference also serves as a forum for the interchange among departments and agencies of information which may be useful in improving administrative practices and procedures.

Sources of Information

The Conference furnishes upon request copies of its recent recommendations and reports. It also maintains a library where copies of all official Conference documents are available for public inspection.

For further information, contact the Executive Secretary, Administrative Conference of the United States, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20037. Phone, 202-254-7020.

Approved.

ROBERT A. ANTHONY,

Chairman.

GEN. MARK W. CLARK, USA (Ret.).

CHARLES E. POTTER.

LESLIE M. FRY.

FRED C. BRAMLAGE.
ALFRED P. CHAMIE.
HARVEY A. ROFFMAN.
WILLIAM G. BRAY.

MAJ. GEN. A. J. ADAMS, USA.