24958 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 83 / Friday, April 28, 2000 / Notices

EPA reviewed the submission from

New York State for consistency with the

Guidance in accordance with 40 CFR

131 and 132.5. EPA determined that for

the most part the State of New York has

adopted water quality standards and

NPDES permits program revisions

which are consistent with section 118(c)

of the Clean Water Act and 40 CFR part

132. However, there are certain parts of

the State’s submission that are

inconsistent with the requirements of

the Clean Water Act or 40 CFR part 132

and will be subject to EPA disapproval

if not corrected. On April 11, 2000, in

a letter from EPA Region 2 to the New

York State Department of

Environmental Conservation, EPA

described in detail those provisions

determined to be inconsistent with the

Guidance and subject to disapproval if

not remedied by the State. The

inconsistencies relate to the following

components of the State’s submission in

conformance with section 118(c) of the

CWA and 40 CFR part 132: (1)

Application of the State’s chronic

aquatic life water quality criteria in

certain waters of the Great Lakes Basin;

(2) water quality criteria for mercury for

the protection of wildlife; (3) Procedure

3 of Appendix F of the Guidance for

developing total maximum daily loads

and so-called ‘‘phased’’ total maximum

daily loads; (4) Procedure 5 for

determining reasonable potential to

exceed water quality standards for both

industrial and municipal dischargers,

including the use of fish tissue data, and

the consideration of intake credits; (5)

Procedure 6 for determining reasonable

potential for whole effluent toxicity, and

including limits in the permit when a

determination of reasonable potential

for whole effluent toxicity has been

made; (6) Procedure 7 for expressing

water quality-based effluent limits

(WQBELs) in terms of both mass and

concentration; (7) Procedure 8 for

including calculated WQBELs in the

permit when the WQBEL is below the

quantification level, the need to require

a pollution minimization plan in all

such cases; and, (8) Procedure 9 for

limiting the availability of compliance

schedules to existing discharges to the

Great Lakes Basin. Based on our review

to date, EPA believes that, with the

above exceptions, the submission by

New York is consistent with the

Guidance. Today, EPA is soliciting

public comment regarding all aspects of

the April 11, 2000 letter. In particular,

EPA solicits comments on the

provisions identified in the April 11,

2000 letter as being inconsistent with

the CWA and the Guidance, on EPA’s

proposed course of action if New York

State fails to remedy those

inconsistencies, and on EPA’s belief that

the remainder of the State’s submission

is consistent with the Guidance. EPA’s

letter also describes the provisions of

the Guidance that EPA would identify

in a final rule as applying to discharges

in the New York portion of the Basin if

the identified inconsistencies are not

addressed by the State. EPA may decide

to identify in such a rule the provisions

described in our letter, or other relevant

provisions of the Guidance that the

Agency determines upon completion of

this process to be appropriate, and the

Agency broadly solicits comment

regarding what provisions would be

appropriate to identify in such a rule.

During the next 90 days, EPA intends

to continue working with New York

State to address the inconsistencies

identified in the April 11, 2000 letter. If

the State fails to remedy any of the

inconsistencies identified in the letter,

EPA will publish a notice in the Federal

Register identifying the disapproved

elements and the corresponding

portions of Part 132 that will apply to

waters within the Great Lakes Basin in

New York State.

William J. Muszynski,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2.

[FR Doc. 00–10657 Filed 4–27–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Technological Advisory Council

Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5

U.S.C. App. 2, Pub. L. 92–463, as

amended, this notice advises interested

persons of the fifth meeting of the

Technological Advisory Council

(‘‘Council’’), which will be held at the

Federal Communications Commission

in Washington, DC.

DATES: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 at 10

a.m.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications

Commission, 445 12th St., SW, Room

TW–C305, Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kent

Nilsson at knilsson@fcc.gov or 202–

418–0845.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Council was established by the Federal

Communications Commission to

provide a means by which a diverse

array of recognized technical experts

from a variety of interests such as

industry, academia, government,

citizens groups, etc., can provide advice

to the FCC on innovation in the

communications industry.

The purpose of this fifth meeting will

be to hear and discuss the progress of

the three focus groups established by

the Council to consider the issues the

FCC presented to it at its April 30, 1999

meeting.

These issues include: (1) The current

state of the art for software defined

radios, cognitive radios, and similar

devices, future developments for these

technologies, and ways that the

availability of such technologies might

affect the FCC’s traditional approaches

to spectrum management; and the

current state of knowledge of

electromagnetic noise levels and the

effects of such noise on the reliability of

existing and future communications

systems; (2) the current technical trends

in telecommunications services,

changes that might decrease, rather than

increase, the accessibility of

telecommunications services by persons

with disabilities and ways the FCC

might best communicate to designers of

emerging telecommunications network

architectures, the requirements for

accessibility; and (3) the

telecommunications common carrier

network interconnection scenarios that

are likely to develop, including the

technical aspects of cross network (i.e.,

end-to-end) interconnection, quality of

service, network management,

reliability, and operations issues, as

well as the deployment of new

technologies such as dense wave

division multiplexing and high speed

packet/cell switching. The Council may

also consider such other issues as come

before the Council at the meeting.

Members of the general public may

attend the meeting. The Federal

Communications Commission will

attempt to accommodate as many

persons as possible. However,

admittance will be limited to the seating

available. Depending on the Council’s

progress at this meeting, public

participation may be permitted at the

discretion of the Council’s Chairman.

Interested persons may submit written

comments to David Farber, the

Council’s Designated Federal Officer,

before the meeting either by e-mail

(dfarber@fcc.gov) or by U.S. mail to

David Farber, Chief Technologist, Room

7–C155, Office of Engineering &

Technology, Federal Communications

Commission, 445 12th Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20554.

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Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–10614 Filed 4–27–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation (FDIC).

ACTION: Notice of information collection

to be submitted to OMB for review and

approval under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

SUMMARY: In accordance with

requirements of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501

et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice

that it plans to submit to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) a

request for OMB review and approval of

the information collection system

described below.

Type of Review: New collection.

Title: Applicant Background

Questionnaire.

OMB Number: New collection.

Form Number : 2100/14.

Annual Burden: Estimated annual

number of respondents: 16,000;

Estimated time per response: 3 minutes;

Average annual burden hours: 800

hours.

Expiration Date of OMB Clearance:

New collection.

OMB Reviewer: Alexander T. Hunt,

(202) 395–7860, Office of Management

and Budget, Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC

20503.

FDIC Contact: Tamara R. Manly, (202)

898–7453, Office of the Executive

Secretary, Room F–4058, Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th

Street NW, Washington, DC 20429.

Comments: Comments on this

collection of information are welcome

and should be submitted on or before

May 30, 2000, to both the OMB reviewer

and the FDIC contact listed above.

ADDRESSES: Information about this

submission, including copies of the

proposed collection of information, may

be obtained by calling or writing the

FDIC contact listed above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Applicant Background Questionnaire

will be completed voluntarily by FDIC

job applicants who are not currently

FDIC employees. Responses to questions

on the survey will provide information

on gender, age, disability, race/national

origin, and the applicant’s source of

vacancy announcement information.

Data will be used by the Office of

Diversity and Economic Opportunity

and the Personnel Services Branch to

evaluate the effectiveness of various

recruitment methods used by the FDIC

to ensure that the agency meets

workforce diversity objectives.

Dated: April 24, 2000.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Robert E. Feldman,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–10611 Filed 4–27–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

The companies listed in this notice

have applied to the Board for approval,

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part

225), and all other applicable statutes

and regulations to become a bank

holding company and/or to acquire the

assets or the ownership of, control of, or

the power to vote shares of a bank or

bank holding company and all of the

banks and nonbanking companies

owned by the bank holding company,

including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well

as other related filings required by the

Board, are available for immediate

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank

indicated. The application also will be

available for inspection at the offices of

the Board of Governors. Interested

persons may express their views in

writing on the standards enumerated in

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the

proposal also involves the acquisition of

a nonbanking company, the review also

includes whether the acquisition of the

nonbanking company complies with the

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise

noted, nonbanking activities will be

conducted throughout the United States.

Additional information on all bank

holding companies may be obtained

from the National Information Center

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.

Unless otherwise noted, comments

regarding each of these applications

must be received at the Reserve Bank

indicated or the offices of the Board of

Governors not later than May 23, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri

63166–2034:

1. National Commerce

Bancorporation, Memphis, Tennessee;

to merge with CCB Financial

Corporation, Durham, North Carolina,

and thereby indirectly acquire Central

Carolina Bank and Trust Co., Durham,

North Carolina, and Central Carolina

Bank—Georgia, Columbus, Georgia.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (D. Michael Manies, Assistant Vice

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198–0001:

1. FNB Financial Sevices, Inc.,

Durant, Oklahoma; to acquire 100

percent of the voting shares of FNB

Lockney, Lockney, Texas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 24, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–10569 Filed 4–27–00; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Sunshine Meeting Notice

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday,

May 3, 2000.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, 20th and C

Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20551.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Personnel actions (appointments,

promotions, assignments,

reassignments, and salary actions)

involving individual Federal Reserve

System employees.

2. Any matters carried forward from a

previously announced meeting.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Lynn S. Fox, Assistant to the Board;

202–452–3204.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may

call 202–452–3206 beginning at

approximately 5 p.m. two business days

before the meeting for a recorded

announcement of bank and bank

holding company applications

scheduled for the meeting; or you may

contact the Board’s Web site at http://

www.federalreserve.gov for an

electronic announcement that not only

lists applications, but also indicates

procedural and other information about

the meeting.

Dated: April 26, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–10731 Filed 4–26–00; 11:03 am]

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