25328 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 84 / Monday, May 1, 2000 / Notices

Dated: April 25, 2000.

Elizabeth A. Shaw,

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of

Reinvention Programs.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission,

Comments Requested

April 25, 2000.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork burden

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on the

following information collection, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An

agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid control

number. No person shall be subject to

any penalty for failing to comply with

a collection of information subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that

does not display a valid control number.

Comments are requested concerning (a)

whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

Commission, including whether the

information shall have practical utility;

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information collected; and (d) ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on the respondents,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

DATES: Written comments should be

submitted on or before June 30, 2000. If

you anticipate that you will be

submitting comments, but find it

difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the contact listed below as soon

as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Les

Smith, Federal Communications

Commissions, 445 12th Street, S.W.,

Room 1–A804, Washington, DC 20554

or via the Internet to lesmith@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collections contact Les

Smith at (202) 418–0217 or via the

Internet at lesmith@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Approval Number: 3060–0531.

Title: Local Multipoint Distribution

Service (LMDS).

Form Number: N/A.

Type of Review: Extension of existing

collection.

Respondents: Individuals or

households; Businesses or other forprofit; State, Local or Tribal

Governments; small businesses or

organizations.

Number of Respondents: 1,476.

Estimated Time Per Response: 8 hour

per response.

Total Annual Burden: 11,808 hours.

Needs and Uses: The information

requested will be used by FCC

personnel to determine whether

applicants for the Local Multipoint

Distribution Service (LMDS) are

qualified legally and technically to be

licensed to use the radio spectrum.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

[DA–00–868]

Telecommunications Services

Between the United States and Cuba

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: On April 13, 2000, the FCC

approved the application of CODETEL

International Communications

Corporation (CIC) to provide

international message telephone service

(IMTS) between the United States and

Cuba transiting the Dominican

Republic, subject to specific conditions.

CIC plans to offer service to Cuba

using facilities of Compan ̃ia Dominicana

de Tele ́fonos (CODETEL), the dominant

carrier in the Dominican Republic, with

which CIC is affiliated within the

meaning of 47 CFR 63.09(e). The U.S.-

Dominican Republic portion of the

traffic will be carried over a submarine

cable owned by CODETEL. The

Dominican Republic-Cuba portion of the

traffic will travel over satellite circuits

already in use for CODETEL’s traffic

with Cuba.

The FCC found that granting CIC’s

application would serve the public

interest under Section 214 of the Act, by

increasing competition on the U.S.-Cuba

international services route and

providing more choices to U.S.

consumers.

DATES: April 13, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: J.

Breck Blalock, Chief, Policy and

Facilities Branch, (202) 418–1460.

Federal Communications Commission.

Rebecca Arbogast,

Chief, Telecommunications Division,

International Bureau.

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisitions of Shares of Banks or

Bank Holding Companies

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank

holding company. The factors that are

considered in acting on the notices are

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices

also will be available for inspection at

the offices of the Board of Governors.

Interested persons may express their

views in writing to the Reserve Bank

indicated for that notice or to the offices

of the Board of Governors. Comments

must be received not later than May 15,

2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri

63166–2034:

1. Marion Edwin Lowery, Franklin,

Tennessee; to acquire voting shares of

Commerce Bancshares, Inc.,

Brownsville, Tennessee, and thereby

indirectly acquire voting shares of Bank

of Commerce, Trenton, Tennessee.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 25, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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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

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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 25, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 104

Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia

30303–2713:

1. Compass Bancshares, Inc.,

Birmingham, Alabama; to merge with

Founders Bancorp, Inc., Scottsdale,

Arizona, and thereby indirectly acquire

Founders Bank of Arizona, Scottsdale,

Arizona.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W.

Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–

2272:

1. Keene Bancorp, Inc., 401(k)

Employee Stock Ownership Plan and

Trust, Keene, Texas; to acquire 46.29

percent of the voting shares of Keene

Bancorp, Inc., Keene, Texas, and

thereby indirectly acquire Nichols

Bancshares, Inc., Dover, Delaware, and

First State Bank, Keene, Texas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, April 25, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60 Day–00–35]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted

for Public Comment and

Recommendations

In compliance with the requirement

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention is providing opportunity for

public comment on proposed data

collection projects. To request more

information on the proposed projects or

to obtain a copy of the data collection

plans and instruments, call the CDC

Reports Clearance Officer on (404) 639–

7090.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

for other forms of information

technology. Send comments to Seleda

Perryman, CDC Assistant Reports

Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road,

MS–D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Proposed Projects: A Research

Program to Develop Optimal NIOSH

Alerts for Occupational Safety and

Health—New—The mission of the

National Institute of Occupational

Safety and Health (NIOSH) is to

promote safety and health at work for all

people through research and prevention.

The Alert is one of the primary

publications by which NIOSH

communicates health and safety

recommendations to at-risk workers.

The Alert is mailed to workers affected

by a particular health or safety hazard

and contains information about the

nature of the hazard, as well as

recommendations for avoiding or

controlling it. Despite the important role

of the Alert in conveying health and

safety information to workers, these

publications have not been routinely

pretested and evaluated for

effectiveness. Therefore, the degree to

which the NIOSH Alerts actually

produce risk awareness, as well as

comprehension, acceptance and use of

the recommended health and safety

measures, is unknown.

NIOSH proposes to apply recent

theoretical advances in communication

research to the development of NIOSH

Alerts in order to ensure maximal

effectiveness in conveying health and

safety information to workers. The

Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) is

a communication theory that has

received much empirical support.

During the past year, an initial test (still

in progress) was conducted to compare

a standard Alert to an Alert with revised

content and format based on the

postulates of the ELM. Although this

initial study will be informative, much

additional research of this nature is

necessary to gain an understanding of

the communication variables that

contribute to high levels of worker

awareness, comprehension, acceptance,

and use of safety recommendations.

According to the ELM, the greatest

impact on long-term health/safety

attitudes and behaviors should occur

when workers are motivated and able to

elaborate upon a message, and when a

message contains strong arguments.

Therefore, the current investigation

aims to (1) examine variables that will

increase level of message-related

elaboration and (2) create messages that

contain strong arguments. The

effectiveness of the standard version of

the Alert for Preventing Injuries and

Deaths from Skid-Steer Loaders will be

compared with revised versions of this

Alert that incorporate variables known

to increase message elaboration and

strong arguments selected through

pretesting. Specifically, the revised

Alerts will use high imagery language to

increase message elaboration. After the

initial messages are developed, they will

be pretested using a sample of 60

farmers and 60 West Virginia University

Agricultural Sciences students.

Following this pretesting phase, data

will be gathered from: (1) 300 volunteer

farmers who attend an on-site testing,

(2) a national random sample of 300

farmers, and (3) 600 West Virginia

University Agricultural Science

students. In each of these cases,

participants will be randomly assigned

to receive either a standard or revised

version of the Alert, and the effect of the

different Alert formats on safety

attitudes and behaviors will be assessed.

Data collected in this investigation

should further our understanding of the

variables that increase effectiveness in

communicating health and safety

information to workers. By continuing

to systematically apply postulates of the

ELM to the design of the Alerts, it

should become possible to develop a