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C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s

Statement on Comments on the

Proposed Rule Change Received From

Members, Participants, or Others

Written comments were neither

solicited nor received.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for

Commission Action

Within 35 days of the date of

publication of this notice in the Federal

Register or within such longer period (i)

as the Commission may designate up to

90 days of such date if it finds such

longer period to be appropriate and

publishes its reasons for so finding or

(ii) as to which the self-regulatory

organization consents, the Commission

will:

A. By order approve such proposed

rule change, or

B. Institute proceedings to determine

whether the proposed rule change

should be disapproved.

IV. Solicitation of Comments

Interested persons are invited to

submit written data, views, and

arguments concerning the foregoing.

Persons making written submissions

should file six copies thereof with the

Secretary, Securities and Exchange

Commission, 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of the

submission, all subsequent

amendments, all written statements

with respect to the proposed rule

change that are filed with the

Commission, and all written

communications relating to the

proposed rule change between the

Commission and any person, other than

those that may be withheld from the

public in accordance with the

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be

available for inspection and copying in

the Commission’s Public Reference

Room, 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of such

filing will also be available for

inspection and copying at the principal

office of the NASD. All submissions

should refer to the file number in the

caption above and should be submitted

by September 25, 1997.

Margaret H. McFarland,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23391 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Tennessee

Valley Authority (Meeting No. 1497).

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (CDT), September

8, 1997.

PLACE: Glasgow Electric Plant Board

Building Auditorium, 100 Mallory

Drive, Glasgow, Kentucky.

STATUS: Open.

AGENDA: Approval of minutes of meeting

held on August 5, 1997.

New Business

A—Budget and Financing

A1. Approval of short-term borrowing

from the Treasury.

A2. Delegation of authority to the

Treasurer, or the designee of such

officer, to enter into a new fiscal agency

agreement with the Federal Reserve

Banks and any amendments thereto that

the Chief Financial Officer may

approve.

B—Purchase Awards

B1. Increase in amount of blanket

purchase order with ABB Power T&D

Company, Inc.

E—Real Property Transactions

E1. Abandonment of easement rights

requested by the Electric Power Board of

Chattanooga, affecting 1.3 acres of Tract

No. VR–26, in exchange for identical

rights on a relocated right-of-way.

E2. Sale of permanent easement for

Trade Center/Conferencing Center

Development, affecting approximately

2.34 acres of land in Hamilton County,

Tennessee (Tract No. XCOFC–3E).

E3. Amendment to the Chickamauga

Reservoir Land Management Plan to

remove a 1.34-acre portion of Tract No.

XCR–44PT from the plan and grant of a

permanent easement for a fire station to

the City of Soddy Daisy for the same

area on Chickamauga Lake (Tract No.

XTCR–191B) in Hamilton County,

Tennessee.

E4. Amendment to the Kentucky

Reservoir Land Management Plan to

change the allocated use from public

recreation, historic preservation, and

trails to commercial recreation for

approximately 20 acres of Tract No.

XGIR–175PT and authorization of a 19-

year commercial recreation lease for

marina development in Humphreys

County, Tennessee (Tract No. XGIR–

931L).

E5. Amendment to the Kentucky

Reservoir Land Management Plan to

change the allocated use from public

recreation to commercial recreation for

approximately 27.5 acres of Tract No.

XGIR–24PT and authorization of a 19-

year commercial recreation lease to

Riverwood Campgrounds in Marshall

County, Kentucky (Tract No. XGIR–

927L).

E6. Abandonment of certain easement

rights and modification of a restrictive

covenant affecting approximately 0.119

acre of land on Boone Lake (a portion

of Tract No. BR–198F) in Sullivan

County, Tennessee.

E7. Grant of a 25-year public

recreation easement to Meigs County,

Tennessee, affecting approximately 28.6

acres of land on Chickamauga Lake

(Tract No. XTCR–188RE) to develop a

memorial park.

E8. Grant of permanent easement for

public recreation, historical

interpretation, and environmental

education to the Town of Triana,

Alabama, affecting approximately 0.4

acre of land on Wheeler Lake (Tract No.

XTWR–106RE) in Madison County,

Alabama.

E9. Grant of permanent easement to

the State of Tennessee, affecting

approximately 0.14 acre of land on Tims

Ford Lake (Tract No. XTTMFR–12H), for

highway improvements where U.S.

Highway 41A crosses Hessey Branch in

Franklin County, Tennessee.

Unclassified

F1. Approval to file condemnation

cases in connection with the following

power transmission lines: Alpha-Center

Point, Murray County, Georgia;

Freeport-Miller, DeSoto County,

Mississippi; Lowndes-Kerr McGee and

Lowndes-Columbus No. 2, Lowndes

County, Mississippi; Walker-Fuller,

Gordon County, Georgia; and ColbertTupelo Tap to Belmont, Tishomingo

County, Mississippi.

F2. TVA contribution at the rate of

4.04 percent of members’ payroll to the

TVA Retirement System for Fiscal Year

1998.

Information Items

1. Delegation of authority to the

Senior Vice President of Procurement,

or such officer’s designee, to enter into

a uranium procurement contract with

Power Resources, Inc.

2. Appointment of Wallace T.

Tanksley, Senior Vice President, Human

Resources, as the TVA Designated

Agency Safety and Health Official.

3. Amendments to resolutions

adopted on October 24, 1995, relating to

the sale of Tennessee Valley Authority

Bonds.

4. Approval for submission of a

proposal with Tata Electric Companies

to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board in

India for refurbishment of fossil

generating units.

5. Approval to purchase

subbituminous coal under Requisition

35 for Allen and Shawnee Fossil Plants.

6. Delegation of authority to the Vice

President of Fuel Supply and
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Engineering, or such officer’s designee,

to enter into an extension to and

modification of Contract No. P–94P07–

115471 with Cane Patch Mining

Company, Inc.

7. Delegation of authority to the Vice

President of Fuel Supply and

Engineering, or such officer’s designee,

to enter into an extension to and

modification of Contract No. P–90P07–

115734 with Arch Coal Sales Company,

Inc.

8. Approval for TVA Director William

H. Kennoy to be an incorporator and

director of the East Tennessee

Intermodal Transportation Commerce

Center, Inc.

9. Approval to file a condemnation

case related to the Dunmar-Paradise Tap

to Ennis Transmission Line,

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

10. Approval for TVA Nuclear to enter

into a contract in which Westinghouse

Electric Corporation would purchase

from TVA a spare reactor coolant pump

internals package located at the Watts

Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2.

11. Expansion of participation in the

Interruptible Power Pilot Project and

delegation of authority to the Executive

Vice President, Customer Service and

Marketing, to execute the contractual

arrangements.

12. Sale of noncommercial,

nonexclusive permanent easement to

Lakeside Properties, Inc., affecting 2.47

acres of land on Tellico Lake in Monroe

County, Tennessee (Tract No. XTELR–

191RE), for the construction, operation,

and maintenance of private water-use

facilities.

13. Amendment of the Pickwick

Reservoir Land Management Plan and

grant of a permanent easement to the

City of Florence, Alabama, affecting

approximately 121 acres and a

temporary construction easement

affecting approximately 4 acres of land

on Pickwick Lake in Lauderdale County,

Alabama (Tract No. XPR–457E), for a

wastewater treatment plant, sewer

lagoons, and a sewerline.

14. Proposed rate schedules for

ancillary services to be included in 1997

edition of the Transmission Service

Guidelines, approved July 10, 1997,

providing open access transmission

service over the TVA system.

15. Proposed 1997 edition of the

Transmission Service Guidelines

providing open access transmission

service over the TVA system.

For more information: Please call

TVA Public Relations at (423) 632–6000,

Knoxville, Tennessee. Information is

also available at TVA’s Washington

Office (202) 898–2999.

Dated: August 29, 1997.

Edward S. Christenbury,

General Counsel and Secretary.

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Report On The Andean Trade

Preference Act: Request For Public

Comment

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Trade Policy Staff

Committee (TPSC) is seeking the views

of interested parties on the operation of

the Andean Trade Preference Act, as

amended (19 U.S.C. 3201 et seq) (‘‘the

ATPA’’). Section 203(f) of the ATPA

requires the President to submit a report

to the Congress regarding the operation

of the ATPA on or before December 4,

1997, the sixth anniversary of the date

of the enactment of the ATPA. The

TPSC invites written comments

concerning the issues to be examined in

preparing such a report, including the

considerations described in subsections

203(c) and (d) of the ATPA.

DATES: Public comments are due at

USTR by October 17, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Director for Mexican

Affairs, Office of the Western

Hemisphere, Office of the U.S. Trade

Representatives, 600 17th Street NW.,

Room 523, Washington, DC 20506.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Koplovsky, Director for

Mexican Affairs, Office of the Western

Hemisphere, Office of the United States

Trade Representative, (202) 395–3142.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested

parties are invited to submit comments

on any aspect of the program’s

operation, including the status of

beneficiary countries—Bolivia,

Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru—under

the criteria described in subsections 203

(c) and (d) of the ATPA. Issues to be

examined in this report include: The

program’s effect on the volume and

composition of trade and investment

between the United States and the

Andean beneficiary countries; its effect

on the economic growth and

development of the beneficiary

countries; the extent to which the

program has advanced narcotics

eradication; related sustainable

alternative development efforts in cocagrowing areas; and the degree to which

the program has encouraged the trade

and investment policies cited in the

ATPA.

Written Notice

All written comments should be

addressed to: Michael Koplovsky,

Director for Mexican Affairs, Office of

the Western Hemisphere, Office of the

U.S. Trade Representative, 600 17th

Street, NW., Room 522, Washington, DC

20506.

All submissions must be in English

and should conform to the information

requirements of 15 CFR part 2003.

A submitter must provide twenty

copies of any comments. Comments

must be received at USTR no later than

5 p.m., October 17, 1997. If the

comments contain business confidential

information, twenty copies of a nonconfidential version must also be

submitted. Comments containing

business confidential information must

include a justification as to why the

information contained in the

submission should be treated

confidentially, and should be clearly

marked ‘‘business confidential’’ at the

top of each page. The non-confidential

version should also be clearly marked at

the top of each page ‘‘public version’’ or

‘‘non-confidential’’.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice, except for comments granted

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant

to 15 CFR 2003.6, will be available for

public inspection after the filing

deadline. Inspection is by appointment

only with the USTR Public Reading

Room, and can be arranged by calling

(202) 395–6186. Other requests and

questions should be directed to the

Office of the Western Hemisphere at

USTR by calling (202) 395–3142.

Frederick L. Montgomery,

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Generalized System of Preferences

(GSP); Schedule of Hearings and

Deadlines for Submitting Comments

on Petitions for the GSP 1997 Product

Review and Country Practices Review

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative (USTR).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to set forth the timetable for hearings,

and for providing public comments on

petitions requesting: (1) Changes in the

eligibility for duty-free treatment under

the GSP program of products accepted

for the 1997 Product Review; and (2)

modifications in the status of GSP

beneficiary countries in regard to their