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companies controlling or controlled by

the Licensee are parties.

(f) Implementation milestone

schedule. Each GSO FSS licensee in the

20/30 GHz band will be required to

begin construction of its first satellite

within one year of grant, to begin

construction of the remainder within

two years of grant, to launch at least one

satellite into each of its assigned orbit

locations within five years of grant, and

to launch the remainder of its satellites

by the date required by the International

Telecommunications Union to assure

international recognition and protection

of those satellites. Each NGSO FSS

licensee in the 20/30 GHz band will be

required to begin construction of its first

two satellites within one year of the

unconditional grant of its authorization,

and complete construction of those first

two satellites within four years of that

grant. Construction of the remaining

authorized operating satellites in the

constellation must begin within three

years of the initial authorization, and

the entire authorized system must be

operational within six years.

(g) Reporting Requirements. All

licensees in the 20/30 GHz band shall,

on June 30 of each year, file a report

with the International Bureau and the

Commission’s Columbia Operations

Center, 9200 Farm House Lane,

Columbia, MD 21046 containing the

following information:

(1) Status of space station

construction and anticipated launch

date, including any major problems or

delay encountered;

(2) A listing of any non-scheduled

space station outages for more than

thirty minutes and the cause(s) of such

outages; and

(3) Identification of any space

station(s) not available for service or

otherwise not performing to

specifications, the cause(s) of these

difficulties, and the date any space

station was taken out of service or the

malfunction identified.

3. Section 25.210 is amended by

redesignating paragraphs (c) through (j)

as paragraphs (e) through (l);

redesignating paragraph (b) as paragraph

(c); and adding new paragraphs (b) and

(d) to read as follows:

§ 25.210 Technical requirements for space

stations in the Fixed-Satellite Service.

* * * * *

(b) All space stations in the FixedSatellite Service in the 20/30 GHz band

shall use either orthogonal linear or

orthogonal circular polarization. Those

space stations utilizing orthogonal

linear polarization shall also comply

with paragraph (a) of this section.

* * * * *

(d) All space stations in the Fixed

Satellite Service in the 20/30 GHz band

shall employ state-of-the-art full

frequency reuse either through the use

of orthogonal polarizations within the

same beam and/or through the use of

spatially independent beams.

* * * * *

4. Section 25.204(g) is added to read

as follows:

§ 25.204 Power limits.

* * * * *

(g) All earth stations in the Fixed

Satellite Service in the 20/30 GHz band

shall employ uplink adaptive power

control or other methods of fade

compensation such that the earth station

transmissions shall be conducted at the

power level required to meet the desired

link performance while reducing the

level of mutual interference between

networks.

[FR Doc. 97–30205 Filed 11–17–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[I.D. 092297C]

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic

Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod in the

Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of

Alaska Modification of a Closure;

Correction

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Correction to a modification of

a closure.

SUMMARY: This document contains a

correction to a cross reference

incorrectly stated in a closure

notification (I.D. 092297C), which was

published September 29, 1997.

DATES: Effective 1200 hrs, Alaska local

time (A.l.t.), October 1, 1997, until 2400

hrs, A.l.t., December 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Pearson, 907–486–6919.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On September 29, 1997, NMFS

published a notification in the Federal

Register that opened directed fishing for

Pacific cod, by vessels catching Pacific

cod for processing by the offshore

component, in the Central Regulatory

Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA)

effective on October 1, 1997, A.l.t. This

action was necessary to fully utilize the

total allowable catch (TAC) of Pacific

cod in the GOA Central Regulatory

Area.

Need for Correction

This action corrects an erroneous

cross reference that gives the authority

that establishes the inshore/offshore

apportionments (applicable through

December 31, 1998) of Pacific cod in all

GOA regulatory areas.

Correction of Publication

Accordingly, the publication on

September 29, 1997, of the modification

of a closure (I.D. 092297C), which was

the subject of FR Doc. 97–25777, is

corrected as follows:

On page 50888, in the third column,

the second paragraph, the first sentence,

the cross reference ‘‘679.20(d)(1)(iii)(A)’’

is corrected to read ‘‘679.20(a)(6)(iii).’’

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

Dated: November 12, 1997.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 97–30256 Filed 11–17–97; 8:45 am]

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