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Submitters are requested to send three

copies, at least one of which should be

unbound. The submittal should be

mailed to the IRIS Submission Desk,

NCEA (MS–105), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 26 Martin Luther

King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268.

Receipt of information will be

acknowledged by the IRIS Submission

Desk.

Confidential Business Information

(CBI) should not be submitted to the

IRIS Submission Desk. CBI must be

submitted to the appropriate EPA Office

via approved Agency procedures for

submission of CBI as codified in the

Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR,

Part 2, Subpart B). If a submitter

believes that a CBI submission contains

information with implications for IRIS,

it should be noted in the cover letter

accompanying the submission to the

appropriate office.

Submitters may also request to

augment their submission with a

scientific briefing to EPA staff. Such

requests should be made directly to

Amy Mills, acting IRIS Assessment

Manager (see ADDRESSEES).

Dated: December 24, 1997.

William H. Farland,

Director, National Center for Environmental

Assessment.

[FR Doc. 97–34198 Filed 12–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5943–1]

Common Sense Initiative Council

(CSIC)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notification of Public Advisory

for CSI Iron and Steel Sector and

Petroleum Refining Sector

Subcommittee Meetings; Open

Meetings.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law

92–463, notice is hereby given that the

Iron and Steel Sector and Petroleum

Refining Sector Subcommittees of the

CSIC will meet on the dates and times

described below. Both meetings are

open to the public. Seating at both

meetings will be on a first-come basis

and limited time will be provided for

public comment. For further

information concerning specific

meetings, please contact the individuals

listed with the announcements below.

(1) Iron and Steel Sector

Subcommittee Meeting—January 21–22,

1998. The Iron and Steel Sector

Subcommittee will hold an open

meeting on Wednesday, January 21 and

Thursday, January 22, 1998. On

Wednesday, the meeting will begin at

10:00 a.m. CST and will run until 5:00

p.m. CST. Shortly after convening, the

Subcommittee will break into work

group sessions and reconvene in the

afternoon. On Thursday, the meeting

will begin at 8:00 a.m. CST and end at

4:00 p.m. CST. The Subcommittee will

review the status of the two work groups

it has created to deal with

environmental performance and

monitoring and decide its next steps.

The meeting will be held both days at

the Metcalf Federal Building, Great

Lakes Conference Center, 12th floor, 77

West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604.

At its October meeting, the

Subcommittee decided to create two

work groups: environmental

performance and monitoring. The

environmental performance work group

is working on developing a code of

conduct and a definition of substantial

compliance for the industry, and the

monitoring work group is exploring the

different federal, state, and local

monitoring requirements with a goal of

considering if current monitoring of the

industry is relevant to today’s needs. At

the January meeting, the Subcommittee

will allow time on January 21st for the

two work groups to meet in the morning

and early afternoon, then review the

progress of these two work groups and

decide its next steps. Additionally, it

will review the status of ongoing

projects and discuss the development of

papers dealing with industry-specific

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act issues.

For more information about this

meeting, please contact: Ms. Judith

Hecht, Designated Federal Officer

(DFO), at US EPA by telephone at 202–

260–5682 in Washington, D.C. or by Email at hecht.judy@epamail.epa.gov, or

Mr. Robert Tolpa at EPA Region 5 in

Chicago, Illinois, on 312–886–6706, or

Dr. Mahesh Podar at EPA, Washington,

DC on 202–260–5387.

(2) Petroleum Refining Sector

Subcommittee Meeting—January 26–27,

1998. The Petroleum Refining Sector

Subcommittee will hold an open

meeting on January 26 and 27, 1998.

Work Group meetings will be held from

1:00 pm CST to 5:00 pm CST on

Monday, January 26. The full

Subcommittee will meet from

approximately 8:00 am CST until 5:00

pm CST on Tuesday, January 27, 1998.

The meeting will be held at the Harvey

Hotel Dallas, 7800 Alpha Road, Dallas,

Texas 75240. The hotel telephone

number is 972–960–7000.

The Subcommittee meeting agenda

includes an update on the status of the

Refinery Air Information Reporting

System Project and the Equipment

Leaks Project. The Subcommittee also

plans to discuss potential new project

ideas. A public comment period has

been scheduled from approximately

2:00 pm CST until 3:00 pm CST on

Tuesday, January 27, 1998.

For further information concerning

this meeting of the Petroleum Refining

Sector Subcommittee, please contact

either Craig Weeks, Designated Federal

Officer (DFO), at US EPA Region 6

(6EN), 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX

75202–2733, by telephone at 214–665–

7505 or E-mail at

weeks.craig@epamail.epa.gov or Steve

Souders, Alternate DFO, at US EPA

(5306W), 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20460, by telephone at

703–308–8431 or E-mail at

souders.steve@epamail.epa.gov.

Inspection of Subcommittee

Documents: Documents relating to the

above topics will be publicly available

at the meeting. Thereafter, these

documents, together with the official

minutes for the meetings, will be

available for public inspection in room

2821M of EPA Headquarters, Common

Sense Initiative Staff, 401 M Street, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20460, telephone

number 202–260–7417. Common Sense

Initiative information can be accessed

electronically on our web site at http./

/www.epa.gov/commonsense.

Dated: December 24, 1997.

Kathleen Bailey,

Designated Federal Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–34197 Filed 12–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission

December 22, 1997.

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(s), 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
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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 March 3, 1998.

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 Judy

Boley, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 234, 1919 M St.,

NW, Washington, DC 20554 or via

internet to jboley@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collection(s), contact Judy

Boley at 202–418–0214 or via internet at

jboley@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control No.: 3060–0639.

Title: Implementation of Section

309(j) of the Communications Act,

Competitive Bidding, PP Docket

Number 93–253, First Report and Order.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for

profit.

Number of Respondents: 400.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.

Frequency of Response: On occasion

reporting requirement.

Cost to Respondents: N/A.

Total Annual Burden: 400 hours.

Needs and Uses: Section 3002 of the

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 amended

Section 309(j), to, in effect, reduce the

situations in which the use of random

selection is appropriate. While the

Commission proposes to reduce the

number of respondents, it does not

reduce the burden hours required to

complete an individual information

collection. The Commission seeks

comment on this proposal and other

methods by which the burden on

respondents may be reduced.

The Commission will use the

information to determine whether the

public interest would be served by

granting a transfer of control or an

assignment of a license awarded

through lottery procedures. The

foregoing estimates include the time for

reviewing instructions, searching

existing data sources, gathering and

maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the burden

estimates or any other aspect of the

collection of information.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–34149 Filed 12–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

[CC Docket No. 97–208; FCC 97–418]

Application of BellSouth Corporation,

et al. Pursuant to Section 271 of the

Communications Act of 1934, as

Amended, to Provide In-Region

InterLATA Services in South Carolina

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Memorandum Opinion

and Order (Order) in CC Docket No. 97–

208 concludes that BellSouth

Corporation, et al. (BellSouth) has not

satisfied the requirements of section

271(c)(1) of the Communications Act of

1934, as amended (Act). The

Commission therefore denies, pursuant

to section 271(d)(3), BellSouth’s

application to provide in-region

interLATA services in South Carolina.

The Order declines to grant BellSouth

authority to provide in-region

interLATA services in South Carolina.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 24, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Pryor, Attorney, Policy and

Program Planning Division, Common

Carrier Bureau, (202) 418–1580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a

summary of the Commission’s Order

adopted December 24, 1997, and

released December 24, 1997. The full

text of this Order is available for

inspection and copying during normal

business hours in the FCC Reference

Center, 1919 M St., N.W., Room 239,

Washington, D.C. The complete text also

may be obtained through the World

Wide Web, at http://www.fcc.gov/

Bureaus/Common Carrier/Orders/fcc97–

228.wp, or may be purchased from the

Commission’s copy contractor,

International Transcription Service,

Inc., (202) 857–3800, 1231 20th St.,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Synopsis Of Order

1. On September 30, 1997, BellSouth

Corporation, BellSouth

Telecommunications, Inc., and

BellSouth Long Distance, Inc.

(collectively, BellSouth) filed an

application for authorization under

section 271 of the Act, to provide inregion interLATA services in the State

of South Carolina. In this Order, the

Commission concludes that BellSouth

may not obtain authorization to provide

in-region, interLATA services in South

Carolina pursuant to section 271(c)(1)(B)

at this time because it has failed to meet

its burden of demonstrating that it has

received no qualifying requests for

access and interconnection that, if

implemented, would satisfy the

requirements of section 271(c)(1)(A).

The Commission further concludes that

BellSouth has not yet demonstrated that

it has fully implemented the

competitive checklist in section

271(c)(2)(B). In particular, the

Commission finds that BellSouth has

not met its burden of showing that it

meets the competitive checklist with

respect to: (1) access to its operations

support systems; (2) access to network

elements; and (3) resale. The

Commission concludes that BellSouth

complies with the requirement to

provide access to 911 and E911 services,

and that BellSouth’s inbound

telemarketing script is consistent with

the Act. The Commission therefore

denies, pursuant to section 271(d)(3),

BellSouth’s application to provide inregion interLATA services in South

Carolina.

2. Compliance with Section

271(c)(1)(B). The Commission concludes

that BellSouth may not obtain

authorization to provide in-region,

interLATA services in South Carolina

pursuant to section 271(c)(1)(B) at this

time because it has failed to meet its

burden of demonstrating that it has

received no qualifying requests for

access and interconnection that, if

implemented, would satisfy the

requirements of section 271(c)(1)(A).

The Commission, as an initial matter,

clarifies its standard for evaluating

qualifying requests and the role of

reasonable steps in its evaluation.

3. The Commission further concludes

that MCI’s provision of telephone

exchange service on a test basis, at no

charge, to the homes of nineteen MCI

employees, does not qualify MCI as a

competing provider under section

271(c)(1)(A), and therefore BellSouth

has not satisfied the requirements of

section 271(c)(1)(A).

4. Compliance with the Competitive

Checklist in Section 271(c)(2)(B). For the