Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 211 / Tuesday, October 31, 2000 / Notices 64949

amended, this notice advises interested

persons of the seventh meeting of the

Technological Advisory Council

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

Federal Communications Commission

in Washington, DC.

DATES: Wednesday, December 6, 2000 at

10:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications

Commission, 445 12th St. S.W., 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 seventh 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–C161, Office of Engineering &

Technology, Federal Communications

Commission, 445 12th Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–27905 Filed 10–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–U

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 November 24,

2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice President)

104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303–2713:

1. First National Bankers Bankshares,

Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; to acquire

100 percent of the voting shares of

Mississippi National Bankers Bank,

Ridgeland, Mississippi (in organization).

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, October 26, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 00–27957 Filed 10–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Notice of Proposals To Engage in

Permissible Nonbanking Activities or

To Acquire Companies That Are

Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking

Activities

The companies listed in this notice

have given notice under section 4 of the

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12

CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to

acquire or control voting securities or

assets of a company, including the

companies listed below, that engages

either directly or through a subsidiary or

other company, in a nonbanking activity

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has

determined by Order to be closely

related to banking and permissible for

bank holding companies. Unless

otherwise noted, these activities will be

conducted throughout the United States.

Each notice is available for inspection

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated.

The notice also will be available for

inspection at the offices of the Board of

Governors. Interested persons may

express their views in writing on the

question whether the proposal complies

with the standards of section 4 of the

BHC Act. 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 the applications must be

received at the Reserve Bank indicated

or the offices of the Board of Governors

not later than November 24, 2000.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

(Phillip Jackson, Applications Officer)

230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60690–1414:

1. Irwin Financial Corporation,

Columbus, Indiana; to acquire Irwin

Union Bank, F.S.B., Louisville,

Kentucky, and thereby engage in