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Commission, Western Governors’

Association, 600 17th Street, Suite 1705,

South Tower, Denver, Colorado 80202;

telephone number (303) 623–9378;

facsimile machine number (303) 534–

7309; e-mail, jleary@westgov.org.

Dated: February 28, 1997.

John Wise,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 9.

[FR Doc. 97–5623 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Public Information Collection

Requirements Submitted to Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

Review

February 28, 1997.

The Federal Communications

Commission has submitted the

following information collection

requirements to OMB for review and

clearance under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.

Section 3507. Persons wishing to

comment on the following collections

should contact Timothy Fain, Office of

Management and Budget, Room 10236,

NEOB, Washington, D.C. 20503, (202)

395–0651. For further information,

contact Dorothy Conway, Federal

Communications Commission, (202)

418–0217.

Please note: The Commission has

requested emergency review of these

Automated Reporting Management

Information System (‘‘ARMIS’’)

collections by March 7, 1997, under the

provisions of 5 CFR 1320.13.

Title: The ARMIS Annual Summary

Report (formerly titled, ‘‘The ARMIS

Quarterly Report’’).

Form No.: FCC Report 43–01.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0512.

Action: Revised Collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for

profit entities.

Estimated Annual Burden: 150

respondents; 220 hours per response

(avg.); 33,000 total annual burden hours.

Needs and Uses: ARMIS was

implemented to facilitate the timely and

efficient analysis of revenue

requirements and rate of return, to

provide an improved basis for audits

and other oversight functions, and to

enhance the Commission’s ability to

quantify the effects of alternative policy.

The ARMIS Annual Summary Report

contains financial and operating data

and is used to monitor the local

exchange carrier industry and to

perform routine analyses of costs and

revenues on behalf of the Commission.

It is one of ten reports.

Title: The ARMIS Customer Satisfaction

Report (formerly titled ‘‘The ARMIS

Semi-Annual Service Quality

Report’’).

Form No.: FCC Report 43–06.

OMB Control No.: None.

Action: New Collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for

profit entities.

Estimated Annual Burden: 8

respondents; 900 hours per response

(avg.); 7,200 total annual burden hours.

Needs and Uses: The Customer

Satisfaction Report, formerly the SemiAnnual Quality Report, is based on

telephone surveys indicating a

percentage of satisfied customers, and is

collected by the carriers from residential

and business customers.

Title: The ARMIS Operating Data

Report.

Form No.: FCC Report 43–08.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0496.

Action: Revised Collection.

Respondents: Businesses or other for

profit entities.

Estimated Annual Burden: 50

respondents; 160 hours per response

(avg.); 8,000 total annual burden hours.

Needs and Uses: The ARMIS

Operating Data Report consists of

statistical schedules previously

contained in FCC Form M which are

needed by the Commission to monitor

network growth, usage, and reliability.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–5654 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–F

Public Information Collections

Approved by Office of Management

and Budget

February 28, 1997.

The Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) has received Office

of Management and Budget (OMB)

approval for the following public

information collections pursuant to the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13. An agency may not

conduct or sponsor and a person is not

required to respond to a collection of

information unless it displays a

currently valid control number. For

further information contact Shoko B.

Hair, Federal Communications

Commission, (202) 418–1379.

Federal Communications Commission.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0730.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: Toll Free Service Access Codes,

800/888 Number Release Procedures.

Form No.: N/A .

Estimated Annual Burden: 18,660

total annual hours; 1 hour per

respondent (avg.); 18,660 respondents.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Description: The Commission has

instructed Database Service

Management, Inc. (DSMI) to collect

authorization from the current 800

number subscriber and its Responsible

Organization or the Toll Free Service

Provider declining interim protection

for the corresponding 888 number. In

order to protect the interests of the

involved parties, DSMI will not release

the 888 number from the pool of

unavailable numbers into the general

pool of toll free numbers until it

receives these authorizations.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0514.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: Holding Company Annual

Report––Section 43.21(c).

Form No.: N/A.

Estimated Annual Burden: 20 total

annual hours; 1 hour per respondent; 20

respondents.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Description: Filing of SEC Form 10–K

is required by Sections 1.785 and

43.31(c) of the FCC Rules and

authorized by Section 219 of the

Communications Act of 1934, as

amended. Filing of the form is required.

Each company, not itself a

communication common carrier, that

directly or indirectly controls any

communication common carrier having

annual revenues of $100 million or

more must file annually with the

Commission, no later than the date

prescribed by SEC for its purposes two

complete copies of any Form 10–K

annual report. The information filed

pursuant to Section 43.21(c) is used by

staff members to regulate and monitor

the telephone industry and by the

public to analyze the industry. Selected

information is compiled and published

in the Commission’s annual common

carrier statistical publication.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0478.

Expiration Date: 06/30/97.

Title: Informational Tariffs.

Form No.: N/A.

Estimated Annual Burden: 16,500

total annual hours; 50 hours per

respondent (avg.); 330 respondents.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.

Description: Providers of interstate

operator services are directed by Section

226(h)(1)(A) of the Communications Act

of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. Section

226(h)(1)(A), to file informational tariffs

with the Commission and to update

these tariffs regularly. The informational
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tariffs will be maintained for public

inspection. The Common Carrier

Bureau, at the direction of Congress,

will also use the informational tariffs in

assessing the compliance of the rates

charged by operator service providers

with the requirements of the

Communications Act.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0395.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: Automated Reporting and

Management Information Systems

(ARMIS)—Sections 43.21 and 43.22.

Form No.: FCC Report 43–02, FCC

Report 43–05, FCC Report 43–07.

Estimated Annual Burden: 62,464

total annual hours; 1250 hours per

respondent (avg.); 50 respondents.

Description: ARMIS is needed to

administer our accounting,

jurisdictional separations, access

charges and joint cost rules and rules to

analyze revenue requirements and rates

of return, service quality and

infrastructure development. It collects

financial and operating data from all

Tier 1, Class A local exchange carriers

with annual revenues over $100 million

and carriers who elect incentive

regulation. The information contained

in the reports provides the necessary

detail to enable this Commission to

fulfill its regulatory responsibilities.

FCC Report 43–02, the ARMIS USOA

Report, provides the annual operating

results of the carriers’ activities for

every account in the USOA. FCC Report

43–05, the ARMIS Service Quality

Report, provides service quality

information in the areas of

interexchange access service installation

and repair intervals, local service

installation and repair intervals, trunk

blockage and total switch downtime for

price cap companies. FCC Report 43–07,

the ARMIS Infrastructure Report,

provides switch deployment and

capabilities data. FCC Reports 43–02,

43–05 and 43–07 have been updated to

incorporate the OMB expiration date.

Copies of these reports may be obtained

by contacting Barbara Van Hagen at

202–418–0849.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0511.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: ARMIS Access Report.

Form No.: FCC Report 43–04.

Estimated Annual Burden: 172,500

hours. 1,150 total annual hours; hours

per respondent; 150 respondents.

Description: The ARMIS Access

Report is needed to administer our

accounting, jurisdictional separations

and access charge rules, and to analyze

revenue requirements and rates of

return and to collect financial and

operating data from all Tier 1 local

exchange carriers. The ARMIS Access

Report has been updated to incorporate

the OMB expiration date. A copy of the

report may be obtained by contacting

Barbara Van Hagen at 202–418–0849.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0513.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: ARMIS Joint Cost Report.

Form No.: FCC Report 43–03.

Estimated Annual Burden: 30,000

total annual hours; 200 hours per

respondent; 150 respondents.

Description: The Joint Cost Report is

needed to administer our joint cost rules

(Part 64) and to analyze data in order to

prevent cross-subsidization of

nonregulated operations by the

regulated operations of Tier 1 carriers.

The Joint Cost Report has been updated

to incorporate the OMB expiration date.

A copy of the report may be obtained by

contacting Barbara Van Hagen at 202–

418–0849.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0748.

Expiration Date: 12/31/99.

Title: Disclosure Requirements for

Information Services Provided Through

Toll-Free Numbers, 47 CFR 64.1504.

Form No.: N/A.

Estimated Annual Burden: 10,500

total annual hours; 2.8 hours per

respondent (avg.); 3750 respondents.

Description: Section 64.1504

incorporates in the Commission’s rules

the requirements of Sections 228(c)(7)-

(10) that restrict the manner in which

toll-free numbers may be used to charge

telephone subscribers for information

services. Common carriers must prohibit

the use of toll free numbers in a manner

that would result in the calling party

being charged for information conveyed

during the call, unless the calling party

(1) has executed a written agreement

that specifies the material terms and

conditions under which the information

is provided or (2) pays for the

information by means of a credit,

prepaid, debit, charge, or calling card

and the information service provider

includes in response to each call an

introductory message disclosing

specified information detailing the cost

and other terms and conditions for the

service. Sections 228(c(8)A) and (c)(9)

list, respectively, required elements of

the written agreement and the

introductory message. The disclosure

requirements are intended to ensure that

consumers know when charges will be

levied for calls to toll-free numbers and

are able to obtain information necessary

to make informed choices about

whether to purchase toll-free

information services.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0710.

Expiration Date: 02/28/2000.

Title: Policy and Rules Concerning the

Implementation of the Local

Competition Provisions in the

Telecommunications Act of 1996—CC

Docket No. 96–98, First Report and

Order.

Form No.: N/A.

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,574,820

total annual hours; 128.55 hours per

respondent (avg.); 12,250 respondents.

Description: In the First Report and

Order in CC Docket No. 96–98, The

Commission adopts rules and

regulations to implement parts of

Sections 251 and 252 that effect local

competition. The Order requires

incumbent local exchange carriers

(LECs) to offer interconnection,

unbundled network elements, transport

and termination and wholesale rates for

retain services to new entrants; that

incumbent LECs price such services at

rates that are cost-based and just and

reasonable; and that they provide access

to rights-of-way as well as establish

reciprocal compensation arrangements

for the transport and termination of

telecommunications traffic. All of the

requirements would be used to ensure

that local exchange carriers comply with

their obligations under the

Telecommunications Act of 1996.

OMB Control No.: 3060–0536.

Expiration Date: 08/31/97.

Title: Rules and Requirements for

Telecommunications Relay Services

(TRS) Interstate Cost Recovery.

Form No.: FCC Form 431.

Estimated Annual Burden: 15,593

total annual hours; 3.1 hours per

respondent (avg.); 5,000 respondents.

Description: Title IV of the Americans

with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)

requires the Commission to ensure that

telecommunications relay services are

available, to the extent possible, to

individuals with hearing and speech

disabilities in the United States. To

fulfill this mandate, the Commission

adopted rules that require the provision

of TRS service beginning July 26, 1993.

The Commission set minimum

standards for TRS providers and

established a shared-funding

mechanism (TRS Fund) for recovering

the costs of providing interstate TRS.

The Commission also appointed the

National Exchange Carrier Association

(NECA) the TRS fund administrator, and

directed NECA to establish a non-paid,

voluntary advisory committee to

monitor cost recovery matters.

The Commission’s rules require all

carriers providing interstate

telecommunications services to

contribute to the TRS Fund. The amount

contributed is the product of the

carrier’s gross interstate revenues for the

previous year and a contribution factor

determined annually by the

Commission. Contributions are

calculated in accordance with a TRS

Fund Worksheet which is prepared each
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year by the Commission and published

in the Federal Register. The TRS Fund

Worksheet, FCC Form 431, is being

updated for the 1997 reporting year. A

public notice will be issued when the

revised FCC Form 431 is available for

public use.

Public reporting burden for the

collections of information is as noted

above. Send comments regarding the

burden estimate or any other aspect of

the collections of information, including

suggestions for reducing the burden to

the Records Management Branch,

Washington, D.C. 20554.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–5633 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–F

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

[Notice 1997–2]

Filing Dates for the New Mexico

Special Elections

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission.

ACTION: Notice of filing dates for special

elections.

SUMMARY: New Mexico has scheduled a

special election on May 13, 1997, to fill

the U.S. House seat in the Third

Congressional District vacated by

Ambassador Bill Richardson.

Committees required to file reports in

connection with the Special General

Election on May 13 should file a 12-day

Pre-General Election Report on May 1,

1997; a 30-day Post-General Report on

June 12, 1997; and a Mid-Year Report on

July 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ms. Bobby Werfel, Information Division,

999 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20463, Telephone: (202) 219–3420; Toll

Free (800) 424–9530.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All

principal campaign committees of

candidates who participate in the New

Mexico Special General Election and all

other political committees not filing

monthly which support candidates in

the Special Election shall file a 12-day

Pre-General Report on May 1, 1997,

with coverage dates from the close of

the last report filed, or the day of the

committee’s first activity, whichever is

later, through April 23, 1997; a PostGeneral Report on June 12, 1997, with

coverage dates from April 24 through

June 2, 1997; and a Mid-Year Report on

July 31, 1997, with coverage dates from

June 3 through June 30, 1997.

CALENDAR FOR REPORTING DATES FOR NEW MEXICO SPECIAL ELECTIONS FOR COMMITTEES INVOLVED IN THE SPECIAL

GENERAL

Report Close of

books *

Reg./Cert.

mailing date ** Filing date

Pre-General .................................................................................................................................. 04/23/97 04/28/97 05/01/97

Post-General ................................................................................................................................ 06/02/97 06/12/97 06/12/97

Mid-Year ....................................................................................................................................... 06/30/97 07/31/97 07/31/97

* The period begins with the close of books of the last report filed by the committee. If the committee has filed no previous reports, the period

begins with the date of the Committee’s first activity.

** Reports sent by registered or certified mail must be postmarked by the mailing date; otherwise, they must be received by the filing date.

Dated: March 4, 1997.

John Warren McGarry,

Chairman Federal Election Commission.

[FR Doc. 97–5651 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6715–01–M

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

Notice of Agreement(s) Filed

The Commission hereby gives notice

of the filing of the following

agreement(s) under the Shipping Act of

1984.

Interested parties can review or obtain

copies of agreements at the Washington,

DC offices of the Commission, 800

North Capitol Street, NW., Room 962.

Interested parties may submit comments

on an agreement to the Secretary,

Federal Maritime Commission,

Washington, DC 20573, within 10 days

of the date this notice appears in the

Federal Register.

Agreement No.: 224–200974–002

Title: Tampa Port Authority/Tampa Bay

International Terminals Wharfage

Incentive Agreement

Parties:

Tampa Port Authority

Tampa Bay International Terminals

Inc.

Synopsis: The proposed modification

extends the parties’ current wharfage

Incentive Agreement through

February 25, 1998.

Agreement No.: 224–201018

Title: DRS/PRPA Terminal Agreement

Parties:

Delaware River Stevedores, Inc. (DRS)

Philadelphia Regional Port Authority

(PRPA)

Synopsis: Under the proposed

agreement, PRPA will provide certain

berthing rights as well as storage

space at the Tioga Marine Terminal to

DRS for a period of sixty (60) days.

Dated: March 3, 1997.

By Order of the Federal Maritime

Commission.

Ronald D. Murphy,

Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–5662 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6730–01–M

Ocean Freight Forwarder License;

Applicants

Notice is hereby given that the

following applicants have filed with the

Federal Maritime Commission

applications for licenses as ocean freight

forwarders pursuant to section 19 of the

Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. app.

1718 and 46 CFR 510).

Persons knowing of any reason why

any of the following applicants should

not receive a license are requested to

contact the Office of Freight Forwarders,

Federal Maritime Commission,

Washington, DC 20573.

Edward Mittelstaedt, Inc., 55 Margarita

Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901, Officer:

Edward O. Mittelstaedt, President

Demar Freight Forwarding, 888 N.

Central Avenue, Wood Dale, IL 60191,

Officers: Gene Doerr, President,

William A. Behrens, Vice President

Dated: March 3, 1997.

Ronald D. Murphy,

Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–5661 Filed 3–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6730–01–M

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Agency information collection

activities: Proposed collection;

comment request

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the

Federal Reserve System

ACTION: Notice