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234, 1919 M St., N.W., Washington, DC

20554 or via internet to

dconway@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collections contact Dorothy

Conway at 202–418–0217 or via internet

at dconway@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Approval Number: 3060–####.

Title: Section 90.176 Coordination

notification requirements on frequencies

below 512 MHz.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: New collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Number of Respondents: 15.

Estimated Time Per Response: .25

hours.

Total Annual Burden: 975 hours.

Total Annual Cost: 0.

Needs and Uses: The reporting

requirement in 90.176 is a result of

comments sought in the Report and

Order and Further Notice of Proposed

Rule Making in PR Dck No. 92–235 and

requires each Private Land Mobile

frequency coordinator provide, within

one business day, a listing of their

frequency recommendations to all other

frequency coordinators in their

respective pool, and, if requested, an

engineering analyses. This requirement

is necessary to avoid situations where

harmful interference is created because

two or more coordinators recommend

the same frequency in the same area at

approximately the same time to

different applicants.

OMB Approval Number: 3060–0051.

Title: Application for Renewal of

Ship/Aircraft Radio Station License.

Form No.: FCC 405B.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Individuals, State or

Local Governments, Business or other

For-Profit, Non-profit institutions.

Number of Respondents: 10,500.

Estimated Time Per Response: 10

minutes.

Total Annual Burden: 1,743 hours.

Needs and Uses: This form is used to

verify existence of a station and to

renew a license authorization when

there are no changes or only certain

minor changes to administrative data.

FCC Rules require a Ship or Aircraft

radio station license to be renewed

every ten years. The Commission will

use the information collected to update

the existing database and to issue a

renewed authorization.

The form is required by the

Communications Act; International

Treaties and FCC Rules—47 CFR Parts

1.922,1.926, 80.19 and 87.21.

During the last OMB cycle, the

Commission separated the Ship and

Aircraft renewal form into two separate

collections, 3060–0051 and 3060–

0615(FCC Form 405S), due to the large

quantity of applications received. Since

that submission, the Commission

adopted a Report and Order to delicense the majority of Ship and Aircraft

stations. Therefore, we are re-combining

the Ship and Aircraft collections as

3060–0051(FCC Form 405B) and will let

the collection for 3060–0615 expire. The

number of respondents and burden have

been adjusted accordingly due to the delicensing and re-combining of the

collections.

A space for the applicant to provide

an Internet address is being added to the

form. This will provide an additional

option of reaching the applicant should

the FCC have any questions concerning

the application. In addition, the

Commission is required to collect the

Taxpayer Identification Number to

comply with the Debt Collection

Improvement Act of 1996.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8343 Filed 4–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P

Notice of Public Information

Collections Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission

March 26, 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, 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

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 clarify 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: Persons wishing to comment on

this information collection should

submit comments June 2, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to

Dorothy Conway, Federal

Communications Commission, Room

234, 1919 M St., N.W., Washington, DC

20554 or via internet to

dconway@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collections contact Dorothy

Conway at 202–418–0217 or via internet

at dconway@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Approval Number: 3060–####.

Title: Compliance and Information

Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: New collection.

Respondents: Individuals or

households; business or other for-profit;

not-for-profit institutions; federal, state,

local or tribal government(s).

Number of Respondents: 1,800.

Estimated Time Per Response: 5

minutes.

Total Annual Burden: 150 hours.

Total Annual Cost: 0.

Needs and Uses: The FCC Compliance

and Information Bureau in order to

assess their customer stasfaction

programs is develping customer

survey(s) on how they are handling their

customer complaints, inquiries and

requests for information. This survey

will ensure that CIB is in compliance

with the Commission’s customer

satisfaction mandate. This survey will

measure response time, customer

statisfaction and CIB outreach programs.

The data will be used to plan future

outreach programs and target areas of

needed employee training.

OMB Number: 3060–0604.

Title: Implementation of Section

309(j) of the Communications Act,

Competitive Bidding, Third Report and

Order and Third Memorandum Opinion

and Order and Further NPRM.

Type of Review: Extension of existing

collection.

Form Number: N/A.

Respondents: Individuals; State or

local governments; Businesses or other

for-profit; Small businesses or

organizations.

Number of Respondents: 10–17,770.

Estimated Time Per Response: .50 to

20 hours.

Total Annual Burden: 45,654 hours.

Needs and Uses: Collection of

information is required so that the

Commission can determine whether
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narrowband PCS applicants are legally,

technically and financially qualified to

be licensed and whether applicants are

entitled to receive certain benefits. The

information will also be used to ensure

that licensees who acquire their licenses

through competitive bidding are not

unjustly enriched by premature transfer

of their licenses. Without the

information, the Commission could not

determine whether to issue the licenses

to the applicants that provide

telecommunication services to the

public. The information is used by

Commission staff in carrying out its

duties under the Communications Act.

OMB Approval Number: 3060–0368.

Title: Section 97.523 Question pools.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Reinstatement

without change.

Respondents: Individuals.

Number of Respondents: 3.

Estimated Time Per Response: 160

hours.

Total Annual Burden: 480 hours.

Total Annual Cost: 0.

Needs and Uses: The record keeping

requirement contained in Section

97.523 is necessary to permit question

pools used in preparing amateur

examinations to be maintained by

Volunteer-Examiner Coordinators

(VEC’s). These question pools must be

published and made available to the

public before the questions are used in

an examination.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8344 Filed 4–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION

Eligibility to Make Application to

Become an Insured Bank under

Section 5 of the Federal Deposit

Insurance Act; Rescission of

Statement of Policy

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation (FDIC).

ACTION: Rescission of Statement of

Policy.

SUMMARY: As part of the FDIC’s

systematic review of its regulations and

written policies under section 303(a) of

the Riegle Community Development and

Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994

(CDRI), the FDIC is rescinding its

Statement Regarding Eligibility to Make

Application to Become an Insured Bank

Under section 5 of the Federal Deposit

Insurance Act (Statement of Policy). The

Statement of Policy describes the

analysis the FDIC used when carrying

out a former statutory directive to

evaluate certain factors in determining

an industrial loan company’s eligibility

for deposit insurance. Since the statute

is no longer in force, the FDIC is

rescinding this outmoded Statement of

Policy.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This Statement of

Policy is rescinded April 2, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jesse G. Snyder, Assistant Director (202/

898–6915), Division of Supervision;

Jamey Basham, Counsel, (202/898–

7265), Legal Division, FDIC, 550 17th

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20429.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC

is conducting a systematic review of its

regulations and written policies. Section

303(a) of the CDRI (12 U.S.C. 4803(a))

requires each federal banking agency to

streamline and modify its regulations

and written policies in order to improve

efficiency, reduce unnecessary costs,

and eliminate unwarranted constraints

on credit availability. Section 303(a)

also requires each federal banking

agency to remove inconsistencies and

outmoded and duplicative requirements

from its regulations and written

policies.

As part of this review, the FDIC has

determined that the Statement of Policy

is outmoded, and that the FDIC’s

written policies can be streamlined by

its elimination.

The FDIC originally adopted the

Statement of Policy on February 27,

1984 (49 FR 7865 (March 2, 1984)). It

addresses issues surrounding

implementation of certain provisions of

the Garn-St. Germain Depository

Institutions Act of 1982, Pub. L. 97–320

(Garn Act), which expanded the types of

state-chartered depository institutions

eligible for FDIC insurance, to include

industrial banking companies and

similar institutions. These specialpurpose entities, known as industrial

banks, industrial loan companies,

industrial loan and thrift companies, or

loan and investment companies, extend

installment credit to consumers and

accept some form of savings deposits.

Before the Garn Act, the only eligible

state-chartered entities were banks and

trust companies with explicit statutory

authority to accept deposits other than

trust deposits.

The Garn Act amended section 5(a) of

the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDI

Act) (12 U.S.C. 1815(a)) to list special

procedural requirements for the FDIC to

fulfill before insuring industrial banking

companies lacking bank charters. The

FDIC was required to determine that the

industrial banking company was

chartered and operating under state

laws providing for examination,

supervision, and liquidation comparable

to banks.

In the Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation Improvement Act of 1991,

Pub. L. 102–242 (Improvement Act),

section 5(a) of the FDI Act was

comprehensively rewritten without

inclusion of these special requirements.

As a result, the FDIC is no longer

required to apply a specialized set of

factors in determining the eligibility of

industrial banking companies as a class

for deposit insurance.

The Statement of Policy presents a

mix of the details of the section 5(a)

analysis and descriptions of the FDIC’s

approach to general eligibility issues

relating to industrial banking

companies. Given the removal of the

section 5(a) factors from the FDI Act, the

former analysis is no longer necessary

and these portions of the Statement of

Policy are outmoded. As for the latter

analysis, a description of general

eligibility issues was salutary during the

Garn Act’s implementation period,

when numerous industrial banking

companies were first presented with the

issue of eligibility for such companies

under the laws of their respective states.

However, over a decade later, these

questions arise rarely, and the FDIC’s

written policies can be streamlined by

elimination of the Statement of Policy.

For the above reasons, the Statement of

Policy is rescinded.

By order of the Board of Directors.

Dated at Washington, D.C. this 25th day of

March, 1997.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Robert E. Feldman,

Deputy Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8342 Filed 4–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6714–01–P

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission to OMB Under

Delegated Authority

BACKGROUND: Notice is hereby given of

the final approval of proposed

information collections by the Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System (Board) under OMB delegated

authority, as per 5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB

Regulations on Controlling Paperwork

Burdens on the Public). The Federal

Reserve may not conduct or sponsor,

and the respondent is not required to

respond to, an information collection

that has been extended, revised, or

implemented on or after October 1,