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Protection Association. The Department

carefully evaluated these proposals in

relation to the criteria for reviewing

statements of interest. Subsequent to

that it invited each organization to come

to HUD and meet with program officials,

both to respond to identical questions

posed to each organization and to

permit each organization to present any

matter to HUD officials that it deemed

appropriate and ask any questions.

Following these meetings the

Department gave further consideration

to which entity should be selected.

Based upon the foregoing, the

Department announces the selection of

the National Fire Protection Association

to be a consensus standards

development organization to develop

and maintain recommended standards

for the Manufactured Housing program.

NFPA will thus replace the selection of

CABO made in 1988. There is no

agreement between the Department and

the NFPA that obligates the NFPA to

develop recommended standards or that

obligates the Department to use or pay

for the development of recommended

standards. This selection in no way

precludes any other individual or entity

from making recommendations to the

Department regarding program

standards; such recommendations will

also be reviewed and considered by the

Department for incorporation into the

FMHCSS, as required by law.

Dated: May 29, 1998.

Art Agnos,

Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Deputy Federal Housing

Commissioner.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Recreation Lakes Study;

Notice of Interest Briefing

AGENCY: National Recreation Lakes

Study.

ACTION: Notice of Interest Briefing on

National Recreation Lakes Study.

SUMMARY: The Omnibus Parks and

Public Land Management Act of 1996

authorizes a presidential commission to

review the demand for recreation at

Federal lakes, and to develop

alternatives for enhanced recreation

uses, primarily through innovative

public/private partnerships. This

briefing will provide information on the

study and allow for ideas to be

expressed. Commissioner designee, Dr.

John Zirschky, Acting Assistant

Secretary of the Army, will be in

attendance.

DATES: June 11, 1998, starting at 10 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The briefing location is in

the first floor Auditorium of the South

Interior Building, 1951 Constitution

Ave. NW. Please have photo

identification available for admission

into the building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeanne Whittington, 202–219–7104.

Dated: May 29, 1998.

Jana Prewitt,

Executive Director, National Recreation Lakes

Study.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC); Public Review of the ‘‘Spatial

Data Transfer Standard, Part 5: Raster

Profile and Extensions’’

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The FGDC is sponsoring a

public review of the draft ‘‘Spatial Data

Transfer Standard, Part 5: Raster Profile

and Extensions’’.

The FGDC recognizes that standards

must meet the needs and recognize the

views of State and local governments,

academia, industry, and the public. The

purpose of this notice is to solicit such

view. The FGDC invites the community

to review, test, and evaluate the

proposed standard. Comments are

encouraged about the content,

completeness, applicability, and

usability of the proposed standard.

The FGDC anticipates that the

proposed standard will be adopted as

Federal Geographic Data Committee

standard after updating or revision. The

standard may be forwarded to voluntary

standards bodies for adoption if interest

warrants such actions.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before July 20, 1998.

CONTACT AND ADDRESSES: Requests for

written copies of the standard should be

addressed to ‘‘Spatial Data Transfer

Standard, Part 5: Raster Profile and

Extensions’’, FGDC Secretariat (attn:

Jennifer Fox), U.S. Geological Survey,

590 National Center, 12201 Sunrise

Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia, 20192;

telephone 703–648–5514; facsimile

703–648–5755; or Internet at

gdc@usgs.gov. The standard may be

downloaded from this Internet address:

ftp://www.fgdc.gov/Standards/

Documents/Standards/SDTSlPt5/.

Reviewer’s comments may be sent to

the FGDC via Internet mail to: gdcsdtsras@www.fgdc.gov. Reviewer

comments may also be sent to the FGDC

Secretariat at the above address. Please

send one hardcopy version of the

comments and a soft copy version,

preferably on a 3.5x3.5 diskette in

WordPerfect 5.0 or 6.0/6.1 format.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)

defines a general mechanism for the

transfer of geographically referenced

spatial data and its supporting metadata,

i.e., attributes, data quality reports,

coordinate reference systems, security

information, etc. The overriding

principle that SDTS promotes is that the

spatial data transfer should be selfdocumenting. The data set in SDTS

should contain all of the information

that is needed to assess and (or) use the

data for any appropriate GIS

application. The SDTS base

specification (Parts 1, 2 and 3) is

implemented via profiles of SDTS. A

SDTS profile, in general terms, may be

defined as a limited subset of the

standard, designed for use with a

specific type of data model, i.e.,

topological vector, point, grid, image,

etc. Specific choices are made for

encoding possibilities not addressed,

left optional, or left with numerous

choices within the SDTS base

specification. A profile may also specify

extensions to the base standard to

address changing technologies, and to

take advantage of other industry

standards. For raster image data, there

are numerous standards, with various

properties, restrictions, and degrees of

implementation. The SDTS Raster

Profile and Extensions (SRPE) permits

the use of two common industry

standards for image data: Basic Image

Interchange Format (BIIF) and Tagged

Image File Format (TIFF). The BIIF

defines a general mechanism for the

transfer of image data and any support

data, i.e. image parameters,

visualization parameters, compression

parameters, text annotations, symbols,

etc. BIIF is an ANSI/ISO standard and

is in wide the use in the commercial

military community (formerly NITF).

TIFF is a general purpose image file

format that is used widely for simple

image applications.

For answers to questions related to

the content of the standard please

contact the Federal Geographic Data

Committee (FGDC) Subcommittee on

Base Cartographic Data, attn. Mark

Demulder, U.S. Geological Survey, 511

National Center, Reston, VA 20192.