54970 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 180 / Monday, September 19, 2005 / Notices 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permits issued under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

This is the required notice. 

DATES: Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit 

Office, Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 

755, National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

27, 2005, the National Science 

Foundation published a notice in the 

Federal Register of permit applications 

received. A permit was issued on 

August 31, 2005 to: 

Rebecca J. Gast, Permit No. 2006–019. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–18574 Filed 9–16–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, Pub. L. 94–409, that the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

will hold the following meetings during 

the week of September 19, 2005: 

An Open Meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 10 

a.m. in Room L–002, the Auditorium, 

and a Closed Meeting will be held on 

Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 2 p.m. 

Commissioners, Counsel to the 

Commissioners, the Secretary to the 

Commission, and recording secretaries 

will attend the Closed Meeting. Certain 

staff members who have an interest in 

the matters may also be present. 

The General Counsel of the 

Commission, or his designee, has 

certified that, in his opinion, one or 

more of the exemptions set forth in 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(3), (5), (7), (9)(B), and 

(10) and 17 CFR 200.402(a)(3), (5), (7), 

9(ii) and (10) permit consideration of 

the scheduled matters at the Closed 

Meeting. 

Commissioner Glassman, as duty 

officer, voted to consider the items 

listed for the closed meeting in closed 

session. 

The subject matters of the Open 

Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 

September 21, 2005 will be: 

1. The Commission will consider 

whether to extend the date by which 

companies that are not accelerated filers 

must comply with certain amendments 

to Rules 13a–15 and 15d–15 under the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Items 

308(a) and (b) of Regulations S–K and 

S–B, Item 15 of Form 20–F, and General 

Instruction B of Form 40–F. These 

amendments require companies, other 

than registered investment companies, 

to include in their annual reports a 

report of management and an 

accompanying auditor’s report on the 

company’s internal control over 

financial reporting. The amendments 

also require a company’s management to 

evaluate as of the end of each fiscal 

period any change in the company’s 

internal control over financial reporting 

that occurred during the period that has 

materially affected, or is reasonably 

likely to materially affect, the 

company’s internal control over 

financial reporting. If approved, a 

company that is not an accelerated filer 

would have to comply with the internal 

control over financial reporting 

requirements for its first fiscal year 

ending on or after July 15, 2007. 

For further information, please 

contact Sean Harrison, Special Counsel, 

Division of Corporation Finance, at 

(202) 551–3430. 

2. The Commission will consider 

whether to propose amendments to the 

‘‘accelerated filer’’ definition in Rule 

12b–2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 

1934 to: 

a. Create a new category of accelerated 

filer that would include reporting 

companies with a public float of $700 

million or more; and 

b. Ease some of the current 

restrictions on the exit of companies 

from accelerated filer status. 

The proposed amendments also 

would amend the final phase-in of the 

Form 10–K and Form 10–Q accelerated 

filing deadlines that is scheduled to take 

effect next year. Accelerated filers 

currently are scheduled to become 

subject to a 60-day filing deadline for 

their Form 10–K annual reports filed for 

fiscal years ending on or after December 

15, 2005, and a 35–day deadline for the 

three subsequently filed quarterly 

reports on Form 10–Q. 

For further information, please 

contact Katherine Hsu, Special Counsel, 

Division of Corporation Finance, at 

(202) 551–3430. 

The subject matters of the Closed 

Meeting scheduled for Thursday, 

September 22, 2005, will be: 

Formal orders of investigations; 

Institution and settlement of 

injunctive actions; and 

Institution and settlement of 

administrative proceedings of an 

enforcement nature. 

At times, changes in Commission 

priorities require alterations in the 

scheduling of meeting items. 

For further information and to 

ascertain what, if any, matters have been 

added, deleted or postponed, please 

contact: 

The Office of the Secretary at (202) 

551–5400. 

Dated: September 14, 2005. 

Jonathan G. Katz, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–18665 Filed 9–15–05; 10:59 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

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[Release No. 35–28028] 

Filings Under the Public Utility Holding 

Company Act of 1935, as Amended 

(‘‘Act’’) 

September 12, 2005. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following filing(s) has/have been made 

with the Commission pursuant to 

provisions of the Act and rules 

promulgated under the Act. All 

interested persons are referred to the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) for 

complete statements of the proposed 

transaction(s) summarized below. The 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) and 

any amendment(s) is/are available for 

public inspection through the 

Commission’s Branch of Public 

Reference. 

Interested persons wishing to 

comment or request a hearing on the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) 

should submit their views in writing by 

October 7, 2005, to the Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–9303, and serve a copy on the 

relevant applicant(s) and/or declarant(s) 

at the address(es) specified below. Proof 

of service (by affidavit or, in the case of 

an attorney at law, by certificate) should 

be filed with the request. Any request 

for hearing should identify specifically 

the issues of facts or law that are 

disputed. A person who so requests will 

be notified of any hearing, if ordered, 

and will receive a copy of any notice or 

order issued in the matter. After October 

7, 2005, the application(s) and/or 

declaration(s), as filed or as amended, 

may be granted and/or permitted to 

become effective. 

Allegheny Energy, Inc., et al. (70–

10330) 

Allegheny Energy, Inc. (‘‘Allegheny’’), 

a registered holding company, and its 

wholly-owned public utility company 

subsidiary, Monongahela Power 

Company (‘‘Monongahela’’ and, together 

with Allegheny, the ‘‘Applicants’’), 800 

Cabin Hill Drive, Greensburg, 

Pennsylvania 15601, have filed an