8100 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 28 / Friday, February 10, 1995 / Notices

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day

of January 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Robert M. Bernero,

Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety,

and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 95–3374 Filed 2–9–95; 8:45 am]

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[Docket Nos. 50–498 and 50–499]

Houston Lighting and Power

Company, City Public Service Board of

San Antonio, Central Power and Light

Company, City of Austin, Texas; Notice

of Consideration of Issuance of

Amendments to Facility Operating

Licenses, Proposed No Significant

Hazards Consideration Determination,

and Opportunity for a Hearing

This document corrects a general

notice appearing in the Federal Register

on January 30, 1995 (60 FR 5739), in

which the NRC is considering issuance

of amendments to Facility Operating

License Nos. NPF–76 and NPF–80,

issued to Houston Lighting and Power

Company, et al., for operation of the

South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2,

located in Matagorda County, Texas.

This notice is necessary to correct an

erroneous date.

On page 5740, in the first sentence of

the second full paragraph in the first

column, the date ‘‘February 14, 1995’’.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day

of February 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Thomas W. Alexion,

Project Manager, Project Directorate IV–1,

Division of Reactor Projects III/IV; Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 95–3375 Filed 2–9–95; 8:45 am]

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND

BUDGET

Draft Security Tenets for the National

Information Infrastructure

AGENCY: Office of Management and

Budget.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: OMB is publishing these draft

Security Tenants for the National

Information Infrastructure (NII) on

behalf of the Security Issues Forum of

the Information Infrastructure Task

Force. The Tenets were developed by

the Forum to help support the secure

use of the NII. The Forum is chaired by

OMB. OMB has not adopted these

Security Tenets as policy, but is

publishing them in the belief that they

are worthy of public discussion.

DATES: Comments should be submitted

no later than April 11, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to

the Security Issues Forum c/o the Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Room 10236, Washington, DC 20503.

The Tenets can be downloaded from the

IIFT gopher/bulletin board system: 202–

501–1920. The IITF gopher/bulletin

board can be accessed through the

Internet by pointing your gopher client

to IITF.DOC.GOV or by telnet to

IITF.DOC.GOV and logging in as

GOPHER. Electronic comments may be

sent to HUTHlV@A1.EOP.GOV. (Note:

e-mail address is A1, not AL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ms. Virginia Huth, NII Security Issues

Forum, Office of Management and

Budget, Washington, DC 20503. Voice

telephone: 202–395–3785. Facsimile:

202–395–5167. E-mail:

HUTHlV@A1.EIP.GOV. (Note: e-mail

address is A1, not AL.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Government has an important public

mission to support the secure use of the

NII. In order for the support to be

effective, the Government must

cooperate with the private sector and

with the public-at-large in setting legal

and policy ground rules for security in

the NII. The Security Issues Forum

provides leadership for Federal NII

security activities. The Security Tenets

are an early step in the development of

an ‘‘NII Security Plan’’ to define the

security requirements for the NII and to

determine needed policy, technology,

and managerial controls, and what the

Federal role will be to assure that those

needs are fulfilled. The NII Security

Plan will also incorporate the security

principles developed by the

Organization for Economic Cooperation

and Development.

Sally Katzen,

Administrator, Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs.

Security Tenets for the National

Information Infrastructure

Security is a critical component of the

National Information Infrastructure

(NII). NII participants must have

confidence that the NII is a trustworthy,

reliable system, or they will not use it.

NII security includes the integrity,

confidentiality, and availability of the

NII and of the information in the NII. In

general, people who use the NII want to

know that their information goes where

and when they want it to, and nowhere

else. From this general proposition flow

five security tenets that the NII should

provide the people who use it.

(1) The ability to control who sees (or

cannot see) their information and under

what terms;

(2) The ability to know who they are

communicating with and that

information received comes from who it

says it is from;

(3) The ability to know that

information stored or transmitted is

unaltered;

(4) The ability to know when

information and communication

services will (or will not be) available;

and

(5) The ability to block unwanted

information or intrusions.

Two conditions attach to these

security tenets:

(1) None of these tenets is absolute.

For each tenet there may be valid

societal reasons—such as an emergency

or a need to protect another’s rights—

that cause the tenet to be conditional in

some manner.

(2) Each tenet requires NII

participants to take responsibility for

establishing the terms and conditions

under which they will exchange

information. The distributed and

empowered nature of this technology

demands a greater level of

responsibility. Education of NII

participants is thus a critical task.

[FR Doc. 95–3408 Filed 2–9–95; 8:45 am]

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Notice of Meeting of the Advisory

Committee on Trade Policy and

Negotiations

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice that the February 9, 1995

meeting of the Advisory Committee on

Trade Policy and Negotiation will be

held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The

meeting will be closed to the public

from 10:00 a.m. to :15 p.m. The meeting

will be open to the public from 1:15

p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on

Trade Policy and Negotiation will hold

a meeting on December 6, 1994 from

10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The meeting will

be closed to the public from 10:00 a.m.

to 1:15 p.m. The meeting will include a

review and discussion of current issues

which influence U.S. trade policy.

Pursuant to Section 2155(f)(2) of Title

19 of the United States Code, I have

determined that this portion of the

meeting will be concerned with matters
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the disclosure of which would seriously

compromise the development by the

United States Government of trade

policy, priorities, negotiating objectives

or bargaining positions with respect to

the operation of any trade agreement

and other matters arising in connection

with the development, implementation

and administration of the trade policy of

the United States. The meeting will be

open to the public and press from 1:15

p.m. to 2:00 p.m. when trade policy

issues will be discussed. Attendance

during this part of the meeting is for

observation only. Individuals who are

not members of the committee will not

be invited to comment.

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for

February 9, 1995, unless otherwise

notified.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, located at

16th and K streets, NW., Washington,

DC, unless otherwise notified.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michaelle Burstin, Director of Public

Liaison, Office of the United States

Trade Representative, (202) 395–6120.

Michael Kantor,

United States Trade Representative.

[FR Doc. 95–3336 Filed 2–9–95; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. 301–98]

Initiation of Section 302 Investigation

Concerning Certain Discriminatory

Canadian Communications Practices;

Proposed Determination; and Request

for Public Comment

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice of initiation of

investigation under section 302(a) of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19

U.S.C. 2412(a)); notice of proposed

determination; request for written

comment.

SUMMARY: The United States Trade

Representative (USTR) has initiated an

investigation under section 302(a) of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the

Trade Act), with respect to certain acts,

policies and practices of the

Government of Canada that have

resulted in the denial of market access

for U.S.-owned programming services to

be distributed in Canada via cable

carriage and in the termination of the

authorization of a U.S.-owned

programming service, Country Music

Television (CMT), to be distributed in

Canada via cable carriage. The USTR

invites written comments from the

public on the matters being investigated,

particularly with respect to the amount

of burden or restriction on U.S.

commerce caused by the Canadian

government’s acts, policies and

practices. In addition, the USTR is

seeking public comment concerning a

proposed determination that certain

acts, policies and practices of Canada

with respect to the granting or

termination of authorizations for U.S.-

owned programming services to be

distributed in Canada via cable carriage

are unreasonable or discriminatory and

constitute a burden or restriction on

U.S. commerce.

DATES: This investigation was initiated

on February 6, 1995. Written comments

from the public are due on or before

noon on March 6, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Office of the United States

Trade Representative, 600 17th Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Claude Burcky, Director for Canadian

Affairs, (202) 395–3412, or Vanessa

Sciarra, Assistant General Counsel,

(202) 395–7305.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

December 23, 1994, CMT filed a petition

pursuant to Section 302(a) of the Trade

Act alleging that acts, policies and

practices of the Canadian government

regarding the authorization for

distribution via cable carriage of U.S.-

owned programming services are

discriminatory and are actionable under

Section 301.

Section 302(a) of the Trade Act

authorizes the USTR to initiate an

investigation under chapter 1 of Title III

of the Trade Act (commonly referred to

as ‘‘section 301’’), in response to the

filing of a petition pursuant to Section

302(a)(1). Matters actionable under

section 301 include, inter alia, acts,

policies, and practices of a foreign

country that are unreasonable or

discriminatory and burden or restrict

U.S. commerce. An act, policy or

practice is unreasonable if the act,

policy or practice, while not necessarily

in violation of, or inconsistent with, the

international legal rights of the United

States, is otherwise unfair or

inequitable. Unreasonable acts, policies

or practices include, inter alia, denial of

fair and equitable market opportunities.

On February 6, 1995, the USTR

determined that an investigation should

be initiated to determine whether

certain acts, policies or practices of the

Government of Canada that have

resulted in the denial of market access

for U.S.-owned programming services to

be distributed in Canada via cable

carriage and in the termination of the

authorization of a U.S.-owned

programming service to be distributed

in Canada via cable carriage are

unreasonable or discriminatory and

burden or restrict U.S. commerce. The

acts, policies or practices at issue

include the policy of the Canadian

Radio-television and

Telecommunications Commission

(CRTC), set forth in Public Notice CRTC

1984–81, to terminate authorizations of

non-Canadian-owned programming

services which, in the CRTC’s opinion,

could be considered either totally or

partially competitive with existing or

newly-available Canadian-owned

programming services. This policy

limits the ability of U.S.-owned

programming services to compete in the

Canadian market and acts as a

disincentive to such service providers to

attempt to enter the Canadian market.

Consultations and Proposed

Determination

Pursuant to section 303(a) of the

Trade Act, the USTR has requested

consultations with the Government of

Canada concerning the issues under

investigation. USTR will seek

information and advice from the

appropriate representatives provided for

under section 135 of the Trade Act in

preparing the U.S. presentations for

such consultations.

If the issues which are the basis of

this investigation are not resolved

expeditiously, the USTR proposes to

determine pursuant to Section 304(a)(1)

of the Trade Act that acts, policies and

practices of the Canadian Government

with respect to the granting or

termination of authorizations for U.S.-

owned programming services to be

distributed in Canada via cable carriage

are unreasonable or discriminatory and

constitute a burden or restriction on

U.S. commerce.

If this determination is affirmative,

the USTR must also determine what

action would be appropriate under the

statute. Actions that would be permitted

in the case of an affirmative

determination include action to

suspend, withdraw or prevent the

application of benefits of trade

agreement concessions to Canada;

imposition of duties or other import

restrictions on goods of Canada or fees

or restrictions on services of Canada;

and restriction or denial of service

sector access authorizations with

respect to services of Canada.

Public Comment: Requirements for

Submissions

Interested persons are invited to

submit written comments concerning

the issues raised in the petition and any

other submissions to USTR in this

investigation. In particular, comments

are invited regarding (i) The acts,