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inspection at the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 27, 1996.

AVAILABILITY: The proposed prospective

purchaser agreement and additional

background documentation relating to

the settlement are available for public

inspection at the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. A copy

of the proposed settlement may be

obtained from Mark Klaiman, Assistant

Regional Counsel (RC–3–1), Office of

Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX,

75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105. Comments should reference

‘‘Monsanto Company, San Gabriel

Valley Superfund Sites, Areas 1–4’’ and

‘‘Docket No. 96–09’’ and should be

addressed to Mark Klaiman at the above

address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Klaiman, Assistant Regional

Counsel (RC–3–1), Office of Regional

Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA

94105; E-mail: KLAIMAN.

MARK@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV; phone:

(415) 744–1473.

Keith Takata,

Acting Director, Hazardous Waste

Management Division, U.S. EPA, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 96–13191 Filed 5–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

FCC Amends Charter of Network

Reliability and Interoperability Council

April 18, 1996.

The Federal Communications

Commission has renewed and amended

the charter of its advisory committee,

the ‘‘Network Reliability Council’’ and

renamed it the ‘‘Network Reliability and

Interoperability Council’’ (the

‘‘Council’’). Under its amended charter,

the Council will develop

recommendations to the Commission as

to how it might best accomplish

responsibilities placed on it by Section

256 of the Telecommunications Act of

1996.

These include developing procedures

to oversee coordinated network

planning by providers of

telecommunications service and

participating in the development, by

standards-setting organizations, of

public telecommunications network

interconnectivity standards. The

purposes of Section 256 are, first, to

promote nondiscriminatory accessibility

by the broadest number of users and

vendors of telecommunications

products and services to public

telecommunications networks through

(a) coordinated network planning and

design and (b) interconnectivity of

public networks and devices to those

networks, and, second, to ensure the

ability of users and information

providers to seamlessly and

transparently transmit and receive

information between and across

telecommunications networks.

The Council will also continue to

provide recommendations to the

Commission and to the industry that

will help assure optimal reliability of

the public telecommunications

networks.

Building on the accomplishments of

the committee to date and in view of the

wider purposes of the committee under

the amended charter, the Commission

has selected members of the Council on

the basis of their technical knowledge,

the impact of their activities on network

reliability and the impact of network

availability on the constituencies the

members represent. Any new members

will be chosen so that the largest

possible diversity of interests, given the

function to be performed, will be

represented.

The continuation of the Council is

necessary and in the public interest to

prepare recommendations of the FCC as

to how it might best accomplish

responsibilities placed on it by Section

256 of the Telecommunications Act of

1996. Continuation is also necessary to

prepare recommendations to the

industry and to the FCC for avoiding,

and minimizing the impact of, future

network outages. Continuation of the

Council is also necessary so that the

telecommunications industry and the

Commission can effectively monitor and

encourage the implementation of the

Council’s prior recommendations by the

industry, and assess the effectiveness of

the implemented recommendations on

network access during outages and help

assure maximum availability of crucial

telecommunications services.

For additional information, contact

Robert Kimball 202/418–2339.

Federal Communciations Commission.

William F. Caton,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–13248 Filed 5–24–96; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA–1112–DR]

Illinois; Amendment to Notice of a

Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice

of a major disaster for the State of

Illinois, (FEMA–1112–DR), dated May 6,

1996, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 20, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Pauline C. Campbell, Response and

Recovery Directorate, Federal

Emergency Management Agency,

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–3606.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice

of a major disaster for the State of

Illinois, is hereby amended to include

the following areas among those areas

determined to have been adversely

affected by the catastrophe declared a

major disaster by the President in his

declaration of May 6, 1996:

Adams, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Menard,

Schuyler and Vermilion Counties for

Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation.

Cass, Douglas, Jackson, Sangamon, White and

Williamson Counties for Individual

Assistance, Public Assistance and Hazard

Mitigation.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.

83.516, Disaster Assistance)

Dennis H. Kwiatkowski,

Deputy Associate Director, Response and

Recovery Directorate.

[FR Doc. 96–13280 Filed 5–24–96; 8:45 am]

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[FEMA–1112–DR]

Illinois; Amendment to Notice of a

Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice

of a major disaster for the State of

Illinois (FEMA–1112–DR), dated May 6,

1996, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 20, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Pauline C. Campbell, Response and

Recovery Directorate, Federal

Emergency Management Agency,

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–3606.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is

hereby given that the incident period for

this disaster is closed effective May 17,

1996.