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considered for environmental use.

Changes and modifications to detailed

classifications will be introduced with

the 1997 Economic Censuses. We expect

to revise the survey for future data

collections to incorporate improvements

learned from this test.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for–profit.

Frequency: One–time test.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202)

395–7314.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Linda Engelmeier,

Acting DOC Forms Clearance Officer,

(202) 482–3272, Department of

Commerce, room 5312, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 24, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Acting Departmental Forms Clearance

Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

[FR Doc. 96–13620 Filed 5–30–96; 8:45 am]

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Bureau of the Census

Annual Survey of State and Local

Government Finance

ACTION: Proposed agency information

collection activity; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 30, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Acting

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Henry S. Wulf, Bureau of

the Census, Governments Division,

Washington, DC 20233–6800, (301)–

457–1523.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

This annual survey provides state

government finance data and estimates

of local government revenue,

expenditure, debt and assets by type of

local government, nationally and within

state areas. The data are used to

calculate the gross domestic product

(GDP), to monitor the government sector

of the economy, and to formulate,

develop, and review public policy.

The revenue category subdivides into

the three parts of general revenue,

utility and liquor store revenue and

insurance trust revenue. Examples of

general revenue are taxes, monies from

other governments, non-utility charges

and interest earnings. Utility charges

and investment earnings are examples

of other types of government income.

The statistics show expenditure

classified by character and object

(current operations, capital outlay, etc.)

and by function (education, highways,

police, welfare, and sanitation, for

example). The indebtedness data

include all long- and short-term (less

than one year) credit obligations

incurred in the name of government.

Asset information—dominated generally

by pension system assets—includes

only cash and securities of governments,

but excludes any other type of asset

such as real property or fixed assets.

Included within this review request

are the Forms F–5, F–5a, F–5L1, and F–

5L2 from the Annual Survey of State

Tax Collections. This survey was

approved separately in the past under

the OMB number 0067–0046. We are

combining these two collections

because the tax portion of the data will

no longer be released separately.

Although the data will be collected in

the same manner by the Forms F–5 and

F–5a, the data collected will be

included as part of the annual survey

releases.

II. Method of Collection

Canvass methodology consists of a

questionnaire mailout/mail-back.

Responses will be screened manually,

then entered on a microcomputer. Other

methods used to collect data and

maximize response include central data

collection, solicitation of printed reports

in lieu of a completed questionnaire,

and use of the Census Bureau’s Federal

Single Audit Clearinghouse.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0585 (Forms F–

5, F–5A, F–5L1, F–5–L2 were

previously cleared under the OMB

Number 0607–0046).

Form Number: F–5, F–5A, F–5L1, F–

5–L2, F–11, F–12, F–13, F–21, F–22, F–

25, F–28, F–29, F–32, F–42.

Type of Review: Regular.

Affected Public: State, local or tribal

government.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

7,425.

Estimated Time Per Response: 2.8

hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 22,798 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The

estimated cost to the respondents is

$303,213.00. The estimated cost to the

Federal Government is contained in the

Surveys of Government Finance. In

total, these cost about $3.2 million

during FY 1996.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: May 28, 1996.

Linda Engelmeier,

Acting Departmental Forms Clearance

Officer, Office of Management and

Organization.

[FR Doc. 96–13698 Filed 5–30–96; 8:45 am]

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Minority Business Development

Agency

[Docket No. 960402097–6129–02]

RIN 0640–XX02

Revision of the Cost-Share

Requirement and Addition of Bonus

Points for Community-Based

Organizations Applying To Operate

Minority Business Development

Centers (MBDC) in Designated

Locations

AGENCY: Minority Business

Development Agency, Commerce.

ACTION: Interim final policy request for

comments.

SUMMARY: In order to leverage Federal

resources together with those existing in

communities, and to build local

capacity to impact growth in the

nation’s minority business sector,

MBDA is revising its Minority Business

Development Center Competitive

Application Package to increase the

Cost-Share requirement from fifteen

percent (15%) to forty percent (40%)

and to give an additional ten (10) bonus

points to the applications of

community-based organizations in

designated locations.

DATES: This interim policy is effective

May 31, 1996. Comments on this

interim policy must be submitted on or

before July 1, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to

Mr. Paul R. Webber IV, Assistant

Director for Operations, Minority

Business Development Agency, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room 5073,

14th and Constitution Avenues NW.,

Washington D.C. 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Paul Webber IV at (202) 482–1015.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under

Executive Order 11625, MBDA provides

business development assistance to

persons who are members of groups

determined by MBDA to be socially or

economically disadvantaged, and to

business concerns owned and

controlled by such individuals. To

deliver this assistance, MBDA funds

MBDCs which offer a full range of

management and technical assistance

services, coordinate public and private

resources on behalf of clients, and serve

as a conduit for information concerning

business development.

MBDA selects applicants to operate

its MBDCs through a competitive

solicitation process. The guidelines for

operation of an MBDC are set forth in

a detailed Competitive Application

Package (CAP). The funding instrument

for the MBDCs is a cooperative

agreement, which, in addition to the

CAP and the competitive solicitation

published in the Federal Register, sets

forth the applicable requirements which

must be met by an MBDC operator

(collectively, the ‘‘program guidelines’’).

Under the program guidelines, the

Department of Commerce currently

funds up to 85% of the total budgeted

cost of operating an MBDC on an annual

basis. The MBDC operator is required to

contribute at least 15% of the total

project cost (the ‘‘cost-share

requirement’’). Contributions which

may be utilized in satisfying the costshare requirement include cash

contributions, non-cash applicant

contributions, third party in-kind

contributions and client fees.

Under the revised guidelines for the

geographic service areas designated

below, and for such additional

geographic service areas as shall from

time to time be added to this list, the

Department will fund up to 60% of the

total project cost. The operator will be

required to contribute at least 40% of

the total project cost in order to satisfy

the cost-share requirement. In addition

to the traditional sources of an MBDC’s

cost-share contribution, the 40% may be

contributed by local, state and private

sector organizations. It is anticipated

that some organizations may apply

jointly for an award to operate one of

the designated centers. For

administrative purposes, one

organization must be designated as the

recipient organization.

Pages 1–7 of the MBDC Competitive

Application Package (CAP) address the

scoring of applications. Currently,

applicants are evaluated based upon a

100 point scoring system which

addresses the capability of the

applicant, the reasonableness of the

applicant’s proposed costs, the

applicant’s proposed strategies for

accomplishing the program mission,

and other selection criteria. This scoring

system will be revised to add ten (10)

bonus points to the applications of

community-based organizations which

have received a programmatically

acceptable and responsive score. Each

qualifying application will receive the

full ten points. Community-based

applicant organizations are those

organizations currently located within

the geographic service area designated

in the solicitation for the award, and

whose headquarters and/or principal

place of business have been located

within the geographic service area

during the last five years. Where an

applicant organization has been in

existence for fewer than five years or

has been present in the geographic

service area for fewer than five years,

the individual years of experience of the

applicant organization’s principals may

be applied toward the requirement of

five years of organization experience.

The individual years of experience must

have been acquired in the geographic

service area which is the subject of the

solicitation.

Issues concerning the interpretation of

the foregoing requirements and the

meanings of key terms shall be governed

by the CAP, as amended.

MBDA recognizes that the

substantially decreased level of funding

for Agency programs and the instituting

of a community-based emphasis on the

selection of service providers may lead

to the non-renewal of some awards

upon the expiration of the current

award term, yet prior to the completion

of a full, three-year competitive cycle. It

is important to note that under the

Agency’s existing program guidelines,

the renewal of an award for the second

and third budget years is expressly

conditioned upon the availability of

funding and shifts in Agency priorities.

Statement of Policy

In order to implement its revised

program in support of the minority

business sector, MBDA will henceforth

increase the cost-share requirement for

Business Development Center awards to

forty percent (40%) and add ten bonus

points to programmatically acceptable

and responsive applications of

community-based organizations in the

following twenty-two locations:

Atlanta

Tampa

Cincinnati

New Orleans

Bronx

Newark/Jersey City

Las Vegas

San Francisco

Jacksonville

West Palm Beach

Brownsville

Oklahoma City

Brooklyn

Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles

Orlando

Chicago

Corpus Christi

Boston

Connecticut

Anaheim

Oxnard

Executive Order 12866

This policy revision was determined

to be not significant for purposes of E.O.

12866.

Administrative Procedure Act

Since this notice of policy revision is

a matter relating to public property,
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loans, grants, benefits, or contracts

under 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2), the

requirements of section 553 do not

apply.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

The Regulatory Flexibility Act does

not apply to this notice of policy change

because the notice was not required to

be promulgated as a proposed rule

before issuance in final form by 5 U.S.C.

§ 553 or by any other law. As a result,

neither an initial nor final Regulatory

Analysis was required, and none has

been prepared.

Paperwork Reduction Act

This notice involves a collection of

information which has been approved

by the Office of Management and

Budget under control number 0640–

0006.

Executive Order 12612

This policy statement does not

contain policies with Federalism

implications sufficient to warrant

preparation of a Federalism assessment

under Executive Order 12612.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1512 and Executive

Order 11625.

Dated: May 24, 1996.

Elio E. Muller, Jr.,

Associate Director for Strategic Planning,

Minority Business Development Agency.

[FR Doc. 96–13691 Filed 5–30–96; 8:45 am]

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 051796D]

North Pacific Fishery Management

Council; Agenda Addition

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Addition to meeting agenda.

SUMMARY: The agenda for the meeting of

the North Pacific Fishery Management

Council which is scheduled for June 11–

16, 1996, in Portland, OR, was

published on May 28, 1996. See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for an

addition to the meeting agenda.

ADDRESSES: Portland Red Lion Hotel,

310 S.W. Lincoln, Portland, OR 97201.

Council address: North Pacific

Fishery Management Council, 605 W.

4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK

99501–2252.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Council staff, Phone: 907–271–2809.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The initial

agenda published on May 28, 1996 (61

FR 13285). The following addition is to

be included in the agenda for the

Council meeting:

An initial review of a regulatory

amendment to implement specific

electronic reporting requirements for

onshore and offshore processors will be

added to the previously published

agenda.

Special Accommodations

These meetings are physically

accessible to people with disabilities.

Requests for sign language

interpretation or other auxiliary aids

should be directed to Helen Allen, 907–

271–2809, at least 5 working days prior

to the meeting date.

Dated: May 28, 1996.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Fisheries

Conservation and Management, National

Marine Fisheries Service

[FR Doc. 96–13703 Filed 5–30–96; 8:45 am]

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National Environmental Satellite, Data,

and Information Service Transition

From GOES TAP/GOES Fax

Transmission of Satellite Imagery to

Alternative Methods of Delivery

AGENCIES: National Environmental

Satellite, Data, and Information Service

(NESDIS), National Weather Service

(NWS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice publishes the

NESDIS and the NWS plan to transition

from the current GOES-Tap/GOES-Fax

(telephone-based) analog service to new

digital-data transmission modes

including NOAAPORT point-tomultipoint broadcast and the Internet.

No changes will occur without several

advance notifications. A minimum 6-

month notification is planned for the

user community.

ADDRESSES: Information concerning this

Notice is available upon request. GOESTap users can send inquires to NESDIS,

Satellite Services Division, 5200 Auth

Road, Room 607, Camp Springs,

Maryland 20748.

For GOES-Fax users, requests for

information should be sent to the NWS,

Telecommunications and Dissemination

Branch, 1325 East-West Highway, Suite

17444, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

John Paquette (GOES-Tap) at 301–763–

8051, e-mail at

jpaquette@ssd.wwb.noaa.gov or Herb

Hawkins (GOES-FAX) at 301–713–0425

or e-mail at

hhawkins@smtpgate.ssmc.noaa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Established in the mid 1970’s, the

Geostationary Operational

Environmental Satellite (GOES)

Telecommunications Access Program

(GOES-Tap) has provided Weather

Service Forecast Offices (WSFO) with

near real-time, high quality analog

environmental satellite imagery from

geostationary and polar-orbiting

satellites. Many other Federal

Government and private weather users

also access this satellite imagery via

regional Satellite Field Distribution

Facilities directly as GOES-Tap

customers or are connected to a WSFO

as a secondary GOES-Fax customer.

In support of the NWS modernization,

NESDIS plans to meet new expanded

NWS operational data requirements by

transitioning from the analog GOES-Tap

to a digital GOES data relay through a

commercial satellite. This satellite

point-to-multipoint broadcast is referred

to as NOAAPORT and will cover the

United States, including Hawaii and

Alaska.

Scheduled for full deployment near

the end of the decade, NOAAPORT will

provide users with real-time

transmission of high resolution digital

sectorized data from both GOES and

other satellite platforms. Currently,

NOAA is also examining additional

means of digital satellite data delivery

including the Internet.

NOAA plans to decommission GOESTap/GOES-Fax during calendar years

1997 and 1998. These planning dates

could be moved up. All known GOESTap/GOES-Fax users will be updated on

specific decommissioning dates at least

6 months prior to termination of these

services. GOES-Tap and GOES-Fax

customers are encouraged to begin

making preparations for this transition.

Dated: May 24, 1996.

Robert S. Winokur,

Assistant Administrator for Satellite and

Information Services.

[FR Doc. 96–13700 Filed 5–30–96; 8:45 am]

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[I.D. 052196C]

Marine Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify

permit no. 926 (P562).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr.

Robin Baird, Marine Mammal Research