Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 29, 1996 / Notices 26891

Date Deemed Submitted: May 8, 1996.

Proposed Amendment: CISA Export

Trade Group, Inc. seeks to amend its

Certificate to:

1. add the following companies as

‘‘Members’’ within the meaning of

Section 325.2 (1) of the Regulations (15

CFR 325.2(1)): Allied Mineral Products,

Inc., Columbus, Ohio; American Colloid

Company, Arlington Heights, Illinois;

Borden, Inc./North American Resins,

Westchester, Illinois; Delta Resins &

Refractories, Inc, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin; Eirich Machines, Inc.,

Gurnee, Illinois; Equipment Merchants

Int’l, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; Fargo Wear,

Detroit, Michigan; Palmer

Manufacturing Company, Springfield,

Ohio; Thermtroniz, Adelanto,

California; Vulcan Engineering

Company, Helena, Alabama;

2. delete the following company as a

‘‘Member’’ within the meaning of

Section 325.2(1) of the Regulations (15

CFR 325.2(1)): Carrier Vibrating

Equipment, Inc.;

3. change the name of National

Engineering Company to Simpson

Technologies Corp.

Dated: May 22,1996.

W. Dawn Busby,

Director, Office of Export, Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 96–13339 Filed 5–28–96; 8:45 am]

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Environmental Technologies Trade

Advisory Committee

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: The Environmental

Technologies Trade Advisory

Committee (ETTAC) will hold its

seventh plenary meeting. The ETTAC

was created on May 31, 1994, to

promote a close working-relationship

between government and industry and

to expand export growth in priority and

emerging markets for environmental

products and services.

DATES AND PLACE: May 29, 1996 from

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The meeting will

take place in Room 6800 of the

Department of Commerce, 14th Street

and Constitution Avenue NW.,

Washington D.C. 20230.

The agenda will include a discussion

of ETTAC recommendations with

agency representatives from the

Environmental Trade Working Group of

the Trade Promotion Coordinating

Committee; a discussion of a

background report prepared by the

ETTAC that will accompany its

recommendations to the Secretary of

Commerce; future steps for the ETTAC.

This program is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to Jane

Siegel, Department of Commerce, Room

1002, Washington D.C. 20230. Seating is

limited and will be on a first-come, firstserved basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

Office of Environmental Technologies

Exports, Room 1003, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230,

phone (202) 482–5225, facsimile (202)

482–5665 TDD 1–800-833–8723.

Dated: May 21, 1996.

Anne Alonzo,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental

Technologies Exports.

[FR Doc. 96–13327 Filed 5–28–96; 8:45 am]

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National Institute of Standards and

Technology

[Docket No. 950802199–6064–02]

RIN 0693–XX10

Approval of Withdrawal of Eighteen

Federal Information Processing

Standards

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology (NIST), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce that the Secretary of

Commerce has approved the withdrawal

of eighteen Federal Information

Processing Standards (FIPS).

On August 22, 1995, notice was

published in the Federal Register (60

FR 43586–43587) proposing withdrawal

of eighteen Federal Information

Processing Standards (FIPS). These FIPS

adopt voluntary industry standards for

Federal government use. In some cases,

the FIPS documents have not been

updated to reference current or revised

voluntary industry standards. In other

cases, commercial products

implementing the voluntary industry

standards, such as punched cards, paper

tape, optical character recognition

equipment, and microfilm readers, are

widely available; as a result, it is no

longer necessary for the government to

mandate standards in these areas.

Withdrawal means that the FIPS will

no longer be part of a subscription series

that is provided by the National

Technical Information Service, and that

NIST will no longer be able to support

the standards by answering

implementation questions or updating

the FIPS when the voluntary industry

standards are revised. Current voluntary

industry standards should be used by

agencies in their procurement actions

were appropriate, in accordance with

OMB Circular A–119, Federal

Participation and Use of Voluntary

Standards.

The written comments submitted by

interested parties and other material

available to the Department relevant to

these standards were revised by NIST.

On the basis of this review, NIST

recommended that the Secretary

approve the withdrawal of the eighteen

FIPS, and prepared a detailed

justification document for the

Secretary’s review in support of that

recommendation.

The detailed justification document

which was presented to the Secretary is

part of the public record and is available

for inspection and copying in the

Department’s Central Reference and

Records Inspection Facility, Room 6020,

Herbert C. Hoover Building, 14th Street

between Pennsylvania and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

This notice provides only the FIPS

publication number, title, and the

technical specifications number for each

of the eighteen standards being

withdrawn:

—FIPS 2–1, Perforated Tape Code for

Information Interchange (ANSI X3.6–

1965/R1991)

—FIPS 13, Rectangular Holes in TwelveRow Punched Cards (ANSI X3.21–

1967/R1991)

—FIPS 14–1, Hollerith Punched Card

Code (ANSI X3.26–1980/R1991)

—FIPS 26, One-Inch Perforated Paper

Tape for Information Interchange

(ANSI X3.18–1967/R1990)

—FIPS 27, Take-Up Reels for One-Inch

Perforated Tape for Information

Interchange (ANSI X3.20–1967/

R1990)

—FIPS 32–1, Character Sets for Optical

Character Recognition (OCR) (ANSI

X3.2–1970/R1976, X3.17–1981, and

X3.49–1975/R1982)

—FIPS 33–1, Character Set for

Handprinting (ANSI X3.45–1982)

—FIPS 40, Guideline for Optical

Character Recognition Forms

—FIPS 54–1, Computer Output

Microform (COM) Formats and

Reduction Ratios, 16mm and 105mm

(ANSI/AIIM MS5–1991 and MS14–

1988)

—FIPS 82, Guideline for Inspection and

Quality Control for Alphanumeric

Computer-Output Microforms (ANSI/

AIIM MS1–1980)

—FIPS 84, Microfilm Readers (ANSI/

AIIM (NMA) MS20–1979)