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statutory notices of deficiency. The text

of the delegation order appears below.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 17, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Grace Robertson, CP:EX:CS:R, Room

108, Aerospace Building, Washington,

D.C. 20224, (202) 401–4478 (not a tollfree call).

DELEGATION ORDER NO. 77 (REV. 28)

Effective: May 17, 1996.

Authority To Issue or Execute

Agreement To Rescind Notices of

Deficiency

Authority: To sign and send to the

taxpayer by registered or certified mail,

any notice of deficiency and to sign a

written form or document rescinding

any notice of deficiency.

Delegated to:

Chiefs, Appeals Offices

Appeals Team Chiefs (as to their

respective cases)

Directors, Computing Centers

Directors, Customer Service Centers

Directors, Submission Processing

Centers

Assistant Commissioner (International)

Chiefs, Employee Plans and Exempt

Organizations Divisions

Chiefs, Collection Divisions

Chiefs, Examination Divisions

Redelegation: This authority may be

redelegated by all the above listed

officials, except Appeals Team Chiefs,

directly to selected individuals within

their functional area. This authority may

not be further redelegated.

Sources of Authority: Authority

granted to the Commissioner of Internal

Revenue, District Directors, and Service

Center Directors by 26 CFR 301.7701–9;

26 CFR 301.6212–1; 26 CFR 301.6861–

1; 26 U.S.C. 6212; 26 U.S.C. 6212(d);

Treasury Order 150–10; and section

1562 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

To the extent that the authority

previously exercised consistent with

this order may require ratification, it is

hereby approved and ratified. This order

supersedes Delegation Order No. 77

(Rev. 27), effective October 15, 1992.

Dated: May 17, 1996.

Michael P. Dolan,

Deputy Commissioner.

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UNITED STATES INFORMATION

AGENCY

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public

Diplomacy Meeting

AGENCY: United States Information

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: A meeting of the U.S.

Advisory Commission on Public

Diplomacy will be held on June 19 in

Room 600, 301 4th Street, S.W.,

Washington D.C. from 10:00 a.m. to

11:30 a.m.

At 10:00 the Commission will hold a

panel discussion on NGOs and Public

Diplomacy. It will examine the growing

role of non-governmental organizations

in foreign affairs. The panelists are Penn

Kemble, Deputy Director, USIA;

Ambassador William Rugh, Director,

AMIDEAST Foundation; and Michael

Clough, Senior Fellow, Council on

Foreign Relations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Please call Betty Hayes, (202) 619–4468,

if you are interested in attending the

meeting. Space is limited and entrance

to the building is controlled.

Dated: June 12, 1996.

Rose Royal,

Management Analyst, Federal Register

Liaison.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS

Wage Committee, Notice of Meetings

The Department of Veterans Affairs

(VA), in accordance with Public Law

92–463, gives notice that meetings of the

VA Wage Committee will be held on:

Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 14, 1996, at 2:00

p.m.

Wednesday, August 28, 1996, at 2:00

p.m.

The July meeting will be held in

Room 1225, Department of Veterans

Affairs, Tech World Plaza, 801 I Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20001. The

August meetings will be held in Room

246, Department of Veterans Affairs

Central Office, 810 Vermont Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20420.

The Committee’s purpose is to advise

the Under Secretary for Health on the

development and authorization of wage

schedules for Federal Wage System

(blue-collar) employees.

At these meetings the Committee will

consider wage survey specifications,

wage survey data, local committee

reports and recommendations, statistical

analyses, and proposed wage schedules.

All portions of the meetings will be

closed to the public because the matters

considered are related solely to the

internal personnel rules and practices of

the Department of Veterans Affairs and

because the wage survey data

considered by the Committee have been

obtained from officials of private

business establishments with a

guarantee that the data will be held in

confidence. Closure of the meetings is in

accordance with subsection 10(d) of

Public Law 92–463, as amended by

Public Law 94–409, and as cited in 5

U.S.C. 552b(c) (2) and (4).

However, members of the public are

invited to submit material in writing to

the Chairperson for the Committee’s

attention.

Additional information concerning

these meetings may be obtained from

the Chairperson, VA Wage Committee

(05), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20420.

Dated: June 10, 1996.

By Direction of the Secretary.

Heyward Bannister,

Committee Management Officer.

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