34558 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 135 / Thursday, July 16, 2009 / Notices 

Coordinate (SPC) grid values in both 

meters and U.S. Survey Feet (1 ft = 

1200/3937 m) in Utah, for all well 

defined geodetic survey control 

monuments maintained by NGS in the 

National Spatial Reference System 

(NSRS) and computed from various 

geodetic positioning utilities. The 

adoption of this standard is 

implemented in accordance with NGS 

policy and a request from the Utah 

Department of Transportation, the Utah 

Council of Land Surveyors, and the 

Utah Automated Geographic Reference 

Center. 

DATES: Individuals or organizations 

wishing to submit comments on the 

Publication of North American Datum of 

1983 State Plane Coordinates in feet in 

Utah, should do by August 17, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the attention of David Doyle, 

Chief Geodetic Surveyor, Office of the 

National Geodetic Survey, National 

Ocean Service (N/NGS2), 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 

20910, fax 301–713–4324, or via e-mail 

Dave.Doyle@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to David Doyle, Chief 

Geodetic Surveyor, National Geodetic 

Survey (N/NGS2), 1315 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 

Phone: (301) 713–3178. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Abstract 

In 1991, NGS adopted a policy that 

defines the conditions under which 

NAD 83 State Plane Coordinates (SPCs) 

would be published in feet in addition 

to meters. As outlined in that policy, 

each state or territory must adopt NAD 

83 legislation (typically referenced as 

Codes, Laws or Statutes), which 

specifically defines a conversion to 

either U.S. Survey or International Feet 

as defined by the U.S. Bureau of 

Standards in 59 FR 5442. To date, 48 

states have adopted the NAD 83 

legislation however, for various reasons, 

only 33 included a specific definition of 

the relationship between meters and 

feet. This lack of uniformity has led to 

confusion and misuse of SPCs as 

provided in various NGS products, 

services and tools, and created errors in 

mapping, charting and surveying 

programs in numerous states due to 

inconsistent coordinate conversions. 

Dated: July 7, 2009. 

Juliana P. Blackwell, 

Director, Office of National Geodetic Survey, 

National Ocean Service, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

RIN: 0660–ZA01 

Broadband Technology Opportunities 

Program 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of funds availability and 

solicitation of applications; publication 

of OMB control number for information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA) announces 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) of the collection of 

information requirements contained a 

Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for 

the Broadband Technology 

Opportunities Program (BTOP) 

published on July 9, 2009. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information requirements in the BTOP 

NOFA are due by August 31, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding burden 

hour estimates or other aspects of the 

collection of information associated 

with BTOP should be directed to 

Gwellnar Banks, Department of 

Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via electronic mail at 

gbanks@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding the BTOP, contact 

Anthony Wilhelm, Deputy Associate 

Administrator, Office of 

Telecommunications and Information 

Applications, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, by telephone at (202) 482– 

2048 or via electronic mail at 

btop@ntia.doc.gov. You may obtain 

additional information regarding 

applications for BTOP via the Internet at 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ 

broadbandgrants/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 9, 

2009, NTIA along with the Rural 

Utilities Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, published a Notice of 

Funds Availability (NOFA) (74 FR 

33104) announcing procedures for 

broadband grant and loan programs 

established pursuant to the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(ARRA), Pub. L. No. 111–5, 123 Stat. 

115 (2009). NTIA established the 

Broadband Technology Opportunities 

Program (BTOP) to make available 

grants for deploying broadband 

infrastructure in unserved and 

underserved areas in the United States, 

enhancing broadband capacity at public 

computer centers, and promoting 

sustainable broadband adoption 

projects. 

The application requirements for the 

BTOP contained in the NOFA are an 

information collection subject to the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. However, when the 

NOFA was submitted for publication, 

the collection of information had not yet 

been approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

Subsequently, NTIA received OMB 

approval for this collection of 

information. NTIA announces that the 

collection of information is approved 

under OMB Control Number 0660–0031, 

with an expiration date of January 31, 

2010. This collection of information was 

approved by OMB in accordance with 

the emergency processing provisions 

under 5 CFR § 1320.13 to allow NTIA to 

fulfill its ARRA requirements. 

In the BTOP NOFA, NTIA requested 

public comments on the collection of 

information specifically for the BTOP 

Infrastructure, Public Computer Center, 

and Sustainable Adoption programs. 

(See 74 FR at 33128 – 33129). The 

comments requested will be utilized as 

a part of a request by NTIA, if it decides 

to continue to use this collection past 

the approved emergency request 

clearance time period. At that time, 

NTIA would resubmit a collection of 

information request to OMB in 

accordance with the review process 

provided in the regulations 

implementing the Paperwork Reduction 

Act. A specific comment deadline was 

inadvertently not included in the BTOP 

NOFA and is hereby announced in this 

notice. Comments are due by August 31, 

2009. 

Dated: July 10, 2009. 

Kathy D. Smith, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration. 

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