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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Closing Date, published in the Federal also purchase 74 compressed digital Register on February 22, 1996.3 receivers to receive the digital satellite National Telecommunications and Applications Received: In all, 251 service. Information Administration applications were received from 47 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, AL (Alabama) [Docket Number: 960205021±6132±02] the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, File No. 96006 CTB Alabama ETV RIN 0660±ZA01 American Samoa, and the Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Ste 400, Birmingham, AL 35205–2884. Public Telecommunications Facilities Islands. The total amount of funds Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, APT Program (PTFP) requested by the applications is $54.9 Executive Director. Funds Requested: $186,878. Total Project Cost: $373,756. AGENCY: National Telecommunications million. Notice is hereby given that the PTFP Replace fourteen Alabama Public and Information Administration, received applications from the following Television microwave equipment Commerce. organizations. The list includes all shelters throughout the state network, ACTION: Notice, funding availability and applications received. Identification of add a shelter and wiring for an applications received. any application only indicates its emergency generator at WCIQ which receipt. It does not indicate that it has experiences AC power outages, and SUMMARY: The National been accepted for review, has been replace the network’s on-line editing Telecommunications and Information determined to be eligible for funding, or system at its only production facility in Administration (NTIA) previously that an application will receive an Montgomery, Alabama. announced the solicitation of grant award. File No. 96087 CTB 95055. City of applications for the Public Any interested party may file Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane, Telecommunications Facilities Program comments with the Agency supporting Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon. (PTFP) for planning and construction or opposing an application and setting Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds grants for public telecommunications forth the grounds for support or Requested: $418,924. Total Project Cost: facilities. The PTFP had not received its opposition. Such comments must $668,924. To establish a low-power final status of funding at that time, and contain a certification that a copy of the noncommercial television station stated that PTFP would publish a notice comments has been delivered to the operating on Channel 60 in Prichard, when the funding status for fiscal year applicant. Comments must be sent to Alabama, to provide educational and 1996 was known. This notice will the following address: NTIA/PTFP, informational services to the city of announce the funding level, as well as Room 4625, 14th Street and Prichard and surrounding areas. announce the applications which were Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, File No. 96107 CRB Gadsden State received in response to the solicitation. DC 20230. Community College, 1001 George FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Agency will incorporate all Wallace Drive, Gadsden, AL 35902. Dennis Connors, Director, Public comments from the public and any Signed By: Dr. Victor Ficker, President. Broadcasting Division, telephone: (202) replies from the applicant in the Funds Requested: $49,250. Total Project 482–5802; fax: (202) 482–2156. applicant’s official file. Cost: $98,500. To upgrade the power Information about the PTFP can also be and antenna height of noncommercial obtained electronically via Internet AK (Alaska) radio station, WSGN–FM, operating on (send inquiries to http:// File No. 96132 CTB Alaska Public 91.5 MHz from Gadsden State www.ntia.doc.gov) or through the NTIA Telecomm., Inc., 3877 University Drive, Community College in Gadsden, BBS at (202) 482–1199 (set computer Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Ms. Alabama. modems for 8 stop bits, 0 polarity). Susan Reed, President. Funds File No. 96124 ICTN 95082. Black SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Funding Requested: $663,350. Total Project Cost: Warrior Telecom Consortium, 607 Availability: By Federal Register notice $844,479. To replace the 22-year-old Highway 80 West, Demopolis, AL dated February 22, 1996, the NTIA, transmitter for public TV station KAKM, 36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters, within the Department of Commerce, which operates on Ch. 7 in Anchorage. President. Funds Requested: $193,484. announced that the program was The project would also purchase a Total Project Cost: $257,978. To soliciting grant applications, and that replacement hot-standby STL for one of construct a video production studio and the closing date for receipt of the station’s STL hops, SAP generation purchase related test equipment for the applications was 5 p.m. EST, March 28, equipment, and diverse test equipment Black Warrior Telecommunications 1996.1 The Notice of Closing Date items. Consortium, Inc., Demopolis, Alabama. provided that announcement of File No. 96249 ICTB Bethel The studio will allow the Consortium to available funds would be made once Broadcasting, Inc., Pouch 468, Bethel, originate educational programming to be Congress appropriated an amount for AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. John transmitted over the ITFS systems the PTFP. On April 26, 1996, Congress McDonald, General Manager/Station operated by the Consortium members. appropriated $15.5 million for the KYUK. Funds Requested: $543,340. The Consortium is composed of five PTFP.2 Total Project Cost: $742,510. To school systems (Marengo, Greene, and Except for the notice that funding for purchase three digital encoders to Sumter Counties and the cities of the PTFP for FY 1996 is $15.5 million, convert the satellite offerings of the Demopolis and Linden City) and the all other information announced in the Distance Delivery Consortium from West Alabama Health Services, all Notice of Closing Date remains in effect. analog to digital service. The Distance located in rural west Alabama. For further information on the Public Delivery Consortium provides File No. 96178 ICTBN University of Telecommunications Facilities Program, instructional programming to 52 villages AL Board of Trustees, Box 870104,G– please refer to the program’s Notice of in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of 60 Rose Admin. Bld, Tuscaloosa, AL Western Alaska, the Interior of Alaska, 35487. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wells, 1 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996). and Southeast Alaska. The project will Ass’t Academic VP for Research. Funds 2 Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, II, Pub. L. Requested: $138,771. Total Project Cost: No. 104–134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996). 3 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996). $277,542. To convert an analog Ku-band Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25529 uplink to digital compression. The File No. 96250 ICRTN Government of Community College at Page; Eastern conversion to digital will enable American Samoa, Office of Governor, Arizona College at Payson; and continued distribution of three weekly Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mr. Northland Pioneer College at Show instructional series on Integrated Aifili Lutali, Governor. Funds Low. The project would also install hub Science to over 150,000 students Requested: $398,600. Total Project Cost: site equipment at NAU/Flagstaff, NAU/ nationwide in grades 5, 6, and 7, and $398,600. To activate a new service for Yuma, and at the NAUNet hub site in will permit the delivery of this program distance education by purchasing a Phoenix. All system end-points would directly to schools and public television digital satellite system to serve include equipment for interface with entities. American Samoa. The system will host-institution Local Area Networks provide compressed digital video and be (LANs) and would provide students AR (Arkansas) affiliated with the Pan-Pacific with local dial-up access to e-mail, File No. 96105 CTB Arkansas ETV Educational and Communications bulletin boards, and Internet service. Commission, 350 South Donaghey, Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) File No. 96123 CRB Maricopa County Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. program headquartered in Hawaii. Cmty Coll. Dist., 3124 East Roosevelt, Susan Howarth, Executive Director. Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr. Funds Requested: $242,049. Total AZ (Arizona) Alfredo de los Santos, Vice Chancellor Project Cost: $484,099. To improve the File No. 96063 PRB Hopi Foundation, Ed. Dev. Funds Requested: $15,089. state’s public television network by Highway 264 Market 367–9,, Hotevilla, Total Project Cost: $30,178. To acquire establishing a production and distance AZ 86030. Signed By: Ms. Barbara 420 SCA radio receivers for use by learning studio in Little Rock thus Poley, Executive Director. Funds print-impaired persons. The special improving the AETN’s ability to Requested: $37,176. Total Project Cost: receivers will be distributed to all areas produce and broadcast news and $41,156. Conduct planning activities, served by the stations carrying the information programs from the state including engineering and research service. The main studio is in Phoenix, capital. AETN serves approximately studies, for the construction of a public with satellite facilities in Tucson and 2.35 million people. radio facility in Hotevilla, Arizona, Flagstaff. This 24-hour service provides File No. 96110 CRB Arkansas State serving the Hopi Indian reservation of the only radio reading service in AZ. University, 104 Cooley St, P.O. Drawer northeastern Arizona. File No. 96173 CRB White Mountain 2160, State University, AR 72467. File No. 96075 CTN San Carlos Apache Tribe, Tribal Exe Bldg SR 73, Signed By: Dr. Stanley Williams, VP for Apache Tribe, San Carlos Avenue, Bldg. PO Box 70, Whiteriver, AZ 85941. Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: # 13, San Carlos, AZ 85550. Signed By: Signed By: Mr. Ronnie Lupe, Chairman. $36,783. Total Project Cost: $73,567. To Mr. Raymond Stanley, Tribal Chairman. Funds Requested: $68,033. Total Project improve public radio station KASU–FM, Funds Requested: $12,980. Total Project Cost: $90,711. To expand the facilities 91.9 MHz, State University, by replacing Cost: $17,309. To purchase studio of public radio station KNNB–FM, 88.1 old, obsolete origination equipment. production equipment to allow the San MHz, in Whiteriver by relocating and KASU–FM will acquire digital Carlos Apache Tribe to originate increasing the power of the station. workstations, digital audio boards and programming to be transmitted over the KNNB–FM will acquire a new editing packages, two audio consoles, local cable television system on a transmitter, tower, antenna, monitor amplifiers, microphones and community access channel. transmission and other dissemination speakers and related equipment. KASU– File No. 96088 CTB Arizona State equipment. FM serves approximately 250,000 University, 10th & Myrtle, Box 871603, File No. 96186 CRB Northern Arizona people in AR, MO and TN. KAET, Tempe, AZ 85287–1405. Signed University, Comm. Bldg 16, Rm 229, File No. 96235 CTB AR Education TV By: Ms. Janice Bennett, Director, Res. & Osborn Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed Commission, 350 South Donaghey, Creative Act. Funds Requested: By: Dr. Jeanette Baker, Contract Officer. Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. $139,600. Total Project Cost: $279,200. Funds Requested: $108,351. Total Susan Howarth, Executive Director. To improve public television station Project Cost: $144,469. To activate a Funds Requested: $212,500. Total KAET–TV, Ch. 8, Phoenix (Tempe), by new FM public radio station on 90.9 Project Cost: $425,000. To improve replacing old, unreliable production MHz, in Page. Station will repeat the public television station KETS–TV, Ch. equipment including electronic editor, signal of KNAU–FM, Flagstaff, and have 2, in Little Rock, by strengthening the field production camera and video local origination capacity. Project commercial tower on which its antenna recorder, remote production switcher, includes sufficient local production is mounted. KETS–TV, the flagship monitors, character generator and four equipment to constitute a full service station of the AETN, serves more than Beta video recorders. KAET–TV serves facility. Studios will be located on the 1 million people. approximately 2.8 million people. Coconino Community College campus. File No. 96111 ICTN Northern New station will provide first public AS (American Samoa) Arizona University, Comm. Bldg, Rm radio service to approximately 9,448 File No. 96004 CTB American Samoa 123, Osborne Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86011. people in northern AZ and southern UT. Government, Office of Public Signed By: Dr. Jeanette Baker, Contract Information, Pago Pago, AS 96799. Officer, NAU. Funds Requested: CA (California) Signed By: Mrs. Vaoita Savali, Director. $1,278,014. Total Project Cost: File No. 96008 CTB California Funds Requested: $253,470. Total $2,556,028. To purchase the Community TV Network, 559 E. Alisal Project Cost: $253,470. To improve the interconnection and video classroom Street, #106, Salinas, CA 93905. Signed production facilities of public television equipment required to expand Northern By: Mr. Wendell Chino, President. station KVZK–TV, operating on Ch. 2 in Arizona University’s (NAU) duplex Funds Requested: $324,748. Total Pago Pago, by purchasing three studio microwave-based distance learning Project Cost: $431,330. The California cameras and related equipment. The system—called NAUNet—to six Community Television Network, project will also provide test equipment additional sites: Arizona Western KCAH–TV in Salinas, CA., operating on to ensure continued operation of this College at San Luis; Central Arizona Channel 25, seeks a grant to help install facility which serves 57,000 residents of College at Apache Junction; Chinle a 10 kw transmitter and antenna system American Samoa. Unified School District; Coconino to provide the first public TV signal for 25530 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices significant portions of Santa Cruz, CA requests replacement of its 23 year first service of national programming to Monterey, Santa Clara and San Benito old transmitter and to link, by Digital a majority of the station’s 340,000 counties, sections of San Mateo, and Duplex, KLCS with the facilities at the potential listeners. small areas in Stanislaus, Merced and studios of the Educational File No. 96122 CTB KBSV–TV, P.O. Alameda counties, all of which include Telecommunications Network (ETN). Box 4116, Modesto, CA 95352. Signed 198,114 potential viewers who will ETN is an FCC licensed Ku-Band By: Dr. Sargon Dadesho, Director of receive first signal. Satellite network owned and operated Mass Media. Funds Requested: File No. 96016 CRB State of CA— by the Los Angeles County Office of $313,500. Total Project Cost: $418,000. Humboldt State Univ, Humboldt State Education. To improve KBSV–TV which will University, Arcata, CA 95521. Signed File No. 96044 CTB KQED, Inc., 2601 operate on Channel 23 starting April 16, By: Dr. Edward Webb, Vice President. Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 1996, by establishing a first Local Funds Requested: $67,860. Total Project 94110–1400. Signed By: Mrs. Mary G.F. Origination Capacity. The main Cost: $90,480. KASU–FM, operating on Bitterman, President & CEO. Funds objective of this station is to provide 90.5 MHz in Arcata, California seeks a Requested: $459,285. Total Project Cost: multicultural and educational programs grant to construct a repeater transmitter, $918,570. To improve KQED–TV, to the diversified population in its operating on 91.9 MHz, at Crescent City, Channel 9, in San Francisco, CA, by coverage area. Applicant claims no CA and establish a satellite studio replacing the editing system, by adding other station is serving the functions 1 ′′ facility in Crescent City which will two Digital ⁄2 VCR’s and adding the outlined above. The coverage area provide Del Notre County with its first Sales Tax and the A–133 Audit. The includes 370,000 potential viewers. public radio origination capability. The applicant provides service to 5.5 million File No. 96125 CRB Pacifica project will provide first public radio potential viewers in the San Francisco Foundation, 1929 MLK Jr. Avenue, service to approximately 13,000 area. Berkeley, CA 94704. Signed By: Ms. File No. 96050 CTB Valley Public potential listeners. Patricia Scott, Executive Director. Funds File No. 96025 PTN Ed T/C Television, Inc., 1544 Van Ness Avenue, Requested: $160,929. Total Project Cost: Consortium of Central CA, 1101 E. Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Colin $214,572. To improve KPFK–FM, University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed Dougherty, Exec. Dir/General Manager. operating on 90.7 MHz, in North By: Dr. Robert Wyman, Executive Funds Requested: $270,137. Total Hollywood, CA and KPFT–FM, Director. Funds Requested: $199,865. Project Cost: $540,274. To improve operating on 90.1 MHz, in Houston, TX, Total Project Cost: $560,445. KVPT–TV, Channel 18, in Fresno, CA, by replacing a mismatched set of old Educational Telecommunications by replacing its 19 year old transmitter tape decks and cart machines with Consortium of Central Valley region of Applicant currently serves a potential digital technology. The applicant California, located in Fresno, CA, TV audience of 2,300,000. requests funding for a comprehensive File No. 96058 CRB KQED, Inc., 2601 provides service to approximately Planning project to develop a Four Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 13,840,832 listeners in North County regional area in Central 94110. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Bitterman, Hollywood and approximately California, including Fresno, Madera, President and CEO. Funds Requested: 3,192,000 listeners in Houston. Tulare and Kings Counties, to interface $97,010. Total Project Cost: $194,020. File No. 96135 IPTN Kern Community existing resources with those needed for KQED–FM, operating at 110kw ERP, on College District, 100 East College the region and for the purpose of 88.5 MHz, in San Francisco, CA, seeks Avenue, Porterville, CA 93257. Signed sharing training and technology to replace its 17 year-old transmitter and By: Dr. Bonnie Rogers, President. Funds resources both instructional and antenna, both at the end of their useful Requested: $46,185. Total Project Cost: administrative. This would allow life. KQED–FM provides service to 5.3 $82,867. To develop a plan for a professional staff and some students to million potential listeners. telecommunications system that would utilize new and emerging technology in File No. 96062 CRB San Diego Comm incorporate materials from the Kern a regional Center. College District, 1313 Twelfth Avenue, Educational Telecommunications File No. 96028 CTB San Mateo San Diego, CA 92101. Signed By: Mr. Consortium and other sources, in County Comm Coll District, 1700 West Augustine Gallego, Chancellor. Funds providing a distance learning and job Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94002. Requested: $61,383. Total Project Cost: training service to an underserved, Signed By: Dr. Lois Callahan, $122,766. To improve KSDS–FM, largely Hispanic and American Indian Chancellor. Funds Requested: $406,628. operating on 88.3 MHz, in San Diego, population in southern Tulare County, Total Project Cost: $813,257. KCSM–TV, CA, by replacing a 20 year old California. Ch 60, in San Mateo, CA, requests transmitter, a 19 year old antenna and File No. 96152 CRB Los Angeles replacement of its aged production transmission line, increasing its power, Radio Reading Service, 3580 Wilshire switcher, audio board, cameras, and and adding circular polarization, to Blvd. Suite 1660, Los Angeles, CA associated equipment and to construct a provide the station’s program service to 90010. Signed By: Mr. Paul J. satellite uplink to provide educational an extended population by increasing Vandeventer, Executive Director. Funds courses and adult learning materials, KSDS’s power capacity from 831 watts Requested: $19,275. Total Project Cost: teleconferences, etc, to colleges in the ERP to 19,000 watts ERP. $25,700. The Los Angeles Radio Bay Area, cable educational channels File No. 96112 CRB Nevada City Reading Service has been granted its and libraries in the communities of Community Broadcast Gp, 401 Spring subsidiary frequency by KCSN–FM in Northern California. This station serves Street, Nevada City, CA 95959. Signed Los Angeles and now requests funding 4,650,000 potential viewers. By: Mr. Brian Terhorst, General for a start-up inventory of 300 SCA File No. 96029 CTB Los Angeles Manager. Funds Requested: $42,907. receivers and multi-user site equipment Unified School Dist., 1061 West Temple Total Project Cost: $85,815. To improve for one convalescent home and two Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Signed KVMR–FM, operating on 89.5 MHz, in residential homes for those who are By: Mr. Sidney Thompson, Nevada City, CA, by replacing the blind. Additionally, the project includes Superintendent. Funds Requested: transmitter, antenna, feedlines, tower, an FM antenna and a low power $558,520. Total Project Cost: $1,117,040. STL antenna, adaptor and wattmeter transmitter, a transmit coupling, a KLCS–TV, Channel 58 in Los Angeles, and adding a satellite downlink to bring coaxial cable and wire cable. 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File No. 96159 CRB San Francisco Signed By: Dr. Kelly Blanton, Kern Manager. Funds Requested: $8,715. Unified School Dist., 2576 Harrison County Superintendent. Funds Total Project Cost: $17,430. To enhance Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Signed Requested: $888,116. Total Project Cost: and improve the production facilities of By: Ms. Linda Davis, Deputy $1,184,155. To establish a KGNU–FM, operating on 88.5 in Superintendent. Funds Requested: noncommercial television station in Boulder, Colorado, by purchasing and $18,973. Total Project Cost: $37,945. To Bakersfield, CA, which will bring a first installing two Digital Audio improve KALW–FM, operating on 91.7 public TV signal to approximately Workstations. MHz, in San Francisco, CA, by replacing 780,000 residents of that area. In File No. 96095 ICTN 95262. National its 16 year old satellite dish and 10 year addition to some nationally-distributed Technological University, 700 Centre old audio console and to upgrade its public television programming, the Avenue, Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Signed communication system by purchasing a station will transmit a vast amount of By: Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President. telephone interface to allow on-air call instructional programming from the Funds Requested: $413,576. Total conferencing. Applicant currently Kern Educational Telecommunications Project Cost: $827,152. To construct two serves 1,977,000 potential listeners. Consortium, which has its headquarters additional Ku-band satellite uplinks in File No. 96161 CRB California State in Bakersfield. The new station will also the National Technological University Univ, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff incorporate into its schedule system which will increase engineering Street, Northridge, CA 91330–8312. programming targeted towards the programming distributed nationwide. Signed By: Mr. Mark Lipschutz, Hispanic-American population, which The uplinks will be located at the Director, Res. & Spon. Project. Funds constitutes approximately 30% of the University of California, Berekely and Requested: $9,422. Total Project Cost: total population of the station’s the University of Florida, Gainesville. $18,844. To improve KCSN–FM, proposed service area. The project also proposes to add digital operating on 88.5 MHz, in Northridge, File No. 96207 ICTN Monterey compression equipment for existing Ku- CA, by adding digital editing equipment County Office of Education, 901 Blanco band uplinks at Kansas State University, which will optimize the applicant’s use Court, Salinas, CA 93901. Signed By: Manhattan, KS and the University of of the DAT and mini-disc equipment Mr. William Barr, Superintendent. Texas at Austin. KCSN acquired under a ’94 grant. The Funds Requested: $338,454. Total File No. 96106 IPTN Regis University, items requested include: the core Project Cost: $676,908. To add two ITFS 3333 Regis Blvd., Denver, CO 80221. system, interface, signal processor, links to the Monterey County Office of Signed By: Dr. William Husson, keyboard, hard drive, noise reduction, Education’s existing distance learning Academic Dean. Funds Requested: software, computer, tape drive and system, and purchase microwave $61,620. Total Project Cost: $140,760. monitor. The station serves equipment to interconnect the ITFS On behalf of the Association of Jesuit approximately 1.5 million people. system with diverse other transmission Colleges and Universities (AJCU), Regis File No. 96181 CRB Bet-Nahrain, Inc., outlets throughout the Office’s service University in Denver, Colorado will P.O. Box 4116, Modesto, CA 95352. area. manage the development of a plan for Signed By: Dr. Sargon Dedesho, Director File No. 96221 ICTN The National the use of telecommunications facilities of Mass Media. Funds Requested: Hispanic University, 14271 Story Road, in an interconnected system among the $182,235. Total Project Cost: $242,980. San Jose, CA 96127. Signed By: Dr. 28 AJCU institutions through local To enable KBES–FM, operating on 89.5 Roberto Cruz, President. Funds technology applications for distance MHz, located in Ceres, CA, to acquire Requested: $244,043. Total Project Cost: learning services including the sharing the necessary items of equipment to $305,053. To purchase a VSAT satellite of educational courses. bring the inventory of an already terminal and electronic classroom File No. 96117 CTB Region 10 League operating station to the basic level of facilities to permit the National for Economic, 300 North Cascade, Suite equipment requirements established by Hispanic University to become a 1, Montrose, CO 81401. Signed By: Mrs. PTFP. The equipment requested is a 150 participating member of the Hispanic Mary Helen deKoevend, Chairperson. to 200 watt transmitter, plus all the Educational Telecommunications Funds Requested: $57,705. Total Project items listed in the Guidelines Booklet System (HETS). Cost: $76,940. To maintain and improve for the On-Air Control Room, the broadcast services of KTSC–TV, Production Control Room, and News CO (Colorado) Channel 8 in Montrose, Colorado, by Control Room. Approximately 370,000 File No. 96024 CTB University of replacing four translator and one potential listeners benefit from the Southern Colorado, 2200 Bonforte transmitter serving over 47,000 KBES–FM Programming. Boulevard, Pueblo, CO 81001. Signed residents of Montrose, Ouray and Delta File No. 96182 CTB Bay Area By: Dr. Robert Shirley, President. Funds counties. Multicultural T/C Asso., 1740 Cesar Requested: $534,438. Total Project Cost: File No. 96162 IPTN Colorado Chavez Street, San Francisco, CA 94124. $1,068,876. To extend and improve the Community College, 9125 E. 10th Drive, Signed By: Mr. Humberto Cintron, facilities of KTSC–TV, Channel 8 in Aurora, CO 80010. Signed By: Mr. Don President, Board of Directors. Funds Pueblo by activating translators in Goodwin, Executive Director, HEAT Ctr. Requested: $263,166. Total Project Cost: Durango (Ch. 29), Ignacio (Ch. 15) and Funds Requested: $318,600. Total $350,888. To activate a minority public Towaoc (Ch. 49) to provide first public Project Cost: $498,600. To develop the TV station, operating on Channel 32 in television service to approximately technology master plan toward the San Francisco, CA, which will provide 56,000 residents of western Colorado. design of the Lowry programming for the 2.2 million Bay KTSC will also replace a failing 15-year- Telecommunications and Information Area residents who are members of 5 old 3⁄4 inch videotape system and will Infrastructure network in support of an minority groups. The applicant has upgrade its facilities to offer stereo open learning system for distance applied to the FCC to be granted the broadcast and descriptive video learning and training, through the license for Channel 32 in place of the services. Higher Education and Advanced current license-holder of Ch 32. File No. 96091 CRB Boulder Technology (HEAT) Center in the Lowry File No. 96188 ICTB Kern Educational Community Broadcasting, 1900 Folsom Community of Aurora, Colorado. T/com. Consortium, 1300 17th Street, Avenue, Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80302. File No. 96205 ICTN Northern City Centre, Bakerfield, CA 93301–4533. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin, Station Colorado Board of Coop., 830 South 25532 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices

Lincoln Street, Longmont, CO 80501. Cost: $38,772. To improve the facilities unreliable optical disc units with a Signed By: Dr. Jack Hale, Executive of public radio station WDCU–FM, video server. Director/NC BOCES. Funds Requested: operating on 90.1 MHz, by purchasing a File No. 96089 CTB Florida West $328,034. Total Project Cost: $1,125,148. C band satellite downlink. The Coast Pub. Brdcstg., 1300 North To establish a two-way, interactive downlink will enable the station to Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33677–4033. compressed video distance learning broadcast programming from National Signed By: Mr. Stephen L. Rogers, system to serve the diverse academic Public Radio and other sources President & CEO. Funds Requested: institutions of the northeast quadrant of distributed by the Public Radio Satellite $217,850. Total Project Cost: $435,700. Colorado. For this project, the Northern System. WDCU–FM serves 3 million To improve the production capacity of Colorado Board of Cooperative people in the Washington DC WEDU–TV, Channel 3 in Tampa, by Educational Services is acting on behalf metropolitan area. purchasing a switcher, editor and effects of a partnership of 38 K–12 school File No. 96232 IPRTN Soundprint equipment so that the station can districts, three community colleges, a Media Center, Incorp, 4000 Brandywine continue to produce programming for university, and the State’s Division of St. NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC local, state and national distribution. Telecommunications. The proposal 20016. Signed By: Ms. Moira Rankin, File No. 96090 ICTN School Board of would interconnect six existing distance Executive Producer. Funds Requested: Broward County, 600 Southeast Third education networks and extend service $99,565. Total Project Cost: $123,803. Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301. to five presently-unserved remote sites. To develop a plan based on research Signed By: Dr. Frank Petruzielo, The new network would be known as regarding the potential use of existing Superintendent of Schools. Funds the Colorado Information Infrastructure. and proposed new technologies at Requested: $136,962. Total Project Cost: public television and radio stations $273,924. To establish an Instructional CT (Connecticut) nationwide, that would determine the Television Fixed Service (ITFS) system, File No. 96083 IPTN Norwich possible integration of these with associated video classroom and Commun. Tech. Learning Ctr., 194 technologies in a telecommunications satellite receive-only earth station, to Washington Street, Norwich, CT 06360. network for distance learning services. bring distance learning to the public Signed By: Mr. William Stanley, school students of Broward County, Chairman, Board of Directors. Funds FL (Florida) Florida. Requested: $85,350. Total Project Cost: File No. 96030 CTB University of File No. 96113 CRB Florida Institute $335,350. To assist the Norwich Florida, Weimer Hall, Gainesville, FL of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd., Communications Technology Learning 32611. Signed By: Dr. Thomas Walsh, Melbourne, FL 32901. Signed By: Mr. Center, Inc. in planning how to put into Director of Research. Funds Requested: Robert Merrill, Director, Sponsored place the strategies, community support, $53,940. Total Project Cost: $107,880. Programs. Funds Requested: $23,126. and technological structures needed to To upgrade the facilities of WUFT–TV, Total Project Cost: $30,835. To improve establish interactive distance learning Channel 5 in Gainesville, by replacing its facilities and provide first public systems that would serve the schools worn-out and obsolete master control radio service to approximately 13,000 and businesses of Eastern Connecticut. equipment with digital video storage people, WFIT–FM, operating on 89.5 File No. 96192 CRB University of New technology. MHz in Melbourne, will increase its Haven, 300 Orange Avenue, West File No. 96037 CTB South Florida antenna height from 34 meters to 46 Haven, CT 06516. Signed By: Dr. James Public Telecom., Inc., 3401 South meters and its power from 2,350 Watts Uebelacker, Provost. Funds Requested: Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL to 8,000 Watts. $17,400. Total Project Cost: $34,800. To 33426. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Souder, File No. 96139 ICTBN Coastal improve WNHU–FM, operating on 88.7 President/CEO. Funds Requested: Educational Broadcasters, 1200 W. MHz, in West Haven, CT, by replacing $166,600. Total Project Cost: $333,200. Intern’t Speedway Blvd., Daytona a 1970 vintage Moseley TFL–280BFN To improve the broadcast services of Beach, FL 32114. Signed By: Dr. Don Limiter and to replace 2 1974 vintage WXEL–TV, Channel 42 in Boyton Beach Thigpen, President. Funds Requested: cart machines with a digital master and to provide Descriptive Video $491,000. Total Project Cost: $982,000. control work station and storage facility. Services to blind and visually impaired To improve the transmission, Applicant provides service to individuals, by replacing the station’s origination, and test equipment of approximately 1 million potential 12-year-old routing system and the public TV station WCEU, broadcasting listeners. master control switcher with analog/ on Ch. 15 from Daytona Beach, FL. The digital equipment. project would embrace both broadcast DC (District of Columbia) File No. 96043 CTB Florida State and nonbroadcast elements. The File No. 96019 CRB American University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza, project’s transmission equipment would University, Brandywine Building, Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Dr. allow the station to add four educational Washington, DC 20016–8082. Signed Robert Johnson, VP for Research. Funds programming streams to the existing By: Mr. Donald Myers, Vice Pres. of Fin. Requested: $133,275. Total Project Cost: Daytona Beach Community College & Treasurer. Funds Requested: $47,000. $266,550. To ensure a continued high ITFS system. The origination equipment Total Project Cost: $188,000. To quality production and programming would permit WCEU–TV to produce improve the signal of public radio facility at WFSU and WFSG by additional programming for its over-the- station WAMU, 88.5 MHz, Washington, replacing 14-year-old, 3⁄4 inch editing air broadcast audience as well as to DC, by replacing its worn-out and equipment. integrate its broadcast and educational unreliable transmitter. The station File No. 96086 CTB University of services and to move to digital random serves a population of about 4,306,989. South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue, access and tape storage. The project also File No. 96053 CRB 95155. Univ. of WRB 219, Tampa, FL 33620. Signed By: includes equipment for an interactive the District of Columbia, 4200 Mr. James Heck, General Manager. video classroom; this would be used to Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC Funds Requested: $41,812. Total Project originate instructional classes for high 20008. Signed By: Dr. Martha Cost: $83,624. To upgrade its broadcast school students. Bridgeforth, V.P., Institutional Adv. capabilities, WUSF–TV, Channel 16 in File No. 96174 CRB Sylum Education Funds Requested: $19,386. Total Project Tampa, by replacing its worn-out and Foundation, 485 N.E. 160 Terrace, North Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25533

Miami Beach, FL 33162. Signed By: Mr. transmitter in Marco Island operating on project will also replace obsolete test Chris Bain, President. Funds Requested: 91.7 MHz. and monitoring equipment necessary for $74,895. Total Project Cost: $99,866. To File No. 96241 CTB Community the station to continue service to 2.5 construct a noncommercial FM station, Communications, Inc., 11510 East million people in the greater Atlanta operating on 88.7 MHz, to provide radio Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32817. area. services targeted to the young people in Signed By: Mr. Stephen McKenney File No. 96130 IPTN Clark Atlanta the City of North Miami Beach and Steck, President. Funds Requested: University, James Brawley Dr. at Fair St. surrounding areas. $49,168. Total Project Cost: $98,336. To SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. Signed By: Dr. File No. 96198 ICTN Florida improve the post-production Kofi Bota, Vice President, Rsch/Spons International University, NE 151 Street capabilities of WMFE–TV, Channel 24 Pgm. Funds Requested: $67,507. Total and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33181. in Orlando, by purchasing a digital Project Cost: $79,347. To develop a Signed By: Dr Thomas Breslin, Vice video effects unit and a font generator plan, managed by Clark Atlanta Provost for Research. Funds Requested: to more effectively meet increased University, for a comprehensive $362,190. Total Project Cost: $848,692. demand for the station’s editing telecommunications system among To establish a distance learning system facilities. Historically Black Colleges and under the auspices of the South Florida File No. 96243 CTB WJCT, Inc., 100 Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Distance Learning Network, which is Festival Park Avenue, Jacksonville, FL Institutions (MIs) that could potentially composed of Florida International 32202. Signed By: Mr. William Dresser, incorporate various technologies in a University and other academic President & General Manager. Funds nationwide interactive distance learning institutions in the South Florida area. Requested: $190,000. Total Project Cost: service. The system will provide diverse $380,000. To maintain the high quality instructional programming to Dade, of the broadcast services of WJCT–TV, GU (Guam) Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida, by Broward, and Monroe Counties. The File No. 96167 ICRTN University of replacing three 12-year-old studio proposed system will transmit via fiber Guam, House 6 UOG Station, Mangilao, camera systems. optics and via the ITFS system of public GU 96923. Signed By: Ms. Carmen television station WLRN, Ch. 17, Miami. GA (Georgia) Fernandez, Director/CCE–OF. Funds Station WLRN–TV is licensed to the File No. 96076 PTB Albany Technical Requested: $354,200. Total Project Cost: Dade County School Board. $354,200. To activate a new service for File No. 96217 CRB 95116. University Institute, 1021 Lowe Road, Albany, GA distance education by purchasing a of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall, 31701. Signed By: Dr. Anthony Parker, digital satellite system to serve Guam. Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. President. Funds Requested: $90,180. The system will provide compressed Richard Lehner, General Manager. Total Project Cost: $90,180. Conduct Funds Requested: $28,769. Total Project planning and research activities for the digital video and be affiliated with the Cost: $57,538. To install automation construction of a broadcast facility that Pan-Pacific Educational and equipment at WUFT–FM, operating on will provide distance learning services Communications Experiments by 89.1 MHz in Gainesville, to maintain 24- to students in rural, remote Satellite (PEACESAT) program hour a day programming in a cost- communities of Baker, Calhoun, Clay, headquartered in Hawaii. effective manner. Randolph and Terrell counties, Georgia. HI (Hawaii) File No. 96218 CTB Florida Gulf Coast File No. 96079 CRB 95281. GA Public University, Channel 30 Drive, Bonita Telecomm. Commission, 1540 Stewart File No. 96212 CTB Hawaii Public Springs, FL 33923. Signed By: Dr. Roy Ave., S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed Broadcasting Auth., 2350 Dole Street, McTarnaghan, President. Funds By: Mr. Frank Bugg, Deputy Director. Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Mr. Requested: $342,114. Total Project Cost: Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project Sheldon Robbs, Executive Director. $684,229. To improve the broadcast Cost: $54,000. Peach State Public Radio Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project operations of WSFP–TV, Channel 30 in will establish a noncommercial FM Cost: $150,000. To improve the Bonita Springs, Florida, by replacing radio station operating on 88.3 MHz in transmission facilities of Hawaii Public obsolete, inefficient and trouble-prone Demorest, GA, to provide first service to Broadcasting on the island of Hawaii by origination equipment and acquiring a population of over 260,000 people in replacing six public television one LIS mass storage unit. the Northeast section of Georgia. translators and related equipment File No. 96219 CRB Florida Gulf Coast File No. 96082 CTN City of Atlanta, serving 57,000 people on the Big Island. University, 8111 College Parkway, Fort 68 Mitchell St. SW, Ste 1200, Atlanta, Replacement equipment will be placed Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy GA 30335. Signed By: Dr. Renee Kemp- at translators located at Honohina, Hilo, McTarnaghan, President. Funds Rotan, Act. Dir., Bur. of Econ. Devel. Kilauea Military Camp, Naalehu, South Requested: $134,061. Total Project Cost: Funds Requested: $399,100. Total Point and Waimea. $268,123. To upgrade and improve its Project Cost: $798,200. To assist the City File No. 96251 PTN University of facilities, WSFP–FM, operating 90.1 of Atlanta in constructing four Hawaii, 2540 Maile Way, Spalding HL. MHz in Fort Myers, by replacing worn- electronic town centers and media parks 253, Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Dr. out and obsolete local origination serving the residents of Atlanta’s Peter Garrod, Interim Director of equipment. Empowerment Zone neighborhoods. Research. Funds Requested: $98,051. File No. 96223 CRB Florida Gulf Coast File No. 96109 CTB Atlanta Board of Total Project Cost: $130,117. To develop University, 8111 College Parkway, Fort Education, 740 Bismark Road, NE, a plan for the extension of the Pan- Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr. Pacific Education and Communication McTarnaghan, President. Funds Benjamin Canada, Superintendent. Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) Requested: $67,850. Total Project Cost: Funds Requested: $156,869. Total Network and its programs and services, $135,700. To bring first public radio Project Cost: $313,738. To improve the beyond the District Centers and into the programming services to approximately production facilities of WPBA–TV, Ch. outlying, underserved communities in 60,000 residents of Collier County, 30 in Atlanta, GA, by replacing 10 year American Samoa, Guam, and the WSFP–FM, operating on 90.1 MHz in old 1′′ video tape machines with Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Fort Myers, will activate a repeater modern video cassette machines. The Islands. 25534 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices

IA (Iowa) By: Dr. Robert E. Dunker, President. Grade B or better public television File No. 96129 ICTN Eastern IA Funds Requested: $49,828. Total Project signal because of terrain, distance from Community College Dist., 306 West Cost: $99,656. To improve the signal a station, and other factors affecting River Drive, Davenport, IA 52801. quality of public radio station KWIT, reliable reception. The station now Signed By: Dr. John Blong, Chancellor. 90.3 MHz, Sioux City, IA, by replacing serves an estimated 237,886 persons. Funds Requested: $114,971. Total its worn-out 19-year-old transmitter. In File No. 96228 CRB University of Project Cost: $229,943. To construct two addition, the project will acquire a Illinois, 1110 West Main Street, Urbana, video classrooms, with associated dummy load and dehydrator and IL 61801. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. interconnection equipment, in the Kahl convert the station’s STL from analog to Bazzani, Comptroller. Funds Requested: digital operation. KWIT serves a Educational Center, located in $9,107. Total Project Cost: $18,214. To population of about 360,000. downtown Davenport. The Center is a improve the signal coverage of WILL– campus of Scott Community College, ID (Idaho) FM, 90.9 MHz, Champaign-Urbana, IL, which in turn is part of the Eastern Iowa by activating a translator to operate on File No. 96166 CTB Idaho Public 101.1 MHz in Urbana to overcome Community College District. The video Television, 1450 N. Orchard, Boise, ID classrooms will originate and receive interference from terrain features and 83706. Signed By: Mr. Jerold Garber, strong stations operating on near-by instructional programming transmitted General Manager. Funds Requested: over the Iowa Communications frequencies. WILL–FM serves a $305,312. Total Project Cost: $407,083. population of about 119,894 persons. Network. One classroom will focus on To replace worn out dissemination programming of regional interest, the equipment with an automated system IN (Indiana) second on classes for statewide which will improve the operations of File No. 96048 CTB Indiana distribution. KAID in Boise, KIPT in Twin Falls, File No. 96143 CRB 95238. Iowa State University, P.O. Box 1847, Bloomington, KISU in Pocatello, KUID in Moscow and IN 47402. Signed By: Dr. George Walker, Univ. of Science & Tech, Pammel Drive, KCDT in Coeur D’Alene. Ames, IA 50011. Signed By: Mr. Richard Vice President, Research. Funds E. Hasbrook, Contracts & Grants Officer. IL (Illinois) Requested: $52,088. Total Project Cost: Funds Requested: $159,777. Total File No. 96033 CTN City of Urbana, $104,176. To improve public television Project Cost: $213,037. To extend the 400 South Vine, Urbana, IL 61801. station WITU, operating on Ch, 30, signal of public radio station WOI-FM, Signed By: Ms. Amy Jordan, Urbana Bloomington, IN, by acquiring a new 90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by constructing a Public TV Coordinator. Funds switcher and a hard-disk video file repeater station to operate on 89.1 MHz Requested: $59,325. Total Project Cost: server to replace worn-out and obsolete in Ottumwa, IA. The new station will $118,650. To help the City of Urbana master control equipment. The station provide the first public radio signal to establish a PEG cable television serves a population of about 485,800. about 63,295 residents of southeastern community access to transmit City File No. 96151 CTB Michiana Public Iowa. Council meetings and other Broadcasting Corp., 2300 Charger File No. 96154 CRB Kirkwood government-related programming. Boulevard, Elkhart, IN 46514. Signed Community College, P.O. Box 2068, File No. 96118 CTB West Central IL By: Ms. Trina Cutter, President/General Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Signed By: Dr. Educ Telecom Corp, Shepherd Road, Manager. Funds Requested: $57,038. Norm Nielsen, President. Funds Bldg. K, Room 64, Springfield, IL 62707. Total Project Cost: $114,075. To Requested: $51,097. Total Project Cost: Signed By: Dr. Jerold Gruebel, improve public television station WNIT, $113,549. To improve the signal quality President/General Manager. Funds operating on Ch. 34, Elkhart, IN, by and production capability of public Requested: $155,874. Total Project Cost: replacing aging and obsolete video radio station KCCK, 88.3 MHz, Cedar $259,790. To improve the service of the editing and test equipment. The station Rapids, IA, by replacing its 18-year-old West Central Illinois Educational serves a population of about 791,000. transmitter, antenna, and transmission Telecommunications Corporation (dba File No. 96176 CRB Metro line, and by replacing worn-out and CONVOCOM), Springfield, IL, by Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg, Inc., 1401 obsolete audio recording and playback converting its Springfield translator to a North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN equipment. The station serves a full-power repeater operating on 46202. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd Wright, population of about 358,382 persons. Channel 65 by acquiring a high-gain President & General Manager. Funds File No. 96193 CTB Iowa Public antenna system and by establishing a Requested: $55,000. Total Project Cost: Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate reliable microwave link between $110,000. To improve public radio Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By: Springfield and CONVOCOM station station WFYI–FM, 90.1 MHz, Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive WSEC (TV), Jacksonville, IL. It is Indianapolis, IN, by replacing its 26- Director. Funds Requested: $90,281. estimated that some 258,542 persons year-old transmitter, which is worn-out Total Project Cost: $180,562. To will receive enhanced public television and obsolete. The station serves a improve the signals of two translators service from this project. population of about 2-million. operated by Iowa Public Television, File No. 96225 CTB Black Hawk File No. 96230 CTB Tri-State Public Johnston, IA, by replacing their College, 6600 34th Avenue, Moline, IL Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter Street, transmitters and associated equipment. 61265. Signed By: Dr. Judith A. Evansville, IN 47708–1027. Signed By: The translators concerned broadcast on Redwine, President. Funds Requested: Mr. David Dial, President and General channel 14 in Decorah, IA, and on $944,732. Total Project Cost: $1,259,643. Manager. Funds Requested: $84,580. channel 41 in Lansing, IA. Together To extend and improve the signal of Total Project Cost: $169,161. To they serve about 35,137 persons. In public television station WQPT, improve the operation of public station addition to the translators, Iowa Public operating on Ch. 24, Moline, IL, by WNIN–TV, Ch. 9, Evansville, IN, by Television operates eight full-power TV relocating its transmitting facilities to replacing several items of worn-out and stations across the state. Orion, IL, and increasing its power and obsolete production equipment, File No. 96215 CRB Western Iowa antenna height. Benefiting from this including a character generator, lighting Tech. Cmty. College, 4647 Stone project will be an estimated 204,710 instruments, and a field camera and by Avenue, Sioux City, IA 51106. Signed persons who cannot now receive a acquiring a hard-disk digital video Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25535 editing system. The station serves a Manhattan, KS 66506–4701. Signed By: 21. Project also includes an Electronic population of about 750,000. Dr. R. W. Trewyn, Assoc. Vice Provost Field Production unit consisting of a File No. 96233 CTB Ball State for Res’ch. Funds Requested: $18,090. portable video camera, recorder and University, Ball State University, Total Project Cost: $36,180. To improve accessories to be used to provide Muncie, IN 47306–0080. Signed By: Dr. the facilities of public radio station additional production capacity to better James L. Pyle, Exec Dir, Academic KKSU–AM, 580 kHZ, in Manhattan, by serve the proposed coverage area. Research. Funds Requested: $230,738. converting the station to a stereo Station will provide a first over-the-air Total Project Cost: $461,476. To production facility, converting to digital signal to about 26,000 people. improve the operation of public record and playback technology, and File No. 96214 CRB Hutchinson television station WIPB, Ch. 49, Muncie, expanding the routing and distribution Community College, 815 N. Walnut, IN, by replacing obsolete and worn-out system due to additional demands. Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501. cameras and a character generator. The KKSU–AM will also acquire an Signed By: Dr. Edward Berger, station serves a population of about oscilloscope. Station serves about 5.4 President. Funds Requested: $31,150. 980,000. million people in parts of KS, NE, MO, Total Project Cost: $62,300. To improve KS (Kansas) IA and OK. public radio station KHCC–FM, 90.1 File No. 96138 CRB Wichita State MHz, in Hutchinson, by replacing File No. 96002 ICTN Western Kansas University, 3317 East 17th Street, obsolete equipment with a digital audio Cmty Srvcs Consort., 1007 West Eighth Wichita, KS 67208. Signed By: Dr. storage system and interfaces, three Street, Pratt, KS 67124. Signed By: Ms. Gerald Loper, Associate Vice President. DAT recorders and four microphones. Joyce Hartmann, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $19,250. Total Project This station, and its two repeater Funds Requested: $168,883. Total Cost: $38,500. To improve the facilities stations, serve approximately 925,000 Project Cost: $356,589. To assist the of public radio station KMUW–FM, 89.1 people in central KS. Consortium’s five community colleges MHz, in Wichita, by installing an File No. 96222 CTB Washburn to extend their instructional uninterruptable power supply system to University of Topeka, 1700 Southwest programming throughout the keep the station on the air during power College Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621. Consortium’s 41-county educational outages and replacing 10-to-20 year old Signed By: Dr. Hugh Thompson, service area. Colby Community College analog production equipment with President. Funds Requested: $114,547. proposes to interconnect with two digital recording and editing equipment. Total Project Cost: $229,094. To existing distance learning networks. KMUW–FM serves about 678,000 improve public television station Dodge City Community College would people in south central KS. install four portable ITV classrooms in File No. 96140 CTB Kansas Public KTWU–TV, Ch. 11, in Topeka by rural areas and purchase a satellite Telecom. Service, 320 West 21st St., replacing its 42 year old transmission receive-only earth station. Garden City P.O. Box 288, Wichita, KS 67201. line, adding a backup studio to Community College will construct four Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau, transmitter microwave system, and video classrooms, one at the Lee President & General Manager. Funds upgrading its master control operations Richardson Zoo. Pratt Community Requested: $14,357. Total Project Cost: by adding a digital video playback College will expand its connectivity to $28,715. To improve the facilities of system. KTWU–TV serves the existing A–Plus Network. Seward public television station KPTS–TV, Ch. approximately 1.26 million people. County Community College will equip a 8, in Wichita, by replacing an old, KY (Kentucky) video classroom in the community of obsolete video tape recorder, acquiring Johnson. a new waveform monitor, a new color File No. 96098 CRB Murray State File No. 96021 CRB Kanza Society, monitor and an FCC required EBS University, 15th & Olive Streets, Inc., 210 North Seventh, Garden City, encoder decoder. KPTS–TV serves Murray, KY 42071. Signed By: Dr. James KS 67846–5519. Signed By: Ms. approximately 388,000 people. Booth, Provost. Funds Requested: Kathleen Holt, Executive Director. File No. 96180 CRB Kansas Public $37,620. Total Project Cost: $50,160. To Funds Requested: $91,534. Total Project Broadcasting Council, 900 SW Jackson, improve reception to its current Cost: $140,821. To improve and extend Room 751S, Topeka, KS 66612–1275. audience and to reach approximately the signal of KANZ–FM (91.1 MHz) in Signed By: Mr. David M. Wilson, 54,000 new listeners, WKMS–FM, Garden City and KZNA–FM (90.5 MHz) Chairman. Requested: $41,528. Total operating on 91.3 MHz in Murray, in Hill City, by replacing (including Project Cost: $83,056. To purchase a Kentucky, will activate a translator in changing existing frequency), relocating portable Ku-band satellite uplink as Paducah (92.1 MHz) and a repeater in or changing the coverage of the well as six fixed downlinks to be placed Madisonville (90.1 MHz). following twelve FM translators: at public radio stations serving the state. File No. 96171 ICTN Center for Rural Ashland, KS (K252AX to 92.9 MHz); The equipment will be used to share Development, 2292 South Highway 27, Atwood, KS (K237CN); Colby, KS programming gathered from around the Suite 300, Somerset, KY 42501. Signed (K205BR); Dodge City, KS (K242AE to state. Downlinks will be placed at By: Mrs. Hilda Gay Legg, Executive 92.9 MHz); Elkhart, KS (K252AV to 90.3 KHCC–FM, Hutchinson, KANZ–FM, Director. Funds Requested: $619,588. MHz); Goodland, KS (K219AJ to 89.7 Garden City, KANU–FM, Lawrence, Total Project Cost: $826,117. To MHz); Guymon, OK (K205FP); Lamar, KKSU–AM, Manhattan, KRPS–FM, establish a production studio for The CO (K252BY to 90.7 MHz); Ness City, Pittsburg and KMUW–FM, Wichita. Center for Rural Development, KS (K252AY to 92.9 MHz); St. Francis, File No. 96202 CTB Smoky Hills Somerset, KY. The studio will allow the KS (K257DI to 96.3 MHz); Sharon Public Television, 604 Elm Street, Center to produce instructional Springs, KS (K214AU); and Tribune, KS Bunker Hill, KS 67626. Signed By: Mr. programming as part of its mandate to (K252AW to 89.5 MHz). The changes David Wilson, CEO/General Manager. act as a training and education center will result in approximately 35,217 Funds Requested: $58,000. Total Project for a 40-county service area. The people receiving a first public radio Cost: $116,000. To extend the signal of Center’s partners in this signal. public television station KOOD–TV, Ch. telecommunications enterprise are the File No. 96051 CRB Kansas State 9, in Bunker Hill, by constructing a new University of Kentucky and Kentucky University, Room 2, Fairchild Hall, repeater station in Dodge City, on Ch. Educational Television. 25536 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices

File No. 96196 CTB Kentucky shore and to the Stennis Space Center, WGBH Educational Foundation serves Educational Television, 600 Cooper which is located in Mississippi. approximately 5,430,000 viewers. Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By: File No. 96246 ICTN 95147. File No. 96220 ICTN Douglas Public Mrs. Virginia Fox, Executive Director. Northwestern State University, Kyser Schools, 21 Davis Street, East Douglas, Funds Requested: $689,076. Total Hall, Room 153, Natchitoches, LA MA 01516. Signed By: Mrs. Concetta Project Cost: $1,148,460. To improve the 71497. Signed By: Dr. Robert Alost, Verge, Superintendent. Funds broadcast services of WKMJ–TV, President. Funds Requested: $569,528. Requested: $19,323. Total Project Cost: Channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky, by Total Project Cost: $759,371. To $38,647. To establish a video conference replacing the aging transmitter, the purchase a Ku-band mobile satellite classroom for the Douglas, Mass., Public transmission line and the antenna uplink to expand the distance learning Schools to be used for distance learning which was damaged by lightning. opportunities to under served areas of purposes. The project would use PicTel File No. 96210 CTB Fifteen Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and equipment with the signals transmitted Telecommunications, Inc., 4421 Bishop Oklahoma. via ISDN. Lane/PO Box 37380, Louisville, KY File No. 96244 ICTN Springfield 40218. Signed By: Mr. John-Robert MA (Massachusetts) Technical Cmty College, One Armory Curtin, President & CEO. Funds File No. 96036 CRB 95145. Cape & Square, Springfield, MA 01105. Signed Requested: $39,975. Total Project Cost: Islands Commm Public Radio, 78 By: Dr. Andrew Scibelli, President. $79,950. To improve the broadcast Gardiner Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Funds Requested: $250,000. Total operations of WKPC–TV, Channel 15 in Signed By: Mr. Jay Allison, President. Project Cost: $500,000. To help establish Louisville, Kentucky by constructing a Funds Requested: $212,450. Total a T–1-based, compressed video, free standing 195 ft. tower for the Project Cost: $283,270. To provide first interactive distance learning network station’s STL and ITFS. public radio service to 70,639 citizens of that will allow Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) to provide LA (Louisiana) Woods Hole and Nantucket, MA by constructing new FM broadcast studios, instructional programming to eight File No. 96045 CTB Educational control rooms, antennas and schools and fifty small businesses in Broadcasting Fdn., 2929 South transmitters at 90.1 MHz, Woods Hole, Springfield, MA. The equipment will Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA MA, and 91.1 MHz, Nantucket, MA. also permit STCC to interconnect with 70118. Signed By: Mr. James Kelly, the University of Massachusetts and 120 File No. 96131 CRB University of General Manager. Funds Requested: other national universities as well as Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. $94,808. Total Project Cost: $189,617. with a New England-wide technical Signed By: Ms. Carol Sprague, Acting To improve the production facilities of training collaborative of eight colleges Assoc. Director. Funds Requested: public television station WLAE–TV, offering common curricula. The $46,827. Total Project Cost: $93,655. To operating on Ch. 32 in New Orleans, LA. proposed network will serve a large The project will replace a 20 year old improve WFCR–FM, operating on 88.5 section of Springfield that the Federal video production switcher for the MHz, in Amherst, MA, by replacing the Government has designated an production of local programs. WLAE– audio console and associated items, Enterprise Zone. TV serves 1.2 million people in the monitor amplifier, monitor speakers, greater New Orleans area. storage system, two cassette decks, two MD (Maryland) File No. 96093 CTB Greater New turntables, microphone processor, File No. 96073 CRB Univ. of Orleans ETV Found., 916 Navarre telephone hybrid, routing switcher, Maryland Eastern Shore, Backbone Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. cabinets, and test equipment. Applicant Road, Princess Anne, MD 21853. Signed Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman, provides service to approximately By: Dr. William Hytche, President, President & General Manager. Funds 1,144,371 potential listeners. UMES. Funds Requested: $86,647. Total Requested: $191,500. Total Project Cost: File No. 96158 CRB University of Project Cost: $115,550. To provide first $383,000. To improve the production Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd., public radio service to over 70,000 facilities of public television station Boston, MA 02125. Signed By: Mr. Paul residents of Eastern Delaware and WYES–TV, operating on Ch. 12 in New O’Keefe, Director. Funds Requested: Northern Maryland, WESM–FM, Orleans, by replacing 1’’ video tape $67,730. Total Project Cost: $92,730. To operating on 91.3 MHz in Princess machines with digital video cassette improve WFPB–FM, operating on 91.9 Anne, Maryland, will construct a machines and replacing four Betacam MHz, in Falmouth, MA, by replacing the repeater station in Massey, MD. players with a disc storage system. The present temporary system, using mostly File No. 96078 ICTN Salisbury State project will also replace a 10 year old borrowed and rented equipment which University, 1101 Camden Avenue, DVE system with a dual channel system makes this project a middle ground Salisbury, MD 21801. Signed By: Dr. and purchase a non-linear editor for the between establishing a new first service Nelson Butler, Interim President. Funds production of local programs. WYES– and replacing an existing system. The Requested: $151,300. Total Project Cost: TV serves 1.7 million people in the applicant owns very few broadcast $201,762. A consortium of three State greater New Orleans area. items, so the equipment requested is higher education academic institutions File No. 96127 ICTN New Orleans basically an activation package. WFPB– would interconnect their three Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 South FM will serve approximately 40,000 campuses to form a distance learning CarrolltonAvenue, New Orleans, LA listeners. system to serve Maryland’s lower 70118. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lucas, File No. 96208 CTB WGBH eastern shore. The three are Salisbury Executive Director. Funds Requested: Educational Foundational, 125 Western State University, the University of $287,293. Total Project Cost: $574,586. Avenue, Boston, MA 02134. Signed By: Maryland/Eastern Shore, and Wor-Wic To purchase T–1 interconnection and Mr. Andrew Griffiths, VP/Finance and Community College. The project would video classroom equipment to allow the Administration. Funds Requested: construct a duplex microwave system New Orleans Educational $587,605. Total Project Cost: $1,175,210. linking the three campuses and an STL Telecommunications Consortium to To improve WGBH–TV, operating on Ch system that would interconnect with an extend its ITFS-based distance learning 2, in Boston, MA, by replacing six existing ITFS transmission site near service to Lake Ponchartrain’s north eighteen-year-old studio cameras. Salisbury. The project would also install Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25537 a video classroom at Wor-Wic Michigan counties. The project would MHz, Traverse City, MI, by increasing Community College and receive sites at also purchase 40 personal computers in its power, moving its antenna, and high schools in 12 area communities. each school building or library in order changing its frequency to 90.7MHz. The File No. 96189 CTB Maryland Public to allow those facilities to interconnect station currently serves a population of Broadcasting Comm., 11767 Owings with the Internet. The project is a joint about 63,000. The project will add an Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD effort between the applicant and the estimated 60,400 persons, who have 21117. Signed By: Dr. Archie Buffkins, Iosco Intermediate School District. access to public radio service from Interim President/CEO. Funds File No. 96066 CRB Central Michigan another station. Requested: $1,016,000. Total Project University, 3965 East Broomfield Road, File No. 96224 CRTB Northern Cost: $2,032,000. To upgrade the Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Michigan University, Northern broadcast operations of WMPT–TV, Dr. Leonard E. Plachta, President. Funds Michigan University, Marquette, MI Channel 22 in Annapolis, Maryland, by Requested: $321,991. Total Project Cost: 49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy, replacing the 22-year-old transmitter $429,322. To activate a repeater station VP/Finance and Administration. Funds and the antenna/transmission line operating at 95.7 MHz to bring the first Requested: $53,620. Total Project Cost: system. public radio signal to approximately $107,240. To improve public station File No. 96201 ICTN Chesapeake 51,501 residents in and around Oscoda, WNMU–TV, Ch. 13, and WNMU–FM, Regional Network, Inc., 39 Old Hilltop MI. The new station will repeat the 90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, by replacing Rd., Conowingo, MD 21918. Signed By: programming of public station WCMU- failing audio recording equipment, Mr. Douglas Donley, President. Funds FM, 89.5 MHz, Mt. Pleasant, MI, which upgrading their tower lighting, and Requested: $60,685. Total Project Cost: presently serves a population of about acquiring equipment for descriptive $84,285. To establish an Instructional 291,577. video, closed captioning, and FCC- Television Fixed Service (ITFS) to File No. 96068 CTB Detroit mandated Emergency Alert Notification. provide instructional programming to Educational Television Fndn, 7441 The stations serve a population of about rural Cecil County, located in Maryland Second Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202– 200,000. 2796. Signed By: Mr. Steve Antoniotti, between Baltimore and Philadelphia, File No. 96226 CRB Northern President and General Manager. Funds PA. Michigan University, Northern Requested: $149,887. Total Project Cost: Michigan University, Marquette, MI ME (Maine) $299,775. To improve the operation of 49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy, File No. 96014 CTN Pleasant Point public television station WTVS, Ch. 56, VP/Finance and Administration. Funds Passamaquoddy Tribe, P.O. Box 339, Detroit, MI, by replacing a worn-out and Requested: $8,513. Total Project Cost: Perry, ME 04667. Signed By: Ms. Pamela obsolete switcher and by acquiring an $17,026. To extend the signal of Francis, Executive Director. Funds emergency power generator for the Requested: $30,118. Total Project Cost: station’s transmitter. WTVS serves a WNMU–FM, 90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, $46,335. To extend the cable television population of about 4,500,000. by activating a translator to operate at community access channel of the File No. 96134 IPTN Lansing 107.3 MHz in Stephenson, MI, bringing Passamaquoddy Tribe of Pleasant Point Community College, 528 N. Capitol, the first public radio signal to about to the entire Passamaquoddy Lansing, MI 48933. Signed By: Dr. 13,000 residents of the south-central Reservation. At present, the channel is Valerianna Moeller, Executive V. Pres./ Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The cablecast only to approximately 25% of Provost. Funds Requested: $75,300. project will also enable the re-activation the Reservation, to an area known as the Total Project Cost: $105,750. To explore of an existing translator on 91.3 MHz in Old Pleasant Point Reservation. the feasibility of various technologies Marinette, WI, that had to be shut down File No. 96080 PTB St. John that could be appropriate for an when a new full-power station overroad Plantation, RR 3 box 410, Fort Kent, ME interactive distance learning system in the signal from WNMU–FM. This 04743. Signed By: Mr. Fernald Jandreau, southeastern Michigan, among Lansing translator serves a population of about First Selectman. Funds Requested: Community College, and the K–12 15,518. $7,500. Total Project Cost: $7,500. This schools in the Livingston County File No. 96237 ICTN Hillsdale Co. is an ineligible application. The Educational Service District and the Intermed School Dist, 3471 Beck Road, applicant is a commercial station, Ingham County Intermediate School Hillsdale, MI 49242. Signed By: Mr. WFKT–TV, channel 4, in Fort Kent ME. District. Gary Moore, Superintendent. Funds Its basic purpose is to strengthen the File No. 96144 CTB Michigan State Requested: $847,191. Total Project Cost: broadcast capability of commercial University, 84 Wilson Road, East $1,129,588. To establish a fiber optics- television station WAGM–TV, channel Lansing, MI 48824–1212. Signed By: Mr. based, interactive distance learning 8, which evidently is owned by the Daniel Evon, Asst Dir, Grants Admin. system which will interconnect the applicant and to extend local Funds Requested: $549,925. Total eight schools served by the Hillsdale broadcasting capability of WFKT–TV to Project Cost: $1,099,851. To improve the County Intermediate School District, surrounding communities. In the time quality and reliability of the signal of located in extreme southern Michigan. pressure we have, there is no point in public station WKAR–TV, Ch. 23, East File No. 96238 CTB Grand Valley spending any more time on this Lansing, MI, by replacing its failing 18- State University, 301 West Fulton ineligible project. year-old transmitter, STL, and the Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504–6492. associated control, monitoring. and test Signed By: Ms. Jean Enright, Secretary, MI (Michigan) equipment. The station serves a Board of Control. Funds Requested: File No. 96003 ICTN Alpena-Mont.- population of about 2,069,000. $104,679. Total Project Cost: $209,358. Alcona Ed. Srvc. Dist., 2118 U.S. 23 File No. 96185 CRB Northwestern To improve the operation of public South, Alpena, MI 49707. Signed By: Michigan College, 1701 East Front station WGVU–TV, Ch. 35, Grand Mr. Thomas Lanway, Superintendent. Street, Traverse City, MI 49684. Signed Rapids, MI, by replacing obsolete and Funds Requested: $433,750. Total By: Mr. Timothy Quinn, President. worn-out video tape recorders. The Project Cost: $870,250. To install cables Funds Requested: $39,055. Total Project project will also benefit WGVK–TV, Ch. for voice, video, and data transmission Cost: $52,073. To upgrade non- 52, which repeats the programming of into every classroom and library in four commercial radio station WNMC, 90.9 WGVU–TV in Kalamazoo, MI. The 25538 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices stations serve a population of about Earth Land Recovery Project, in White well as in Missouri. The proposed 1,274,200. Earth, MN, is requesting funding to system’s design is based on activate a first signal public radio interconnecting three large networks MN (Minnesota) station for the White Earth Ojibwe that are already established: the St. File No. 96056 CTB West Central Indian reservation in Northern Louis Community College Network; the Minnesota ETV CO, 120 West Minnesota. A PTFP Planning grant University of Missouri/St. Louis’s Schlieman Avenue, Appleton, MN awarded in 1995 enabled the applicant existing network; and the cable TV and 56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel Doll, to conduct a community needs ITFS networks associated with the General Manager. Funds Requested: assessment and site review, and to Cooperating School Districts (the latter $176,310. Total Project Cost: $352,620. prepare a FCC construction permit consists of 28 K–12 public school To extend the service of KWCM–TV, application which have resulted in the districts in the area). operating on Ch. 10, in Appleton, MN, project. The proposed station will File No. 96160 ICTN Ozarks by activating a first signal repeater provide first service to approximately Technical Community College, 1417 station, operating on Ch 69, in Fergus 9,200 listeners. North Jefferson, Springfield, MO 65802. Falls, MN, an area of west central Signed By: Dr. Norman Myers, Minnesota not now served by public TV MO (Missouri) President. Funds Requested: $184,421. and containing a population of File No. 96010 CRB University of Total Project Cost: $245,895. To approximately 50,714 potential viewers. Missouri, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. construct an ISDN, telephone-line-based File No. 96104 CTN Asian Media Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr. distance learning system to permit Access, Inc., 730 Henepin Avenue, # Douglas Wartzok, Assoc Vice Chan. Ozarks Technical Community College to 812, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Signed Dean of Grad. Funds Requested: transmit its instructional programming By: Mr. Virendra Ratnayake, President $25,860. Total Project Cost: $51,720. To to schools and the general population of the Board. Funds Requested: improve the production facilities of throughout its service area of southwest $844,380. Total Project Cost: $1,125,850. public radio station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, Arkansas. Specifically, the system will To construct the first Asian-American St. Louis, MO, by replacing worn-out reach five school districts—i.e., production studio in the United States and unreliable equipment, including a Republic, Strafford, Rogersville, Nixa, that will serve as a media center for console, CD players, microphones, and and Reeds Spring—all of which are to Asian American communities and will microphone processors. The station be found in a three-county area; the produce Asian Lanuguage news, serves a population of about 2,734,900 counties are Greene, Stone, and magazine shows, documentaries and persons. Christian. educational programming. File No. 96013 CRB Curators of the File No. 96187 CTB Public Television File No. 96137 CRB Red Lake Band of Univ. of Missouri, 8001 Natural Bridge 19, Inc., 125 East 31st Street, Kansas Chippewa Indians, Tribal Headquarters Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: City, MO 64108. Signed By: Mr. William Building, Red Lake, MN 56671. Signed Mr. Douglas Wartzok, Assoc. Vice Chan. T. Reed, President & CEO. Funds By: Mr. Bobby Whitefeather, Tribal Dean of Grad. Funds Requested: Requested: $250,835. Total Project Cost: Chairman. Funds Requested: $617,725. $28,675. Total Project Cost: $57,350. To $501,670. To improve the facilities of Total Project Cost: $823,725. The improve the operational reliability of public television station KCPT, Ch. 19, purpose of this project is to construct a public radio station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, Kansas City, MO, by replacing seven new public radio station to serve the St. Louis, MO, by acquiring a back-up worn-out, obsolete video tape recorders Red Lake Indian Reservation and power generator and an Uninterruptable and test equipment, and by acquiring a surrounding areas in northern Power Supply. The station serves a second master control switcher and a Minnesota, providing the first signal for population of about 2,734,900. video ‘‘cache’’ system. KCPT serves a approximately 7,000 residents within File No. 96027 CRB New Wave population of about 1,900,000 persons. the coverage area. The station, if funded, Corporation, 915 East Broadway, will operate on 91.4 MHz with a power Columbia, MO 65201. Signed By: Mr. MP (Marianas Protectorate) of 100 KW, ERP. Brian Mann, Interim General Manager. File No. 96069 IPRTN Northern File No. 96206 CRB Minnesota Public Funds Requested: $8,125. Total Project Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250, Radio, 45 E 7th Street, St. Paul, MN Cost: $18,250. To improve the Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms. 55101. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Hamilton, production capability of public radio Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds Vice President. Funds Requested: station KOPN, 89.5 MHz, Columbia, Requested: $24,275. Total Project Cost: $206,194. Total Project Cost: $412,389. MO, by replacing an obsolete, 15-year- $24,275. To conduct a study and To improve the Minnesota Public Radio old on-air audio console. The project develop the design for the use of Network of 16 network stations by will also acquire the equipment for the technologies in a distance learning replacing an old C-Band portable uplink Emergency Alert System, which the FCC system to be established as the Pacific with a Ku-band uplink based at St. Paul, requires all stations to activate. KOPN Technical Education Network, between replacing cart machines at the 16 serves a population of about 250,000 Honolulu, Hawaii and Saipan, Northern network stations, and also in South persons. Marianas Islands. Dakota and Michigan. Additionally, this File No. 96041 ICTN University of project requests backup STLs for MPR Missouri/St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge MS (Mississippi) stations in Rochester and Duluth, MN. Rd., St. Louis, MO 63121–4499. Signed File No. 96172 CRTB Mississippi This network serves approximately By: Dr. Douglas Wartzok, Assoc. Vice Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood 4,547,000 potential listeners. Chancel./Research. Funds Requested: Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By: File No. 96236 CRB White Earth Land $775,131. Total Project Cost: $1,700,275. Mr. Larry Miller, Executive Director. Recovery Project, Box 327, White Earth, To construct a two-way, interactive Funds Requested: $88,242. Total Project MN 56591. Signed By: Ms. Roxanne telecommunications system—to be Cost: $176,484. Replace FM radio Struthers, Chairperson. Funds called St. Louis EdNet—linking diverse modulation monitoring equipment, FM Requested: $407,528. Total Project Cost: educational and cultural institutions exciters, and the radio and television $543,370. The Niijii Broadcast throughout the greater St. Louis area. high speed RF monitoring system at Corporation, a subsidiary of the White This includes locations in Illinois as transmitter sites throughout the state of Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25539

Mississippi, to improve FM stereo Rapids, NC, will relocate its antenna to TV, Ch. 26, in Omaha, by acquiring two performance, ensure compliance with a higher tower and will install a digital camera control systems that will allow power measurement requirements, and STL system. the use of two PTFP-funded field protect transmitters from potential File No. 96074 ICTN College of the cameras in the studio during damage. Albemarle, 1208 North Road St., productions which require more than Elizabeth City, NC 27906. Signed By: Dr. three studio cameras. Station provides MT (Montana) Larry R. Donnithorne, President. Funds service to more than 600,000 people. File No. 96034 CRB Montana State Requested: $136,000. Total Project Cost: File No. 96081 ICTN A DEC, University—Billings, 1500 North 30th $181,500. To construct a two-way University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Street, Billings, MT 59101–0298. Signed distance learning video classroom at the Lincoln, NE 68583. Signed By: Dr. Janet By: Dr. Ronald Sexton, Chancellor. College of the Albemarle to allow the Poley, President/CEO. Funds Requested: Funds Requested: $42,815. Total Project College to offer and receive instructional $1,364,587. Total Project Cost: Cost: $92,815. To purchase a Ku-band programming via its ITFS channels and $2,729,175. To purchase five additional satellite uplink system for KEMC–FM, the North Carolina Information C band uplinks, convert 12 existing operating on 91.7 MHz in Billings. The Highway. uplinks from analog to digital, and satellite system would place downlinks File No. 96231 CTB Univ. of NC equip 174 existing downlinks with to provide programming to six existing Center for Public TV, 10 T.W. Alexander digital reception equipment. Uplinks facilities operated by KEMC–FM. Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC will be placed at Delaware State Downlinks would be provided at a 27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom Howe, University, Florida A&M University, the repeater station serving Bozeman, MT Director & GM. Funds Requested: University of Illinois, Kansas State and translators serving Havre, Helena, $1,574,523. Total Project Cost: University and West Virginia and Miles City, MT, as well as Cody and $4,890,000. To improve broadcast University. Sheridan, WY. operations and extend its coverage area File No. 96096 CRB 95148. Sunrise File No. 96177 CRB Bd of Regents, to include approximately 779,000 Communications, Inc., 941 ‘‘O’’ Street, MT University System, 330 Strand potential new viewers in the state’s Suite 1025, Lincoln, NE 68508. Signed Union Building, Bozeman, MT 59717. northeast region by the replacement of By: Mr. Dick Noble, General Manager. Signed By: Mr. Philip Charles, General critical transmission equipment and Funds Requested: $84,612. Total Project Manager. Funds Requested: $30,495. construction of a taller tower at WUND– Cost: $112,816. To improve the facilities Total Project Cost: $52,995. To improve TV, Channel 2, in Columbia, SC. of public radio station KZUM-FM, 89.3 the facilities of noncommercial radio File No. 96242 CTB Gospel & MHz, in Lincoln by acquiring new and station KGLT–FM, operating on 91.9 Deliverance Ministry, Inc., Rt. 1, Box replacement equipment for the on-air MHz in Bozeman, MT by purchasing a 171–E, Shannon, NC 28386. Signed By: control and production control rooms as new FM antenna, exciter and related Mr. Gerald Locklear, President. Funds well as a C-band satellite downlink. equipment. The applicant has lost its Requested: $680,000. Total Project Cost: Station serves approximately 214,000 lease at its current transmitter site and $1,115,000. To construct a low-power people. the new equipment will ensure television station on Ch. 47 to serve the File No. 96142 CTB Nebraska Educ continued service to 47,000 people. The educational and training needs of the Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd transmitter will be relocated to a higher community, specifically the Native Street, Lincoln, NE 68501. Signed By: elevation and the new antenna will American population of Robeson Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary. Funds permit a power increase from 2 KW to County. Requested: $152,032. Total Project Cost: 68 KW. $304,065. To improve the production ND (North Dakota) facilities of the state’s public television NC (North Carolina) File No. 96141 CRB Dakota Radio network by replacing old, obsolete File No. 96032 CRB Wilkes Information Service, Liberty Mem. origination equipment. Items to be Community College, Collegiate Drive, Bldg., 604 E. Blvd., Bismarck, ND acquired include: a remote unit audio Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Signed By: Dr. 58505. Signed By: Ms. Marcella console, 7 mini-disk recorder/players, 7 Gordon Burns, President of WCC. Funds Schmaltz, President. Funds Requested: mini-disk players, a digital audio Requested: $36,999. Total Project Cost: $5,156. Total Project Cost: $6,875. To workstation, color and black/white $49,332. To provide first public radio acquire 125 SCA receivers for use by the monitors as well as waveform monitors services to approximately 47,000 print-impaired in western ND. The radio and vectorscopes test equipment. Much residents of northwest North Carolina reading service receivers would be of the equipment being replaced is in by upgrading WSIF–FM, operating on distributed in areas covered by six new excess of 20 years old is a maintenance 90.9 MHz in Wilkesboro, from a Class D FM radio translator stations which were problem. The network serves about 1.5 station to a Class A radio facility. WSIF– funded by PTFP in 1995. Since this is million people. FM will change frequency to 94.7 MHz, the first time 90.1 MHz has been used File No. 96147 CRB Nebraska Educ increase power and change the antenna in this area, there is no inventory of Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd system. receivers available for distribution. The Street, PO Box 8311, Lincoln, NE 68501. File No. 96046 CRB 95100. Better Life, service provides the only locally Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary. Inc., 230–B Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke originated service in ND. It broadcasts Funds Requested: $23,212. Total Project Rapids, NC 27870. Signed By: Mr. on the stations licensed to Prairie Public Cost: $46,425. To improve the facilities George Campbell, Executive Director. Broadcasting. of the state’s public radio network by Funds Requested: $91,500. Total Project acquiring production equipment to Cost: $122,000. To upgrade its services NE (Nebraska) replace old, obsolete equipment that is and extend its coverage to provide first File No. 96018 CTB University of no longer operating properly. Requested public radio service and first radio Nebraska, 60th & Dodge Streets, Omaha, equipment includes: a digital audio reading services to approximately NE 68182–0022. Signed By: Dr. Delbert workstation, a telephone hybrid for on- 46,000 residents of northeast North Weber, Chancellor. Funds Requested: air call-ins, mini-disk recorder/player Carolina and southeast Virginia, WZRU, $38,000. Total Project Cost: $80,000. To and 4 mini-disk players. The state’s operating on 88.5 MHz in Roanoke improve public television station KYNE- public radio network serves 25540 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices approximately 872,000 people in NE $1,022,825. To install a cable-fiber optic Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. and parts of KS and WY. interconnection system that will, Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting. initially, extend the Mescalero Apache Funds Requested: $101,335. Total NH (New Hampshire) Reservation’s public television signal to Project Cost: $202,670. To improve the File No. 96031 CRB New Hampshire an additional 820 Reservation homes. facilities of the existing microwave Public Radio, 207 North Main Street, Over-the-air signal transmission to these interconnection system between the Concord, NH 03301–5048. Signed By: homes is blocked by terrain. Via three state public television stations: Mr. Mark Handley, President. Funds translators, the Mescalero Tribe receives KENW–TV, Ch. 3, in Portales, KNME– Requested: $40,422. Total Project Cost: the public television service of station TV, Ch. 5, in Albuquerque and KRWG– $80,845. To improve WEVO–FM, KENW–TV, Portales, NM. The cable will TV, Ch. 22, in Las Cruces. The system operating on 89.1 MHz, in Concord, NH, also be connected to the Mescalero also connects four public radio stations: by upgrading the station’s program hospital, the Mescalero public schools, KUNM–FM and KANW–FM in origination from tape to digital/audio and the Tribal and Federal Government Albuquerque; KRWG–FM, Las Cruces, production and automation, which will offices. and KENW–FM, Portales. Project would result in upgrading production both in File No. 96020 CRB Alamo Navajo replace existing hetrodyne microwave the studios and in master control. School Board, Inc., P.O. Box 907, receiver/transmitter equipment, replace File No. 96240 CTB University of New Magdalena, NM 87825. Signed By: Mr. analog audio subcarrier units with Hampshire, Route 155A, Mast Rd., PO George Apachito, President. Funds digital equipment and add video Box 110, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By: Requested: $13,781. Total Project Cost: synchronizers at microwave endpoints. Mr. Steven Bernstein, Sr. Grant & $18,375. To improve the facilities of System serves about 982,000 people in Contract Officer. Funds Requested: public radio station KABR–AM, 1500 NM. $130,000. Total Project Cost: $260,000. kHZ, in Magdalena, by replacing old File No. 96175 ICTN Hispanic Educ’l To improve originating station WENH- equipment in the on-air control room Telecom. System, Woodward Hall, TV, operating on Ch 11, in Durham, NH, with equipment that will upgrade its 115C, Albuquerque, NM 87131–4016. by replacing the studio production ability to automate part of the broadcast Signed By: Dr. Richard Peck, Chair of control switcher and field ENG Kit for day. This will permit an increase in HETS Board. Funds Requested: production of local programming. This broadcast hours without increasing the $840,606. Total Project Cost: $1,120,808. state network originating station serves staff size. Most of the station’s To expand participation in the Hispanic the entire state of New Hampshire, equipment is original and was Educational Telecommunications purchased in 1983 when it went on the totaling 1,109,252 potential viewers. System (HETS) project by constructing air. KABR–AM serves approximately NJ (New Jersey) VSAT satellite terminals and origination 11,000 people in west central NM. File No. 96070 CTB New Jersey Public File No. 96060 CRB Northern NM classrooms at seven colleges serving Broadcasting Auth, 25 South Stockton Radio Foundation, 116 West Buena Hispanic students: Kings River Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Signed By: Vists, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Signed By: Community College in California; the Mrs. Elizabeth Christopherson, Mr. William Sims, President. Funds John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Executive Director. Funds Requested: Requested: $88,332. Total Project Cost: New York State; Florida International $118,600. Total Project Cost: $237,200. $117,777. To activate a new public radio University and Miami Dade Community To improve the network originating station on 89.5 MHz, in Las Vegas. College in Florida; and the University of station, WNJT–TV, operating on Ch 52, Station would be a Rocky Mountain Puerto Rico, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Ana Mendez in Trenton, NJ, by upgrading two 3⁄4′′ Alternative Station (RMAS) that would format Analog Videotape Editing repeat the signal of KANW–FM, University System in Puerto Rico. systems with two Non-Linear Digital Albuquerque. In addition, local Origination classrooms will also be Systems, and upgrading a 40 unit Video programming would be provided by the constructed at the University of Texas- Cart Playback System in Master Control RMAS station staff. Proposed 100-watt Brownsville in Texas, and Lehman with a Digital Video Server. This station would be located on the campus College in New York State, which originating station provides service of the Luna Vocational-Technical currently have HETS VSAT equipment. state-wide to approximately 7,730,188 Institute and would also be used to File No. 96179 ICTN No. New Mexico potential viewers. instruct students in broadcast skills. Network for Rural Ed, PO Box 640, Station would provide the first local Bernalillo, NM 87004. Signed By: Mr. NM (New Mexico) origination service to about 18,254 Hank Dominguez, President. Funds File No. 96001 CTB Univ. of NM & people in Las Vegas and surrounding Requested: $445,719. Total Project Cost: Albuquerque Schools, 1130 University Miguel County, NM. $891,438. To establish a distance Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. File No. 96163 CTB Eastern New education network serving schools and Signed By: Mrs. Ann Powell, Dir.Rsch.- Mexico University, 15th and Avenue O, colleges in 14 rural counties in Northern Admin. Univ. of NM. Funds Requested: Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. New Mexico. C-band VSAT satellite $400,000. Total Project Cost: $800,000. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting. uplinks and origination studios will be To improve public television station Funds Requested: $49,230. Total Project placed at Northern New Mexico KNME–TV, Ch. 5, in Albuquerque. Cost: $98,460. To improve the facilities Community College in Espanola and Project will replace three studio of public television station, KENW–TV, New Mexico Highlands University at cameras, a still store, and editing Ch. 3, in Portales, by replacing an Las Vegas, NM. Satellite C-band equipment with new non-linear editing obsolete character generator and test/ downlinks will be placed at 10 sites, 15 equipment. KNME–TV serves about 1.1 monitoring equipment including a sites will receive both a C-band and Ku- million people. waveform/vectorscope, a signal test band downlink, and 18 existing File No. 96007 CTN Mescalero generator and a modulation monitor. downlinks will be upgraded to received Apache Tribe, 101 Central Street, KENW–TV serves about 350,000 compressed digital satellite signals. The Mescalero, NM 88340. Signed By: Mr. residents of eastern NM and west TX. project also includes a mobile VSAT Wendell Chino, President. Funds File No. 96168 CTB Eastern New terminal for program origination Requested: $767,119. Total Project Cost: Mexico University, 15th and Avenue O, throughout the region. Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25541

File No. 96248 CRB Southern New File No. 96022 CRB Colleges of the 13220–2400. Signed By: Mr. Richard Mexico Radio Fdn., 1505 Crescent Seneca, Hobart & William, Smith Russell, President & CEO. Funds Drive, Alamogordo, NM 88310. Signed Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Signed By: Requested: $73,600. Total Project Cost: By: Mr. Robert Flotte, President. Funds Mr. Richard Guarasci, Dean, Hobart $147,200. To improve WCNY–TV, Ch 24 Requested: $174,039. Total Project Cost: College. Funds Requested: $26,500. and WCNY–FM, 91.3 MHz, in Syracuse, $232,052. To activate a new FM public Total Project Cost: $53,000. To improve NY, by replacing Channel 24’s STL, the radio station on 91.7 MHz, in WEOS–FM, operating on 89.7 MHz,in six-foot microwave transmit antenna Alamogordo to provide first local Geneva, NY, by replacing the Cart and dish, 400 feet of microwave origination to approximately 55,000 Machine, and upgrading the studio transmission line, a six-foot microwave people. Proposed new Rocky Mountain editing system by adding the Non- receive antenna and dish with 200 feet Alternative Station (RMAS) will repeat Linear editing system, the Audio Hard of transmission line at the Pompey the signal of KRWG–FM, Las Cruces, Disc and the Dat Cassette Recorder. The transmitter; by replacing for WCNY–FM and will also have local origination station serves approximately 83,000 the STL, and adding 500 receiving units capability. Studios will be located on listeners. for the applicant’s Radio Reading the Alamogordo Branch campus of New File No. 96039 CRBN WNYC, One Service. The applicant, with its 2 TV Mexico State University. Centre Street, New York, NY 10007. stations and 2 FM stations, serves Signed By: Ms. Laura Walker, President. approximately 1,775,000 people, a TV NV (Nevada) Funds Requested: $6,000. Total Project and Radio in Syracuse and two Radio File No. 96234 CTB Clark County Cost: $12,000. To improve WNYC–FM, stations, one in Utica and one in School District, 4210 Channel 10 Drive, operating on 93.9 MHz, in New York Watertown. Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Mr. City, by upgrading the master control File No. 96157 CRB WSKG Public T/ Thomas Axtell, General Manager. Funds room control station console due to the C Council, 601 Gates Road, Vestal, NY Requested: $484,100. Total Project Cost: addition of new equipment required for 13850. Signed By: Mr. Michael Ziegler, $818,600. To extend and improve the satellite operations. Applicant serves President & CEO. Funds Requested: services of KLVX–TV, Channel 10 in Las approximately 750,000 potential $123,750. Total Project Cost: $165,000. Vegas by activating 3 new translators to listeners and operates WNYC–AM on To expand the coverage of WSKG–FM, serve approximately 12,000 residents of frequency 820 Khz. operating on 89.3 MHz, in Vestal, NY, File No. 96047 CRTB 95122. WMHT Beatty, Goldfield, Mercury, Nevada Test by activating full power repeater Educational Telecommunications, 17 Site, Oasis Valley, Silver Peak and transmitter in Hornell, NY, which will Fern Avenue, PO Box 17, Schenectady, Tonopah. KLVX–TV will also install a provide first signal to approximately NY 12301. Signed By: Ms. Elizabeth new microwave system and replace 47,975 listeners. Hood, WMHQ Station. Total Requested: File No. 96194 IPTN Niagara County obsolete and worn out origination $330,300. Total Project Cost: $660,600. Community College, 3111 Saunders equipment including the main routing To improve WMHT–TV, CH 17 and Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14132. switcher, two production cameras and WMHT–FM, 89.1 MHz, in Albany, NY Signed By: Mr. Gerald Miller, President. test equipment. by replacing the routing systems Funds Requested: $78,292. Total Project NY (New York) interconnecting its television and radio Cost: $127,221. To assess the applicable stations, replacing its Master Control technologies that could potentially be File No. 96009 CRB 95108. State Console, Automation System, and appropriate to address distance learning University of NY, Oswego, 14 Lanigan Monitoring equipment, and by replacing needs in Niagara County, New York and Hall, Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Mr. the master control switchers for its two surrounding areas, and develop a William Shigley, Station Manager. Total TV stations, WMHT–TV and WMHQ– telecommunications implementation Requested: $62, 293. Total Project Cost: TV. This project will help to improve plan for distance learning and training $124,586. To improve WRVO–FM, the Public Radio and TV to services. operating on 89.9 MHZ, in Oswego, NY approximately 2,225,550 people in File No. 96203 CTB WSKG Public by replacing an old and wornout eastern New York, western Telecomm Council, 601 Gates Road, transmitter and related equipment. This Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vestal, NY 13850. Signed By: Mr. station serves approximately 549, 000 Vermont. Michael Ziegler, President & CEO. listeners. This project is a reactivation File No. 96071 ICTN 95064. WXXI Funds Requested: $824,625. Total from last year. Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State Project Cost: $1,099,500. To expand File No. 96012 ICTN Rochester Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Signed By: WSKG–TV, Ch 46, in Vestal, NY, by Institute of Technology, 91 Lomb Mr. Norm Silverstein, President and establishing a full power repeater TV Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. CEO. Funds Requested: $97,461. Total station in Corning, NY, which will Signed By: Mr. Stanley D. McKenzie, Project Cost: $198,900. To construct a provide first signal to approximately Provost & VP. Funds Requested: Ku-band satellite uplink to permit 250,000 viewers. WSKG–TV now $383,581. Total Project Cost: $558,937. public television station WXXI–TV, operates a TV translator on channel 30 To establish a distance learning network operating on Ch. 21 in Rochester, NY, to at a power of 1 kilowatt in the Elmira, in collaboration with Genessee Valley distribute programming nationwide. New York area. This one kilowatt Board of Cooperative Education The uplink would permit the timely translator is on the same channel as the Services (BOCES) and five area distribution of programming such as full power unused allocation in community colleges located in the ‘‘Assignment: The World’’ after the Corning. The coverage provided by the Rochester-Syracuse-Binghamton area of demise of the New York Terrestrial new Corning allocation will also New York State. The project would Distribution System, which encompass the present coverage of the purchase multi-point, desk-top video interconnected all New York State channel 30 translator, which will reduce conferencing technology and software to public television stations with an uplink the total amount of first service. provide diverse educational services in New York City. and training opportunities to students File No. 96149 CRTB Pub Bdcstg OH (Ohio) who are, for the most part, located in Council of Central NY, 506 Old File No. 96023 CTB Public Bdcstg remote rural sites. Liverpool Rd., Box 2400, Syracuse, NY Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street, 25542 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices

Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. The station serves a population of $228,412. To install two compressed, Shirley E. Timonere, President & 1,866,000 in central and southern Ohio. interactive video classrooms as well as General Manager. Funds Requested: File No. 96146 CRB Public Bdcstg associated interconnection equipment to $561,060. Total Project Cost: $1,122,120. Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street, allow Oklahoma State University/ To improve public station WGTE–TV, Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Technical Branch/Okmulgee to provide Ch. 30, Toledo, OH, by replacing worn- Shirley E. Timonere, President & graduate education to Okmulgee County out and obsolete transmission General Manager. Funds Requested: and, via the OneNet system, to equipment, including the transmitter, $63,265. Total Project Cost: $126,530. disseminate technical education antenna, transmission line, and remote To improve the operation of public programming throughout the State. control system. The station serves a station WGTE–FM, 91.3 MHz, Toledo, File No. 96195 ICTN Oklahoma State population of about 3,583,000. OH, by replacing items of worn-out and University, Stillwater, OK 74078. File No. 96057 CTB Bowling Green obsolete equipment, including its Signed By: Dr. Harry Birdwell, VP for State University, 245 Troup Street, transmitter, master control console, CD Bus. & Ext. Rel. Funds Requested: Bowling Green, OH 43403. Signed By: players, and DAT recorders, and by $130,901. Total Project Cost: $261,802. Dr. Louis I. Katzner, Assoc Vice acquiring a hard-disk audio storage To install a compressed video classroom President, Research. Funds Requested: system and digital audio workstations. and video bridge on the main campus of $130,750. Total Project Cost: $261,500. The station serves a population of Oklahoma State University. The To improve the operation of public 1,101,300. classroom will originate instructional station WBGU–TV, Ch. 27, Bowling File No. 96200 CTB ETV Assn of programming to be transmitted Green, OH, by replacing items of worn- Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300 statewide. The course work will be in out and obsolete production equipment, Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44134– the areas of Health Care Management, including a routing switcher, an editing 1191. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham, Engineering Management, Teacher President/General Manager. Funds system, a lighting control system, and Certification, Educational Specialist, Requested: $405,050. Total Project Cost: lighting fixtures. The station serves a and Telecommunications Management. population of about 1,300,000. $810,100. To improve public television station WVIZ, Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by File No. 96211 CRB 95198. University File No. 96114 CRB The Ohio State replacing worn-out and unreliable video of Central Oklahoma, 100 North University, 2400 Olentangy River Road, tape machines with a hard-disk video University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. server and a robotic digital tape storage Signed By: Mr. Carl Reherman, Director Dale K. Ouzts, Dir of Telecomm & Gen system. The station serves a population of Outreach. Funds Requested: Manager. Funds Requested: $219,225. of about 3,700,000. $118,215. Total Project Cost: $157,620. Total Project Cost: $292,300. To extend File No. 96229 CTB Greater Dayton To provide first public radio service to the signal of public station WOSU–FM, Public TV, Inc., 110 South Jefferson over 40,000 residents of Pittsburgh 89.7 MHz, Columbus, OH, by activating Street, Dayton, OH 45402. Signed By: County, KCSC–FM, operating on 90.1 a repeater station on 91.1 MHz in Mr. David M. Fogarty, President and MHz in Edmond, Oklahoma, will Marion, OH. The new station will Gen Manager. Funds Requested: construct a repeater station in provide the first public radio signal to $99,449. Total Project Cost: $198,898. McAlester, operating on 91.9 MHz. about 19,061 persons, and the first To improve the operation of public OR (Oregon) nighttime public radio signal to nearly television station WPTD, Ch. 16, 130,000 persons. WOSU–FM serves a Dayton, OH, by replacing various items File No. 96216 CTB 95097. Oregon population of about 1,574,00. of worn-out, obsolete equipment, Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam File No. 96128 CRB Ohio University, including a routing switcher, a character Ave, Portland, OR 97219. Signed By: 9 South College Street, Athens, OH generator, and monitors, and by Mr. Maynard Orme, President/CEO. 45701. Signed By: Dr. Carol Blum, acquiring a non-linear tape editing Funds Requested: $158,875. Total Associate Vice President. Funds system and an Emergency Alert System. Project Cost: $317,750. To replace the 30 Requested: $138,298. Total Project Cost: The station serves a population of about year old broadcast antenna, $276,596. To improve the operation of 2,632,738. transmission line and tower of public public station WOUB–FM, 91.3 MHz, television station KOAC–TV, operating Athens, OH, by replacing worn-out and OK (Oklahoma) on Ch. 7 in Corvallis, OR. The project out-dated items of production File No. 96061 CTB Oklahoma will enable the station to continue equipment, including audio consoles, Educational TV Authority, 7403 North service to 220,000 residents of the DAT recorders, CD players, jack panels, Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK Willamette Valley and coastal distribution amplifiers, an audio editing 73113. Signed By: Mr. Robert Allen, communities in western Oregon. system, microphones, and an audio Executive Director. Funds Requested: PA (Pennsylvania) switcher and by acquiring a hard-disk $350,000. Total Project Cost: $700,000. audio storage system. The station serves To improve the facilities of KOET–TV, File No. 96052 CRB WQED Pittsburgh, a population of about 853,284. Channel 3 in Eufaula, and KWET–TV, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA File No. 96136 CTB The Ohio State Channel 12 in Cheyenne by upgrading 15213. Signed By: Mr. H. Melvin Ming, University, 2400 Olentangy River Road, the transmitters to provide stereo Chief Operating Officer. Funds Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. broadcast and SAP services to the Requested: $59,029. Total Project Cost: Dale K. Ouzts, Dir, Telecomm Ctr & Gen community. In addition, the Network’s $118,058. To expand and improve the Mgr. Funds Requested: $257,219. Total production center in Oklahoma City service of public radio station WQED– Project Cost: $514,438. To improve the will replace 17-year-old studio cameras FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA, to the operation of public station WOSU–TV, and 16-year-old videotape recorders. Johnstown, PA, area by replacing a Ch. 34, Columbus, OH, by replacing File No. 96115 ICTN Oklahoma St. translator with a full-power repeater worn-out and obsolete items of Univ./Technical Branch, 1801 East 4th station. An estimated 168,102 persons production equipment, including video Street, Okmulgee, OK 74447. Signed By: in western Pennsylvania will receive tape machines, camera pedestals, and a Dr. Robert Klabenes, Provost. Funds their first public radio signal from the file server, and items of test equipment. Requested: $114,206. Total Project Cost: proposed new transmitter. Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25543

File No. 96067 CTB Public station WQED–TV, Ch. 13, Pittsburgh, turntable, console furniture, 2 stereo Broadcasting of NW PA, Inc., 8425 PA, by acquiring the necessary record/play cart machines, 4 reel to reel Peach Street, Erie, PA 16509. Signed By: equipment to implement descriptive record machines, 2 multi effects Mr. F. Brady Louis, President and video for an estimated 65,000 sight- processors, 4 studio monitor speakers, 2 General Manager. Funds Requested: impaired persons in the station’s digital work stations, and 4 Dat record/ $54,898. Total Project Cost: $109,797. coverage area, which included play machines. WRTU–FM currently To improve the production capability of approximately 3,250,000 people. serves approximately 2,400,000 public television station WQLN–TV, Ch. File No. 96164 CTB Pennsylvania listeners. 54, Erie, PA, by replacing obsolete and State University, 202 Wagner Building, File No. 96065 CRB University of worn-out cameras. The station serves a University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. & population of about 713,000 persons. By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of Pastrana S, Rio Piedras, PR 00931. File No. 96077 CRB West Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-Tejera, Philadelphia Ed Bdcst Corp, Inc, 3901 $28,533. Total Project Cost: $57,066. To Chancellor. Funds Requested: $167,623. Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. improve the service of public television Total Project Cost: $335,246. To provide Signed By: Sis. Atikah Bey, Executive station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park, first public radio service to Director. Funds Requested: $35,000. PA, by acquiring the necessary approximately 475,000 residents of the Total Project Cost: $70,000. To improve equipment to implement descriptive west coast of Puerto Rico by radio station WPEB, 88.1 MHz, video service for sight-impaired persons constructing a new FM station in Philadelphia, PA, by replacing in the station’s coverage area, which has Mayaguez, operating on 88.3 MHz. unspecified items of studio equipment. a population of about 1,365,627 persons. File No. 96094 CTB Lehigh Valley File No. 96190 CTB Pennsylvania SC (South Carolina) Pub. T/C Corp., 123 Sesame Street, State University, 202 Wagner Building, File No. 96092 CRB 95295. South Bethlehem, PA 18015. Signed By: Mr. University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed Carolina State University, 300 College James Baum, President & General By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of Street, Orangeburg, SC 29117–0001. Manager. Funds Requested: $164,240. Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: Signed By: Dr. Leroy Davis, Interim Total Project Cost: $328,480. To $60,576. Total Project Cost: $121,152. President. Funds Requested: $123,020. improve the production capability of To improve the production capability of Total Project Cost: $164,030. To public television station WLVT, Ch. 39, public television station WPSX, Ch. 3, improve and upgrade the facilities of Bethlehem, PA, by replacing its worn- University Park, PA, by replacing its non-commercial radio station WSSB, out and obsolete production switcher outmoded and worn-out off-line video 90.3 MHz, Orangeburg, SC, by replacing and acquiring a local insertion server. editing stations with a non-linear analog control room and production The station serves a population of about editing system. The station serves an equipment with digital and by acquiring 4,500,000 persons. area with a population of about a satellite downlink to gain access to File No. 96121 IPTN Philadelphia 1,365,627 persons. nationally distributed public radio Enterprise Center, 4601 Market Street, File No. 96239 ICTN Lancaster Co. programming. The station serves a Suite 4000, Philadelphia, PA 19139. Area Vo-Tech Schools, 1730 Hans Herr population of 114,730. Signed By: Mrs. Della Clark, President. Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584. Signed File No. 96155 ICTN South Carolina Funds Requested: $57,150. Total Project By: Dr. Richard Burley, Executive ETV Commission, 1101 George Rogers Cost: $114,300. To develop a plan for Director. Funds Requested: $318,881. Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29201. Signed the use of appropriate technologies that Total Project Cost: $637,762. To By: Mr. Ronald Schoenherr, Senior Vice would be feasible to establish a purchase the equipment for three President. Funds Requested: $359,296. telecommunications center, Project electronic classrooms and one video Total Project Cost: $718,592. To M.A.N. (Minority Alliance Network) production studio—as well as the construct a locally-programmed, four- that would provide a distance learning associated mixing routing, and channel ITFS distance learning system and training service to an underserved, switching equipment—all to be part of to serve Williamsburg County, in low-income, minority population in a private, fiber optics-based distance eastern South Carolina. The system will Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. learning system in Lancaster and primarily serve the educational needs of File No. 96145 CRB Pennsylvania Lebanon Counties in south central the elementary, middle, secondary, and State University, 202 Wagner Building, Pennsylvania. The system will vocational schools in the county, a total University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed interconnect 22 school districts, four of 15 schools and over 7,000 students. By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of area vocational schools, one The system, however, will also offer Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: intermediate unit, four colleges, the adult education courses to benefit the $30,447. Total Project Cost: $60,895. To public library system, a local hospital, entire population of the county. The improve the operation of public radio and area businesses/industries. proposed system will be part of the station WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University South Carolina Educational Television Park, PA, by acquiring equipment PR (Puerto Rico) Commission’s expanding statewide necessary to permit unattended File No. 96038 CRB University of telecommunications network. overnight operation. The project will Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. & File No. 96245 ICTN Horry- also acquire the Emergency Alert Pastrana St, Rio Piedras, PR 00931. Georgetown Technical College, P.O. Box System equipment necessary to replace Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-Tejera, 1966, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Dr. the old Emergency Broadcast System, as Chancellor. Funds Requested: $56,849. D. Kent Sharples, President. Funds required by the FCC. WPSU serves a Total Project Cost: $113,698. To Requested: $85,600. Total Project Cost: population of about 366,196 persons. improve WRTU–FM, operating on 89.7 $269,855. To assist Horry-Georgetown File No. 96156 CTB WQED Pittsburgh, MHz, Rio Piedras, PR, by upgrading and Technical College in interconnecting its 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA replacing production equipment for 2 of three campuses with a T–1-based 15213. Signed By: Mr. George Miles, Jr., its 3 studios. The items include two distance learning system. The project President & CEO. Funds Requested: stereo consoles, 22 stereo line inputs, 4 would purchase the basic multi-point $30,912. Total Project Cost: $61,913. To cardioid microphones, stereo cassette interconnection equipment for the improve the service of public television deck, 4 CD cart machines, direct drive College’s whole system and a video 25544 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices classroom for the Myrtle Beach campus. strategically-located sites in each of File No. 96099 CTB North Texas The College’s other two campuses are in those counties. It is hoped that the Public Broadcasting Inc, 3000 Harry Conway—the main campus—and in project would eventually serve residents Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201. Signed Georgetown. The equipment would help of Hamilton, Bledsoe, Sequatchie, and By: Mr. Donald Boswell, Acting the College participate in the South Grundy Counties as well. The project President. Funds Requested: $25,000. Carolina Technical College Distance would be accomplished as a partnership Total Project Cost: $54,000. To improve Learning Network, which will permit with The Southeast Tennessee Private the facilities of KERA–TV, Ch. 13, the exchange of course work among the Industry Council, an employment and Dallas and KDTN–TV, Ch. 2, Denton, by 16 technical colleges statewide. training agency established to deliver replacing an 11-year old master control education and job training to a six- SD (South Dakota) still store. This piece of equipment is county area of southeast Tennessee. The essential to both stations since they File No. 96119 CRB Dakota Nation project’s distance learning classrooms share origination facilities, personnel Broadcasting Corp., BIA, Rd. 7 would be part of the Council’s planned and studios. The stations provide Tekakwitha Complex, Sisseton, SD One-Stop Career Centers in Rhea and service to approximately 4.6 million 57262. Signed By: Mr. Mike LaBelle, Marion Counties. people. Station Manager. Funds Requested: File No. 96197 CTB East Tennessee File No. 96108 CTB Central Texas $42,788. Total Project Cost: $61,725. To Pub. Comm. Corp., 1611 E. Magnolia College, 6200 W. Central Texas upgrade and improve the broadcast Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Signed Expressway, Killeen, TX 76542. Signed operations of KSWS–FM, 89.3 MHz in By: Mr. Richard Meschendorf, Chair- By: Dr. James Anderson, Chancellor. Sesseton, South Dakota, by replacing the Board of Trustees. Funds Requested: Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project worn-out and obsolete transmitter, $190,302. Total Project Cost: $380,604. Cost: $54,000. To improve public constructing a new 197 ft. tower in a To upgrade the facilities of WSJK–TV in television station KNCT–TV, Ch. 46, in new location and purchasing audio Sneedville and WKOP–TV in Knoxville Killeen by replacing aging industrial storage equipment. by replacing obsolete Master Control grade on-air U-Matic videotape TN (Tennessee) equipment and adding other non- machines with a digital hard-disk existent equipment to meet current File No. 96049 CTB 95069. Mid-South storage retrieval system. KNCT–TV broadcast standards. serves approximately 460,000 people. Public Com. Foundation, 900 Getwell File No. 96227 CRB University of Street, Memphis, TN 38111–1880. Tennessee, 615 McCallie Avenue, File No. 96133 CTB Alamo Public T/ Signed By: Mr. Michael LaBonia, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. C Council, 501 Broadway, San Antonio, President & CEO. Funds Requested: Frederick Obear, Chancellor. Funds TX 78215. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik, $83,100. Total Project Cost: $166,200. Requested: $36,759. Total Project Cost: President & General Manager. Funds To upgrade the facilities of WKNO–TV, $73,519. To improve broadcast Requested: $82,526. Total Project Cost: Channel 12 in Memphis, by replacing operations and ensure dependable $165,052. To improve public television worn-out and out-dated 3/4 inch video coverage, WUTC–FM, operating on 88.1 station KLRN–TV, Ch. 9, in San Antonio tape machines used daily in production, MHz in Chattanooga, will relocate its by acquiring off-line editing facilities, editing and on-air operations. antenna and replace the transmitter. multi-channel digital audio recording File No. 96084 CTB Metropolitan and editing capability. KLRN–TV would Board of Public Educ, 161 Rains TX (Texas) also replace two 10-year-old, worn out 3 ′′ Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed File No. 96017 CTB El Paso Public TV ⁄4 videocassette recorders. Market is By: Dr. Richard Benjamin, Director of Foundation, Education Bldg. Room 55.6% Hispanic. New equipment will Schools. Funds Requested: $200,000. #105, El Paso, TX 79902. Signed By: Mr. facilitate second language versions of Total Project Cost: $533,200. To upgrade Robert Munoz, President & General programming. KLRN–TV serves the facilities of WDCN–TV, Channel 8 in Manager. Funds Requested: $412,275. approximately 2 million people by over- Nashville, by replacing 20-year old field Total Project Cost: $549,701. To the-air broadcasts and cable. cameras, monitoring and related improve the facilities of public File No. 96165 ICTN Texas State equipment. television station KCOS–TV, Ch. 13, in Technical College, 300 College Drive, File No. 96120 CRB Cossitt Library, El Paso, by replacing its old 18-year old Sweetwater, TX 79556. Signed By: Dr. 1850 Peabody Avenue, Memphis, TN RCA transmitter and related equipment. Clay Johnson, President. Funds 38104. Signed By: Ms. Judith Drescher, The replacement equipment will permit Requested: $125,751. Total Project Cost: Director of Libraries. Funds Requested: KCOS–TV to broadcast in stereo and $251,502. To assist in the establishment $231,361. Total Project Cost: $308,481. have SAP capabilities. KCOS–TV serves of a distance learning network To extend the signal of WYPL–FM, approximately 650,000 people, 65% of interconnecting the main campus of the operating on 89.3 MHz in Memphis, to which are Hispanic. Texas State Technical College at provide Radio Reading Services to an File No. 96059 CTB University of Sweetwater with its three extension additional population of approximately Houston, 1600 Smith Street, Suite 3400, campuses at Abilene, Breckenridge, and 600,000 residents of Tennessee and Houston, TX 77004. Signed By: Mr. Brownwood. The project would equip a surrounding communities in James Crowther, General Counsel. sophisticated lecture video classroom at neighboring states. Funds Requested: $333,954. Total the main campus; this classroom would File No. 96170 ICTN The University Project Cost: $742,120. To improve have complementary tape production of Tennessee, 615 McCallie Ave., public television station KUHT–TV, Ch. and editing capabilities. The project Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. 8, in Houston, by replacing its aging and would also install video classrooms at Frederick Obear, Chancellor. Funds outdated on-air routing switcher and on- the three extension campuses. The Requested: $96,537. Total Project Cost: air videotape machines with digital system will use V–Tel equipment to $193,074. To extend the compressed equipment. In addition, KUHT–TV will allow the College’s network to video distance learning systems of the acquire test equipment to allow it to interconnect with the V–Tel-based University of Tennessee/Chattanooga to maintain its digital broadcast Texas VIDNET system and the network Marion and Rhea Counties by equipment. KUHT–TV serves of the Southwest Center for Advanced constructing video classrooms in approximately 4.2 million people. Technological Education (SCATE). The Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25545

College’s system will use T–1 telephone Co.; K62BR, Virgin/Hurricane Mesa; 228, Norfolk, VA 23529–0526. Signed interconnection. K47AK Rural Washington Co.; K42AJ By: Dr. Robert Ash, Vice President/ File No. 96184 CTB Capital of Texas Richfield/Monroe; K60BU, Orangeville/ Research. Funds Requested: $867,138. Public T/C Council, 2504–B Whitis Rural Emery Co. Project also includes a Total Project Cost: $1,734,277. To Street, Austin, TX 78705. Signed By: microwave tv relay system connecting purchase varied equipment that would Mr. Bill Arhos, President. Funds Ford Ridge to Tabby Mountain and the allow Old Dominion University to Requested: $89,034. Total Project Cost: replacement of an aging video tape expand its distance learning service to $178,068. To improve public television recorder for KUED–TV. Project would the hearing-impaired. The project would station KLRU–TV, Ch. 18, in Austin by permit approximately 21,300 people to also obtain electronic field production acquiring a Local Insertion System (LIS) receive a first or improved public equipment and state-of-the-art editing and the accompanying digital audio and television signal. equipment so that the University might videotape support systems. The LIS will File No. 96213 ICTN Utah State incorporate pre-produced on-location eliminate the need to create a daily dub University, Eccles Conference Ctr., Rm. programming segments into televised reel in order to make quality station 102C, Logan, UT 84322–5035. Signed courses. In addition, other equipment breaks. This process will permit a more By: Mr. M. K. Jeppesen, Director, purchased by the project would permit efficient use of station equipment and Contracts & Grants. Funds Requested: the University’s faculty to use voice, personnel. KLRU–TV serves in excess of $608,345. Total Project Cost: $1,240,848. data, and video programming in their 1 million people and is a producer of To establish a video compression-based on-campus courses. nationally distributed programming. distance learning network that will File No. 96097 PRB Clinch Valley File No. 96209 ICTN INFO–NET, PO interconnect 47 sites of the Utah State College, 1 College Avenue, Wise, VA Box 838, Star, TX 76880. Signed By: Mr. University system. The network will 24293. Signed By: Dr. L. Jay Lemons, James Ethridge, Superintendent. Funds feature ten origination sites. It will use Chancellor. Funds Requested: $10,430. Requested: $394,330. Total Project Cost: full-motion video with extension Total Project Cost: $26,865. To conduct $569,330. To extend the INFO–NET computer networking. planning activities for the establishment distance learning system to four of a local public radio station that will VA (Virginia) additional schools districts in central serve the programming needs of Texas. The new INFO–NET members File No. 96015 CRB James Madison approximately 35,000 residents of the would be the Evant, Lometa, Richland University, PO Box 1292, Harrisonburg, City of Norton, Virginia, and of rural Springs, and San Saba Independent VA 22801. Signed By: Mr. Henry communities in Wise, Russell, Scott and School Districts. The INFO–NET system Schiefer, Assistant VP for Finance. Dickenson Counties. currently consists of eight rural Central Funds Requested: $10,400. Total Project File No. 96100 PTB Greater Texas schools districts: Brady, Cost: $20,800. To upgrade the Washington Educ. T/C Assoc., 3620 Cherokee, Goldthwaite, Lohn, Mullin, production facilities of WMRA–FM, South 27th Street, Arlington, VA 22206. Priddy, Rochelle, and Star. With the operating on 90.7 MHz in Harrisonburg, Signed By: Mr. Joseph Widoff, Sr. V.P., additional districts, the INFO–NET Virginia, by establishing a digital editing Operations & Admin. Funds Requested: systems would serve the following studio. $275,065. Total Project Cost: $550,130. counties: McCulloch, Mills, San Saba, File No. 96035 ICTN Southside VA To help public television station WETA Coryell, Hamilton, and Lampasas. Community College, 109 Campus Drive, plan for the development of the first Alberta, VA 23821. Signed By: Dr. John fully digital Advanced Television (ATV) UT (Utah) Cavan, President. Funds Requested: site in the United States. The project File No. 96011 CRB Utah State $200,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. would prepare an HDTV/ATV University, 745 N 1200 E, Logan, UT To purchase the equipment for a hub implementation model to assist both 84322. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen, site, with associated connectivity public and commercial television Director, Contracts & Grants. Funds equipment, that will allow the broadcasters in making the transition to Requested: $14,160. Total Project Cost: Southside Virginia Telecommunications ATV. WETA-TV operates on Ch. 26 $18,880. To extend the signal of public Network to extend its distance learning throughout the greater Washington, D.C. radio station KUSU–FM, 91.5 MHz, in systems to eight public high schools, area. Logan by establishing three FM one community college, and one four- File No. 96126 ICTB Hampton translators at the following locations: year senior institution. The system will University, 607 Orchard Road, Huntington (Green River/Rural Emery feature an integrated voice, video, and Hampton, VA 23668. Signed By: Dr. County), on 90.9 MHz; Panquitch, on data network. William Harvey, President. Funds 88.7 MHz; and Price, on 91.5 MHz. The File No. 96042 IPRTN Public Service Requested: $1,116,496. Total Project translators will provide a first public T/C Corporation, 5203 Leesburg Pike, Cost: $1,488,663. To construct a radio service to about 2,400 people and Falls Church, VA 22041. Signed By: Dr. noncommercial educational television will strengthen and improve the signal Louis Bransford, Chief Executive station on the campus of Hampton to others. Officer. Funds Requested: $95,660. University to operate on Ch. 55. The File No. 96183 CTB University of Total Project Cost: $95,660. To explore objective of the new station would be to Utah, Media Svcs, 101 Wasatch, Rm and determine the available time and broadcast telecourses to the 193, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Signed potential capacity that may exist at communities of Hampton, Norfolk, By: Mr. Ted Capener, VP for University satellite uplink facilities in the Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Relations. Funds Requested: $148,424. Washington, D.C. area and possibly Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, Total Project Cost: $260,352. To other areas in the United States, so that Williamsburg, Yorktown and the lower improve and extend the signals of national educational organizations and eastern shore of Virginia. KUED–TV, Ch. 7, Salt Lake City and associations may be able to consider File No. 96169 ICTN Amer. Indian KULC–TV, Ch. 9, in Ogden, by replacing more cost-effective and efficient ways of Higher Ed Consortium, 121 Oronoco the following 8 television translators: sharing these resources for distance Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Signed K38CJ, Teasdale/Bicknell; K30CW, learning and training services. By: Ms. Margarette Perez, President, Maryvale/Piute Co.; K40AH, Torrey/ File No. 96085 ICTN Old Dominion AIHEC. Funds Requested: $300,000. Teasdale; K63BY, Milford/Rural Beaver University, Education Building, Room Total Project Cost: $400,000. To 25546 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices establish satellite distance learning File No. 96102 CTN City of Tacoma, Prospect Street, Rhinelander, WI 54501. facilities at four additional tribal 747 Market Street, Tacoma, WA 98402. Signed By: Mr. Robert Fiocchi, colleges which are members of the Signed By: Mr. Ray E. Corpuz, Jr., City President. Funds Requested: $14,719. American Indian Higher Education Manager. Funds Requested: $308,822. Total Project Cost: $29,437. To improve Consortium. VSAT terminals and Total Project Cost: $411,763. To WXPR–FM, operating on 91.MHz, in instructional classrooms will be placed purchase the equipment for a remote Rhinelander, WI, by adding 4 tape at Cheyenne River Community College, video production studio, to be placed in recorders, 2 cart emulators, 4 SCSI Eable Butte, SD, College of the a van, that would improve the audio drives, the main CPU, the system Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, Fort capabilities of the City of Takoma, WA, peripheral interface, and the Radio Berthold Community College, New to provide coverage of significant Systems DDS. WXPR–FM currently Town, ND and United Tribes Technical community events for transmission over serves approximately 66,000 listeners. College, Bismarch, ND. the City’s government access cable File No. 96054 CTB State of television channel. Wisconsin, 3319 West Beltline VT (Vermont) File No. 96116 CRB Washington State Highway, Madison, WI 53713–4296. File No. 96148 ICTN 95257. The University, Administration Road, Signed By: Mr. Thomas L. Fletemeyer, University of Vermont, 322 South Pullman, WA 99164–2530. Signed By: Executive Director. Funds Requested: Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401– Ms. Carol Zuiches, Dir., Off of Grant & $421,020. Total Project Cost: $935,600. 3505. Signed By: Ms. Regina White, Rsch Dev. Funds Requested: $233,149. The originating and distribution station Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds Total Project Cost: $310,866. To bring of the Wisconsin 6 station TV network, Requested: $558,074. Total Project Cost: public radio service to approximately WHA–TV, operating on channel 21, is $1,116,147. To provide a Ku-band 120,000 rural residents of western and requesting replacement of the worn-out, satellite uplink, master control and north central Washington State plus obsolete master control equipment. This classroom production equipment for the about 180,000 residents of southern will replace two electromechanical University of Vermont. The project will British Columbia, WSU will activate program origination devices with an all- provide for the satellite distribution of repeater stations in Omak (90.1 MHz.), electronic multichannel video library advanced placement and college degree Chehalis (88.9 MHz.) and Port Angeles system incorporating file servers and programs to sites throughout the state. (90.1 MHz). videotape machines. The network File No. 96153 CTB KCTS Television, provides full service for approximately WA (Washington) 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109. 5,160,000 viewers. File No. 96026 CTB Bates Technical Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President File No. 96064 IPTN Cooperative College, 1101 S Yakima Avenue, & CEO. Funds Requested: $507,905. Educ. Service Agency 7, 595 Baeten Rd, Green Bay, WI 54304. Signed By: Dr. Tacoma, WA 98405. Signed By: Mr. Total Project Cost: $677,207. To provide James Coles, Administrator. Funds William Mohler, President. Funds first public television service to over Requested: $154,849. Total Project Cost: Requested: $437,829. Total Project Cost: 237,000 residents of northwest $520,238. To design an interactive $583,773. To provide first public Washington, KCTS–TV, Channel 9 in regional telecommunications network television programming services to Seattle, will construct a repeater station for distance learning and training, approximately 175,000 residents of the in Bellingham, Washington, operating through the North and East Wisconsin north Puget Sound region of on Channel 34. File No. 96204 CTB KCTS Television, Alliance for Distance Education Washington State, KBTC–TV, Channel 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109. (NEWADE) which includes four 28 in Tacoma, will activate a repeater Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President technical colleges, two University of station (Ch. 34) with a transmitter to be & CEO. Funds Requested: $193,571. Wisconsin system colleges, a museum, located on Mt. Constitution in Orcas Total Project Cost: $297,802. To environmental center, library system, Island. improve and upgrade the broadcast and 27 K–12 school districts in the File No. 96040 CRB 95290. Spokane facilities of KYVE–TV, Channel 47 in Cooperative Educational Service Agency Public Radio, 2319 N. Monroe Street, Yakima, Washington, by replacing the 7 in a seven-county area surrounding Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. antenna, which was damaged by Green Bay, Wisconsin. Richard Kunkel, General Manager. lightning, and adding stereo processing, File No. 96072 ICTN Western Funds Requested: $18,480. Total Project transmission and monitoring Wisconsin Technical College, 304 North Cost: $24,640. To provide first public equipment. Sixth Street, La Crosse, WI 54602–0908. radio service to about 9,100 residents of File No. 96247 ICTB Northwest Indian Signed By: Dr. Lee Rasch, President. Boundary County, Idaho, KPBX–FM, College, 2522 Kwina Road, Bellingham, Funds Requested: $31,750. Total Project operating on 91.1 MHz in Spokane, WA 98226. Signed By: Dr. Robert Cost: $63,500. To construct a video Washington, will activate a repeater Lorence, President. Funds Requested: conferencing system that will extend station in Bonners Ferry, ID, operating $210,726. Total Project Cost: $280,968. nursing educational and instructional on 92.1 MHz. To purchase 12 satellite downlink programming to the Western Wisconsin File No. 96101 CRB Spokane Public terminals which will extend the Technical College campuses in Radio, 2319 N. Monroe Street, Spokane, applicant’s distance learning offerings to Independence, Black River Falls, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard additional sites in Washington State, Mauston, and Viroqua. Kunkel, General Manager. Funds Oregon and Alaska. Northwest Indian File No. 96103 IPTN Project Bootstrap Requested: $115,710. Total Project Cost: College currently provides service to 4 Inc., 210 South Brooks Street, Madison, $154,280. To improve and upgrade its tribal communities via satellite and WI 53715–1562. Signed By: Mrs. Joanne broadcast facilities, KPBX–FM, participates in the American Indian Griffin, Executive Director. Funds operating on 91.1 MHz in Spokane, Higher Education Consortium’s satellite Requested: $10,475. Total Project Cost: Washington, by replacing worn-out and distance learning project. $17,915. To plan for methods of unreliable equipment, including a 16- enabling At-Risk high school and year-old transmitter, a 7-year-old STL WI (Wisconsin) middle school students in system, two main control boards and a File No. 96005 CRB White Pine disadvantaged areas of Dane County and DAT machine. Community Bdcstg, Inc, 303 W. particularly Madison, Wisconsin, Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25547 participate in distance learning Requested: $85,000. Total Project Cost: on 91.9 MHz., and all necessary satellite opportunities through the use of various $170,000. To improve one of the 7 equipment. technologies in an interconnected Wisconsin Public Television Network File No. 96191 PRB U.N.I.T.Y. classroom system. stations, WPNE, Ch 38 in Green Bay, by Communications, Inc., 1560 Jackson St., File No. 96150 CRB Back Porch Radio replacing 3 digital VTRs, an Editing P.O. Box 5605, Charleston, WV 25361. Brdcstg, Inc., 118 South Bedford Street, Controller and 3 Waveform Monitors. Signed By: Mr. Charles Blackmon, Madison, WI 53703. Signed By: Mr. WPNE–TV serves approximately President. Funds Requested: $989,789. Terry O’Laughlin, President, Board of 488,000 viewers in its coverage area. Total Project Cost: $989,789. To conduct a needs assessment and to develop a Directors. Funds Requested: $21,000. WV (West Virginia) Total Project Cost: $42,687. To improve plan for the establishment of a public WORT–FM, operating on 89.9 MHz, in File No. 96055 CRB WV Educational radio station that will serve the Afro- Madison, WI, by replacing the Brdstg Authority, 600 Capitol Street, American community of Charleston, transmitter and accessories and adding Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. West Virginia, by providing educational a dial-up remote control unit. The 16 Rita Ray, Executive Director. Funds programming and training facilities in year old transmitter is in constant need Requested: $7,499. Total Project Cost: the field of radio broadcasting. of repair. The station provides service to $9,999. To provide first public radio Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, approximately 390,000 listeners. service to about 17,000 people in the Associate Administrator, Office of File No. 96199 CTB University of rural communities of Logan and Telecommunications and Information Wisconsin, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bluefield, WVPN–FM, operating on 88.5 Applications. Bay, WI 54311. Signed By: Ms. Cheryl MHz in Charleston, West Virginia, will [FR Doc. 96–12792 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am] Gest, Administrative Officer. Funds install a translator in Logan, operating BILLING CODE 3510±60±P