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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE applicant. Comments must be sent to Ch. 7, Anchorage, AK, and provides the PTFP at the following address: NTIA/ only public television service to over National Telecommunications and PTFP, Room 4625, 1401 Constitution 300,000 residents of south central Information Administration Ave., N.W., , D.C. 20230. . The purchase of a new earth [Docket Number: 960205021±7110±04] The Agency will incorporate all station has been necessitated by the comments from the public and any failure of the Telstar 401 satellite and RIN 0660±ZA01 replies from the applicant in the the subsequent move of Public applicant’s official file. Service programming Public Telecommunications Facilities Alaska distribution to the Telstar 402R satellite. Program (PTFP) Because of topographical File No. 97001CRB Silakkuagvik AGENCY: National Telecommunications considerations, the latter satellite cannot Communications, Inc., KBRW–AM Post and Information Administration, be viewed from the site of Station’s Office Box 109 1696 Okpik Street Commerce. KAKM–TV’s present earth station. Thus, Barrow, AK 99723. Contact: Mr. a new receive site must be installed ACTION: Notice of applications received. Donovan J. Rinker, VP & General away from the station’s studio location SUMMARY: The National Manager. Funds Requested: $78,262. in order for full PBS service to be Telecommunications and Information Total Project Cost: $104,500. On an restored. Administration (NTIA) previously emergency basis, to replace a File No. 97205CRB Kotzebue announced the solicitation of grant and a transmitter-return-link and to Broadcasting Inc., 396 Lagoon Drive applications for the Public purchase an automated fire suppression P.O. Box 78 Kotzebue, AK 99752. Telecommunications Facilities Program system for public radio station KBRW– Contact: Ms. Suzy Erlich, General AM, which provides the only (PTFP) for planning and construction Manager. Funds Requested: $123,750. noncommercial radio signal to the grants for public telecommunications Total Project Cost: $165,000. To residents of the North Slope of Alaska. facilities. This notice announces the list improve the facilities of public radio The station’s transmission system was of applications received and notifies any station KOTZ–AM, operating on 720 completely destroyed by fire on October interested party that it may file KHz in Kotzebue by replacing obsolete 16, 1996. production equipment. The project comments with the Agency supporting File No. 97037CRB Kodiak Public or opposing an application. would provide digital audio storage and Broadcasting Corp., KMXT–FM 620 editing equipment, an audio console, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Egan Way Kodiak, AK 99615. Contact: digital cart machines and audio Dennis Connors, Director, Public Mr. Dave Perkins, General Manager. processing, monitoring and test Telecommunications Facilities Program, Funds Requested: $17,605. Total Project equipment. The station serves 8,500 telephone: (202) 482–5802; fax: (202) Cost: $35,210. To improve the signal residents of northwest Alaska. 482–2156. Information about the PTFP quality of translators operated by can also be obtained electronically via KMXT–FM, operating on 100.1 FM, in Alabama Internet (send inquiries to http:// Kodiak, by adding a satellite receive File No. 97089CTB Alabama www.ntia.doc.gov). capability at each of the five sites and Educational Television Comm, Alabama SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By a C-band uplink in Kodiak. The satellite Public Television 2112 11th Avenue Federal Register notice dated November delivery would replace a 3.5 KHz phone South Suite 400 Birmingham, AL 8, 1996, the NTIA, within the line which currently feeds the 35205–2884. Contact: Mr. Philip Department of Commerce, announced translators. The translators serve the Hutcheson, Deputy Director/CFO. that the program was soliciting grant communities of Old Harbor, Ahkiok, Funds Requested: $192,903. Total applications, and that the closing date Larsen Bay, Karluk and Port Lions, all Project Cost: $385,806. To improve the for receipt of applications was 5 p.m. on Kodiak Island. Alabama Public Television Network, EST, February 12, 1997 1. File No. 97057CTB University of serving approximately 4,000,000 people In all, the program received 220 Alaska, KUAC–TV 201 Theatre Building throughout the state, by replacing 30- applications from 44 states, the District 312 Tanana Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775– year old microwave antennas at seven of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 5620. Contact: Mr. Jerry Brigham, sites of the statewide interconnection Puerto Rico and American Samoa. The General Manager. Funds Requested: system, the 30-year old lighting system total amount of funds requested by the $163,682. Total Project Cost: $244,302. at the network’s production studio in applicants is $49.9 million. To improve the facilities of public Montgomery, and acquiring a video Notice is hereby given that the PTFP KUAC–TV, operating server for the Network Operations received applications from the following on Ch. 9 in Fairbanks, by purchasing Center in Birmingham, AL. organizations. The list includes all two local insertion servers and upgrade applications received. Identification of a video router. The equipment will help Arkansas any application only indicates its localize PSA and other material on File No. 97129CRB Arkansas State receipt. It does not indicate that it has Alaska One, the public television University, KASU–FM 104 Cooley been accepted for review, has been service distributed statewide via Street P.O. Box 2160 State University, determined to be eligible for funding, or satellite to other public television AR 72467. Contact: Mr. William that an application will receive an stations in the state. McGinley, Station Manager. Funds award. File No. 97141CTB Alaska Public Requested: $177,852. Total Project Cost: Any interested party may file Telecomm., Inc., Station KAKM–TV $237,136. To activate a new public radio comments with the Agency supporting 3877 University Drive Anchorage, AK station on 88.7 MHZ in Mountain or opposing an application and setting 99508. Contact: Ms. Susan S. Reed, Home, AZ. Station will repeat the signal forth the grounds for support or President/General Manager. Funds of KASU–FM, State University, but will opposition. PTFP will forward a copy of Requested: $91,550. Total Project Cost: also have some local origination any opposing comments to the $183,100. To purchase a satellite capability. New station will provide first television receive-only earth station for service to 107,422 and additional 1 61 FR 57982 (Nov. 8, 1996). station KAKM–TV, which operates on service to about 23,965 people. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27663

File No. 97159CTB Arkansas public television station KAET–TV, Ch. City, operating on 91.9 MHZ, that will Educational TV Commission, 350 South 8, in Tempe by replacing old origination providing the first public radio service Donaghey Conway, AR 72032. Contact: equipment and in so doing begin the with local origination capabilities to Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director. conversion to digital television. about 13,000 residents of Del Norte Funds Requested: $524,928. Total Equipment being requested includes a County, . Project Cost: $1,049,857. To improve the video file server, 7 audio spot record/ File No. 97053ICTN College, state’s public television network by playback machines, an audio/video Far Northern CA Com Col Consort. establishing a new production and routing switcher and a digital signal 11555 Old Oregon Trail P.0. Box 496006 distance learning studio in Little Rock, analyzer. KAET–TV provides service to Redding, CA 96049–6006. Contact: Dr. augmenting the origination equipment about 2.97 million people. James Poulsen, Dir/Off. of Ext’d Educ. & in Studio B, acquiring equipment to File No. 97149CRB The Hopi T/C. Funds Requested: $112,500. Total convert an uplink truck to a basic Foundation, Highway 264 Marker 367– Project Cost: $225,000. To purchase remote production truck, and replacing 9 P.O. Box 705 Hotevilla, AZ 86030. nine codec teleconferencing systems to an old in the main Contact: Ms. Barbara Poley, Executive expand the network of the Far Northern production/editing control room (Studio Director. Funds Requested: $310,658. California Community College Distance A). The network serves about 2.35 Total Project Cost: $414,211. To activate Education Consortium. The Consortium million people. a new public radio station on 89.1 MHZ comprises Shasta College, Butte College, File No. 97161CTN Arkansas in Hotevilla. Project will serve about the College of the Siskiyous, and Lassen Educational TV Commission, 350 South 10,000 people on or near the Hopi College. The teleconferencing systems Donaghey Conway, AR 72032. Contact: Reservation. would be placed at The Shasta Regional Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director. File No. 97163ICTN Northern Arizona Occupational Program High School, Funds Requested: $525,771. Total University, Educational Systems South Redding; the Shasta Community Project Cost: $1,051,543. To expand the Development Comm. Bldg #16/Room Health Center, Redding; the Hill applicant’s statewide distance learning 123 Corner Osborne & Tormey Ave. Country Community Health Center, satellite delivery system by conversion Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Contact: Mr. Round Mountain; libraries in the to digital transmission and the Edward G. Groenhout, Interim VP/Instit. communities of Oroville and Orland; establishment of 25 community Advancement. Funds Requested: Siskiyou Union High School; Yreka electronic learning centers throughout $878,198. Total Project Cost: $1,351,075. Union High School; Trinity High the state of Arkansas. To extend the duplex microwave-based, School, Weaverville; and Fall River two-way interactive distance learning High School, Burney. American Samoa network of Northern Arizona File No. 97066CTB N. California File No. 97023CTB American Samoa University—called NAUNet—to Chinle Educ’l TV Assoc., Inc, Broadcast/ Government, Office of Public Unified School District, Ganado School Engineering 603 N. Market Street Information KVZK–TV Pago Pago, AS District, Red Mesa School District, and Redding, CA 96003. Contact: Mr. 96799. Contact: Mrs. Vaoita Savali, to the Hualapai Library at Peach Michael Lampella, Operations Manager. Acting Director. Funds Requested: Springs; all these sites are in Arizona. Funds Requested: $784,594. Total $122,095. Total Project Cost: $122,095. All the locations will receive video Project Cost: $1,046,126. To improve the To improve the facilities of public classroom and production control facilities of KIXE–TV, Channel 9 in television station KVZK–TV, operating equipment. Chinle Unified School Redding, by replacing obsolete and on Ch. 2 which serves the 57,000 District will also receive hub unreliable analog origination and test residents of American Samoa. The equipment. Chinle, Ganado, and Red equipment with state-of-the-art digital application would replace an obsolete Mesa are communities on the Navajo equipment including studio cameras, routing switcher, establish means for Indian Reservation; Peach Springs is on videotape recorders, video switcher, stereo monitoring and acquire needed the Hualapai Indian Reservation. video effects unit, character generator, test equipment. still store system, file server and File No. 97137ICTN Government of California miscellaneous ancillary equipment. American Samoa, AS PEACESAT File No. 97003CTB Community File No. 97074CRB Monterey Bay Alliance (ASPETA) Office of the Television of Southern CA, KCET (TV) Public Brdcstg Fdn., KAZU–FM 176 Governor Pago Pago, AS 96799. Contact: 4401 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA Forest Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Mr. Frank Pritchard, Federal Programs 90027. Contact: Mr. Donald G. Youpa, Contact: Mr. Peter Williams, Station Officer. Funds Requested: $389,800. Executive Vice President. Funds Manager. Funds Requested: $35,062. Total Project Cost: $389,800. To activate Requested: $753,930. Total Project Cost: Total Project Cost: $46,749. To augment a new service for distance education by $1,507,861. To improve and upgrade the and enhance the facilities of KAZU–FM, purchasing a digital satellite system to facilities of KCET–TV, Channel 28 in operating on 90.3 MHZ in Pacific Grove serve American Samoa. The system will Los Angeles (CA), serving an audience (CA) by establishing a remote recording provide compressed digital video and be of over 18 million people, by replacing mobile unit equipped with state-of-the- affiliated with the Pan-Pacific aging and obsolete equipment including art, digital equipment to meet national Educational and Communications the routing system, signal converters, broadcast standards. Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) master control switcher and machine File No. 97078ICTB Kern Educational program headquartered in . control system. T/C Consortium, 1300 17th Street/City File No. 97038CRB Humboldt State Centre Bakersfield, CA 93301–4533. Arizona University, KHSU Radio Humboldt Contact: Mr. Larry R. Ciecalone, Director File No. 97016CTB Arizona State State University Arcata, CA 95521. of Broadcasting. Funds Requested: University, KAET Stauffer Contact: Ms. Jill Paydon, General $1,118,429. Total Project Cost: Hall, B Wing, Tenth St. P.O. Box 871405 Manager. Funds Requested: $78,675. $1,491,239. To establish a Tempe, AZ 85287–1405. Contact: Mr. Total Project Cost: $104,900. To extend noncommercial television station in Ben Fasano, Sponsored Projects Officer. the signal of KHSU–FM, 90.5 MHZ in Bakersfield, CA, which would bring a Funds Requested: $102,131. Total Arcata, CA, by constructing a satellite first public TV signal with local Project Cost: $204,263. To improve studio and a repeater station in Crescent origination capability to approximately 27664 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

995,000 residents of that area. Of these, to educational institutions at all levels— Lillibridge, Owner. Funds Requested: approximately 195,000 residents would K–12, community college, and $100,000. Total Project Cost: $100,000. receive the new station’s signal as a university. Production oriented project. ‘‘first public TV signal’’. In addition to File No. 97113IPTN California State File No. 97133CTB Bet-Nahrain, Inc., some nationally-distributed public Univ./Stanislaus, Associate VP Academ. KBSV–TV23 P.O. Box 4116 3119 South television programming, the station Affairs Ofc 801 West Monte Vista Central Ave Modesto, CA 95307. would transmit a vast amount of Avenue Turlock, CA 95382. Contact: Contact: Dr. Sargon Dadesho, Director of instructional programming from the Ms. Maithreyi Manoharan, Associate VP Mass Media. Funds Requested: $95,000. Kern Educational Telecommunications Info Technology. Funds Requested: Total Project Cost: $128,000. To Consortium, which has its headquarters $54,648. Total Project Cost: $54,648. To improve the facilities of KBSV–TV, in Bakersfield. The new station will also develop a telecommunications plan for Channel 23 in Ceres (CA) by replacing incorporate into its schedule the potential use of appropriate old and unreliable basic equipment programming targeted towards the technologies in a distance learning including the master control switcher, Hispanic-American population, which network among California State four VTRs and two cameras. constitutes approximately 30% of the University-Stanislaus, public schools, File No. 97146CTB KQED, Inc., total population of the station’s community colleges and service KQED–TV 2601 Mariposa Street San proposed service area. agencies in an isolated and Francisco, CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Judy File No. 97081ICTN Monterey County economically-disadvantaged area in Holme, Associate Director. Funds Office of Education, Instruct’l Resources central California that includes 6 Requested: $379,651. Total Project Cost: & Technology. 901 Blanco Circle counties and would focus particularly $759,302. To upgrade and improve the Salinas, CA 93901. Contact: Mr. Michael on Merced County. facilities of KQED–TV, Channel 9 in San Mellon, Dir/Instruc. Resources & Tech. File No. 97118ICTN Oxnard School Francisco by replacing old and Funds Requested: $684,313. Total District, Prog. for Instruct’l Excellence unreliable equipment including 11 to 18 Project Cost: $1,368,626. To establish a 1051 South A Street Oxnard, CA 93030. year old production videotape systems distance learning system that will serve Contact: Mr. Richard Duarte, Assistant and the production audio console. over 138 schools, plus residences and Superintendent. Funds Requested: File No. 97151CRB Santa Monica businesses, in Monterey, San Benito, $42,927. Total Project Cost: $85,855. To Community College Dist, KCRW 1900 Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties, purchase production equipment that Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, CA CA. The system will be based on two would allow the Oxnard, CA, school 90405–1628. Contact: Ms. Ruth channels of ITFS, and extended by district to originate Spanish-language Seymour, General Manager. Funds microwave and low-power television programming and caption-based Requested: $221,293. Total Project Cost: stations. educational programming for residents $295,058. To expand the services of File No. 97088CRB Rural California of the City of Oxnard and surrounding KCRW–FM, operating on 88.1 MHZ in Broadcasting Corp., KRCB–FM 5850 areas. The programming will be Santa Monica, by constructing a Labath Avenue Rohnert Park, CA 94928. distributed via repeater station in Mojave, operating on Contact: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, Chief channels. The programming will target 88.7 MHZ, which will provide first Executive Officer. Funds Requested: children in grades K–8. public radio services to approximately $54,275. Total Project Cost: $72,367. To File No. 97125CRB City 83,000 residents. improve and upgrade the origination Community Broadcast Grp, 401 Spring File No. 97152CTB California facilities of KRCB–FM, 91.1 MHZ in Street Nevada City, CA 95959. Contact: Community Television Net, KCAH (TV) Rohnert Park (CA) by replacing old and Mr. Brian Terhorst, General Manager. 559 E. Alisal Street, #106 Salinas, CA unreliable studio equipment including Funds Requested: $50,491. Total Project 93905. Contact: Ms. Arlene Kimata, the audio console, the modulation Cost: $100,982. To improve and upgrade Corporate Secretary. Funds Requested: monitor, the storage delivery system, the signal of KVMR–FM, 89.5 MHZ in $323,497. Total Project Cost: $431,330. DAT recorders, and microphones. Nevada City (CA) by replacing the old To improve and expand the signal of File No. 97101CTB KTEH Foundation, and failure prone transmitter, antenna, KCAH–TV, Channel 25 in Salinas, by 1585 Schallenberger Road San Jose, CA feedline and tower. KVMR will also replacing the transmitter and antenna. 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary S. Martinez, purchase a stereo generator for the The stronger signal will reach new areas Grants Associate. Funds Requested: station’s broadcast studio and install a in the Central Coastal California region $719,039. Total Project Cost: $1,438,078. satellite downlink facility to bring the and the South Bay area, providing first To upgrade and improve the facilities of first nationally distributed programming public television service to KTEH–TV, Channel 54 in San Jose by to the community. approximately 198,000 residents of replacing the 22-year-old transmitter, File No. 97127CTB Los Angeles Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey and the transmission line, the antenna and Unified School District, KLCS–TV 1061 Santa Cruz counties. the routing and master control West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA File No. 97190CRB San Diego State switchers. 90012. Contact: Mr. Tom Mossman, University Fdn., KPBS–FM 5200 File No. 97107ICTN Kern Educational Station Manager. Funds Requested: Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182. T/C Consortium, 1300 17th Street/City $559,370. Total Project Cost: $1,118,740. Contact: Ms. Susan Holloway, Director, Centre Bakersfield, CA 93301–4533. To improve the signal and enhance the Admin. Services. Funds Requested: Contact: Dr. Daniel Darnell, President/ transmission capabilities of KLCS–TV, $230,114. Total Project Cost: $306,819. Cerro Coso Com. Coll. Funds Requested: Channel 58 in Los Angeles (CA) by To expand and improve the signal of $796,318. Total Project Cost: $2,132,018. replacing the old and failure prone 24- KPBS, operating on 89.5 MHZ in San To extend the Kern County distance year-old transmitter and by establishing Diego (CA) by relocating and replacing learning microwave system into rural a fiber optic link with the ETN facilities the aging transmission chain with Inyo and Mono Counties in order to at the Los Angeles County Office of digital state-of-the-art equipment. This bring the first such services to nearly Education. upgrade will improve service to KPBS’ 30,000 isolated rural residents, and to File No. 97130 Fullerton Interfaith current listeners and will provide first provide interactive educational Productions, 409 Pebble Beach Place public radio service to about 168,000 opportunities as well as Internet access Fullerton, CA 92835. Contact: Mr. Ed residents of the greater San Diego area. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27665

File No. 97197ICTN San Diego Co. File No. 97071CRB Crested Butte public radio station KSUT–FM, 91.3 Superint. of Schools, 6401 Linda Vista Mountain Educational, KBUT–FM P.O. MHZ, Ignacio, by acquiring local Road San Diego, CA 92111. Contact: Dr. Box 308 801 Butte Avenue Crested origination equipment for a new studio Bruce Braciszewski, Director ITV/ Butte, CO 81224. Contact: Ms. Jackie which will be fully dedicated to the Communications. Funds Requested: Scalzo, General Manager. Funds affairs, education and cultural $133,429. Total Project Cost: $266,857. Requested: $180,840. Total Project Cost: preservation of the Southern Ute Indian To purchase a video matrix switcher for $241,120. To improve and expand the Tribe. In addition, project will acquire the San Diego County Office of coverage area of public radio station a studio-to-transmitter link (STL) to Education that will allow the Office to KBUT–FM, 90.3 MHZ, in Crested Butte permit a new, second station, 90.1 MHZ, expand the number and type of courses by relocating the transmitter site to located on Missionary Ridge, to be that it offers to teachers and students in Sunlight Ridge which is 800 ft. higher programmed with a different public San Diego County, CA. The courses are than the current location. Project will radio signal. Programming for both transmitted via ITFS. replace the 11-year-old transmission stations will originate from the KSUT– File No. 97200ICTN California State system and old, worn out origination FM studios. and interconnection equipment. KBUT– Un. Fresno Fdn., 4910 N. Chestnut Connecticut Avenue Fresno, CA 93726. Contact: Dr. FM currently serves about 10,401 Daniel Griffin, Assoc. Dir. Grants people and relocation will add about File No. 97195CTB Simsbury Research. Funds Requested: $873,020. 926 more. Community Television, 754 Total Project Cost: $1,754,762. To File No. 97121CRB Equal Hopmeadow Street P.O. Box 767 extend the Valley Educational Network Representation of Media Advoc, KRZA– Simsbury, CT 06070. Contact: Mrs. Elise Sirman, President. Funds Requested: (VEN) to 12 additional school sites. VEN FM 528 9th Street Alamosa, CO 81101. $10,349. Total Project Cost: $13,799. To is an integrated voice, data and video Contact: Ms. Kim Allison, Station upgrade the production capabilities of network providing college and K–12 Manager. Funds Requested: $10,968. Simsbury Community Television, which distance education programming to Total Project Cost: $14,625. To improve transmits its community access educational institutions in Madera, public radio station KRZA–FM, 88.7 programming over a dedicated channel Fresno, Kings and Tulare Counties. MHZ, in Alamosa by re-aligning the existing antenna and replacing old, of the Simsbury cable television system. worn-out origination equipment with a File No. 97218CTN West Hartford new telephone hybrid interconnect, Community TV, Inc., WHC–TV 50 File No. 97035CTB Rocky Mountain South Main Street West Hartford, CT , 1089 Bannock cassette players, speakers, CD players and Mini-disk players. KRZA–FM, a 06107. Contact: Ms. Cheryl Fine, Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. Executive Director. Funds Requested: James Morgese, General Manager. Funds station which has been on the air since 1986, provides $250,000. Total Project Cost: $312,500. Requested: $389,039. Total Project Cost: service to about 75,000 people. To establish video production studios at $518,718. To interconnect the facilities File No. 97124CTB Front Range Hall High School and at Conard High of public television stations KRMA–TV, Educational Media Corp., KBDI–TV School, both in the City of West Ch. 6, in Denver and KTSC–TV, Ch. 8, 2900 Welton St., First Floor Denver, CO Hartford, CT. The studios would in Pueblo by installing a two-way 80205. Contact: Mr. Richard James, originate programming to be transmitted microwave interconnection. KRMA–TV Grants Manager. Funds Requested: over two dedicated community access will also acquire computer automation $181,209. Total Project Cost: $317,909. channels of the city’s cable television equipment to provide a distinct program To improve and expand public system. feed to Pueblo. Two stations cover the television station KBDI–TV, Ch. 12, in District of Columbia entire state of Colorado, approximately Denver by acquiring a new master 3.9 million people. control router, a master control File No. 97144CTB Howard File No. 97044CRB North Fork Valley switcher, replacing the 100 watt University, WHMM 2222 Fourth Street Public Radio Inc, KVNF–FM 213 Grand translator that serves Colorado Springs NW Washington, DC 20059. Contact: Avenue P.O. Box 1350 Paonia, CO with a 1 kilowatt unit, and acquiring a Mr. M. J. Watkins, General Manager. 81428. Contact: Ms. Kristy McFarland, telemetry system. KBDI–TV serves about Funds Requested: $425,549. Total Station Manager. Funds Requested: 2.1 million people and will add an Project Cost: $851,098. To improve $92,511. Total Project Cost: $123,348. additional service to about 400,000 public television station WHMM–TV, To extend the signal of public radio more. operating on Channel 32 in Washington, station KVNF–FM, 90.9 MHZ, in Paonia File No. 97147ICTN National DC, by replacing the routing switcher, by activating a new repeater station in Technological University, 700 Centre master sync and timing system with Montrose on 89.1 MHZ. Station will Avenue Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Contact: distribution amplifiers, TV provide first public radio service to Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President. Funds demodulator, video processing about 9,868 people and an additional Requested: $294,170. Total Project Cost: amplifiers, and a non-linear editing service to about 22,000 more. $392,230. To activate an interactive system. The project includes upgrading File No. 97064CTB Rocky Mountain learning environment for individuals at by acquiring the Secondary Audio Public Broadcasting, 1089 Bannock home which combines Internet, Program and Auxiliary Audio Program Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. personal computer and satellite Transmission System, virtual recorder James Morgese, General Manager. Funds delivered compressed digital video system, broadcast color monitors, and Requested: $206,500. Total Project Cost: technology. test equipment. $413,000. To improve public television File No. 97201CRB KUTE File No. 97150ICTN Soundprint station KRMA–TV, Ch. 6, in Denver, by Incorporated, KSUT–FM Four Corners Media Center Inc., 4000 Brandywine replacing 10 videotape recorders with Public Radio P.O. Box 737 123 Capote Street NW Suite 620 Washington, DC new digital equipment. Current Ignacio, CO 81137. Contact: Mr. Carlos 20016. Contact: Ms. Moira Rankin, equipment was purchased between 1983 Sena, General Manager. Funds President. Funds Requested: $298,554. and 1994. KRMA–TV serves Requested: $55,989. Total Project Cost: Total Project Cost: $510,348. To expand approximately 3.9 million people. $74,655. To improve the facilities of the services provided by the ‘‘Education 27666 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

Connection,’’ a distance learning project FM, 91.3 MHZ, serving approximately Boulevard Niceville, FL 32578. Contact: which is intended to provide at-risk 3,900,000 people in an area that Mr. Glenn Tripplett, Dir./Learning schools (K–12) with multimedia, includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Resources Ctr. Funds Requested: interactive, Internet and satellite- Beach and the Keys, will replace $118,935. Total Project Cost: $158,580. delivered video conferencing capability. its outdated and unreliable transmission To establish three video classrooms for The project will provide Education system. the Okaloosa-Walton Distance Learning Connection programming to 58 File No. 97061CTB South Florida Consortium of Northwest Florida, which additional schools. The Education Public Telecomm., WXEL–TV 3401 S. will be interconnected by Instructional Connection is a partnership of the Congress Ave. Boynton Beach, FL Television Fixed Service (ITFS). The applicant and public television stations 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip Dicomo, V. classrooms will be located at the (KCET–TV Los Angeles, Louisiana P., Ext. Affairs. Funds Requested: Niceville Campus of Okaloosa-Walton Public Broadcasting, Mississippi $185,269. Total Project Cost: $370,538. Community College, the Instructional Educational TV, WHYY–TV To improve public television station Technology Center of the Walton Wilmington, and WHRO–TV Norfolk). WXEL–TV, Channel 42 in Boynton County School District, and Shalimar The project includes a satellite uplink Beach, FL, serving approximately Elementary School, which is part of the and video conferencing studio at 4,400,000 people, by replacing obsolete Okaloosa County School District. Soundprint, and satellite receive three-quarter inch and one-inch video File No. 97138CTB Brevard downlinks, computers and ITFS recorders with digital video recorders Community College, WBCC–TV 1519 equipment at school sites. and a video server system for a more Clearlake Road Cocoa, FL 32922. File No. 97171IPTN Assoc. of Jesuit efficient on-air recording and playback Contact: Mr. Joe Williams, General Colleges & Univ., 1 Dupont Circle Suite operation. Manager, WBCC. Funds Requested: 405 Washington, DC 20036–1110. File No. 97075CRB WJCT, Inc., $715,382. Total Project Cost: $1,480,971. Contact: Dr. William Husson, Dean of WJCT–FM 100 Festival Park Avenue WBCC–TV, Channel 68 in Cocoa, FL, Professional Studies. Funds Requested: Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. serving approximately 1,000,000 people, $58,410. Total Project Cost: $147,706. William Dresser, President and General will replace a 10-year old obsolete To plan for a telecommunications Mgr. Funds Requested: $92,850. Total transmitter with a digital transmitter, system that will establish an Project Cost: $185,701. To improve and will acquire a mobile digital public radio station WJCT–FM, 89.9 interconnected network of the 28 production system as an interim control MHZ in Jacksonville, FL, by replacing colleges and universities in the room and also as a remote production outdated and unreliable 25-to-30-year Association of Jesuit Colleges and unit. Universities, for a nationwide distance old reel-to-reel, audio cartridge, and File No. 97153CTB University of learning and training service among cassette equipment with a digital audio South Florida, Division of Public these colleges/universities and each of storage system, replacing the transmitter Broadcasting 4202 Fowler Avenue, Svc their surrounding communities. control link, and acquiring the capability of ISDN connectivity for 0001 Tampa, FL 33620. Contact: Mr. Florida effective remote production and William Buxton, Station Manager. File No. 97010CRB University of interconnection to other NPR stations. Funds Requested: $41,812. Total Project Florida, WUFT–FM/WJUF–FM 2208 WJCT–FM provides public radio service Cost: $83,624. To replace its outdated Weimer Hall University Of Florida to approximately 1,600,000 people in and unreliable optical disc units, Gainesville, FL 32611. Contact: Mr. the Jacksonville area. WUSF–TV, Channel 16, serving Henri Pensis, Station Manager. Funds File No. 97108CRB Nathan B. approximately 3,500,000 people in the Requested: $26,753. Total Project Cost: Stubblefield Foundation, WMNF–FM Tampa, FL area, will install a video spot $53,506. To install automation 1210 East Martin Luther King Blvd player for on-air station break equipment at WUFT–FM, operating on Tampa, FL 33603. Contact: Mr. Richard operations. 89.1 MHZ in Gainesville, FL, to Eiswerth, Station Manager. Funds File No. 97173CTB Florida State maintain 24-hour-a-day programming in Requested: $23,600. Total Project Cost: University, WFSU–TV 1600 Red Barber a cost-effective manner. WUFT–FM $47,200. To improve WMNF–FM, Plaza Tallahassee, FL 32310. Contact: currently serves approximately operating on 88.5 MHZ , and serving Mrs. Donna Landrum, Business 1,700,000 people in the Gainesville area. approximately 1,300,000 people in the Manager. Funds Requested: $105,525. File No. 97018CRB Florida Institute of Tampa, FL area, by replacing outdated Total Project Cost: $211,050. To Technology, WFIT–FM 150 W. and unreliable master control, studio, improve WFSU–TV in Tallahassee and University Blvd Melbourne, FL 32901. and studio-to-transmitter link WFSG–TV in Panama City, FL, serving Contact: Mr. David Kershaw, General equipment. approximately 600,000 people, by Manager. Funds Requested: $27,614. File No. 97119CTB University of replacing a 16-year old analog routing Total Project Cost: $36,819. To improve Florida, WUFT–TV Weimer Hall switcher with a digital/analog routing its facilities and provide first public University Of Florida Gainesville, FL switcher. radio service to approximately 13,000 32611. Contact: Mr. Richard Lehner, File No. 97175CTB WJCT Inc., WJCT– people, WFIT–FM, operating on 89.5 General Manager. Funds Requested: TV 100 Festival Park Avenue MHZ in Melbourne, FL, will raise its $164,680. Total Project Cost: $329,360. Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. antenna height, increase its power from To improve public television station William Dresser, President and General 2,350 Watts to 8,000 Watts, and install WUFT–TV, in Gainesville, Manager. Funds Requested: $177,541. equipment for remote transmitter FL, serving approximately 2,000,000 Total Project Cost: $355,082. To control. people, by replacing 13-year old one- improve public television station File No. 97030CRB School Board of inch videotape machines with digital WJCT–TV, Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Dade County, WLRN/FM Radio 172 NE video recorders-editors for master FL, by replacing four, 12-year old one- 15th Street Miami, FL 33132. Contact: control recording, editing, and playback inch videotape machines for recording, Mrs. Laurel Long, Coordinator, Finance/ operations. on-air playback, and post-production Admin. Funds Requested: $54,986. File No. 97132ICTN Okaloosa-Walton operations. WJCT–TV provides public Total Project Cost: $109,973. WLRN– Community College, 100 College television service to approximately Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27667

1,600,000 people in the Jacksonville Whitehead, City Manager. Funds Cassia’’ region, including the area. Requested: $102,495. Total Project Cost: communities of Burley, Paul, Rupert, File No. 97196CTB Florida West Coast $136,660. To establish a studio Heyburn, Declo, Albion, and Malta, Public Broadcast, WEDU 1300 North production facility that would originate Idaho. The new station will carry the Boulevard Tampa, FL 33607. Contact: public service programming to be programing of the Boise State University Ms. Elsie Garner, Sr. Vice President & transmitted over a dedicated cable radio network. COO. Funds Requested: $650,000. Total television channel to the residents of the Project Cost: $1,850,000. To ensure the City of Sioux City, IA, and surrounding continuation of public television service Woodbury County. File No. 97029CRB Bradley to approximately 4,000,000 people in File No. 97184CRB Kirkwood University, WCBU Radio 1501 West the Tampa Bay area, WEDU–TV, Community College, KCCK 6301 Bradley Avenue Peoria, IL 61625. in Tampa, FL, will construct Kirkwood Boulevard SW P.O. Box 2068 Contact: Mr. Anthony Dean, Station a tower which is critically needed in Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Contact: Mr. Manager. Funds Requested: $169,399. order to relocate the station’s primary Steven Carpenter, Station Manager. Total Project Cost: $225,866. To transmission facility for uninterrupted Funds Requested: $45,420. Total Project improve the operation of public radio service, to prepare for tower Cost: $113,549. To improve the station WCBU, 89.9 MHZ, Peoria, by requirements in the transition to digital transmission and production replacing obsolete and worn-out items television, and to provide co-location capabilities of public radio station of production equipment, including a tower space to public radio and KCCK, 88.3 MHZ, Cedar Rapids, IA, by hard disk storage system, mixing television stations WUSF–FM and replacing its worn-out and obsolete consoles, CD players, and audio cassette WUSF–TV. transmitter, antenna and transmission recorders. The station serves a line and by replacing its audio recording population of about 300,000. Hawaii equipment with a hard-disk non-linear File No. 97045CRB University of File No. 97022CTB Hawaii Public storage and editing system. Illinois/Springfield, WUIS/WIPA Broadcasting Auth., KHET–TV 2350 Shepherd Road Building L 130 Dole Street , HI 96822. Idaho Springfield, IL 62707. Contact: Mr. Contact: Mrs. Karen Yamamoto, File No. 97076PTB Idaho Public David Anderson, General Manager. Administration/Finance Mgr. Funds Television, KAID 1455 North Orchard Funds Requested: $122,230. Total Requested: $26,750. Total Project Cost: Boise, ID 83706. Contact: Ms. K. Gail Project Cost: $244,460. To improve the $53,000. To improve the facilities of Richardson, Grants Officer. Funds operation of public radio station WUIS, Hawaii Public Television by replacing Requested: $326,725. Total Project Cost: 91.9 MHZ, Springfield, IL, by replacing three transmitter shelters which house $326,725. To plan for Idaho Public worn-out and obsolete production public television translators serving the Television (1) to upgrade the existing equipment, including audio consoles, island of . The translators serve statewide analog microwave system to minidisk recorders/players, CD players, residents in the vicinity of the digital; (2) to develop an microphones, and telephone hybrids. communities of Anahola, Kaumakani, implementation plan for the conversion WUIS and its repeater, WIPA, 89.3 and Princeville/Hanalei. of the statewide IPTV system to ATV; MHZ, Pittsfield, IL, provide service to a File No. 97024CTB Hawaii Public (3) to develop a fundraising plan to fund combined population of 1,063,912 Broadcasting Auth., KHET–TV 2350 the cost of ATV conversion for the persons. Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822. statewide system. Idaho PTV serves a File No. 97063CTB Window to the Contact: Mrs. Karen Yamamoto, population of about 1,133,034 from five World Communications, WTTW 5400 Administrative/Finance Mgr. Funds stations across the state. North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL Requested: $118,000. Total Project Cost: File No. 97180CRB Idaho State 60625. Contact: Mr. Martin J. $236,000. To improve the facilities of University, College of Business Campus McLaughlin, Vice President, Corp public television repeater station Box 8020 Pocatello, ID 83209–8020. Affairs. Funds Requested: $268,340. KMEB–TV, operating on Ch. 10 on the Contact: Dr. Paul Dishman, Assistant Total Project Cost: $536,680. To island of , by replacing an obsolete Professor. Funds Requested: $168,544. improve the operation of public transmitter. KMEB–TV serves 300,000 Total Project Cost: $229,437. To activate television station WTTW, Ch. 11, people on the island of Maui and also a public radio station operating at 91.1 Chicago, IL, by replacing items of feeds a series of translators which serve MHZ in Pocatello, Idaho. The new production equipment, including video the Big Island of Hawaii. station will provide the first public tape recorders, a character generator, radio signal to about 13,678 persons, of and a srtill store. The station serves a Iowa whom approximately 2,100 are Native population of about 10.5-million people. File No. 97033PTB Iowa Public Americans on the Fort Hall Indian File No. 97122CTB University of Broadcasting Board, Iowa Public Reservation. It will provide the first Illinois, WILL–TV 1110 West Main Television 6450 Corporate Drive local public radio signal to about 58,397 Street Urbana, IL 61801. Contact: Ms. Johnston, IA 50131. Contact: Mr. Dennis persons. The station will be staffed and Danda Tish Beard, Director/Grants & Malloy, Director, Dev & Community Rel. operated primarily by students. Corp Support. Funds Requested: Funds Requested: $66,500. Total Project File No. 97191CRB Idaho State Board $160,000. Total Project Cost: $320,000. Cost: $133,000. To plan for the re- of Education, BSU Radio Network BSU To improve the operation of public engineering needed to convert the Radio/SMITC 213 1910 University Drive television station WILL–TV, Ch. 12, transmissions of Iowa Public Television, Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr. James Urbana, IL, by replacing worn-out and Johnston, IA, to advanced television by Paluzzi, General Manager. Funds obsolete equipment, including an the year 2003. Iowa PTV serves a Requested: $63,772. Total Project Cost: automation system and a routing population of about 2,841,688. $85,030. To activate a public radio switcher. The station serves a File No. 97123CTN City of Sioux City, repeater station on 88.5 MHZ in Burley, population of about 1.3-million persons. City Hall/Orpheum Electric Bldg. 520 Idaho, to bring the first public radio File No. 97215CRB University of Pierce Street, P.O. Box 447 Sioux City, signal to about 33,317 persons in the Illinois, WILL–AM 1110 West Main IA 51102–0447. Contact: Mr. D. Craig region often referred to as the ‘‘Mini- Street Urbana, IL 61801. Contact: Ms. 27668 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

Danda Tish Beard, Director/Grants & public station WNIN–TV. Ch. 9, Requested: $43,040. Total Project Cost: Corp Support. Funds Requested: $7,438. Evansville. IN, by replacing worn-out $86,080. To improve the facilities of Total Project Cost: $14,876. To improve and obsolete items of production public radio station KMUW–FM, on the transmission system of public radio equipment, including a character 89.1 MHZ, in Wichita by replacing an station WILL–AM, 580 KHz, Urbana, IL, generator, camera pedestals, and a Uninterrupted Power Supply, upgrading by replacing its worn-out and lighting package. The station serves a the transmitter remote control system, unrepairable directional antenna population of about 750,000 persons. replacing analog production equipment monitor and the associated remote with digital recording and editing Kansas control units. The station serves a equipment and replacing the station’s population of about 10,350,456 persons. File No. 97013CTB Washburn remote recording and broadcast University of Topeka, KTWU–TV 1700 equipment. KMUW–FM provides S.W. College Avenue Topeka, KS 66621. service to about 650,000 people. in File No. 97082CTB Metropolitan Contact: Mr. Robert Fidler, Director of south central KS. Pub Bdcst, WFYI TelePlex Operations. Funds Requested: $415,174. File No. 97211CRB Kansas State 1401 North Meridian Street Total Project Cost: $830,349. To University of Agricult, KKSU–AM Room Indianapolis, IN 46202. Contact: Mr. improve public television station 2 Fairchild Hall Kansas State University Lloyd Wright, President & General KTWU–TV, Ch. 11, Topeka by replacing , KS 66506. Contact: Mr. Manager. Funds Requested: $312,500. a 19 year old television transmitter, Larry Jackson, KKSU–AM Station Total Project Cost: $625,000. To transmitter line and associated Manager. Funds Requested: $10,800. improve the operation of public station equipment. KTWU–TV serves about Total Project Cost: $21,600. To improve WFYI–TV, Ch. 20, Indianapolis, IN, by 1.26 million people. public radio station KKSU–AM, 580 replacing three worn-out and obsolete File No. 97040CTB Kansas Public KHz, in Manhattan by replacing cameras and related equipment. The Telecom. Service, In, 320 West 21st St. outdated remote transmission station serves a population of about 2 N. Wichita, KS 67203. Contact: Mr. Dale equipment, improving telephone audio million persons. Heckel, VP/Dir. Operations. Funds broadcast capability and establishing a File No. 97085CRB Indiana Requested: $42,500. Total Project Cost: digital audio studio. KKSU–AM serves University, WFIU Radio-TV Center $85,000. To improve public television about 5.4 million people in most of KS Bloomington, IN 47405–6901. Contact: station KPTS–TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita by and parts of ND, MO, IA and OK. Dr. Barrie Zimmerman, Director/Opns & purchasing a new editor. This Engineering. Funds Requested: $16,041. equipment will provide additional Total Project Cost: $32,082. To extend editing capability and begin the File No. 97077CRB Murray State the signal of public radio station WFIU, conversion to ATV. KPTS–TV provides University, WKMS Price Doyle Fine 103.7 MHZ, Bloomington, IN, by service to about 387,773 people. Arts Building 15th & Olive Streets activating a translator at 106.1 MHZ in File No. 97188CRB The Kanza Society Murray, KY 42071. Contact: Mrs. Kate B. Kokomo, IN, to bring the first public Inc., KANZ–FM 210 North Seventh Lochte, Station Manager. Funds radio signal to about 50,000 persons. Garden City, KS 67846. Contact: Ms. Requested: $27,450. Total Project Cost: WFIU presently serves a population of Kathleen Holt, Project Director. Funds $36,600. To extend the signal of public about 600,000. Requested: $19,341. Total Project Cost: radio station WKMS, 91.3 MHZ, File No. 97091CTB Ball State $38,682. To extend the signal of KANZ– Murray, KY, by activating translators on University, WIPB E. F. Ball Building FM (91.1 MHZ) in Garden City, KS by 92.1 MHZ in Paducah, KY, and on 99.5 Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306. activating two FM translators in MHZ in Paris, TN. The new translators Contact: Mrs. Alice J. Cheney, General Washburn, TX (91.3 MHZ) and will bring the first public radio signal to Manager. Funds Requested: $237,988. Amarillo, TX (94.9 MHZ). The about 43,213 persons. WKMS serves Total Project Cost: $475,976. To Washburn facility will be fed by satellite about 278,000 persons from its existing improve the operation of public and the Amarillo translator will receive facilities. television station WIPB, Ch. 49, Muncie, its signal off-air from the Washburn File No. 97087CRB Kentucky Public IN, by replacing three worn-out and translator. Stations will provide first Radio (dba Public Radio Partnership) obsolete cameras with their related nationally distributed public radio 301 York Street Louisville, KY 40203. equipment and by acquiring a local service to about 164,132 people. Contact: Ms. Kathi Ellis, Grant Writer. insertion server. The station serves a File No. 97189CRB The Kanza Society Funds Requested: $344,959. Total population of about 980,000. Inc., KANZ–FM 210 North Seventh Project Cost: $689,919. To improve the File No. 97182CTB Michiana Public Garden City, KS 67846. Contact: Ms. operation of the three public Corp., WNIT 2300 Charger Kathleen Holt, Project Director. Funds stations operated by Kentucky Public Boulevard Elkhart, IN 46514. Contact: Requested: $33,292. Total Project Cost: Radio—WFPL, 89.3 MHZ, WUOL, 90.5 Ms. Trina Cutter, President/General $66,088. To improve and extend public MHZ, and WFPK, 91.9 MHZ—in Manager. Funds Requested: $67,484. radio station KANZ–FM, 91.1 MHZ, in Louisville, KY, by replacing worn-out Total Project Cost: $89,979. To improve Garden City by activating a new FM and obsolete equipment, including two the operation of public television station translator in Hugoton (92.3 MHZ) and STL’s, audio consoles, CD players, a CD WNIT, Ch. 34, Elkhart, IN, by replacing acquiring a digital audio automation recorder, compressor-limiters, DAT worn-out and obsolete video tape system that will enhance the station’s recorders, a hard-disk storage and recorders with a digital video server. production capabilities and allow it to editing system, microphones, patch The station serves a population of about extend its hours of operation. The bays, speakers, and a routing switcher. 881,600. Hugoton translator will provide a first The three stations serve a population of File No. 97204CTB Tri-State Public public radio service to an additional about 3,057,566. Teleplex, Inc., WNIN–TV 405 Carpenter 4,390 people. File No. 97096IPTN The Center for Street Evansville, IN 47708. Contact: Mr. File No. 97202CRB Wichita State Rural Development, 2292 South David L. Dial, President. Funds University, KMUW–FM 3317 E. 17th Highway 27 Suite 300 Somerset, KY Requested: $40,521. Total Project Cost: Street Wichita, KS 67208. Contact: Mr. 42501. Contact: Mrs. Hilda Legg, $81,042. To improve the operation of Mark McCain, General Manager. Funds Executive Director & CEO. Funds Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27669

Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: newly-established Slidell Campus of Salisbury (MD) by constructing a $200,000. To develop a plan for a video Delgado Community College as well as repeater station serving Ocean City, production and distribution facility that to the Stennis Space Center in nearby operating on 90.7 MHZ. The new station will be managed by the Center for Rural Mississippi. will provide first public radio service to Development in Somerset, KY, through File No. 97052CTB Greater New about 350,000 permanent and seasonal the cooperation of educational Orleans ETV Fdn., WYES–TV 916 residents of Worcester County, institutions, government agencies and Navarre Avenue , LA Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware. corporate donors, to provide distance 70124. Contact: Mr. Randall Feldman, File No. 97154ICTN Chesapeake learning and training courses and President & General Mgr. Funds Regional Network, Inc., 269 Trinity economic development programs Requested: $177,332. Total Project Cost: Church Road Northeast, MD 21901. particularly to Kentucky’s $354,665. To improve public television Contact: Mr. Douglas Donley, President. underdeveloped southern and eastern station WYES–TV, operating on Funds Requested: $60,685. Total Project rural counties. Channel 12 in New Orleans, LA, by Cost: $84,285. To construct a four- File No. 97142CTB Kentucky replacing the worn-out antenna channel ITFS facility to transmit Educational Television, 600 Cooper feedlines, on-air playback VCR’s, the old instructional programming to the Drive Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: digital effects generator, and waveform primary and secondary schools of the Mrs. Virginia G. Fox, Executive Director. monitors. Cecil Co. Public School system. Cecil Funds Requested: $85,647. Total Project File No. 97070CTB Educational County is located in Maryland between Cost: $171,295. To improve the Broadcasting Foundation, WLAE–TV Baltimore and . operation of Kentucky Educational 2929 S. Carrollton Ave. New Orleans, File No. 97178CTN Community TV of Television (KET) by refurbishing the LA 70118. Contact: Mr. John Pela, George’s, Production Department antennas of WKGB, Ch. 53, Bowling Station Manager. Funds Requested: 9475 Lottsford Road Suite 125 Largo, Green, and WKON, Ch. 52, Owenton, $101,637. Total Project Cost: $203,275. MD 20774. Contact: Ms. Sherry Byrne, both Kentucky, and by acquiring a To improve public television station Executive Director. Funds Requested: package of test equipment for WKLE, WLAE–TV, operating on Channel 32 in $440,000. Total Project Cost: $587,000. Ch. 46, Lexington. KET serves a New Orleans, LA, by replacing the To replace worn-out production population of about 3,700,000 from master control equipment and activating equipment and to purchase mobile fifteen full-power stations and five creation of a new educational cable studio equipment for Community translators. channel, which is a Special Application Television of Prince George’s, Largo, File No. 97179CTN Kentucky project in the category of Distance MD. The applicant’s service is Educational Television, 600 Cooper Learning Development. transmitted over the cable television Drive Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: system serving Prince George’s County, Massachusetts Mrs. Virginia Fox, Executive Director. MD. Funds Requested: $602,425. Total File No. 97165CRB University of Project Cost: $1,204,850. To equip five Massachusetts, WUMB–FM Radio 100 Maine state universities with satellite uplinks Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125. File No. 97055CRB Maine Public for the distribution of distance learning Contact: Ms. Patricia Monteith, General Broadcasting Corp., 65 Avenue programing using the state owned Manager. Funds Requested: $110,803. Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Gil satellite transponder to 1700 downlink Total Project Cost: $158,290. To extend Maxwell, Director of Engineering. Funds sites within the state. and improve the signal of public radio Requested: $30,387. Total Project Cost: station WFPB–FM, operating on 91.9 $60,774. To improve the facilities of the Louisiana MHZ in Falmouth, MA, by replacing the , Maine Public File No. 97021ICTN Orleans Parish transmitter, antenna and transmission Broadcasting will replace the 21-year- Public Schools, Consolidated Programs line and providing first public radio old transmitter at WMEM–FM, 3500 General DeGaulle Dr. Room 232 service to over 48,000 residents of operating on 106.1 MHZ, serving the New Orleans, LA 70114. Contact: Dr. Upper and Mid Barnstable county. residents of Aroostook County, Maine. James Lloyd, Compliance Officer. Funds File No. 97062CTB Maine Public Requested: $439,500. Total Project Cost: Maryland Broadcasting Corp., 65 Texas Avenue $605,500. To purchase the equipment File No. 97067CTB Maryland Public Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Gil necessary to asist the Orleans Parish Broadcasting Commis, 11767 Owings Maxwell, Director of Engineering. Funds Public Schools—in a partnership with Mills Boulevard Owings Mills, MD Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: public television station WLAE–TV, Ch. 21117. Contact: Mr. Robert Hoerr, Chief $300,000. To improve broadcast 32, New Orleans—to activate an ITFS Engineer. Funds Requested: $219,800. facilities within the State network and system that would allow the school Total Project Cost: $439,600. To to meet current industry standards, system to transmit diverse instructional improve the facilities of the State Maine Public Broadcasting will replace programming to 130 schools in the network, Maryland Public Broadcasting 12-year-old studio VTRs with DVC Pro greater New Orleans area. The project will replace the 23-year-old antenna and format tape machines. would also purchase the equipment for transmission line at WMPT–TV, a remote production van. Channel 22 in Annapolis, which Michigan File No. 97042ICTN New Orleans provides public television services to File No. 97026ICTN Northern Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 S. over 6 million residents of Maryland. Michigan University, Learning Carrollton Avenue New Orleans, LA File No. 97084CRB Salisbury State Resources Center Elizabeth Harden 70118. Contact: Mr. Robert J. Lucas, University Fdn., WSCL FM Route 13 Drive Marquette, MI 49855. Contact: Mr. Executive Director. Funds Requested: (p.o. Box 2596) Caruthers Hall Scott K. Seaman, Director of Learning $85,303. Total Project Cost: $170,606. Salisbury, MD 21801. Contact: Mr. Fred Resources. Funds Requested: $225,000. To extend the present ITFS-based Marino, General Manager. Funds Total Project Cost: $450,000. To install distance learning network of the eight- Requested: $149,451. Total Project Cost: microwave to provide for two-way college New Orleans Educational $229,925. To extend the signal of interactive video and audio as well as Telecommunications Consortium to the WSCL–FM, operating on 89.5 MHZ in data transmission between and among 27670 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

11 sites in a system terminating at serves a population base of about Reservation in Northwest , Northern Michigan University, 2,192,550. providing service for 9,400 unserved, Marquette; Michigan Technological potential listeners. Minnesota University, Houghton; and Bay de Noc File No. 97156CRB Minnesota Public Community College, Escanaba. The File No. 97012CTB Northern Radio, 45 E 7th Street St Paul, MN project will allow for T–1 service over Minnesota Public TV, KAWE/KAWB 55101. Contact: Mr. Ron Hall, Research video at all 11 installations. It will also 1500 Birchmont Drive, Box Number 9 Assistant. Funds Requested: $290,005. interconnect the Keweenaw Bay Indian Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill Total Project Cost: $580,010. To Tribe, Baraga, and the Hannahville Sanford, Director of Engineering. Funds improve the network of Minnesota Indian Tribe, LaBranche, by T–1 and Requested: $48,928. Total Project Cost: Public Radio, in particular KNOW–FM, construct distance learning classrooms $65,237. To improve public television operating on 91.1 MHZ in - on those Reservations. station KAWB–TV, operating on St. Paul and KSJN–FM, operating on File No. 97028ICTN Dickinson-Iron Channel 22 in Brainerd, MN, by 99.5 MHZ in Minneapolis, by replacing ISD, 1074 Pyle Drive Kingsford, MI providing the first local origination one audio console, 9 Studer B67 reel-to- 49802. Contact: Mrs. Mary L. Brien, service to Central Minnesota. The other reel tape machines, cart machines and Superintendent. Funds Requested: towns in the coverage area are Crosby, one transmitter for KCCM–FM in Fargo/ $253,367. Total Project Cost: $337,823. Staples, Breezy Point, Baxter, Pequot Moorhead. Also requested is digital To install video classrooms in 10 high Lakes and Nisswa, MN. audio library and a spectrum analyzer, schools and two intermediate school File No. 97046CTB West Central which are upgrades. districts, all located in extremely rural Minnesota ETV, Pioneer Public File No. 97168ICTN Stephen/Argyle areas of Northern Michigan. The project Television 120 West Schlieman Avenue School District, Educational Television will allow these schools to participate in Appleton, MN 56208. Contact: Mr. Project 705 Lincoln Avenue P. O. Box a two-way interactive distance learning Ansel Doll, General Manager. Funds 279 Argyle, MN 56713. Contact: Mr. network interconnected by optical fiber. Requested: $190,260. Total Project Cost: Mark Kroulik, Principal. Funds File No. 97041CRB Board of $380,520. To activate a repeater public Requested: $17,907. Total Project Cost: Education, WDTR 5057 Woodward television station K69HG, operating on $23,876. To establish a production Avenue Detroit, MI 48202. Contact: Mr. Channel 69, in Fergus Falls, MN studio for the Stephen/Argyle School Clifford E. Cox, Deputy Superintendent. providing first signal to 50,714 potential District, Argyle, MN. The programming Funds Requested: $449,163. Total viewers in West Central Minnesota. will be transmitted over a dedicated Project Cost: $598,884. To improve the File No. 97093CRB Red Lake Band of educational channel—Channel 16—of operation of public radio station WDTR, Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Tribal the local cable television system. 90.0 MHZ, Detroit, MI, by replacing Council, Tribal Headquarters Building worn-out and obsolete transmission and Red Lake, MN 56671. Contact: Mr. production equipment, including the Bobby Whitefeather, Tribal Chairman. File No. 97051CTB Public Television transmitter, consoles, and other items. Funds Requested: $163,675. Total 19, Inc., KCPT 125 East 31st Street The station serves a population base of Project Cost: $287,150. To activate a full Kansas City, MO 64108. Contact: Ms. about 3,968,575. service public radio station operating on Brenda Williams, Grant Coordinator. File No. 97115PTB Central Michigan 94.1 MHZ in Red Lake, MN, providing Funds Requested: $328,475. Total University, CMU Public Broadcasting the first local service utilizing local Project Cost: $656,950. To improve the Public Broadcasting Center 3965 E. originated programming which is broadcast signal of public television Broomfield Road Mt. Pleasant, MI pertinent to the Indian way of life. This station KCPT, Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, 48859. Contact: Mr. Randall G. Kapenga, proposed station will serve 5,817 people by replacing its unreliable transmitter. Director of Technical Services. Funds on the Reservation and to 45,007 others The station serves a population base of Requested: $68,407. Total Project Cost: in the surrounding region. about 1,600,000. $91,259. To plan for the conversion to File No. 97131ICTN Asian Media File No. 97114CRB New Wave Advanced Television by WCMU–TV, Access Inc., 730 Hennepin Avenue Corporation, KOPN 915 East Broadway Ch. 14, Mt. Pleasant, MI, which serves Room 812 C/o Metropolitan State Columbia, MO 65201–4857. Contact: a population of about 1,115,000. The University Minneapolis, MN 55403. Mr. Steve Spencer, General Manager. plan will look at relocation, Contact: Mrs. Ange Hwang, Executive Funds Requested: $65,686. Total Project consolidation, cooperative construction, Director. Funds Requested: $140,708. Cost: $131,373. To improve the and educational outreach potential Total Project Cost: $281,416. The operation of public radio station KOPN, while maintaining the objective of applicant is requesting funding to 89.5 MHZ, Columbia, MO, by replacing universal coverage at sustainable acquire broadcast quality production its unreliable transmitter, STL, and an operational expense. equipment to establish an Asian audio console and by acquiring a hard- File No. 97116CRB Central Michigan American Production Studio at disk, non-linear editing and audio University, CMU Public Broadcasting Metropolitan State University in storage system. The station serves a Public Broadcasting Center 3965 East Minneapolis, MN, to produce population base of about 146,865. Bloomfield Road Mt. Pleasant, MI educational programs for local and File No. 97198CTB St. Louis Regional 48859. Contact: Mr. Thomas Hunt, national PBS stations and through the Ed & PTV Commiss, 6996 Millbrook Director of Radio. Funds Requested: ITV system at MSU, reaching Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63130. $37,827. Total Project Cost: $75,655. To communities in greater Minnesota. Contact: Mr. Michael Hardgrove, improve the production capacity of File No. 97148CRB Niijii Broadcast President & CEO. Funds Requested: public station WCMU–FM, 89.5 MHZ, Corporation, Route 1 Box 291 Ponsford, $202,470. Total Project Cost: $404,940. Mt. Pleasant, MI, by replacing worn-out MN 56575. Contact: Ms. Pam Ellis, To improve the production and and obsolete items of production Project Staff. Funds Requested: operational facilities of public television equipment, including an audio console, $289,167. Total Project Cost: $385,557. station KETC, Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, by CD players, jack panels, and DAT To activate a first signal, full service replacing worn-out and obsolete items recorders and by acquiring a non-linear public radio station operating on 89.1 of origination and test equipment, digital editing system. CMU Radio MHZ for the White Earth Ojibwe including a switcher, an audio console, Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27671 a video monitor, loudspeakers, a operations and extend its coverage area New Hampshire waveform monitor, and a digital audio to include approximately 779,000 File No. 97002CTB University of New monitor. The items will complement the potential new viewers in the state’s Hampshire, New Hampshire Public station’s move into a new building. The northeast region, the University of North Television Route 155A So./Mast Road station serves a population base of Carolina Center for Public TV will PO Box 1100 Durham, NH 03824. replace critical transmission equipment 3,000,000. Contact: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of File No. 97199CTB St. Louis Regional and construct a taller tower at WUND– Engineering. Funds Requested: Ed & PTV Commiss, 6994 Millbrook TV, Channel 2, in Columbia, NC. $255,000. Total Project Cost: $510,000. Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63130. Contact: Mr. Michael Hardgrove, To improve the facilities of the State President & CEO. Funds Requested: File No. 97019CTB Prairie Public network by replacing 13-year-old studio $1,681,670. Total Project Cost: Broadcasting, Inc, 207 North 5th Street cameras and 10-year-old field $2,242,228. To extend the signal of P.O. Box 3240 Fargo, ND 58108–3240. equipment at the network’s broadcast public television station KETC, Ch. 9, Contact: Mrs. Kathleen Pavelko, center in Durham, New Hampshire. St. Louis, MO, by activating a full-power President & CEO. Funds Requested: repeater on channel 36 in Jefferson City, $66,915. Total Project Cost: $133,830. File No. 97058IPTN Burlington MO. The new station will bring the first To improve public television station County College, Pemberton-Browns public television signal to about 340,758 KFME–TV, operating on Channel 13 in Mills Road County Route 530 persons. KETC presently serves a Fargo, ND, by replacing two worn-out Pemberton, NJ 08068. Contact: Ms. Lisa population base of about 3,000,000. 14-year-old one inch tape machines, six Dichiara-Platt, Exe. Assist. to the File No. 97209CRB Double Helix 3⁄4’’ tape machines and two distribution Corporation, KDHX 3504 Magnolia St. amplifiers. President. Funds Requested: $90,000. Total Project Cost: $120,000. To design Louis, MO 63118. Contact: Ms. Marge Reese, Development Director. Funds a technology plan for a new Requested: $3,719. Total Project Cost: File No. 97170ICTN A*DEC telecommunications facility that will $7,438. To augment the operational Corporation, C218 Animal Science connect a consortium of seven colleges capacity of public radio station KDHX, Building University Of Nebraska- in an interactive network to provide 88.1 MHZ, St. Louis, MO, by acquiring Lincoln, NE 68583. Contact: Dr. Janet distance learning and workforce training the equipment with which to originate Poley, President/CEO. Funds Requested: to an underserved population in four remote broadcasts. The station serves a $375,000. Total Project Cost: $750,000. counties of Southern New Jersey. population base of 2,500,000. To establish a teleport at Colorado State File No. 97136CRB Burlington County University, Fort Collins CO, which will College, County Route 530 Pemberton- permit expansion of the A*DEC services Browns Mills Road Pemberton, NJ File No. 97009CTB Whitehall Low via multi-channel compressed digital 08068. Contact: Mr. Drew Jacobs, Power TV, Inc., 309 East Legion Avenue video. Program/Operations Manager. Funds Whitehall, MT 59759–1504. Contact: File No. 97192CTB Nebraska Requested: $43,478. Total Project Cost: Mr. Edward Folkwein, Manager. Funds Educational Telecomm., 1800 N. 33rd $57,971. To extend its signal and bring Requested: $97,988. Total Project Cost: Street P.O. Box 83111 Lincoln, NE reliable public radio services to the $130,650. To improve the facilities of 68501–3111. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates, entire population of Burlington County, Low Power public television station Secretary. Funds Requested: $428,176. non-commercial radio station WBZC– K52CE operating on Ch. 52 in Total Project Cost: $856,353. To FM, operating on 88.9 MHZ in Whitehall, by purchasing television improve the Nebraska ETV Network by Pemberton, will activate two translators, production studio equipment to provide replacing for the mother station, KRNE– one in Burlington/Beverly, operating on locally originated programs. The station TV, operating on Channel 12 in Lincoln, 95.1 MHZ, and one in Palmyra/ serves 3,000 residents of Whitehall and NE, the obsolete and unreliable tape Riverton, operating on 107.5 MHZ. areas of Jefferson and Madison Counties. based audio editing system with a disk These new translators will serve based digital audio work station, and approximately 276,000 residents of the North Carolina the original lighting equipment in the western edge of the county. File No. 97110ICTN Central Piedmont main production studio. The project File No. 97157CRB New Jersey Public Community College, 1201 Elizabeth also includes replacing the tube-type Broadcasting Auth, CN 777 25 South Ave. P.O. Box 35009 Charlotte, NC VHF transmitter at KRNE–TV in Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. 28235. Contact: Ms. Cynthia Erickson, Merriman, NE. Contact: Mr. Robert Prindible, Deputy Dir./Resource Development. Funds File No. 97193CRB Nebraska Director of Finance & A. Funds Requested: $100,039. Total Project Cost: Educational Telecomm., 1800 N. 33rd Requested: $145,792. Total Project Cost: $200,077. To install a second video Street P.O. Box 83111 Lincoln, NE $194,390. To extend and improve the classroom at Central Piedmont 68501–3111. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates, State network by constructing a new Community College to allow the College Secretary. Funds Requested: $29,500. transmitting system and STL for WNJM– to expand its distance learning Total Project Cost: $59,000. To improve FM, 88.9 MHZ in Manahawkin and programming, which is distributed via a the Nebraska Educational WNJZ–FM, 90.3 MHZ in Cape May dedicated channel on the local cable Telecommunication Network of nine Court House. The new facilities will television system. public radio stations; the mother station, provide the first public radio service to File No. 97164CTB The University of KUCV–FM, operating on 90.9 MHZ in over 26,000 residents and additional North Carolina, Center for Public Lincoln, NE, has requested replacing the service to about 81,000 people in Television 10 TW Alexander Drive worn-out tape based audio editing southeastern New Jersey. Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. equipment and the old NAB cartridge Contact: Mrs. Joyce Ledbetter, Director machines. Also requested is an upgrade New Mexico of Finance. Funds Requested: of the telephone system by acquiring the File No. 97027CRB Alamo Navajo $1,574,523. Total Project Cost: supplement of its simple, single line School Board, Inc., KABR–AM P.O. Box $4,890,000. To improve broadcast telephone coupler. 907 Magdalena, NM 87825. Contact: Ms. 27672 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

Lynda Middleton, Administrative feasibility of alternative technologies for eastern Sierra. Translators will be Assistant. Funds Requested: $8,250. an interactive network among 31 public placed in Truckee, CA; Tahoe-Donner, Total Project Cost: $11,000. To improve schools, 17 Bureau of Indian Affairs CA; South , CA/NV; the facilities of noncommercial public schools, and 6 locations of the Bridgeport, CA; Lee Vining, CA; radio station KABR–AM, 1500 kHz, in University of New Mexico for a distance Mammoth Lakes, CA; Lone Pine, CA; Magdalena by replacing some learning and training service in the Fallon, NV; Eureka, NV; Crescent equipment in the on-air control room 5000-square-mile rural McKinley Valley, NV; and Wendover, UT/NV. The with an audio storage system. This will County in northwest New Mexico. project will provide first public radio permit the transition to automated service to an estimated 77,584 people. Nevada broadcasting and permit an increase in the number of broadcast hours without File No. 97032PRB Shoshone-Paiute increasing the staff size. KABR–AM Tribes of Duck Valley, Tribal File No. 97007CTB Educational serves about 11,000 people in west Headquarters Idaho/Nevada Stateline Broadcasting Corporation, Thirteen/ central NM. Highway P.O. Box 219 Owyhee, NV WNET 356 West 58th Street New York, File No. 97080ICTN San Juan College, 89832. Contact: Mr. Herman Atkins, NY 10019. Contact: Mr. Kenneth 4601 College Blvd. Farmington, NM Tribal Administrator. Funds Requested: Devine, Managing Dir. of Fac. Funds 87402. Contact: Dr. Nelle Moore, $75,166. Total Project Cost: $75,166. To Requested: $304,900. Total Project Cost: Director/Grant Development. Funds conduct planning activities for the $762,250. To improve public television Requested: $340,030. Total Project Cost: establishment of a non-commercial station WNET, operating on Channel 13 $453,374. To install a digital, single- radio station that will provide first in , NY by replacing the channel ITFS system for San Juan public radio service to approximately 17 year old, 25 KW transmitter, which College, Farmington, to allow the 1,500 residents of the Duck Valley is increasingly unreliable and College to transmit diverse educational Indian Reservation in Owyhee, Nevada. exceedingly costly to keep in operation. programming to learners throughout the File No. 97092CTB Clark County File No. 97020CRTB Public Bdcstg extreme northwest corner of New School District, KLVX–TV 4210 Council of Central NY, WCNY 506 Old Mexico. Because of the proposed Channel 10 Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Liverpool Road P. 0. Box 2400 Syracuse, system’s digital technology, the College Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General NY 13220. Contact: Mr. John Duffy, will be able to transmit simultaneously Manager. Funds Requested: $423,175. Chief Engineer. Funds Requested: six channels of programming. Total Project Cost: $694,100. To expand $98,000. Total Project Cost: $196,000. File No. 97145CRB Southern New and improve the broadcast capabilities To improve the facilities of the public Mexico Radio Foundation, 1505 of KLVX–TV, Channel 10 in Las Vegas television station and the three public Crescent Drive Alamogordo, NM 88310. by activating four translators and a radio stations the applicant operates Contact: Mr. Robert Flotte, President. microwave relay system that will (WCNY–TV Ch. 24, WCNY–FM 91.3 Funds Requested: $194,941. Total provide first public television service to MHZ, WUNY–FM and WJNY–FM), by Project Cost: $259,921. To activate a over 16,000 residents of Southern replacing key obsolete TV and FM new noncommercial educational FM Nevada. In addition, KLVX will replace broadcasting equipment, including an radio station on 91.7 MHZ, in six camera pedestals and heads, the FM transmitter, two 1⁄2’’ digital video Alamogordo to provide first local main routing switcher, and the recorders, six audio distribution amps origination to approximately 54,700 transmitter waveform monitor and will and one video distribution amp. people. Studios will be located on the upgrade its transmitter with a backup File No. 97036CTB WSKG Public T/ Alamorgordo branch campus of New visual and aural exciters to reduce C Council, 601 Gates Road Vestal, NY Mexico State University. outages. 13850. Contact: Mr. Michael J. Ziegler, File No. 97166CTN Hispanic File No. 97112CRB University of President & CEO. Funds Requested: Educational Telecomm., University Of Nevada-Las Vegas, KUNV–FM RADIO $1,703,250. Total Project Cost: New Mexico Scholes Hall Albuquerque, 91.5 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, $2,271,000. To activate a repeater non- NM 87203. Contact: Mr. Donald Fischer, NV 89154. Contact: Mr. Don Fuller, commercial TV station on channel 57 in Program Manager. Funds Requested: Interim General Manager. Funds Waverly, NY, providing first signal to $840,606. Total Project Cost: $1,120,808. Requested: $49,912. Total Project Cost: the towns of Waverly, Elmira, Watkins To expand participation in the Hispanic $99,912. To improve the facilities of Glen. Ithaca in New York and Tioga, Educational Telecommunications KUNV–FM, operating on 91.5 MHZ in Mansfield, Sayre and Bradford System (HETS) project by construction Las Vegas, Nevada by replacing 15-year , serving 191,160 unserved of VSAT satellite terminals and old equipment including the on-air and potential viewers. origination classrooms at eight colleges production audio consoles and remote File No. 97039CTB WMHT serving Hispanic students: Lehman recording equipment. In addition, Educational Telecommunications, College and John Jay College of Criminal KUNV proposes to install a satellite WMHT–TV & WMHO–TV P.O. Box 17 Justice in New York State; University of downlink to provide national and 17 Fern Avenue Schenectady, NY Texas-Brownsville; Kings River regional programming to the 12301–0017. Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Community College in California; community. Hood, Station Manager. Funds Miami Dade Community College and File No. 97206CRB Univ. of Nevada- Requested: $222,925. Total Project Cost: Florida International University in Reno, KUNR 88.7–FM Public Radio $445,850. To improve public television Florida; Ana G. Mendez University and University of Nevada, Reno Mail Stop station WMHT, operating on Channel the John Jay College of Criminal Justice 294 Reno, NV 89557. Contact: Ms. Mary 17, in Schenectady, NY by replacing in Puerto Rico. Husemoller, Director of Sponsored outdated and unreliable equipment in File No. 97207IPTN Gallup-McKinley Projects. Funds Requested: $96,787. its television on-line post production County Schools, P.O. Box 1318 Gallup, Total Project Cost: $129,049. To extend suite. NM 87305. Contact: Mr. Robert Gomez, the signal of KUNR–FM, operating on File No. 97049CRB Research Superintendent. Funds Requested: 88.7 MHZ in Reno by establishing a Foundation of SUNY, WBFO–FM $66,119. Total Project Cost: $87,069. series of satellite-fed translators in Sponsored Programs Admin. Ub 520 Lee Conduct a study to determine the northern Nevada and the California’s Entrance Amherst, NY 14228. Contact: Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27673

Mr. Bradley Bermudez, Sponsored Requested: $56,780. Total Project Cost: File No. 97139ICTN State University Programs Assoc. Funds Requested: $115,878. To improve public Television of New York, Empire State College One $73,280. Total Project Cost: $146,561. station WCFE–TV, operating on Channel Union Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY To extend and improve public radio 57 in Plattsburgh, NY, by replacing a 12866. Contact: Mr. William Ferrero, VP station WBFO–FM, operating on 88.7 worn-out routing switcher and terminal for Administration. Funds Requested: MHZ in Amherst, NY, by increasing the equipment. $792,534. Total Project Cost: $1,056,712. power to the transmitter from 20 KW File No. 97103ICTN The Sage To expand a collegiate level Internet- ERP to 50 KW ERP, necessitating a new Colleges, 45 Ferry Street Troy, NY based distance learning system to enable transmitter and antenna and by 12180–4115. Contact: Dr. David Bonner, underserved students with an Internet replacing old, worn-out and Dir./Distance Learning & T/Med. Funds connection—with some malfunctioning audio, local production Requested: $417,280. Total Project Cost: videoconferencing applications—in and on-air equipment with digital audio $2,327,080. To purchase diverse urban, suburban, and rural locations systems. distance learning equipment to allow an access to degree programs regardless of File No. 97054ICTN Hunter College, expansion of the Adirondack Area place and time. CUNY, 695 Park Avenue New York, NY Network, a network that embraces File No. 97158PTB The Progressive 10021. Contact: Mr. Robert Buckley, extensive telemedicine and video Tenants Association, 330 Greenwich Campus Rep. RF–CUNY. Funds conferencing activities among numerous Street Hempstead, NY 11550. Contact: Requested: $368,512. Total Project Cost: health and education entities Ms. Stephanie Morris, Chief Executive $737,024. To construct a multiple throughout that area. Officer. Funds Requested: $175,000. function distance learning facility File No. 97111ICTN Ulster County Total Project Cost: $225,000. Applicant which will include a satellite downlink, BOCES, 175 County Route 32 North seeks funding to establish plans to production studio, and video New Paltz, NY 12561. Contact: Ms. Jane construct a non-commercial TV station conferencing capability. The facility Bullowa, Ass’t Supt./Instruct’l Serv. in Hempstead, NY. The goal will will utilize ISDN and T–1 Funds Requested: $13,961. Total Project include fund raising, financing, seeking interconnections to link to the City of Cost: $18,615. To expand the applicant’s investors, hiring staff and consultants, New York I–NET system and CUNY satellite capability through the purchase and creating training programs to meet systems. of a digital C-and Ku-band satellite the underserved need of the Black File No. 97068CRB WSKG Public T/ downlink. The applicant serves 101,617 Community in Nassau County. C Council, 601 Gates Road Vestal, NY students in a three-county region. File No. 97162CRB WXXI Public 13850. Contact: Mr. Michael Ziegler, File No. 97117CTN Bronx Commun. Broadcasting Council, WXXI–AM 280 President/CEO. Funds Requested: Cable Progrm’ng Corp., (BRONXNET) State Street Rochester, NY 14614. $111,960. Total Project Cost: $149,280. 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, NY Contact: Mr. Norm Silverstein, President To activate a repeater public radio 10468. Contact: Mr. James T. Carney, & CEO. Funds Requested: $89,295. Total station on 90.1 MHZ in Ithaca, NY, Executive Director. Funds Requested: Project Cost: $178,590. To activate an providing first signal to Ithaca and the $186,038. Total Project Cost: $372,076. FM full service station, WXXN, surrounding rural region, which will To upgrade the production facilities of operating on 90.9 MHZ, in Spencerport, serve 81,506 unserved potential the BRONXNET community access NY in order to extend the applicant’s listeners. cable television studios with digital news and public affairs programming to File No. 97079CTB Long Island equipment. BRONXNET transmits its unserved areas between Rochester and Educational TV Council, WLIW–21 programming over four cable TV Buffalo numbering approximately Channel 21 Drive Plainview, NY 11803. channels to approximately 224,000 30,000 potential listeners, who receive Contact: Mr. Terrel Cass, President. homes in the Bronx section of New York no public radio signal. Funds Requested: $360,000. Total City. The new equipment will allow File No. 97172CTN African American Project Cost: $720,000. To improve BRONXNET to produce programming Media Network Ltd, 434 Nassau Rd. public television station WLIW–TV, that will reach new audiences among Roosevelt, NY 11575. Contact: Mr. operating on Channel 21, in Plainview, the traditionally unserved and Andre Guilty, Executive Director. Funds NY, by replacing the 24 year old underserved populations of that area. Requested: $80,913. Total Project Cost: broadcast antenna, transmission line File No. 97120ICTN Research $107,885. To establish a video and associated testing equipment, and Foundation-CUNY, Lehman College 250 production studio to originate replacing problematic editing Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, NY programming that would be transmitted equipment for local and national 10468–1589. Contact: Ms. Barbara over the local cable television system in productions. Bralver, Director, Grants & Contracts. Roosevelt, NY. The applicant intends to File No. 97083CRB Western New York Funds Requested: $165,514. Total produce programming that would meet Public Brdcg., WNED–FM 140 Lower Project Cost: $331,028. To establish a the needs and interests of the African- Terrace Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact: Mr. digital video studio at Lehman College, American population of Nassau Co., NY. Richard Daly, Sr VP Broadcasting. which is located in the Bronx of New File No. 97208ICTN Hamilton-Fulton- Funds Requested: $198,968. Total York City. The educational Montgomery BOCES, P.O. Box 665 212 Project Cost: $397,936. To improve programming that would be produced at County Highway 103 Johnstown, NY public radio station WNED–FM, the studio would be distributed via a 12095. Contact: Dr. Geoffrey Davis, operating on 94.5 MHZ in Buffalo, NY, number of technologies to varied District Superintendent. Funds by replacing a severely impaired nearly learning audiences. Requested: $205,852. Total Project Cost: 40 year old tower, damaged antenna and File No. 97134PRB WJPZ Radio Inc, $274,470. To install video classrooms at transmission line, and an inadequate 19 WJPZ–FM 316 Waverly Avenue seven sites in the service area of the year old transmitter. Syracuse, NY 13210. Contact: Ms. Jaime Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery Board of File No. 97090CTB Mountain Lake Bell, General Manager. Funds Cooperative Education Services, in Public Telecomm., WCFE–TV/Channel Requested: $71,013. Total Project Cost: central New York State. The equipment 57 One Sesame Street Plattsburgh, NY $94,685. Planning activities to explore a will assist the BOCES in establishing a 12901. Contact: Mr. Howard Lowe, possible equipment configuration and fiber optics-based, fully interactive, President & General Mgr. Funds cost to improve the station. distance learning network. The 27674 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices classrooms will be located at the BOCES 9 South College Street Athens, OH 1,500,000 in , Kentucky, and site, at sites in each of five BOCES 45701. Contact: Mr. Paul Witkowski, Indiana. school districts, and at Fulton- Interim Director. Funds Requested: Montgomery Community College. $274,022. Total Project Cost: $548,044. File No. 97210CRB Long Island To improve the production capability of File No. 97048IPTN , WPBX—88.3 FM public station WOUB–TV, Ch. 20, College, One Murray Campus Southampton College Southampton, NY Athens, OH, by replacing three worn- Tishomingo, OK 73460. Contact: Mr. 11968. Contact: Mr. Tim Bishop, out and obsolete camera systems and by Dennis Toews, VP Planning & Research. Provost. Funds Requested: $88,083. acquiring a non-linear hard-disk editing Funds Requested: $33,750. Total Project Total Project Cost: $176,166. To system. The station serves a population Cost: $45,000. A consortium that improve public radio station WPBX– of about 950,000. includes Murray State College and FM, operating on 88.3 MHZ in File No. 97155CTB Greater Dayton seven public school systems, will Southampton, NY, by replacing old Public Television, WPTD 110 South develop a plan for a two-way interactive obsolete and failing origination Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402. video network to provide distance equipment in its on-air control room Contact: Mr. David M. Fogarty, learning services in a rural, and primary production studio. President and General Manager. Funds economically disadvantaged three- File No. 97212CRB Colleges of The Requested: $104,753. Total Project Cost: county area of Southeast Oklahoma and Seneca, WEOS (FM) 300 Pulteney Street $209,506. To improve the operation of the Nation. Geneva, NY 14456. Contact: Mr. public television station WPTD, Ch. 16, File No. 97059ICTN Oklahoma State Michael Black, General Manager. Funds Dayton, OH, by replacing various items University, Educational Television Requested: $30,500. Total Project Cost: of worn-out and obsolete equipment, Services Telecommunications Center $61,000. To improve public radio including a routing switcher, a character Stillwater, OK 74078–0585. Contact: Dr. station WEOS–FM, operating on 89.7 generator, and monitors and by Glade Presnal, Senior Project Manager. MHZ in Geneva, NY, by replacing cart acquiring a non-linear editing system. Funds Requested: $199,733. Total machines and upgrading Master Control The station serves a population of about Project Cost: $399,466. To install a by the acquisition of an audio storage 2,632,738. compressed video classroom and video device. Also requested is a digital File No. 97174CTB ETV Assoc. of bridge on the main campus of Oklahoma editing work-station for upgrading the Metropolitan Cleveland, WVIZ 4300 State University, Stillwater, to transmit studio and adding 6 microphones and Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44134. instructional programming statewide. stands. Contact: Mr. Jerry F. Wareham, The University plans to use the File No. 97216ICTN Northport-East President/General Manager. Funds Northport U.F.S.D., 110 Elwood Road Requested: $177,250. Total Project Cost: equipment to offer courses in the areas Northport, NY 11768. Contact: Mr. $354,500. To improve the operation of of health care management, engineering Thomas O’Donnell, Director, LRE. public television station WVIZ, Ch. 25, management, teacher certification, Funds Requested: $72,700. Total Project Cleveland, OH, by replacing worn-out educational specialist, telecommunications management, Cost: $145,400. To establish three and obsolete 1′′ and 3⁄4′′ videotape teaching and learning piloting centers— machines with a robotic digital tape Mvskodke (Creek and Seminole ) in Albany, Kingston, and Northport—to cartridge storage system and by language and culture, and Native provide all 951 public and nonpublic expanding the capacity of its master American community-based school communities in New York State control switcher. The station serves a employability skills training. with instructional programs intended to population of about 3,700,000. Oregon advance all students’ achievements in File No. 97185CTB The Ohio State new learning standards established by University, WOSU Stations 2400 File No. 97011CRB The KBOO the New York State Board of Regents. Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH Foundation, 20 S.E. 8th Avenue 43210. Contact: Mr. Tom Lahr, TV Portland, OR 97214. Contact: Ms. Ohio Engineering Manager. Funds Requested: Suzanne White, Station Manager. Funds File No. 97006CRB , $135,847. Total Project Cost: $271,694. Requested: $38,950. Total Project Cost: WMUB Williams Hall Second Floor To improve the operation of public $77,900. To improve the production Spring and Oak Streets Oxford, OH television station WPBO, Ch. 42, facilities of public radio station KBOO– 45056. Contact: Dr. Steven M. DeLue, Portsmouth, OH, by replacing the 24- FM, operating on 90.7 MHZ in Portland, Interim General Manager. Funds year-old STL connecting it to its main OR by replacing equipment in the on-air Requested: $47,636. Total Project Cost: station, WOSU–TV, Ch. 34, Columbus, control room, including a mixing $95,272. To improve the transmission and by establishing remote control of console, disk storage and compressor/ quality of public radio station WMUB, WPBO from WOSU–TV. The stations limiter. The station serves 1.6 million 88.5 MHZ, Oxford, OH, by replacing its serve a population of 384,000. people in the greater Portland area. 20-year-old STL to complement the File No. 97186CTBN Greater File No. 97099CTB Southern Oregon recent installation of a new transmitter. TV Edu’l Fndn, WCET 1223 Public Television, 34 South Fir Street In addition, the project will improve the Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214. Medford, OR 97501. Contact: Mr. program origination capacity of the Contact: Mr. W. Wayne Godwin, William Campbell, President/CEO. station by replacing worn-out and President & General Manager. Funds Funds Requested: $62,325. Total Project obsolete items of studio equipment, Requested: $108,707. Total Project Cost: Cost: $83,100. To improve the including a console, DAT recorders, CD $217,415. To improve the operation of production capability of public players, an automation system, a public television station WCET, Ch. 48, television station KSYS–TV, operating cassette deck, and microphones and by Cincinnati, OH, by acquiring a digital on Ch. 8 in Medford, by replacing three acquiring a non-linear audio storage and non-linear tape editing system and a inoperable cameras. The applicant is editing system. The station serves a package of production equipment to currently using cameras on loan from a population base of about 312,302. enable the station to expand its local school. KSYS serves 160,000 File No. 97017CTB Ohio University, educational and instructional programs. residents of southwest Oregon and Telecommunications Center WOUB–TV The station serves a population of about northern California. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27675

File No. 97104CRTB Oregon Public needs that might be feasible for a at 88.3 MHZ in Oil City, PA, to serve Broadcasting, OPB Administration 7140 potential interconnected network among about 56,184 persons. SW Macadam Ave. Portland, OR 97219. government agencies, educational Puerto Rico Contact: Ms. Debbi Hinton, Sr. Vice institutions, and business organizations President. Funds Requested: $59,853. in Titusville, PA and eight surrounding File No. 97031CTB Puerto Rico Public Total Project Cost: $119,706. To municipalities. Brdcstg Corp., Office of Planning & Dev. improve services provided to the File No. 97143CRB The Pennsylvania 570 Hostos Avenue Baldrich San Juan, visually and aurally handicapped State University, WPSU 102 Wagner PR 00919. Contact: Mrs. Alba Rivera, residents of Oregon. Stereo and SAP Building University Park, PA 16802– Acting Dir., Dev. & Planning. Funds equipment will be added to the 3899. Contact: Mr. Mark D. Erstling, Requested: $192,455. Total Project Cost: applicant’s statewide public television General Manager. Funds Requested: $384,910. To improve the facilities of system., including stations in Portland $32,412. Total Project Cost: $64,825. To WIPR–TV, operating on Ch. 6 in San (KOPB–TV), Corvallis (KOAC–TV), improve the operation of public radio Juan, by establishing a translation and Eugene (KEPB–TV), and La Grande station WPSU, 91.5 MHZ, University center to translate educational (KTVR–TV). The television stations Park, PA, by replacing items of worn-out and instructional programming into would distribute the applicant’s Golden and obsolete production equipment, Spanish. The programs will be available Hours Reading Service statewide. including an audio console, minidisk to the 3.5 million people served by the File No. 97105CRB Oregon Public system, DAT recorders, CD players, a applicant as well as educators and Broadcasting, OPB Administration 7140 telephone hybrid, monitoring speakers, public broadcasters on the mainland SW Macadam Ave Portland, OR 97219. and microphones and by acquiring a serving Hispanic audiences. Contact: Ms. Debbi Hinton, Sr. Vice non-linear hard-disk audio storage and South Carolina President. Funds Requested: $89,965. editing system. The station serves a Total Project Cost: $179,930. To population of about 364,769. File No. 97005ICTN South Carolina improve the facilities of public radio File No. 97167ICTN Crawford County ETV Commission, 1101 George Rogers station KOPB–FM, operating on 91.5 Regional Alliance, R.D. 2 Dunham Road Boulevard P. 0. Box 11000 Columbia, SC MHZ in Portland and KOAC–AM, Meadville, PA 16335. Contact: Mrs. 29201. Contact: Mr. Ronald Schoenherr, operating on 550 KHz in Corvallis. The Maryann Martin, Dir. of Grant Senior Vice President. Funds Requested: project would replace aging analog Administration. Funds Requested: $359,296. Total Project Cost: $718,592. audio routing systems with digital $74,338. Total Project Cost: $152,250. To construct a locally-programmed, systems. The stations provide radio To purchase video conferencing four-channel ITFS distance learning service to 2,712,500 residents of Oregon. equipment to allow for workforce system to serve Williamsburg County, in Pennsylvania training and education in Crawford eastern South Carolina. The system will File No. 97094CRB The Pennsylvania County, which is a rural and isolated primarily serve the educational needs of State University, WPSU 102 Wagner area in northwest Pennsylvania. The the elementary, middle, secondary and Building University Park, PA 16802– equipment would be located in the vocational schools in the county, a total 3899. Contact: Mr. Mark D. Erstling, William J. Bainbridge Technology of 15 schools and over 7,000 students. General Manager. Funds Requested: Center, in Meadville. The emphasis The system will also offer adult $40,066. Total Project Cost: $53,422. To would be on the skills training and education courses to benefit the entire extend the coverage of public radio upgrading for the area’s tool and population of the county. The proposed station WPSU, 91.5 MHZ, University machine industry workforce. Much of system will be part of the South Park, PA, by activating translators at the course work would be transmitted Carolina Educational Television 104.7 MHZ in Clearfield, at 92.1 MHZ from Edinboro University of Commission’s expanding statewide in DuBois, and at 95.1 MHZ in Treasure Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State telecommunications network. Lake, PA, to bring the first public radio University at Erie. File No. 97060ICTN Trident signal to about 24,036 persons. WPSU File No. 97183CRB Pittsburgh Technical College, P.O. Box 118067 presently serves a population of about Community Bdcstg, Inc., WYEP 2313 Charleston, SC 29423–8067. Contact: 364,769. East Carson Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Ms. Cindy Schirle, Grants Coordinator. File No. 97100CTB WQED Pittsburgh, Contact: Mr. Lee J. Ferraro, General Funds Requested: $134,611. Total WQED–TV 4802 Fifth Avenue Manager. Funds Requested: $104,762. Project Cost: $420,658. To expand the Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Total Project Cost: $139,683. To applicant’s broadcast video capabilities Jeffrey E. Rutkowski, Director, improve the operation of public radio through the activation of a Ku-band Administrative Svcs. Funds Requested: station WYEP, 91.3 MHZ. Pittsburgh, analog uplink and teleconferencing $98,828. Total Project Cost: $197,656. PA, by replacing items of worn-out and center. To improve the operation of public obsolete production equipment, File No. 97217IPTN Coastal Carolina station WQED–TV, Ch. 13, Pittsburgh, including audio consoles, microphones, University, 755 Highway 544 Conway, PA, by replacing four worn-out and patch bays, and DAT recorders, and by SC 29526. Contact: Dr. Richard Moore, obsolete analog video tape recorders acquiring an 8-track audio tape recorder, Assistant VP, Grants & SR. Funds with composite digital recorders. The a digital cart system, and a non-linear Requested: $92,906. Total Project Cost: station serves a population of about editing system. The station serves a $122,495. To develop a comprehensive 3,250,000. population of about 1,300,000. telecommunications plan for File No. 97109IPTN Titusville File No. 97214CRB WQED Pittsburgh, Georgetown County, SC, that will Redevelopment Authority, 144 W. WQED–FM 4802 Fifth Avenue incorporate higher education Spring Street 2nd Fl. PO Box 425 Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Jim institutions including Coastal Carolina Titusville, PA 16354. Contact: Mr. James Cunningham, Station Manager. Funds University’s Georgetown campus, Allyn, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $89,043. Total Project Cost: government offices, social service Requested: $29,600. Total Project Cost: $118,724. To extend the signal of public agencies, and businesses in a $29,600. To assess current and future station WQED–FM, 89.3 MHZ, cooperative distance learning network alternative technological systems and Pittsburgh, PA, by activating a repeater to provide educational courses and job- 27676 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices related training programs throughout $75,405. Total Project Cost: $100,541. only public television service to about the county. To provide the first public radio service 500,000 people in Corpus Christi plus to 145,665 residents of Bosque, Falls 12 counties. South Dakota and McLennan Counties by constructing File No. 97086CRB Texas Educational File No. 97140CTB S. Dak. Board of an FM repeater station in Waco Broadcasting Coop, 304 East 5th Street Dir. for Education, Cherry & Dakota operating on 88.9 MHZ. The station will Austin, TX 78701. Contact: Ms. Jenny Streets Vermillion, SD 57069–5000. also provide additional public radio Wong, General Manager. Funds Contact: Mr. Don Forseth, Coord. Tech. service to 192,777 residents of Bell, Requested: $13,500. Total Project Cost: Services. Funds Requested: $319,000. Coryell, Falls, McLennan and Milam $21,500. To improve public radio Total Project Cost: $638,000. To Counties. The station will rebroadcast station KOOP–FM, 91.7 MHZ, in Austin improve public television station the program service of KUT–FM, 90.5 by replacing old, obsolete equipment KQSD–TV, Ch. 11, in Lowry by MHZ. in Austin and will be fed by including a modulation monitor, an replacing a 23-year old television satellite delivery. audio console and cabinet, 3 cassette transmitter and associated equipment. File No. 97008CTB Alamo Public T/ recorders, a turntable, 2 headphones Station serves about 35,000 people. C Council, KLRN 501 Broadway San and 2 microphones. KOOP–FM provides Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. service to about 500,000 people in Tennessee Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP Austin and Travis County. File No. 97014CRB University of Telecommunications. Funds Requested: File No. 97095ICTN Amarillo Junior Tennessee, WUTC–FM, Division of $97,768. Total Project Cost: $195,536. College District, 2408 S. Jackson P.O. University 104 Cadek Hall 615 McCallie To improve public television station Box 447 Amarillo, TX 79109. Contact: Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37403. KLRN–TV, Ch. 9, in by Ms. Joyce Herring, General Manager/ Contact: Dr. John McCormack, Director. acquiring a standby studio-to- KACV–TV. Funds Requested: $334,645. Funds Requested: $36,759. Total Project transmitter (STL) microwave link, Total Project Cost: $446,194. To assist a Cost: $73,519. To improve operations additional router switch cards, digital consortium of four West Texas post- and ensure dependable coverage, the audio recording and editing equipment secondary academic institutions deploy University of Tennessee’s WUTC–FM, and replacing two worn out 3⁄4’’ the first phase of an educational and operating on 88.1 MHZ in Chattanooga, videocassette recorders. KLRN–TV instructional videoconferencing will replace its transmitter and modify provides a public television service to network that would serve the Texas its antenna. approximately 2 million people. Panhandle. The four schools are: File No. 97072CRB Cossitt Library, File No. 97015CTB Capital of Texas Amarillo College, Amarillo; Clarendon WYPL, Memphis Public Library 1850 Public T/C Council, KLRU–TV 2504–B College, Clarendon; Frank Phillips Peabody Avenue Memphis, TN 38104. Whitis Street Austin, TX 78705. College, Borger; and West Texas a & M Contact: Mr. Steven Terry, General Contact: Mr. Bill Arhos, President. University, Canyon. Manager. Funds Requested: $217,430. Funds Requested: $96,697. Total Project File No. 97098IPTN San Antonio Total Project Cost: $434,861. To extend Cost: $193,395. To improve public Fight. Back/United Way, 850 E. Drexel the signal of public radio station WYPL– television station KLRU–TV, Ch. 18, in San Antonio, TX 78210. Contact: Ms. FM, operating on 89.3 MHZ in Austin by replacing old, obsolete editing Beverly Watts Davis, Executive Director. Memphis, by relocating the transmitter equipment with a non-linear editing Funds Requested: $256,812. Total and increasing the station’s power. This system and related equipment. New Project Cost: $342,416. To plan for the improvement will provide a first service equipment will significantly improve conversion of a general-purpose to three counties in Tennessee, six the station’s tape editing efficiency. building in San Antonio, TX, to a counties in Arkansas, and two counties KLRU–TV serves approximately 1.2 telecommunications center, primarily in Mississippi, with a combined million people. for the production and distribution of population of approximately 86,000, File No. 97043ICTB Laredo educational and community service and will increase the area of the Community College, West End programming through cable television station’s Radio Reading Service to Washington Laredo, TX 78040. Contact: access channels. approximately 500,000 additional Mr. Blas Casteneda, Exec. Assist. to the File No. 97106CTB North Texas people in Tennessee and surrounding President. Funds Requested: $419,820. Public Broadcasting Inc, 3000 Harry states. Total Project Cost: $559,765. To activate Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: File No. 97135CTB Metropolitan a public television station, which will Mr. Clyde Miller, Vice Pres. & Chief Board of Public Educat, WDCN–TV 161 operate on ch. 39 and bring the first Eng. Funds Requested: $45,000. Total Rains Avenue Nashville, TN 37203. public television service to over 130,000 Project Cost: $90,000. To improve Contact: Mr. Robert Shepherd, residents of Laredo, TX, and the public television station KERA–TV, Ch. Executive VP & GM. Funds Requested: surrounding area. 13, in Dallas by replacing a nine-year $95,000. Total Project Cost: $270,000. File No. 97050CTB South Texas old semi-automatic video cart machine To improve the facilities of public Public Brdcstg. System, 4455 South playback system with a new video hard television station WDCN–TV, Channel 8 Padre Island Drive Suite 38 Corpus drive server. KERA–TV provides public in Nashville, TN, serving approximately Christi, TX 78411. Contact: Mr. Don television service to about 5 million 1,300,000 people, by replacing the 20- Dunlap, President & General Mgr. Funds people. year old studio lighting control and Requested: $151,050. Total Project Cost: File No. 97128ICTN The Univ. of dimmer system. $201,400. To improve public television Texas—Pan American, COSERVE/CEED station KEDT–TV, Ch. 16, in Corpus 1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX Texas Christi by replacing old, obsolete 78539. Contact: Mr. Roland Arriola, File No. 97004CRB The University of dissemination equipment (spread Executive Director. Funds Requested: Texas at Austin, KUT Radio spectrum data link and monitoring $326,415. Total Project Cost: $435,220. Communications Building B 2504 equipment) and origination equipment To purchase remote video production Whitis Street Austin, TX 78712. (local break insertion equipment, audio equipment to activate a community Contact: Mr. Dana Whitehair, Technical production equipment and a lighting access system the programs of which Operations Mgr. Funds Requested: update package). KEDT–TV provides the will be transmitted over dedicated cable Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices 27677 television channels in the communities San Saba Independent School Districts. Network. All the classrooms will be of Edinburg, Rio Grande City, and The INFO–NET system currently interconnected by fiber optic cable in a Mercedes, all located in extreme south consists of eight rural central Texas broadband, digital, switched service Texas. school districts. With the additional provided by the telephone companies. File No. 97169CRB Texas Tech districts, the INFO–NET system would File No. 97187ICTN Old Dominion University, KOHM P.O. Box 43082 102 serve the following counties: University, Academic Television Mass Communications Building McCulloch, Mills, San Saba, Coryell, Services Room 228 Education Building Lubbock, TX 79409. Contact: Dr. Clive Hamilton, and Lampasas. Norfolk, VA 23529. Contact: Dr. J.C. Kinghorn, General Manager. Funds Phillips, Director Academic TV. Funds Requested: $10,000. Total Project Cost: Utah Requested: $204,760. Total Project Cost: $20,100. To improve public radio File No. 97034CRB Utah State $409,520. To expand the service to the station KOHM–FM, 89.1 MHZ, in University of Agriculture, KUSU–FM TELETECHNET distance learning Lubbock by replacing a nine-year-old 8505 University Blvd Logan, UT 84322– project to six additional regions of audio console. KOHM–FM provides the 8505. Contact: Mr. Bryan Earl, Virginia. Satellite receive equipment only public radio service to Development Director. Funds will be placed at educational approximately 260,000 people. Requested: $9,112. Total Project Cost: institutions in Big Stone Gap, File No. 97177CTB University of $12,150. To extend the signal of public Fredericksburg, Chester County, , KUHT–TV (Houston Public radio station KUSU–FM, 91.5 MHZ, in Hampton, Herndon, and Suffolk, VA. TV) 4513 Cullen Boulevard Houston, TX Logan, by constructing a new FM The project will also purchase 77004. Contact: Mr. Jeff Clarke, CEO & translator on 100.1 MHZ in Roosevelt. equipment to permit extension of the General Manager. Funds Requested: The new translator will provide first TELETECHNET, through closed $511,240. Total Project Cost: $1,278,099. service to about 10,250 people. captioning, to the hearing impaired, ESL To improve public television station File No. 97069CTB University of (English as a second language) and KUHT–TV, Ch. 8, in Houston by Utah, Media Services 101 Wasatch Drive learning disabled population of replacing a 13-year-old transmitter and Eccles Broadcast Center—Room 1 Salt Virginia. an outdated on-air routing switcher. Lake City, UT 84112. Contact: Mr. File No. 97213CRB Clinch Valley KUH–TV provides the only public TV Edward Ridges, Associate Director. College/U. of VA, Office of College signal to about 4.2 million people in Funds Requested: $150,665. Total Relations 1 College Avenue Wise, VA metropolitan Houston and surrounding Project Cost: $286,266. To improve and 24293. Contact: Mr. Scott Pippin, communities. extend the facilities of public television Director of College Relations. Funds File No. 97181ICTN Alliance for stations KUED–TV (Ch. 7) and KULC– Requested: $155,620. Total Project Cost: Higher Education, Lb 107 Suite 250 TV (Ch. 9) in Salt Lake City by replacing $282,085. To provide first or improved 17103 Preston Road Dallas, TX 75248. seven old TV translators: K56AE (Heber public radio services to about 35,000 Contact: Dr. Harvey Stone, Dir. for City-Wasatch County); KO7JV residents of the southwestern corner of Network Programming. Funds (Circleville-Piute County); K21EI (Beryl/ the state of Virginia by constructing a Requested: $1,408,591. Total Project Modena/Newcastle-Iron County); Class a radio station in Wise (VA), Cost: $2,817,182. To expand the service K56AZ (Antimony-Piute County); operating on 90.5 MHZ. area of the Alliance Information K56BP (Hatch-Garfield County); K30DE Network. The project will purchase (Apple Valley-Washington County); Washington digital equipment to link 23 institutions K46DF (Paren.-Iron County). Project will File No. 97025CRB KSER Foundation, via T–1 lines to the network. The add two new TV translators at KSER Community Radio 14920 Hwy 99 Alliance Information Network is Orderville-Kane County (Ch. 21) and #150 Lynnwood, WA 98037. Contact: constructing a fiber optic network to Spencer Bench/Alton-Kane County (Ch. Mr. John Thielke, President. Funds serve the higher education, K–12 54). Project will also connect KULC–TV Requested: $10,650. Total Project Cost: schools and health care systems in the and KUED–TV translators and the fiber $14,200. To improve the facilities of Dalles-Fort Worth Metroplex. optic network via microwave in KSER–FM, 90.7 MHZ in Lynnwood, File No. 97203ICTN Houston Washington and Iron counties. In Washington, by replacing analog Community College System, 22 Waugh addition, project will replace an origination equipment with digital Drive P.O. Box 7849 Houston, TX unreliable audio and visual exciter on equipment, including DAT recorders, 77270–7849. Contact: Dr. Charles Orsak, the KULC–TV transmitter. Stations microphones, headphones and a digital Dir./Research & Development. Funds serve about 1.7 million people and two audio editing station. Requested: $711,028. Total Project Cost: new translators will add first service to File No. 97056CTB Bates Technical $1,422,056. To purchase head-end, about 975 people. College, KBTC–TV 1101 South Yakima production, and editing equipment that Avenue Tacoma, WA 98405. Contact: would activate a cable television access Virginia Ms. Debbie Emond, General Manager. channel and bring diverse educational File No. 97126ICTN SW Virginia Funds Requested: $437,829. Total and municipal programming to the city Educ. & Training Netwrk, 15856 Project Cost: $583,773. To expand and of Stafford, TX. Porterfield Highway P.O. Box 1987 improve the services of KBTC–TV, File No. 97219ICTN San Saba Abingdon, VA 24212–1987. Contact: Mr. Channel 28 in Tacoma, by constructing Independent School Dist., INFO–NET Bruce Mathews, Executive Director. a repeater station in Bellingham, 607 West Storey St. San Saba, TX 76877. Funds Requested: $49,644. Total Project operating on channel 34 and providing Contact: Mr. Johnny W. Clawson, Cost: $99,289. To establish a video first public television services to Superintendent. Funds Requested: classroom for the Southwest Virginia approximately 173,000 people . $341,950. Total Project Cost: $516,950. Education and Training Network. The File No. 97065CTB Washington State To extend the INFO–NET distance classroom, which would be located at University, Educational T/C and learning system to four additional the Southwest Virginia Higher Technology 382 Murrow Center school districts in central Texas. The Education Center in Abingdon, would Administration Road Pullman, WA new INFO–NET members would be the be one of a network of such video 99164–2530. Contact: Mr. Dennis Evant, Lometa, Richland Springs, and classrooms under development by the Haarsager, Assoc. VP & General Mgr. 27678 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 / Notices

Funds Requested: $123,492. Total (AIHEC) distance learning network, Communications Board 3319 West Project Cost: $246,984. To improve the creating a northwest subnetwork Beltline Highway Madison, WI 53713– production facilities of KWSU–TV, capable of extending educational 4296. Contact: Mr. Thomas L. Channel 10 in Pullman and KTNW–TV, services and programs to more than 45 Fletemeyer, Executive Director. Funds Channel 31 in Richland, by replacing tribal communities in the Pacific Requested: $200,500. Total Project Cost: the 19-year-old studio production Northwest and Alaska. $401,000. To improve the facilities switcher and video effects unit. File No. 97220CRB Spokane Public within the State network through the File No. 97073CRB Washington State Radio, KPBX 2319 North Monroe Street mother TV station WHA–TV, operating University, Educational Telecomm. & Spokane, WA 99205. Contact: Mr. on Channel 21 in Madison, WI, by Technology 382 Murrow Center Richard Kunkel, President & GM. Funds replacing worn-out and obsolete master Administration Road Pullman, WA Requested: $166,605. Total Project Cost: control equipment at the statewide 99164–2530. Contact: Mr. Dennis $222,140. To improve the facilities of origination and distribution center. The Haarsager, Assoc VP & General Mgr. KPBX–FM, 91.1 in Spokane (WA) by items to be replaced are video tape Funds Requested: $206,453. Total replacing the 19-year-old transmitter, machines and video monitors. Project Cost: $275,271. To expand the exciter, modulation monitor system and public radio network by constructing the building ventilation system. West Virginia satellite stations in Chehalis (88.9 File No. 97047ICTN Bluefield State MHZ), Mt. Vernon (91.7 MHZ) and Port College, 219 Rock Street Bluefield, WV Angeles (90.1 MHZ). The proposed new File No. 97160CTB Area 24701. Contact: Ms. Annette Osborne, facilities will provide first public radio Technical College, WMVS/WMVT 1036 Dir./Inst. Advancm’t & Plan’g. Funds services to about 168,000 rural residents North 8th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233. Requested: $225,000. Total Project Cost: of western Washington. Contact: Mr. Bryce Combs, General $300,000. To extend the distance File No. 97097ICTN Manager. Funds Requested: $1,299,400. learning network of Bluefield State Community College Dist. VI, Total Project Cost: $2,598,800. To College, the main campus of which is in Department of Communications 1500 improve public television stations Bluefield, WV. The project would install Harvard Avenue Seattle, WA 98122– WMVS–TV, operating on Channel 10, a codec and video classroom equipment 2400. Contact: Mr. Ross Davis, Director and WMVT–TV, operating on Channel at the College’s Beckley Campus. The of Communications. Funds Requested: 36 in Milwaukee, WI, by replacing project would also upgrade the College’s $54,000. Total Project Cost: $72,000. To worn-out and obsolete transmission present receive-only video classroom at improve the production facilities of the equipment including three , the Greenbrier Community College Seattle Community College District VI two antennas, two transmission lines Center to full origination capability. In video production studio by purchasing (all of which are almost 17 years old), addition, at public television station editing and post-production equipment, and a tower strengthening study. WSWP–TV, Beckley, the project would including a non-linear editing station. File No. 97176CRB Back Porch Radio install a digital multipoint control unit This would allow the College District to Broadcasting, Inc., WORT 118 South to serve as the distance learning extend its distance learning service to Bedord Street Madison, WI 53703. network hub. Also, the project would new learners via local cable television Contact: Ms. Cynthia Fesemyer, construct receive-only video classrooms stations and ITFS channels. Business & Foundation Director. Funds File No. 97102IPTN Northwest Indian Requested: $20,000. Total Project Cost: at Pocahontas County High School and College, Extension Services 2522 Kwina $41,144. To improve public radio at the McDowell County Vocational Road Bellingham, WA 98226. Contact: station WORT–FM, operating on 89.9 Technical Center, Welsh. The network Mr. Jeff Hamley, Dean, Extension MHZ, in Madison, WI, by replacing its sites are interconnected by T–1 service. Services. Funds Requested: $130,353. very limited and unstable STL with a Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, Total Project Cost: $164,760. To new microwave radio system and Associate Administrator, Office of complete a telecommunications study adding the necessary one-way stereo Telecommunications and Information and action plan to link Northwest RPU package. Applications. Indian College with the American File No. 97194CTB State of [FR Doc. 97–13145 Filed 5–19–97; 8:45 am] Indian Higher Education Council Wisconsin, Educational BILLING CODE 3510±60±P