25528 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Closing Date, published in the Federal also purchase 74 compressed digital Register on February 22, 1996.3 receivers to receive the digital satellite National Telecommunications and Applications Received: In all, 251 service. Information Administration applications were received from 47 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, AL (Alabama) [Docket Number: 960205021±6132±02] the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, File No. 96006 CTB Alabama ETV RIN 0660±ZA01 American Samoa, and the Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Ste 400, Birmingham, AL 35205±2884. Public Telecommunications Facilities Islands. The total amount of funds Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, APT Program (PTFP) requested by the applications is $54.9 Executive Director. Funds Requested: $186,878. Total Project Cost: $373,756. AGENCY: National Telecommunications million. Notice is hereby given that the PTFP Replace fourteen Alabama Public and Information Administration, received applications from the following Television microwave equipment Commerce. organizations. The list includes all shelters throughout the state network, ACTION: Notice, funding availability and applications received. Identification of add a shelter and wiring for an applications received. any application only indicates its emergency generator at WCIQ which receipt. It does not indicate that it has experiences AC power outages, and SUMMARY: The National been accepted for review, has been replace the network's on-line editing Telecommunications and Information determined to be eligible for funding, or system at its only production facility in Administration (NTIA) previously that an application will receive an Montgomery, Alabama. announced the solicitation of grant award. File No. 96087 CTB 95055. City of applications for the Public Any interested party may file Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane, Telecommunications Facilities Program comments with the Agency supporting Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon. (PTFP) for planning and construction or opposing an application and setting Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds grants for public telecommunications forth the grounds for support or Requested: $418,924. Total Project Cost: facilities. The PTFP had not received its opposition. Such comments must $668,924. To establish a low-power final status of funding at that time, and contain a certification that a copy of the noncommercial television station stated that PTFP would publish a notice comments has been delivered to the operating on Channel 60 in Prichard, when the funding status for fiscal year applicant. Comments must be sent to Alabama, to provide educational and 1996 was known. This notice will the following address: NTIA/PTFP, informational services to the city of announce the funding level, as well as Room 4625, 14th Street and Prichard and surrounding areas. announce the applications which were Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, File No. 96107 CRB Gadsden State received in response to the solicitation. DC 20230. Community College, 1001 George FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Agency will incorporate all Wallace Drive, Gadsden, AL 35902. Dennis Connors, Director, Public comments from the public and any Signed By: Dr. Victor Ficker, President. Broadcasting Division, telephone: (202) replies from the applicant in the Funds Requested: $49,250. Total Project 482±5802; fax: (202) 482±2156. applicant's official file. Cost: $98,500. To upgrade the power Information about the PTFP can also be and antenna height of noncommercial obtained electronically via Internet AK (Alaska) radio station, WSGN±FM, operating on (send inquiries to http:// File No. 96132 CTB Alaska Public 91.5 MHz from Gadsden State www.ntia.doc.gov) or through the NTIA Telecomm., Inc., 3877 University Drive, Community College in Gadsden, BBS at (202) 482±1199 (set computer Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Ms. Alabama. modems for 8 stop bits, 0 polarity). Susan Reed, President. Funds File No. 96124 ICTN 95082. Black SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Funding Requested: $663,350. Total Project Cost: Warrior Telecom Consortium, 607 Availability: By Federal Register notice $844,479. To replace the 22-year-old Highway 80 West, Demopolis, AL dated February 22, 1996, the NTIA, transmitter for public TV station KAKM, 36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters, within the Department of Commerce, which operates on Ch. 7 in Anchorage. President. Funds Requested: $193,484. announced that the program was The project would also purchase a Total Project Cost: $257,978. To soliciting grant applications, and that replacement hot-standby STL for one of construct a video production studio and the closing date for receipt of the station's STL hops, SAP generation purchase related test equipment for the applications was 5 p.m. EST, March 28, equipment, and diverse test equipment Black Warrior Telecommunications 1996.1 The Notice of Closing Date items. Consortium, Inc., Demopolis, Alabama. provided that announcement of File No. 96249 ICTB Bethel The studio will allow the Consortium to available funds would be made once Broadcasting, Inc., Pouch 468, Bethel, originate educational programming to be Congress appropriated an amount for AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. John transmitted over the ITFS systems the PTFP. On April 26, 1996, Congress McDonald, General Manager/Station operated by the Consortium members. appropriated $15.5 million for the KYUK. Funds Requested: $543,340. The Consortium is composed of five PTFP.2 Total Project Cost: $742,510. To school systems (Marengo, Greene, and Except for the notice that funding for purchase three digital encoders to Sumter Counties and the cities of the PTFP for FY 1996 is $15.5 million, convert the satellite offerings of the Demopolis and Linden City) and the all other information announced in the Distance Delivery Consortium from West Alabama Health Services, all Notice of Closing Date remains in effect. analog to digital service. The Distance located in rural west Alabama. For further information on the Public Delivery Consortium provides File No. 96178 ICTBN University of Telecommunications Facilities Program, instructional programming to 52 villages AL Board of Trustees, Box 870104,G± please refer to the program's Notice of in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of 60 Rose Admin. Bld, Tuscaloosa, AL Western Alaska, the Interior of Alaska, 35487. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wells, 1 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996). and Southeast Alaska. The project will Ass't Academic VP for Research. Funds 2 Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, II, Pub. L. Requested: $138,771. Total Project Cost: No. 104±134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996). 3 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996). $277,542. To convert an analog Ku-band Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 99 / Tuesday, May 21, 1996 / Notices 25529 uplink to digital compression. The File No. 96250 ICRTN Government of Community College at Page; Eastern conversion to digital will enable American Samoa, Office of Governor, Arizona College at Payson; and continued distribution of three weekly Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mr. Northland Pioneer College at Show instructional series on Integrated Aifili Lutali, Governor. Funds Low. The project would also install hub Science to over 150,000 students Requested: $398,600. Total Project Cost: site equipment at NAU/Flagstaff, NAU/ nationwide in grades 5, 6, and 7, and $398,600. To activate a new service for Yuma, and at the NAUNet hub site in will permit the delivery of this program distance education by purchasing a Phoenix. All system end-points would directly to schools and public television digital satellite system to serve include equipment for interface with entities. American Samoa. The system will host-institution Local Area Networks provide compressed digital video and be (LANs) and would provide students AR (Arkansas) affiliated with the Pan-Pacific with local dial-up access to e-mail, File No. 96105 CTB Arkansas ETV Educational and Communications bulletin boards, and Internet service. Commission, 350 South Donaghey, Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) File No. 96123 CRB Maricopa County Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. program headquartered in Hawaii. Cmty Coll. Dist., 3124 East Roosevelt, Susan Howarth, Executive Director. Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr. Funds Requested: $242,049. Total AZ (Arizona) Alfredo de los Santos, Vice Chancellor Project Cost: $484,099. To improve the File No. 96063 PRB Hopi Foundation, Ed. Dev. Funds Requested: $15,089. state's public television network by Highway 264 Market 367±9,, Hotevilla, Total Project Cost: $30,178. To acquire establishing a production and distance AZ 86030. Signed By: Ms. Barbara 420 SCA radio receivers for use by learning studio in Little Rock thus Poley, Executive Director. Funds print-impaired persons. The special improving the AETN's ability to Requested: $37,176. Total Project Cost: receivers will be distributed to all areas produce and broadcast news and $41,156. Conduct planning activities, served by the stations carrying the information programs from the state including engineering and research service. The main studio is in Phoenix, capital. AETN serves approximately studies, for the construction of a public with satellite facilities in Tucson and 2.35 million people. radio facility in Hotevilla, Arizona, Flagstaff. This 24-hour service provides File No. 96110 CRB Arkansas State serving the Hopi Indian reservation of the only radio reading service in AZ. University, 104 Cooley St, P.O. Drawer northeastern Arizona. File