[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 3 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 1710-1711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-245]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
7 CFR Part 1755
Telecommunications Standards and Specifications for Materials,
Equipment and Construction; Correcting Amendments
AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Correcting amendments.
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SUMMARY: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is correcting its telephone
regulations in order to add a recently approved Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) information collection control number to recently
published RUS telephone specifications and to replace the old control
numbers in the existing regulations with the recently approved control
number.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 5, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jill M. Eberhart, Management
Analyst, Program Support Staff, Rural Utilities Service, room 2242,
South Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-
1500, telephone number (202) 720-0380.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Pursuant to the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of
1994 (Pub. L. 103-354, 108 Stat. 3178), the United States Secretary of
Agriculture simultaneously abolished the Rural Electrification
Administration (REA) and established the Rural Utilities Service (RUS).
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) recently issued three standards and
specifications that need the addition of an Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) control number in the regulatory text. RUS stated in the
preambles of these three rules that RUS would publish a technical
amendment to add this number to the rules when the information
collection was reapproved. As OMB recently [[Page 1711]] reapproved
this information collection, RUS is hereby adding this number to the
three specifications. Also, RUS is replacing the old control number in
existing codified telecommunications specifications found in 7 CFR part
1755 which need new control numbers to replace the previously approved
number.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 1755
Loan programs--communications, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Rural areas, Telephone.
Accordingly, 7 CFR part 1755 is corrected by making the following
amendments:
PART 1755--TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR
MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION
1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 1755 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 1921 et seq.
Secs. 1755.390, 1755.522, 1755.860, 1755.890 [Amended]
2. At the end but before Appendix A of Secs. 1755.390, 1755.522,
1755.860, and 1755.890, remove the Office of Management and Budget
control number ``0572-0077'' in the parentheticals, and add, in its
place, the number ``0572-0059''.
Sec. 1755.397 [Amended]
3. At the end of Sec. 1755.397 introductory text, remove the Office
of Management and Budget control number ``0572-0062'' in the
parentheticals, and add, in its place, the number ``0572-0059''.
Secs. 1755.525, 1755.870, 1755.900 [Amended]
4. At the end of Sec. 1755.525, and at the end but before Appendix
A of Secs. 1755.870 and 1755.900, add the following statement to read
as follows:
(The information collection and recordkeeping requirements of this
section have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
under control number 0572-0059.)
Dated: December 1, 1994.
Bob J. Nash,
Under Secretary, Rural Economic and Community Development.
[FR Doc. 95-245 Filed 1-4-95; 8:45 am]
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