[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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