[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 121 (Friday, June 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 32652]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15464]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket Number: 950124024-5157-02]
RIN 0660-AA04


National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program 
(TIIAP)

AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of partial rescission of funds for fiscal year 1995.

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SUMMARY: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA) previously announced the availability of $64 million in funds 
for the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance 
Program (TIIAP) to promote the widespread use of advanced 
telecommunications and information technologies in the public and non-
profit sectors.1 By providing targeted, matching demonstration and 
planning grants, TIIAP will help to develop a nationwide, interactive, 
multimedia information infrastructure that is accessible to citizens in 
rural as well as urban areas. A partial rescission of $15 million of 
the TIIAP funds, however, was recently enacted by Congress.

    \1\ TIIAP; Notice of Availability of Funds, 60 Fed. Reg. 8156 
(Feb. 10, 1995) [hereinafter Notice of Availability]
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SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: By Federal Register notice dated February 10, 
1995, the NTIA, within the Department of Commerce, announced that 
Congress had appropriated $64 million for the TIIAP for FY 1995.2 
The grant funds ``may be used for the planning and construction of 
telecommunications networks for the provision of educational, cultural, 
health care, public information, public safety, or other social 
services.'' 3

    \2\ Id. at 8160.
    \3\ Departments of Commerce, Justice, and the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995, Pub. L. No. 103-317, 108 
Stat. 1724, 1747 (1994).
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    Out of the $64 million originally appropriated for the TIIAP, $15 
million was rescinded.4 This partial rescission reduces the TIIAP 
budget to $49 million for FY 1995. Accordingly, the Notice of 
Availability is hereby modified to reflect this change.

    \4\ Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions for 
the Department of Defense to Preserve and Enhance the Military 
Readiness Act of 1995; Mexican Debt Disclosure Act of 1995, Pub. L. 
No. 104-6, 109 Stat. 73, 84 (1995).
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    Except for the partial rescission reducing the TIIAP funds to $49 
million, the Program Categories, Evaluation Criteria, Selection 
Process, as well as all other information announced in the Notice of 
Availability remain in effect.
Larry Irving,
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information.
[FR Doc. 95-15464 Filed 6-22-95; 8:45 am]
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