[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 78 (Friday, April 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
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Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP); Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
[Docket Number: 981028269-9093-02]
RIN 0660-ZA05


Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)

AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of applications received.

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SUMMARY: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA) previously announced the solicitation of grant applications for 
the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). This notice 
announces the list of applications received and notifies any interested 
party that it may file comments with the Agency supporting or opposing 
an application.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Cooperman, Acting Director, 
Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, telephone: (202) 482-
5802; fax: (202) 482-2156. Information about the PTFP can also be 
obtained electronically via Internet (send inquiries to http://
www.ntia.doc.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By Federal Register notice dated November 6, 
1998, the NTIA, within the Department of Commerce, announced that it 
was soliciting grant applications for the Public Telecommunications 
Facilities Program (PTFP). NTIA announced that the closing date for 
receipt of PTFP applications was 8 p.m. EST, January 14, 1999.
    In all, the PTFP received 252 applications from 48 states and 
territories. The total amount of funds requested by the applicants is 
$74.8 million.
    Notice is hereby given that the PTFP received applications from the 
following organizations. The list includes all applications received. 
Identification of any application only indicates its receipt. It does 
not indicate that it has been accepted for review, has been determined 
to be eligible for funding, or that an application will receive an 
award.
    Any interested party may file comments with the Agency supporting 
or opposing an application and setting forth the grounds for support or 
opposition. PTFP will forward a copy of any opposing comments to the 
applicant. Comments must be sent to PTFP at the following address: 
NTIA/PTFP, Room 4625, 1401 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230.
    The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any 
replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.

Alaska

    File No. 99069CRB, Rainbird Community Broadcasting Corporation, 123 
Stedman Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901. Contact: Ms. Mary White, General 
Manager, (907) 225-9655. Funds Requested: $42,494. Total Project Cost: 
$56,659. To replace the obsolete 23-year-old transmitter at public 
radio station KRBD(FM), which operates on 105.9 MHz in Ketchikan, AK.
    File No. 99070CRB, Wrangell Radio Group, Inc., 202 St. Michael St., 
Wrangell, AK 99929. Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Peterman, General Manager, 
(907) 874-2345. Funds Requested: $38,969. Total Project Cost: $51,959. 
To replace an obsolete and worn-out 20-year-old transmitter at public 
radio station KSTK(FM), which operates on 101.7 MHz in Wrangell, AK.
    File No. 99086CRB, University of Alaska/Fairbanks, 201 Theatre 
Building, Fairbanks, AK 997755620. Contact: Mr. Jerry Brigham, General 
Manager, (907) 474-7508. Funds Requested: $25,951. Total Project Cost: 
$51,903. To replace worn-out and obsolete studio production equipment 
at public radio station KUAC(FM), which operates on 89.9 MHz in 
Fairbanks, AK, and which is licensed to the University of Alaska. The 
project would purchase a hard disk record/playback system, two digital, 
dual-line, auto-nulling telephone hybrids, and six computerized audio 
editing systems.
    File No. 99097CRB, CoastAlaska, Inc., 360 Egan Drive, Juneau, AK 
99801. Contact: Mr. James Waste, Executive Director, (907) 463-6420. 
Funds Requested: $61,320. Total Project Cost: $81,760. To replace 
inadequate, obsolete and aging automation systems at two public radio 
stations in southeast Alaska: KFSK(FM), Petersburg, and KTOO(FM), 
Juneau. The project would purchase new digital storage and automation 
systems for the two stations. The new systems would allow KFSK(FM) and 
KTOO(FM) to participate fully in their regional network, which is part 
of Alaska's Satellite Interconnection Project (SIP). CoastAlaska, Inc. 
is a consortial effort of the five public radio stations in Southeast 
Alaska. CoastAlaska, Inc. provides centralized administrative, 
development, membership, engineering, and news programming support 
services to its member-stations. The three other stations in the 
consortium are: KCAW(FM), Sitka; KRBD(FM), Ketchikan; and KSTK(FM), 
Wrangell.
    File No. 99098CRB, Raven Radio Foundation, Inc., 2B Lincoln St., 
Sitka, AK 99835. Contact: Ms. Lisa Herwald, Chief Operating Officer, 
(907) 747-5877. Funds Requested: $32,744. Total Project Cost: $43,659. 
To replace an obsolete, failing 18-year-old transmitter at public radio 
station KCAW(FM), which operates on 104.7 MHz in Sitka, AK.
    File No. 99129CRB, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, 818 E 9th Avenue, 
Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Jaclyn Sallee, President & CEO, (907) 
258-8880. Funds Requested: $103,555. Total Project Cost: $138,073. To 
improve the studio production capabilities of public radio station 
KNBA(FM), which operates on 90.3 MHz in Anchorage. KNBA(FM) is a 
Native-owned station that targets its programming for Native people not 
only in Anchorage but also, via satellite distribution, throughout 
Alaska and nationwide. The project would purchase four additional 
workstations, upgrade the station's storage capacity, ensure Y2K 
compliance of its current Dalet automation system, upgrade the 
production equipment in the station's existing studios, and create a 
new production/recording room to provide production facilities that 
must now be rented.
    File No. 99130PRB, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, 818 East 9th 
Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Jaclyn Sallee, President & 
CEO, (907) 258-8880. Funds Requested: $38,670. Total Project Cost: 
$94,858. To assist the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation to plan how best 
to relocate the studios of its public radio station, KNBA(FM), which 
operates on 90.3 MHz in Anchorage, AK. The Koahnic Broadcast 
Corporation is a Native-owned entity. KNBA(FM) offers programming 
targeted to Native people not only in Anchorage but also, via satellite 
distribution, throughout Alaska and nationwide.
    File No. 99151CRB, Unalakleet Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box 178, 
Unalakleet, AK 99684. Contact: Mr. Henry Ivanoff, General Manager, 
(907) 624-3745. Funds Requested: $85,302. Total Project Cost: $113,737. 
To improve the transmission and interconnection facilities at public 
radio station KNSA(AM), in Unalakleet, AK. The project would replace 
KNSA(AM)'s 17-year-old transmitter and would help the station purchase 
a satellite receive-only earth station. The latter would allow the 
station to have access to statewide and nationally-distributed 
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    File No. 99170CRB, Alaska Public Radio Network, 810 East 9th 
Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Tammy Gilstrap, Business 
Manager, (907) 277-2776. Funds Requested: $54,225. Total Project Cost: 
$72,300. To improve the studio production facilities of the Alaska 
Public Radio Network (APRN). The APRN is a nonprofit organization that, 
from its Anchorage studios, provides programming, representation, and 
satellite distribution to its 29 public radio member-stations 
statewide. The project would upgrade APRN's digital audio processing 
system to make it Y2K compliant and purchase an ISDN transmitter/
receiver, a telephone hybrid, eight minidisc portable recorders, and 
six minidisc studio recorders.
    File No. 99179CRB, Kuskokwim Public Broadcasting Corporation, Mile 
389 Iditarod Trail, McGrath, AK 99627. Contact: Ms. Amie Hind, General 
Manager, (907) 561-9234. Funds Requested: $34,305. Total Project Cost: 
$75,741. To improve the studio production and interconnection 
facilities of public radio station KSKO(AM), which brings the sole such 
signal to the 6,000 residents of McGrath, AK. The project would replace 
a 20-year-old satellite receive-only earth station, a power generator 
at the station's transmission site, and diverse items of studio 
equipment.
    File No. 99244PRTBN, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., 122 First 
Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701. Contact: Mr. Alfred Ketzler, Chief 
Administrative Officer, (907) 452-8251. Funds Requested: $59,066. Total 
Project Cost: $67,866. To help the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., 
Fairbanks, AK, plan for possible activation of tribally-owned public 
radio, public television, and distance learning facilities to serve the 
needs of the 14,000 Alaskan Natives who reside in the State's vast 
Interior Region. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc. is a consortium of 
42 tribal villages that are located throughout an area of 235,000 
square miles, which represents approximately 39% of the entire State of 
Alaska.

Alabama

    File No. 99085CTB, Alabama Educational Television Commission, 2112 
11th Avenue, South Birmingham, AL 352052884. Contact: Mr. Philip 
Hutcheson, Deputy Director/CFO, (205) 328-8756. Funds Requested: 
$810,667. Total Project Cost: $1,621,334. To improve the statewide 
microwave system operated by the applicant which interconnects the 
state's nine public television stations. The project will replace 60 FM 
analog modulators and 59 FM analog demodulators with digital encoders 
and decoders and add MPEG II equipment. The project will ensure 
continued public television service to 4.2 million residents of Alabama 
and will assist in the state's conversion to digital technologies.

Arkansas

    File No. 99055CTB, Arkansas Educational Television Commission, 350 
S. Donaghey, Conway, AR 72032. Contact: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive 
Director, (501) 682-2386. Funds Requested: $178,842. Total Project 
Cost: $357,685. To improve the state's public TV network by replacing 
old, obsolete origination equipment. New equipment includes prompters, 
lighting system, camera pedestals and an audio mixer. Network serves 
about 2.35 million people.
    File No. 99248CRB, Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation, 2101 S. Main 
Street, Little Rock, AR 72206. Contact: Ms. Valerie Coffin, Station 
Manager, (501) 372-6119. Funds Requested: $68,925. Total Project Cost: 
$93,925. To improve public radio station KABF-FM, 88.3 MHz, in Little 
Rock by replacing old, worn out dissemination and origination equipment 
including remote control, studio-to-transmitter link, coax cable, 
consoles, speakers, microphones and similar equipment. KABF-FM serves 
about 623,000 people. The Little Rock area is also served by several 
other public radio stations.

Arizona

    File No. 99008CTB, Arizona Board of Regents in behalf of Arizona 
State University, Box 871405, Tempe, AZ 852874505. Contact: Mr. Larry 
Fallis, Sponsored Projects Officer, (602) 965-1415. Funds Requested: 
$1,395,000. Total Project Cost: $2,790,000. To assist in the digital 
conversion for KAET-DT, Ch. 29, Phoenix, by purchasing a DTV 
transmitter, antenna, transmission line, digital microwave, digital 
master control, test and monitoring equipment. KAET-TV, Ch. 8, Phoenix, 
currently serves about 3.5 million people.
    File No. 99056ICTN, Arizona Board of Regents for and on Behalf of 
Northern Arizona University, Old Main, Bldg 10, Room 209 Flagstaff, AZ 
86011. Contact: Mr. Edward Groenhout, VP for Strategic Initiatives, 
(520) 523-1805. Funds Requested: $1,403,838. Total Project Cost: 
$1,871,784. To expand the interactive instructional television network 
(NAUNet) of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, from existing hubs 
to three remote locations on Indian Reservations in Arizona. The 
receive sites would be placed at the Tsaile Campus of Dine' College on 
the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Tohono O'odham Nation Indian 
Reservation, at Sells, and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. 
The addition of these sites would require expansion of NAUNet network 
routing equipment at the system's Flagstaff and Phoenix hubs.
    File No. 99087CRB, Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of 
Northern Arizona University, Building 83, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Contact: 
Mr. John Stark, General Manager, (520) 523-5628. Funds Requested: 
$86,762. Total Project Cost: $115,683. To activate a 3 KW repeater/
satellite public radio station on 90.3 MHz, in Grand Canyon Village. 
Station will repeat the signal of KNAU-FM, Flagstaff, and will provide 
a first public radio service to about 4,257 people.
    File No. 99128PRB, Tohono O'odham Nation, P.O. Box 835, Sells, AZ 
85634. Contact: Mr. Alex Ritchie, Executive Assistant, (520) 383-2028. 
Funds Requested: $29,526. Total Project Cost: $80,710. To plan for a 
new public radio station to serve about 20,000 people on the 2.8 
million acres of the Tohono O'Odham Nation in Sells, Arizona.
    File No. 99132CTB, Arizona Board of Regents for Benefit of 
University of Arizona, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. 
Contact: Mr. Ronald Stewart, Associate Director, (520) 621-5828. Funds 
Requested: $251,298. Total Project Cost: $502,596. To improve public 
television station KUAT-TV, Ch. 6, in Tucson by replacing field 
acquisiton cameras, video cassette recorders (VCR's) and the master 
control VCR with a video server. The new digital equipment will allow 
KUAT-TV and its satellite station KUAS-TV, to provide quality local 
programming to approximatley 690,000 people.

California

    File No. 99006CTB, Valley Public Television, Inc., 1544 Van Ness 
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721. Contact: Mr. Colin Dougherty, General 
Manager/Exec. Dir., (559) 266-1800. Funds Requested: $181,765. Total 
Project Cost: $363,531. To improve public television station KVPT-TV, 
Channel 18 in Fresno, CA, by replacing obsolete master control 
equipment with digital capable units, including a video server, a non-
linear editing system and a routing switcher. The station serves a 
population of over 2.2 million people in the San Joaquin Valley.
    File No. 99027CRB, San Bernardino Community College District, 701 
S. Mt. Vernon Avenue, San Bernardino, CA 92410. Contact: Mr. Lew 
Warren, General Manager, (909) 888-6511. Funds Requested: $77,445. 
Total Project Cost: $154,890. To improve public radio

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station KVCR-FM, operating on 91.9 MHz in San Bernardino, CA, by 
increasing power and replacing its antenna, transmitter and associated 
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 2.5 million 
people in the Riverside/San Bernardino market.
    File No. 99031CTB, Board of Trustees, Coast Community College 
District, 15751 Gothard Sreet, Huntington Beach, CA 92647. Contact: Mr. 
Mel Rogers, President, (714) 895-5623. Funds Requested: $142,779. Total 
Project Cost: $285,558. To improve public television station KOCE-TV, 
Channel 50 in Huntington Beach, CA, by replacing obsolete and 
unreliable \3/4\-inch U-matic videotape machines with ten state-of-the-
art Panasonic DVC Pro digital VTRs. The station serves a population of 
8.2 million people.
    File No. 99043CTB, KVIE, Inc., P.O. Box 6, Sacramento, CA 95833. 
Contact: Mr. Michael Wall, Director of Engineering, (916) 923-7474. 
Funds Requested: $1,600,842. Total Project Cost: $3,201,684. To convert 
public station KVIE-TV, Channel 6 in Sacramento, CA, to digital 
broadcasting on DTV Channel 53 by purchasing digital equipment 
including antenna, transmission line, digital transmitter, STL digital 
microwave, digital test equipment and upconverters. The station serves 
a population of over 4.3 million people in North Central California.
    File No. 99057CRB, Santa Monica Community College District, 1900 
Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Contact: Ms. Ruth Seymour, General 
Manager, (310) 450-5183. Funds Requested: $135,990. Total Project Cost: 
$181,320. To expand the broadcast services of KCRW-FM, operating on 
89.9 MHz in Santa Monica, by constructing a full power, repeater 
station in Mojave, California. The new station, KCRI-FM will operate on 
88.1 MHz and will provide first public radio services to over 32,000 
residents of the Antelope Valley.
    File No. 99062ICTN, Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco 
Circle, Salinas, CA 93901. Contact: Mr. Michael Mellon, Director, 
Instruct. Resources, (831) 755-0383. Funds Requested: $408,982. Total 
Project Cost: $968,842. To extend the ITFS-based distance learning 
system of the Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA, to San 
Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties and to expand the already-existing 
system in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties to presently-unserved 
audiences.
    File No. 99081CRB, KPFK Pacifica Radio, 3729 Cahuenga Boulevard 
West, North Hollywood, CA 91604. Contact: Mr. Mark Schubb, General 
Manager, (818) 985-2711. Funds Requested: $247,704. Total Project Cost: 
$495,408. To improve public radio station KPFK-FM, operating on 90.7 
MHz in North Hollywood, CA, by replacing the obsolete and failing 
transmission chain and worn out origination equipment, including two 
23-year-old transmitters, a 40-year-old tower and antenna, control room 
mixing boards, recorders, CD players and microphones. The station 
serves a population of over 13.8 million people in Greater Los Angeles.
    File No. 99082CTB, KTEH-TV Foundation, 1585 Schallenberger Road, 
San Jose, CA 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary Martinez, Grants Associate, (408) 
795-5412. Funds Requested: $674,191. Total Project Cost: $898,922. To 
extend the signal and broadcast services of KTEH-TV, Channel 54 in San 
Jose, CA, by reactivating KCAH-TV, Channel 25 in Watsonville. The 
station is expected to serve approximately 1.2 million residents of 
Salinas, Monterey and Santa Cruz. The project will aquire DTV-capable 
equipment to replace KCAH's transmitter, antenna, STL and transmission 
line. KTEH serves a population of over 6.2 million people in 14 
northern California counties.
    File No. 99088CTB, KTEH-TV Foundation, 1585 Schallenberger Road, 
San Jose, CA 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary Martinez, Grants Associate, (408) 
795-5412. Funds Requested: $558,310. Total Project Cost: $1,116,620. To 
improve public television station KTEH-TV, Channel 54 in San Jose, CA, 
by replacing the 25-year-old transmitter, antenna, STL and transmission 
line with DTV-ready equipment. The station serves a population of over 
6.2 million in Northern California.
    File No. 99122CRB, Radio Bilingue, Inc., 5005 E. Belmont, Fresno, 
CA 93727. Contact: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director, (204) 455-
5757. Funds Requested: $133,541. Total Project Cost: $178,055. To 
improve public radio station KSJV-FM, 91.5 MHz in Fresno, and KMPO-FM, 
88.7 MHz in Modesto, CA, by replacing both transmitters and associated 
equipment. In addition, the KSJV studio facility will be upgraded by 
replacing analog equipment with digital equipment, including an audio 
console, CD players and recorders/playback units. The stations serve a 
Spanish-speaking population of over 100,000 people.
    File No. 99133CTB, Community Television of Southern California, 
4401 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Contact: Mr. Donald 
Youpa, Exec. VP & COO, (323) 953-5210. Funds Requested: $1,440,685. 
Total Project Cost: $1,920,914. To convert public station KCET-TV, 
Channel 28 in Los Angeles, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 59 by 
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, encoder and 
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 18 million 
people.
    File No. 99140CTB, Los Angeles Unified School District, 1061 West 
Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Contact: Mr. Tom Mossman, Station 
Manager, (213) 625-6958. Funds Requested: $156,391. Total Project Cost: 
$312,781. To improve public television station KLCS-TV, Channel 58 in 
Los Angeles, CA, by replacing obsolete and failing master control 
equipment with digital units, including videotape machines, a video 
server, a still storer and a character generator. The station serves a 
population of over 12 million people.
    File No. 99142CRB, Fresno Free College Foundation, 1449 N. Wishon 
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93728. Contact: Mr. Victor Bedoian, Executive 
Director, (559) 233-2221. Funds Requested: $5,315. Total Project Cost: 
$10,630. To improve public radio station KFCF-FM, operating on 88.1 MHz 
in Fresno, CA, by replacing the 38-year-old transmitter. The station 
serves a population of over 600,000 people.
    File No. 99161CRB, Humboldt State University, Humboldt State 
University, Arcata, CA 95521. Contact: Terry Green, Assistant Manager/
Chief Engine, (707) 826-3979. Funds Requested: $13,175. Total Project 
Cost: $26,350. To improve public radio station KHSU-FM, operating on 
90.5 MHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing failing analog two-track recorders 
and the production console with a digital audio workstation and a 
digital, 8 channel audio console unit. The station serves a population 
of over 135,000 people.
    File No. 99164CRB, KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, 
CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Jo Anne Wallace, Vice Pres. & General Mgr., 
(415) 553-2296. Funds Requested: $253,152. Total Project Cost: 
$506,304. To improve public radio station KQED-FM, operating on 88.5 
MHz in San Francisco, CA, by replacing analog recording and playback 
equipment and related production hardware with an a Audiovault digital 
storage and delivery system. The station serves a population of over 6 
million people.
    File No. 99165CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South 
Hope Street, Suite 26, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda 
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $84,200. 
Total Project Cost: $168,400. To improve public radio station KUSC-FM, 
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Angeles, CA, by upgrading the master control and the production studios 
to digital technology, including consoles, production/storage 
workstations, CD players and miniDisc player/recorders. The station 
serves a population of approximately 12 million people.
    File No. 99168CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South 
Hope Street, Suite 26, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda 
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $270,424. 
Total Project Cost: $360,565. To expand the coverage area and improve 
the signal of KUSC-FM, operating on 91.5 MHz in Los Angeles, CA, by 
upgrading the transmission system and doubling the station's broadcast 
power. The project includes replacement of the transmitter, antenna, 
transmission line and STL. The station currently serves about 12 
million people and will add over 700,000 as a result of the power 
increase.
    File No. 99172CTB, Rural California Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 
LaBath Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Contact: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, 
President and CEO, (707) 585-8522. Funds Requested: $110,357. Total 
Project Cost: $147,143. To improve public television station KRCB-TV, 
Channel 22 in Rohnert Park, CA, by replacing ten 15-year-old \3/4\'' 
videotape machines in master control, production control and editing 
rooms with digital units. The station serves a population of over 2.8 
million people.
    File No. 99182PRB, Radio Bilingue, Inc., 5005 E. Belmont Fresno, CA 
93727. Contact: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director, (559) 455-5757. 
Funds Requested: $52,580. Total Project Cost: $83,440. To plan for the 
distribution of Radio Bilingue's 24-hour satellite programming service 
to the top 10 Latino markets in the U.S. using subcarrier (SCA) 
technology.
    File No. 99183CTN, City of San Leandro, 835 E.14th Street San 
Leandro, CA 94577. Contact: Mr. Greg Park, Interim IS Manager, (510) 
577-3393. Funds Requested: $41,000. Total Project Cost: $54,668. To 
assist the City of San Leandro, which is in California's Bay Area, to 
activate a government access channel on the local cable television 
system.
    File No. 99198CRB, California State University-Northridge, 18111 
Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330-8312. Contact: Ms. Dolly Salazar, 
Dir. of Development KCSN, (818) 677-3090. Funds Requested: $31,545. 
Total Project Cost: $63,090. To improve public radio station KCSN-FM, 
operating on 88.9 MHz in Northridge, CA, by replacing analog reel-to-
reel and cartridge tape machines with two digital audio workstations 
and four digital audio edit systems. The station serves a population of 
over 1.5 million people.
    File No. 99206CTB, KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street San Francisco, 
CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Jayme Burke, Development Associate, (415) 553-
2174. Funds Requested: $398,086. Total Project Cost: $796,173. To 
continue the conversion to digital broadcasting of KQED-DTV, operating 
on Digital Channel 30 in San Francisco, by purchasing a digital video 
server system to store and play multiple program streams for digital 
television multicasting. The station serves a population of 5.5 million 
people.
    File No. 99214CRB, Redwood Community Radio, Inc., 1144 Redway Dr 
Redway, CA 95560. Contact: Mr. Simon Frech, Station Manager, (707) 923-
2513. Funds Requested: $92,062. Total Project Cost: $122,750. To extend 
and improve the signal of KMUD-FM, 91.1 MHz in Redway, CA, by replacing 
the transmitter and the antenna system and installing a microwave STL. 
The station will also increase its broadcast power providing first 
public radio service to over 14,000 residents of Humboldt, northern 
Mendocino and western Trinity counties. In addition to the people 
receiving first service, KMUD currently serves almost 9,000 people and 
will add another 9,000 as a result of the increased coverage area.
    File No. 99219CTB, San Diego State University Foundation, 5200 
Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182. Contact: Ms. Susan Holloway, 
Director Admin. Services, (619) 594-2491. Funds Requested: $660,926. 
Total Project Cost: $1,321,852. To convert public station KPBS-TV, 
Channel 15 in San Diego, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 30 by 
purchasing a digital transmitter, digital microwave STL, digital 
encoding system, HDTV recorders, HDTV master control switcher processor 
and other essential master control equipment. The station serves a 
population of over 2.5 million people.
    File No. 99230CTB, San Mateo County Community College District, 
1700 W. Hillside Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94402. Contact: Ms. Marilyn 
Lawrence, General Manager, (650) 524-6905. Funds Requested: $1,223,325. 
Total Project Cost: $2,446,650. To convert public station KCSM-TV, 
Channel 60 in San Mateo, CA, to digital broadcast on Channel 59 by 
purchasing a digital transmitter, transmission line, antenna, STL and 
other equipment including a video file server and a compression/
decompression system. The station serves a population of over 6.3 
million people.
    File No. 99232CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South 
Hope Street Suite 26 Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda 
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $267,144. 
Total Project Cost: $534,288. To improve public radio station KUSC-FM, 
operating on 91.5 MHz in Los Angeles, CA, by replacing the aging 
transmission systems of its repeater stations at KPSC-FM (88.5 MHz) in 
Palm Springs, KFAC-FM (88.7 MHz) in Santa Barbara, and KCPB-FM (91.1) 
in Thousand Oaks. The network of transmitters that re-broadcast the 
signal of KUSC in Los Angeles, serve nearly 1.9 million residents of 
Southern California.

Colorado

    File No. 99036ICTN, National Technological University, 700 Centre 
Avenue Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Contact: Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President, 
(970) 495-6411. Funds Requested: $966,000. Total Project Cost: 
$4,578,000. To expand the distance learning service provided by 
National Technological University by converting 41 universities with 
MPEG-2 digital encoding equipment at their satellite uplinks. 
Conversion of the NTU system to MPEG-2 digital equipment will permit 
NTU to provide distance learning directly to small business and home 
viewers through the use of 90 cm antennas and standard digital 
equipment.
    File No. 99046ICTN, Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational 
Services, 830 South Lincoln Street Longmont, CO 80501. Contact: Mr. 
David Biekert, Director of Technology Service, (303) 772-4420. Funds 
Requested: $323,783. Total Project Cost: $794,849. To extend the T-1-
based distance learning system of the Centennial Board of Cooperative 
Educational Services (Centennial BOCES), Longmont, CO, to a number of 
school districts in Colorado's northeast quadrant. Project equipment 
would be located in the following high schools in the affected area: 
Longmont, Ft. Morgan, Frederick, Lyons, Erie, Berthoud, Estes Park, 
Johnstown, Briggsdale, Akron, Weldona, and Merino. The Centennial BOCES 
was formed by merging the former Northern Colorado BOCES and Weld 
BOCES.
    File No. 99108CRB, Colorado State Board of Agriculture, 1000 Rim 
Drive Durango, CO 81301. Contact: Ms. Wynn Harris, Station Manager, 
(970) 247-7261. Funds Requested: $31,160. Total Project Cost: $47,035. 
To improve noncommerical FM radio station KDUR-FM, 91.9MHz, in Durango, 
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system including transmitter, processor, antenna and transmission line. 
Station will also replace a production console, cart machines, DAT 
machines, below standard mini-disc players and test equipment. KDUR-FM 
serves about 20,000 people.
    File No. 99229CRB, Equal Representation of Media Advocacy, 528 9th 
Street Alamosa, CO 81101. Contact: Ms. Annajo (Aj) Sanchez, General 
Manager, (719) 589-9057. Funds Requested: $27,295. Total Project Cost: 
$36,394. To extend and improve public radio station KRZA-FM, 88.1 MHz, 
Alamosa, by repositioning the antenna, activating a translator and 
acquiring field production equipment. KRZA-FM serves about 75,000 
people.
    File No. 99246CTB, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, 1089 Bannock 
Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. James Morgese, Pres. & General 
Mgr., (303) 620-5662. Funds Requested: $1,371,738. Total Project Cost: 
$2,743,477. To convert public television station KRMA-TV, Ch. 6, Denver 
to digital broadcasting on Ch. 18, by purchasing a transmitter, 
antenna, transmission line, microwave interconnection equipment, test 
equipment and other associated equipment. KRMA-TV serves about 3.9 
million people.

Connecticut

    File No. 99063CTB, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc., 240 New 
Britain Avenue Hartford, CT 06106. Contact: Mr. James Whitsett, VP, 
Operations and Engineering, (860) 278-5310. Funds Requested: $743,434. 
Total Project Cost: $1,486,868. To convert public station WEDH-TV, 
Channel 24 in Hartford, CT, to digital broadcating on Channel 32 by 
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, microwave STL, 
test and monitoring equipment. The station serves a population of more 
than 3 million people.

District of Columbia

    File No. 99102ICTN, Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities, 
1 DuPont Circle, Suite 405 Washington, DC 200361110. Contact: Dr. 
William Husson, Dean of Professional Studies, (303) 458-1844. Funds 
Requested: $503,500. Total Project Cost: $1,263,500. To help the 
Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities interconnect 19 of its 
member-institutions to form the Jesuit Distance Education Network 
(JDEN). The proposed network would consist of a video interconnection 
relying on Internet Protocol technologies to unite the merits of 
videoconferencing with the advantages of Internet-based learning. 
Internet Protocol video would enable the delivery of video over the 
Internet connectivity in a cost-effective manner.
    File No. 99226CRB, Pacifica Foundation, 2390 Champlain Street NW 
Washington, DC 20009. Contact: Ms. Bessie Wash, General Manager, (202) 
598-0999. Funds Requested: $45,732. Total Project Cost: $91,465. To 
improve the operation of public radio station WPFW, 89.3 MHz, 
Washington, DC, by replacing its transmitter.
    File No. 99235CRN, Self Reliance Foundation, 518 C Street NE 
Washington, DC 20002. Contact: Mr. Sebastian Puente, Chief of Staff, 
(202) 547-7447. Funds Requested: $159,720. Total Project Cost: 
$319,440. To provide satellite downlink equipment to twenty non-
commercial radio stations affiliated with the Self Reliance Foundation 
that wish to broadcast the Foundation's Hispanic-language programing.
    File No. 99236PRN, Self Reliance Foundation, 518 C Street NE 
Washington, DC 20002. Contact: Mr. Sebastian Puente, Chief of Staff, 
(202) 547-7447. Funds Requested: $40,710. Total Project Cost: $81,420. 
To plan for the extension of the applicant's Spanish language radio 
programming to the ten U.S. cities with the largest concentration of 
Hispanics: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco/San Jose, 
Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Brownsville, Dallas, and San Diego.

Florida

    File No. 99021CRB, University of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall 
Gainesville, FL 32611. Contact: Mr. Henri Pensis, Station Manager, 
(352) 392-5200. Funds Requested: $25,591. Total Project Cost: $51,182. 
To replace an obsolete 17-year-old production studio console for public 
radio station WUFT(FM), which operates on 89.1 MHz in Gainesville, FL, 
and is licensed to the University of Florida.
    File No. 99038CTB, University of Florida, 202 Weimer Hall 
Gainesville, FL 326118405. Contact: Mr. Richard Lehner, General 
Manager, (352) 392-5551. Funds Requested: $77,445. Total Project Cost: 
$154,890. To purchase a digital switcher, a digital router, and digital 
test equipment for public television station WUFT(TV), which operates 
on Ch. 5 in Gainesville, FL, and which is licensed to the University of 
Florida. The requested equipment would complete the modernization and 
digital conversion of WUFT(TV)'s master control area. The project would 
thus assist the station's effort to convert to digital technologies in 
a timely way.
    File No. 99054CTB, The Board of Regents of Florida acting on behalf 
of the Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza Tallahassee, FL 
32310. Contact: Mrs. Donna Landrum, Business Manager, (850) 487-3170. 
Funds Requested: $80,560. Total Project Cost: $161,120. To purchase 
seven digital tape machines to improve the master control and 
production operations of public television station WFSE(TV), which 
operates on Ch. 11 in Tallahasee and which is licensed to Florida State 
University. Three of the new tape machines would replace analog 
equivalents in WFSU(TV)'s editing suites. The remaining four digital 
machines would replace analog machines used for program playback and 
network delay in the master control on-air configuration. The requested 
equipment would substantially complete the station's digital conversion 
plans for its master control, production, and postproduction 
operations.
    File No. 99058CTN, Sarasota County Board of County Commissioners, 
1660 Ringling Boulevard Sarasota, FL 34236. Contact: Ms. Melissa 
Fritsch, Administrative Asst., (941) 951-5294. Funds Requested: 
$644,385. Total Project Cost: $859,180. To assist the Sarasota (FL) 
County Board of County Commissioners in activating the first government 
access channel on the County's cable television system. The project 
would purchase the equipment for a production studio, in addition to 
some test equipment. Eventually, the studio in question would be used 
to produce programming for a community access channel as well; the 
community access channel is also to be administered by the Board.
    File No. 99083CTB, Community Communications, Inc., 11510 East 
Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32817. Contact: Mr. Jose Fajardo, Vice 
President for Programming, (407) 273-2300. Funds Requested: $883,172. 
Total Project Cost: $1,766,345. To replace the 26-year-old transmitter, 
antenna, and transmission line at public television station WMFE(TV), 
which operates on Ch. 24 in Orlando, FL. The project would also 
purchase a nonlinear editing system for the station.
    File No. 99099CTB, District Board of Trustees, Pensacola Junior 
College, 1000 College Boulevard Pensacola, FL 32504. Contact: Mr. Allan 
Pizzato, General Manager, (850) 484-1213. Funds Requested: $798,109. 
Total Project Cost: $3,246,218. To assist public television station 
WSRE(TV), Pensacola, FL, complete its conversion to digital 
transmission. Station WSRE(TV) operates on Ch. 23 for its analog 
transmission and will operate on Ch. 31 for its digital service. The 
station is licensed to Pensacola Junior College. The project would 
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digital transmission equipment; e.g., a transmitter, an antenna, a 
transmission line, an STL, and varied test equipment items. Station 
WSRE(TV) must move its tower site in order to broadcast in digital. The 
project thus also includes a one-time, $1 million lease payment for 
antenna space on a new, 2,000' commercial tower. The lease would extend 
for a minimum of 40 years. The tower will be located approximately five 
miles from the station's present tower site.
    File No. 99137PTB, Myth Slayer, Inc., 1015 NW 21st Avenue, #46 
Gainesville, FL 32609. Contact: Ms. Gloria Rozier, President, (352) 
337-9111. Funds Requested: $172,384. Total Project Cost: $208,144. To 
assist Myth Slayer, Inc. plan for the activation of a nonprofit low 
power television station that would serve the needs of minority groups, 
women, and children in Gainesville, FL.
    File No. 99149CTB, State Board of Regents acting on behalf of the 
University of South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue SVC 0001 Tampa, FL 
336620. Contact: Mr. William Buxton, Station Manager, (813) 974-4000. 
Funds Requested: $12,037. Total Project Cost: $24,074. To replace the 
transmitter remote control system of public television station 
WUSF(TV), which operates on Ch. 16 in Tampa, FL, and which is licensed 
to the University of South Florida. The present remote control system 
will be noncompliant with Year 2000 program language.
    File No. 99171CTB, Florida Gulf Coast University acting for and in 
behalf of the State Board of Reg, 10501 FGCU BLVD Fort Myers, FL 33965. 
Contact: Mr. Kirk Lehtomaa, Station Manager, (941) 590-2300. Funds 
Requested: $654,999. Total Project Cost: $1,310,000. To replace a 17-
year-old, obsolete transmitter for public television station WGCU(TV), 
which operates on Ch. 30 in Fort Myers, FL, and which is licensed to 
Florida Gulf Coast University. The project would also replace the 
station's antenna and transmission line.
    File No. 99187CTB, Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting, Inc., 
1300 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33607. Contact: Ms. Elsie Garner, Sr. 
Vice Pres. & COO, (813) 254-9338. Funds Requested: $465,742. Total 
Project Cost: $931,485. To improve the program production capability of 
public television station WEDU(TV), which operates on Ch. 3 in the St. 
Petersburg/Tampa region of Florida. The project would purchase a high 
definition video production switcher, a high definition digital effects 
unit, high definition color monitors, and an edit controller system. 
The new switcher and effects unit would replace outdated items. The 
project would permit WEDU(TV) to make significant progress in 
converting its production capabilities to digital technology.
    File No. 99195CRB, Board of Regents of Florida Acting for and on 
behalf of Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza Tallahassee, 
FL 32310. Contact: Mr. Andrew Hanus, Chief Engineer, (850) 487-3086. 
Funds Requested: $15,343. Total Project Cost: $30,686. To replace the 
master control and production control consoles at public radio stations 
WFSU(FM) and WFSQ(FM), Tallahassee, FL. Station WFSU(FM) is a news and 
information station and operates on 88.9 MHz. Station WFSQ(FM), a fine 
arts station, operates on 91.5 MHz. Both stations are licensed to 
Florida State University. The two stations share studio facilities and, 
together, provide the sole public radio service to over 580,000 
listeners in greater Tallahasee.
    File No. 99197CTB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South 
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP 
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $255,936. Total 
Project Cost: $511,872. To replace worn-out or obsolete studio 
equipment at public television station WXEL(TV), which operates on Ch. 
42 in Boynton Beach, FL. The project would purchase video tape 
machines, a video server system, a nonlinear editor system, and diverse 
other associated items.
    File No. 99209CRB, Florida Board of Regents for and on Behalf of 
the University of South Florida, University of South Florida Tampa, FL 
33620. Contact: Dr. James Heck, General Manager, (813) 974-8665. Funds 
Requested: $32,912. Total Project Cost: $65,824. To improve the 
transmission and studio production capabilities of public radio station 
WUSF(FM), which operates on 89.7 MHz in Tampa, FL, and which is 
licensed to the University of South Florida. The project would purchase 
a digital exciter, a hot-standby studio-to-transmitter link, digital 
audio work stations, an ISDN codec, and portable minidisc recorders.
    File No. 99210CTB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South 
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP 
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $262,099. Total 
Project Cost: $524,198. To replace three obsolete, worn-out, tube-type 
studio cameras with modern ``chip `` cameras at public television 
station WXEL(TV), which operates on Ch. 42 in Tampa, FL. The new 
cameras would be 16:9/4:3 switchable, standard definition digital-
compatible and would thus advance WXEL(TV)'s digital conversion effort.
    File No. 99212CRB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South 
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP 
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $83,407. Total Project 
Cost: $166,814. To extend the service area and improve the studio 
production facilities of public radio station WXEL(FM), which operates 
on 90.7 MHz in Tampa, FL. The project would modify the station's 
antenna, purchase an antenna line, and reinforce the present tower; 
this would allow the station's signal to reach an estimated 50,000 
additional listeners in the rural areas of Palm Beach and Hendry 
Counties. This would represent the first public radio service to these 
listeners. In addition, the project would purchase replacement DAT 
recorders, a cart system, CD players, and microphones.
    File No. 99218CTB, WJCT, Inc., 100 Festival Park Avenue 
Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. Rick Johnson, Sr Vice Pres. 
Broadcasting, (904) 358-6394. Funds Requested: $473,692. Total Project 
Cost: $947,385. To replace worn-out transmission equipment at public 
television station WJCT(TV), which operates on Ch. 7 in Jacksonville, 
FL. The project would purchase a new transmitter, microwave Studio-to-
Transmitter Link, and diverse associated test equipment items. WJCT(TV) 
intends to retrofit this transmitter to digital when its analog 
operations must cease as of May 1, 2006. The purchase would thus 
provide WJCT(TV) with a reliable analog signal during the next few 
years and at the same time position the station for its eventual 
conversion to all-digital transmission.
    File No. 99241CRB, University of Central Florida, Communications 
Building Room 13 Orlando, FL 32816. Contact: Ms. Kayonne Riley, Station 
Manager, (407) 823-5162. Funds Requested: $139,980. Total Project Cost: 
$279,960. To construct a new tower and install a new antenna system at 
public radio station WUCF(FM), which operates on 89.9 MHz in Orlando, 
FL, and which is licensed to the University of Central Florida. These 
improvements would alleviate radio frequency interference and permit 
WUCF(FM) to comply with nonionizing radiation standards required by the 
FCC and the ANSI.
    File No. 99242CTB, School Board of Miami-Dade County Florida, 172 
N.E. 15th Street Miami, FL 33132. Contact: Mrs. Laurel Long, Director 
of Finance Admin., (305) 995-2240. Funds Requested: $857,534. Total 
Project Cost: $1,715,068. To purchase a complete

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digital transmission system for public television station WLRN(TV), 
which is licensed to The School Board of Miami-Dade County, FL, and 
thus allow the station to begin immediate digital operations. WLRN(TV) 
operates on Ch. 17 for its analog service and will operate on Ch. 18 
for its digital broadcasting.

Georgia

    File No. 99233CRB, Progressive United Communications, Inc., 316 N. 
River St. Claxton, GA 30417. Contact: Mrs. Paschell Mix, CEO/Owner, 
(912) 739-9252. Funds Requested: $86,250. Total Project Cost: $115,000. 
To improve the production facilities of WCLA-AM, 1470 KHz and WCLA-FM, 
107.3 MHZ in Claxton, GA by purchasing an audio vault storage, audio 
console and related production equipment. WCLA serves 160,000 people in 
southeast Georgia.

Iowa

    File No. 99010CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication 
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid, 
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $906,984. 
Total Project Cost: $1,813,968. To improve the transmission reliability 
of public radio station KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Rapids, IA, by 
constructing a transmitter tower to replace one the station may have to 
vacate because the owner may need the tower capacity for converting 
itself to DTV. KUNI serves a population of about 1,213,130 through its 
primary transmission and through four translators that relay its signal 
in Des Moines, Dubuque, Davenport, and Eldridge, all in Iowa.
    File No. 99011CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communications 
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid, 
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $10,711. 
Total Project Cost: $21,423. To improve the signal of public station 
KRNI(AM), 1010 KHz, Mason City, IA, by replacing its worn out and 
obsolete transmitter. The station repeats the programing of KUNI, 90.9 
MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, and serves a population of about 95,000.
    File No. 99015CRB, Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the 
Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc., 100 East Euclid Ave. Des Moines, IA 
50313. Contact: Ms. Sally Vander Linden, Executive Director, (515) 243-
6833. Funds Requested: $25,272. Total Project Cost: $50,544. To extend 
the service area of Iowa Radio Reading Information Service, Des Moines. 
IA, by acquiring the necessary satellite up- and down-link equipment to 
enable IRIS to provide its service to Iowa City, Cedar Falls, and Sioux 
City, all Iowa. The project will also acquire a supply of the special 
receivers needed for the visually handicapped in those communities to 
utilize the service. About 1,000 visually handicapped persons will 
receive service in the added communities.
    File No. 99020CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication 
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid, 
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $20,008. 
Total Project Cost: $40,017. To extend the signal of public station 
KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, by constructing a repeater station on 
channel 208 (89.5 MHz) in Oskaloosa, IA. The new station will bring the 
first full-time public radio service to a population of about 14,979. 
It will repeat the programing of KUNI.
    File No. 99039CTB, Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate 
Drive Johnston, IA 50131. Contact: Mr. Dennis Malloy, Dir. of Com. 
Relations & Dev., (515) 242-3106. Funds Requested: $223,922. Total 
Project Cost: $447,845. To improve the production capacity of Iowa 
Public Television, Johnston , IA, by replacing items of worn out and 
obsolete equipment, including tape recorders, a switcher, and 
associated equipment. Iowa PTV serves a statewide population of about 
3,600,000. The equipment acquired will be digital compatible and assist 
in the ultimate conversion of Iowa PTV to digital television 
broadcasting.
    File No. 99091CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication 
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid, 
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $22,757. 
Total Project Cost: $45,514. To improve the signal reliability of 
public station KHKE, 89.5 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, by replacing its worn 
out and obsolete 24-year-old transmitter. The station serves a 
population of about 191,207.

Idaho

    File No. 99092CRB, Idaho State University, 921 South 8th Street 
Pocatello, ID 83209. Contact: Mr. Ernest Naftzger, Dean of Student 
Affairs, (208) 236-2688. Funds Requested: $33,771. Total Project Cost: 
$45,028. To complete public station KISU, Pocatello, ID, by acquiring 
satellite downlink equipment. The station provides the only public 
radio signal to about 13,678 persons.
    File No. 99189CRB, Boise State University Foundation, Inc., 1910 
University Drive Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr. James Paluzzi, General 
Manager, BSU Radio, (208) 426-3663. Funds Requested: $371,041. Total 
Project Cost: $742,082. To construct a new transmission tower for 
public stations KBSU-FM, 90.3 MHz, and KBSX, 91.5 MHz, both Boise, ID, 
in order to meet FCC mandates regarding public health and safety.
    File No. 99202CRB, Idaho State Board of Education (Boise State 
University), BSU Radio/SMITC #213 Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr. James 
Paluzzi, General Manager, (208) 426-3663. Funds Requested: $268,750. 
Total Project Cost: $358,333. To extend the service of the Boise State 
University Radio Network, Boise, ID, by constructing a repeater station 
at 91.3 MHz in Jackpot, NV, to serve Elko County, NV, and Twin Falls, 
Cassia and Owyhee Counties, ID. The new station will bring the first 
public radio signal to about 1,534 persons. It will repeat the 
programing of station KBSX, Boise, ID, but will also carry programing 
intended just for its own listeners.

Illinois

    File No. 99077CTB, Black Hawk College, 6600 34th Avenue Moline, IL 
61265. Contact: Mr. Rick Best, General Manager, (309) 796-2424. Funds 
Requested: $164,790. Total Project Cost: $219,720. To improve the 
operation of public station WQPT, ch. 24, Moline, IL, by replacing its 
obsolete and worn out master control system, including a server and a 
digital routing switcher. The station serves a population of about 
550,000.
    File No. 99079CTB, Window to the World Communications, Inc., 5400 
North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625. Contact: Mr. Martin 
McLaughlin, Vice President Corporate Affa, (773) 509-5433. Funds 
Requested: $1,057,312. Total Project Cost: $2,114,624. To convert 
public station WTTW, ch. 11, Chicago, IL, to digital transmission on 
channel 47 by purchasing a transmitter and ancillary equipment, an 
antenna, STL, and test equipment. Tower modification is also included 
in the project. The station serves a population of about 10.5 million 
persons.
    File No. 99084ICTN, Chicago Housing Authority, 4859 S. Wabash 
Avenue Chicago, IL 606151008. Contact: Ms. Zenobia Johnson-Black, Exec. 
Dir., Hayes FIC, (773) 285-0200. Funds Requested: $187,500. Total 
Project Cost: $250,000. To establish a video distance learning system 
that would interconnect The Chicago Housing Authority's Hayes Family 
Investment Center with three public housing developments and allow the 
Authority to transmit diverse instructional programming to their 
residents. The three participating developments would be Altgeld

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Gardens, Cabrini-Green, and Henry Horner Homes. The programming would, 
in part, be targeted to assist the City's welfare-to-work effort and 
would emphasize pre-employment and job readiness skills training. More 
generally, the programming would also strive to increase the literacy 
levels and improve the information technology capabilities of the 
developments' residents. The project would build upon the Authority's 
experience with its computer learning effort.
    File No. 99114CRB, Board of Trustees University of Illinois, 801 
South Wright Street, 109 Cob Urbana, IL 61820. Contact: Mr. J.J. 
Kamerer, Director, Grants & Contract Ad, (217) 333-2187. Funds 
Requested: $45,000. Total Project Cost: $90,000. To improve the 
operation of WILL-AM, 580 KHz, and WILL-FM, 90.9 MHz, Champaign, IL, by 
replacing reel-to-reel and cartridge tape machine with a networked 
digital audio storage and delivery system. The stations serve a 
population of about 1,048,698.
    File No. 99251CRB, Illinois State University, Old Union Building, 
Room 310, S Normal, IL 61790. Contact: Mr. Bruce Bergethon, General 
Manager, (309) 438-2393. Funds Requested: $40,000. Total Project Cost: 
$80,000. To improve the operation of public station WGLT, 89.1 MHz, 
Normal, IL, by replacing worn out and obsolete tape recording equipment 
with digital audio server system. The station serves a population of 
about 300,000.

Indiana

    File No. 99061CTB, Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation, 2300 
Charger Blvd Elkhart, IN 46514. Contact: Ms. Trina Cutter, President/
General Mgr., (219) 674-5961. Funds Requested: $362,370. Total Project 
Cost: $724,740. To improve the operation of public station WNIT, ch. 
34, Elkhart, IN, by replacing obsolete and worn out cameras. The 
project will help the station's eventual transition to all-digital 
operation. WNIT serves a population of about 1,709,000.
    File No. 99096CRN, City of Hobart Police Department, 200 Main 
Street Hobart, IN 46342. Contact: Mr. Ronald Taylor, Police Chief, 
(219) 942-1126. Funds Requested: $331,095. Total Project Cost: 
$438,289. To improve the public safety telecommunications system of the 
Hobart Police Department
    File No. 99117CTB, Trustee of Indiana University, P.O. Box 1847 
Bloomington, IN 47402. Contact: Mr. Barrie Zimmerman, Director, 
Operations & Engineer, (812) 855-2898. Funds Requested: $114,110. Total 
Project Cost: $228,220. To improve the operation of public station 
WTIU, ch. 30, Bloomington, IN, by replacing its worn out and obsolete 
video production switcher, an effects system, and video monitors. The 
project will help the station's eventual transition to all-digital 
operation. The station serves a population of about 490,000.
    File No. 99180CRTB, Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting, 
Inc., 1401 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Contact: Mr. 
Lloyd Wright, President & General Manager, (317) 636-2020. Funds 
Requested: $205,000. Total Project Cost: $410,000. To improve the 
signal reliability of public stations WFYI-TV, ch. 20, and WFYI-FM, 
90.1 MHz, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing their failing, 20-year-old STL 
with a digital fiber-optic link. The stations serve a population of 
about 2 million.

Kansas

    File No. 99009CTB, Smoky Hills Public Television Corp., 604 Elm 
Street Bunker Hill, KS 676260009. Contact: Mr. Lloyd Mintzmyer, 
Director of Engineering, (785) 483-6990. Funds Requested: $386,500. 
Total Project Cost: $773,000. To improve the facilites of three public 
TV stations, the main station (KOOD-TV, Ch. 9, in Bunker Hill), two 
repeater/satellite stations (KDCK-TV, Ch. 21, Dodge City, and KSWK-TV, 
Ch. 3, Lakin) and translators in western KS. Project would lease fiber 
optic to replace the failing analog microwave studio to multi-
transmitter system. Project will also acquire ``last mile'' microwave 
equipment and associated satellite interconnection equipment. Stations 
currently serve about 365,000 people.
    File No. 99022CTB, Kansas Public Telecommunications Service, Inc., 
320 West 21st Street North Wichita, KS 67203. Contact: Mr. David 
McClintock, Director of Engineering, (316) 838-3090. Funds Requested: 
$118,735. Total Project Cost: $237,470. To improve public television 
station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita, by replacing station's old Umatic 
video recorders and analog studio-to-transmitter link. Project would 
acquire 5 digital tape recorders, a 10-year lease of fiber optic, 2 
fiber optic encoders and decoders. Station serves about 588,000 people.
    File No. 99024CRB, Hutchinson Community College, 815 N Walnut Suite 
300 Hutchinson, KS 67501. Contact: Mr. David Horning, General Manager, 
(316) 665-3555. Funds Requested: $43,563. Total Project Cost: $87,126. 
To improve public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Hutchinson, by 
replacing the on-air console and main production console. Both units 
have been plagued with increasing outages and repair problems. KHCC-FM 
and its two repeater/satellite stations serve about 925,000 people.
    File No. 99051CTB, Washburn University of Topeka, 1700 SW College 
Avenue Topeka, KS 66621. Contact: Mr. Robert Fidler, Director of 
Operations, (785) 231-1111. Funds Requested: $125,000. Total Project 
Cost: $250,000. To improve public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, 
Topeka, by replacing its 45-year-old VHF antenna with a new antenna. 
Initially new antenna will be used as its NTSC antenna but will 
eventually become its DTV antenna. KTWU-TV serves about 1.26 million 
people.
    File No. 99066CRB, Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N 7th St. Garden City, 
KS 67846. Contact: Mr. Brian Gibbons, Executive Director, (316) 275-
7444. Funds Requested: $309,705. Total Project Cost: $412,940. To 
activate a new public radio satellite/repeater station on 89.5 MHz in 
Perryton-Spearman, TX. New 100 kilowatt station will repeat the signal 
of KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHz, Garden City, KS. Signal will be provided via a 
satellite downlink. New station will provide a first public radio 
signal to about 68,000 people in TX and OK.
    File No. 99067CRB, Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N 7th Street Garden 
City, KS 67846. Contact: Mr. Brian Gibbons, Executive Director, (316) 
275-7444. Funds Requested: $16,656. Total Project Cost: $33,312. To 
improve and upgrade the facilities of public radio FM translator, 
K242AL, 96.3 MHz, Hays, by relocating, replacing and upgrading the 
station to a Class A station (1,250 watts). Upgraded repeater/satellite 
station will broadcast on 91.7 MHz.
    File No. 99089CRB, Wichita State University, 3317 E. 17th Street 
Wichita, KS 67208. Contact: Mr. Mark McCain, General Manager, (316) 
978-6789. Funds Requested: $44,772. Total Project Cost: $89,544. To 
improve public radio station KMUW-FM, 89.1 MHz, Wichita, by replacing a 
20-year-old satellite receive-only antenna and analog test equipment. 
Project will also replace and upgrade equipment in KMUW-FM's news 
production facility. KMUW-FM serves about 516,700 people.

Kentucky

    File No. 99002CTB, Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, 
600 Cooper Drive Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: Mrs. Virginia Fox, 
Executive Director, (606) 258-7000. Funds Requested: $699,371. Total 
Project Cost: $1,398,742. To improve the reliability of the signals of 
two public television stations in the Kentucky Educational Television 
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Somerset, KY, and WKMR, ch. 38, Morehead, KY, by replacing 30 year old 
transmitters.
    File No. 99053CTB, Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way 
Bowling Green, KY 42101. Contact: Mr. Jerry Barnaby, Assistant 
Director, (502) 745-2400. Funds Requested: $86,544. Total Project Cost: 
$173,089. To improve the operation of public station WKYU-TV, ch. 24, 
Bowling Green, KY, by replacing origination equipment, including 
digital tape decks and cameras. The project will assist the station in 
its planned conversion to DTV. The station serves a population of about 
250,000.
    File No. 99064CRB, Eastern Kentucky University, 102 Perkins 
Building Richmond, KY 40475. Contact: Dr. Fred Kolloff, Director Media 
Resources, (606) 622-2474. Funds Requested: $139,928. Total Project 
Cost: $186,571. To extend the signal of public radio station WEKU, 88.9 
MHz, Richmond, KY, by constructing a repeater station in Mt. Victory, 
KY, to bring the first public radio service to about 106,212 residents 
of central and southeastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee.
    File No. 99184CRB, Kentucky Public Radio, 301 York Street 
Louisville, KY 40203. Contact: Ms. Kathi Ellis, Development Specialist, 
(502) 574-1848. Funds Requested: $253,085. Total Project Cost: 
$506,170. To augment the operational capability of Kentucky Public 
Radio, which operates WFPL 89.3 MHz, WUOL 90.5 MHz, and WFPK 91.8 MHz, 
in Louisville, KY, by acquiring various items of equipment for its new 
building, including fiber optic interfaces, a routing switcher, 
consoles, limiters, audio processors, speakers, headphones, 
microphones, microphone stands and mounts, digital audio editors, CD 
players, CD recorder, and digital audio work stations. The three 
stations serve a population of about 3,057,566.
    File No. 99191CRB, Appalshop, Inc., 91 Madison Avenue, Whitesburg, 
KY 41858. Contact: Mr. Timothy Marema, Dir. of Devel.& Admin., (606) 
633-0108. Funds Requested: $69,010. Total Project Cost: $93,010. To 
improve the operation of public station WMMT, 88.7 Mhz, Whitesburg, KY, 
by replacing worn out and obsolete items of production equipment, 
including audio consoles, cassette and DAT recorders, microphones, CD 
players, CD recorder, a telephone interface, and turntables plus its 
STL and a package of test equipment. The station serves a population of 
about 299,162.

Louisiana

    File No. 99167CTB, Greater New Orleans Educational Television 
Foundation, 916 Navarre Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Contact: Mr. 
Randall Feldman, President & General Manager, (504) 486-5511. Funds 
Requested: $265,000. Total Project Cost: $530,000. To improve public 
television station WYES-TV, Ch. 11, New Orleans, by replacing its 
transmission line, and acquiring a digital video effects machine and 
waveform monitors. In addition to making its current service more 
reliable, the new equipment will assist in the eventual conversion to 
digital television. Station serves about 1.8 million people. The area 
is also served by WLAE-TV, Ch. 32.
    File No. 99186CTB, Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Inc., 2929 
S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118. Contact: Mr. John Pela, 
Station Manager, (504) 830-3709. Funds Requested: $49,150. Total 
Project Cost: $98,300. To improve public television station WLAE-TV, 
Ch. 32., in New Orleans by replacing obsolete master control 
origination equipment. New equipment includes 6 videotape machines and 
3 digital waveform monitors. WLAE-TV serves about 1,163,000 people. The 
area is also served by WYES-TV.
    File No. 99223ICTN, New Orleans Educational Telecommunications 
Consortium, 2 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70130. Contact: Dr. Robert 
Lucas, Executive Director, (504) 524-0350. Funds Requested: $62,319. 
Total Project Cost: $124,638. To assist the New Orleans Educational 
Telecommunications Consortium (``NOETC, Inc'') to extend its 
instructional services to the Stennis Space Center, located in nearby 
Mississippi. The project would also establish a video classroom at 
Nunez Community College and connect that studio via microwave to NOETC, 
Inc.'s ITFS system. NOETC, Inc. is a consortium of eight post-secondary 
institutions located in New Orleans. The instructional programming to 
be transmitted to the Stennis Space Center would originate at The 
University of New Orleans, a consortium partner. The Nunez Community 
College equipment would allow course work emphasizing basic literacy 
and math skills to be transmitted to a presently unserved population in 
Plaquemine Parish.
    File No. 99247CTB, Louisiana Educational Television Authority, 7733 
Perkins, Baton Rouge, LA 70810. Contact: Mrs. Cynthia Rougeou, CAO, 
(225) 767-5660. Funds Requested: $225,000. Total Project Cost: 
$450,000. To improve the state's public television network by replacing 
17-year-old video tape equipment in its telecommunications center in 
Baton Rouge. New equipment consists of 5 digital video tape recorders 
with monitoring, a digital video server and digital test equipment. 
Public television network serves about 1,082,000 people.

Massachusetts

    File No. 99113CTB, WGBH Educational Foundation, 44 Hampden St., 
Springfield, MA 01103. Contact: Ms. Deborah Onslow, General Manager, 
(413) 781-2801. Funds Requested: $201,300. Total Project Cost: 
$402,600. To convert public station WGBY-TV, Channel 57 in Springfield, 
MA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 58 by purchasing and installing 
a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL and a small 
digital satellite receiver. The station serves a population of nearly 
2.5 million residents of western Massachusetts and northern 
Connecticut.
    File No. 99211CRB, Trustees of Boston University, 890 Commonwealth 
Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Contact: Mr. Stephen Elman, Assistant General 
Manager, (617) 353-0909. Funds Requested: $223,256. Total Project Cost: 
$446,512. To improve public radio station WRNI-AM, 1290 KHz in 
Providence, RI, by replacing the obsolete and failing transmission 
system, increase power and build a local production studio. WRNI is 
part of Boston University's WBUR Group and its broadcast originates at 
WBUR-FM in Boston. WRNI-AM serves a population of over 250,000 
residents of Rhode Island.
    File No. 99216ICTN, Mount Wachusett Community College, 444 Green 
Street Gardner, MA 01440. Contact: Mr. Anthony Cherubini, Professor, 
(978) 632-6600. Funds Requested: $562,882. Total Project Cost: 
$750,509. To activate a Ku-band satellite project at the applicant's 
Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center. The applicant is 
partnering with the Wood Products Manufacturers Association to upgrade 
skills of the industries employees. Another partner in the project is 
Rural Housing Improvement, which assists low income clients to become 
self sufficient.

Maryland

    File No. 99018CRB, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Backbone 
Road Princess Anne, MD 21853. Contact: Mr. Anthony Hunt, General 
Manager, (410) 651-8001. Funds Requested: $70,743. Total Project Cost: 
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improve public radio station WESM-FM, operating on 91.3 MHz in Princess 
Anne, MD, by replacing a damaged transmitter, adding electrical 
protection and redundancy, upgrading the main production room, and 
acquiring remote recording equipment. The station serves a population 
of more than 142,000 residents of the southeast corner of Maryland, 
southern Delaware and northeastern Virginia.
    File No. 99065CTB, Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, 11767 
Owings Mills Boulevard Owings Mills, MD 21117. Contact: Mr. Robert 
Sestili, Senior Vice President/CEO, (410) 581-4297. Funds Requested: 
$449,400. Total Project Cost: $898,800. To convert public station WMPT-
TV, Channel 22 in Annapolis, MD, to digital broadcasting on Channel 42 
by purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, monitoring and 
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 6.8 million 
people in the cities of Baltimore and Annapolis, and in North, Central 
and Southern Maryland.
    File No. 99104CRB, Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc., 35 University 
Boulevard East Silver Spring, MD 20901. Contact: Mrs. Nancy Knauss, 
Administrative Dir., (301) 681-6636. Funds Requested: $23,719. Total 
Project Cost: $31,625. To improve the services of the Washington Ear, 
the radio reading service in the Wahington DC metropolitan area, by 
replacing control room equipment including tape machines, PC-based 
automation equipment, mini-disc units and headsets. In addition, the 
project will purchase 50 closed-circuit radio receivers to lend to 
listeners free of charge. The Washington Ear serves a population of 
over 1,900 blind and visually impaired residents of Washington DC, 
Maryland and Virginia.

Maine

    File No. 99158CTB, Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, 65 Texas 
Avenue Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Alexander Maxwell, Chief 
Technology Officer, (207) 941-1010. Funds Requested: $324,000. Total 
Project Cost: $648,000. To improve public television stations WMEM-TV, 
Channel 10 in Presque Isle and WMEB-TV, Channel 12 in Orono, Maine, by 
replacing failing and obsolete transmitters with digital-capable units. 
Maine Public Broadcasting serves a population of over 1.2 million 
people.
    File No. 99173IPTN, Washington County Consortium for School 
Improvement, 10 Torrey Hall Machias, ME 04654. Contact: Ms. Gloria 
Jenkins, Director, (207) 255-1219. Funds Requested: $50,000. Total 
Project Cost: $118,625. To help the Washington County Consortium for 
School Improvement, Machias, Maine, plan the development of a distance 
learning system. The Consortium is composed of the 11 school districts 
in the County. Cooperating in the project would be the following: the 
University of Maine/Machias; Washington County Technical College; 
Coastal Washington County Institute of Technology; the Regional Medical 
Center at Lubec; St. Croix Regional Technical School; three American 
Indian elementary schools; a private middle/high school that provides 
educational services to a number of school districts; schools that 
serve the unorganized territories within the County; and the Maine 
State Department of Education.

Michigan

    File No. 99048CTB, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, 
283 Communication Arts Building East Lansing, MI 48824. Contact: Mr. 
Steven Meuche, Director & General Manager, (517) 432-3120. Funds 
Requested: $330,325. Total Project Cost: $660,650. To improve the 
operation of public station WKAR-TV, ch. 23, East Lansing, MI, by 
replacing worn out and obsolete video tape recorders, video production 
switchers, and audio consoles. All new equipment will be digital-
capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to digital 
broadcasting. The station serves a population of about 2,633,010.
    File No. 99059CTB, Grand Valley State University, 301 W. Fulton 
Street Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Contact: Mr. Robert Lumbert, Director of 
Engineering, (616) 771-6739. Funds Requested: $417,425. Total Project 
Cost: $834,850. To complete the conversion of public station WGVU-TV, 
ch. 35, Grand Rapids, MI, to digital broadcasting on channel 11, by 
purchasing a transmitter, transmission line, remote control, an 
encoder, and test equipment. The station serves a population of about 
1,060,425.
    File No. 99123CTB, Detroit Educational Television Foundation, 7441 
Second Avenue Detroit, MI 48202. Contact: Mr. Daniel Alpert, Senior VP 
& Station Manager, (313) 876-8102. Funds Requested: $579,402. Total 
Project Cost: $1,158,804. To convert public station WTVS, ch. 56, 
Detroit, MI, to digital broadcasting on channel 43, bringing the first 
DTV public broadcasting to about 4.6 million people. The project 
includes acquisition of DTV transmitter, STL, satellite demod for DTV 
feeds, encoder, a multiplexer, and related monitoring and test 
equipment.
    File No. 99221CTB, Delta College, 1961 Delta Road University 
Center, MI 48710. Contact: Mr. Barry Baker, Dir. of Broadcasting/G.M., 
(517) 686-9346. Funds Requested: $114,940. Total Project Cost: 
$229,881. To improve the operation of public station WDCQ-TV, ch. 19, 
University Center, MI, by replacing worn out and obsolete cameras and 
video tape recorders. The new equipment will be digital-capable and aid 
the station's eventual conversion to digital broadcasting. The station 
serves a population of about 866,000.
    File No. 99227CTB, Board of Control of Northern Michigan 
University, 1401 Presque Isle Avenue Marquette, MI 49855. Contact: Mr. 
Scott Seaman, General Manager, (906) 227-1300. Funds Requested: 
$135,000. Total Project Cost: $270,000. To improve the production 
capability of public station WNMU-TV, ch. 13, Marquette, MI, by 
replacing worn out and obsolete field and studio cameras. The new 
equipment will be digital-capable and aid the station's eventual 
conversion to digital broadcasting. The station serves a population of 
about 250,000.

Minnesota

    File No. 99001CTB, Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television 
Corporation, 1202 East University Circle Duluth, MN 55811. Contact: Mr. 
Allen Harmon, President, (218) 724-8567. Funds Requested: $122,812. 
Total Project Cost: $163,750. This is a request for emergency funding 
to construct a tower in Grand Marais, MN, for the translator of public 
television station WDSE, Ch. 8, Duluth, MN. The new tower would replace 
the tower on which WDSE(TV) presently leases space for the translator. 
The present tower is in imminent danger of collapse. The project also 
seeks to replace the 18-year-old translator transmitter and its 31-
year-old antenna. The new transmitter would increase the translator's 
power from 100 watts to 500 watts and the new antenna would be 
omnidirectional. The changes would result in an increase in the 
population served from 1,000 to 3,000.
    File No. 99016CTB, Northern Minnesota Public Television., Inc., BSU 
Box 9 Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill Sanford, Director of 
Engineering, (218) 751-3407. Funds Requested: $195,840. Total Project 
Cost: $261,120. To improve the operation of public station KAWE, ch. 9, 
Bemidji, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete video tape recorders 
and a character generator. The new equipment will be digital-capable 
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station's programing is repeated by KAWB, ch. 22, Brainerd, MN. 
Together the two stations serve a population of about 300,000.
    File No. 99017CTB, Northern Minnesota Public Television, BSU Box 9 
Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill Sanford, Director of Engineering, 
(218) 751-3407. Funds Requested: $54,600. Total Project Cost: $72,800. 
To improve the signal quality of public station KAWB, ch. 22, Brainerd, 
MN, by replacing its worn out and obsolete antenna. The station repeats 
the programing of station KAWE, ch. 9, Bemidji, MN. The new equipment 
will be digital-capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to 
digital broadcasting. The two stations serve a population of about 
300,000.
    File No. 99101CTB, West Central Minnesota Education Television Co., 
Inc., 120 West Schlieman Appleton, MN 56208. Contact: Mr. Ansel Doll, 
General Manager, (320) 289-2622. Funds Requested: $251,100. Total 
Project Cost: $334,800. To improve the operation of public station 
KWCM, ch. 10, Appleton, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete video 
recorders and acquiring a video server. The new equipment will be 
digital-capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to digital 
broadcasting. The station serves a population of about 600,000.
    File No. 99177CTB, Austin Independent School District No. 492, 2000 
8th Avenue NW Austin, MN 55912. Contact: Mr. Richard Sailors, General 
Manager, (507) 433-0671. Funds Requested: $720,250. Total Project Cost: 
$1,263,596. To extend the signal of public station KSMQ, ch. 15, 
Austin, MN, and establish the first local origination facility by 
constructing a new station on channel 35 in Winona, MN. The new station 
will operate as a ``pass-through'' service of KSMQ programing except 
when originating local-interest programs. The new station will serve an 
estimated 152,000 people, providing about 12,000 of them with their 
first public television signal. All equipment at the new station will 
be digital-capable.
    File No. 99200CRB, Fresh Air, Inc., 1808 Riverside Avenue 
Minneapolis, MN 55454. Contact: Ms. Denise Mayotte, General Manager, 
(612) 341-3144. Funds Requested: $53,120. Total Project Cost: $106,240. 
To improve the production capability of public station KFAI, 90.3 MHz, 
Minneapolis, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete equipment, 
including audio consoles, distribution amplifiers, CD players, cassette 
decks, turntables, and an audio processor. The station serves a 
population of about 900,000.
    File No. 99238CTB, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., 172 East 
4th Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Contact: Mr. Bruce Jacobs, Chief 
Technologist, (651) 222-1717. Funds Requested: $997,998. Total Project 
Cost: $1,995,996. To convert public station KTCI, ch. 17, St. Paul, MN, 
to digital broadcasting on channel 16 by purchasing a transmitter, 
antenna, transmission line, a video server, satellite demod, format 
converter, channel automation, DTV multiplexer, encoders, and monitors 
plus ancillary items and test equipment. The station serves a 
population of about 3,125,000.
    File No. 99252CRB, Minnesota Public Radio, 45 East 7th Street, St. 
Paul, MN 55101. Contact: Mr. Ron Hall, Development Assistant, (651) 
290-1163. Funds Requested: $121,209. Total Project Cost: $242,418. To 
extend the coverage of Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, by 
constructing two new public stations on 88.7 MHz and 89.7MHz in Grand 
Marais, MN. One of the two stations will carry Minnesota Public Radio's 
news service; the other, MPR's classical music service. The new 
stations will provide service to about 4,166.

Missouri

    File No. 99044CTB, St. Louis Regional Educational and Public 
Television Commission, 3655 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63108. Contact: 
Mrs. Wilma Matta, VP & CFO, (314) 512-9000. Funds Requested: 
$1,237,214. Total Project Cost: $2,474,428. To convert public station 
KETC, ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, to digital broadcasting on channel 39, by 
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, encoder, satellite demod. up-
converter, bit splicer, PSIP generator, spooler, and STL. The station 
serves a population of more than 3 million.
    File No. 99112CTB, Ozarks Public Telecommunications, Inc., 821 
North Washington, Springfield, MO 65802. Contact: Mr. Brent Moore, 
Director of Engineering, (417) 865-2100. Funds Requested: $58,000. 
Total Project Cost: $116,000. To improve the operations of public 
station KOZK, ch, 21, Springfield, MO, by acquiring equipment to 
automate its master control to allow for overnight delivery of college 
courses and additional general programing. The station serves a 
population of about 1.5 million.
    File No. 99169CTB, Public Television 19, Inc., 125 East 31st 
Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Contact: Ms. Brenda Williams, Grant 
Coordinator, (816) 756-3580. Funds Requested: $352,075. Total Project 
Cost: $704,150. To further the conversion of public television station 
KCPT(TV), Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 18 by 
purchasing a dual-channel antenna, Studio-Transmitter Link, SD encoder, 
PSIP generator, off-air monitoring equipment, interconnection 
equipment, and test equipment. The station serves a population of about 
1.8 million.
    File No. 99228CRB, Curators of the University of Missouri for the 
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, 
MO 63121. Contact: Ms. Patricia Bennett, Director & General Manager, 
(314) 516-5968. Funds Requested: $18,576. Total Project Cost: $37,153. 
To improve the production capability of public station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, 
St. Louis, MO, by replacing two worn out and obsolete audio consoles 
and acquiring added audio server capacity, DAT recorders, and a 
telephone hybrid. The station serves a population of about 2,442,200.

Montana

    File No. 99116CRB, Board of Regents Montana University System, 330 
Strand Union Building, Bozeman, MT 59717. Contact: Mr. Philip Charles, 
General Manager, (406) 994-6484. Funds Requested: $39,630. Total 
Project Cost: $62,130. To improve the transmission facilities of public 
radio station KGLT-FM, operating on 91.9 MHZ in Bozeman, by replacing 
the station's 24 year old antenna, transmission and STL system. The 
project would ensure continued service to 70,000 people and permit a 
future power increase to provide first public radio service to an 
additional 15,000 people.

North Carolina

    File No. 99100ICTN, North Carolina School of Science and 
Mathematics, P.O. Box 2418, Durham, NC 27715. Contact: Ms. Peggy 
Manring, Head of Distance Learning, (919) 286-3366. Funds Requested: 
$397,935. Total Project Cost: $649,620. To develop a state-of-the-art 
multimedia distance learning classroom for the North Carolina School of 
Science and Mathematics, Durham. The project would permit the School to 
expand its current distance learning system by using a variety of 
technologies and delivery systems such as wireless networking, H.320, 
webcasting, video streaming, and time-delay satellite broadcasts. The 
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics is a residential, 
statewide magnet school that provides 11th- and 12th-grade students 
with a comprehensive, free education focused on science, mathematics 
and technology.
    File No. 99125CTB, University of North Carolina Center for Public 
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Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Contact: Ms. Meg Lu, Director of 
Admin., (919) 549-7154. Funds Requested: $307,455. Total Project Cost: 
$614,910. To improve the state's public television network by replacing 
seven 100-watt translators (Brevard, Burnsville, Hayesville, Lake Lure, 
Sparta, Spruce Pine and Murphy) and a 1-kilowatt translator at Canton. 
Project will also replace 1960's vintage microwave repeater equipment 
at Cane Mountain, Tarboro, Statesville, and Cowee, plus a digital ready 
hot standby will be installed at Joanna Bald. Project will replace 8 
transmission equipment shelters. Network serves the entire state.
    File No. 99126CRB, Board of Trustees of the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #0915, Chapel Hill, NC 275990915. Contact: 
Mr. Thomas Davis, General Manager, (919) 966-5454. Funds Requested: 
$245,685. Total Project Cost: $327,580. To extend the service of public 
radio station WUNC(FM), Chapel Hill, NC, by constructing a repeater 
station operating on 88.9 MHz in Manteo. The station will have a small 
studio for local origination and will receive programming form WUNC via 
satellite interconnection. The repeater station will provide first 
public radio service to 74,073 people and additional service to 49,166 
residents of eastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks.
    File No. 99162CTB, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Broadcasting 
Authority, 3242 Commonwealth Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28205. Contact: Mr. 
Harold Bouton, President & CEO, (704) 372-2442. Funds Requested: 
$52,846. Total Project Cost: $105,692. To improve public television 
station WTVI-TV, Ch. 42, in Charlotte, by purchasing a digital video 
server to replace the labor and maintenance intensive videotapte 
machines. New equipment will be easily converted to digital television 
service when needed. WTVI-TV serves about 1.08 million people.

North Dakota

    File No. 99157CTB, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., 207 North 5th 
Street, Fargo, ND 58102. Contact: Mrs. Kathleen Pavelko, President & 
CEO, (701) 241-6900. Funds Requested: $1,188,258. Total Project Cost: 
$1,584,344. To convert public television station KBME-TV, Ch. 3, in 
Bismarck, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 22 by purchasing a full 
complement of digital dissemination, origination, interconnection, 
reception and test equipment. KBME-DT will also be used to demonstrate 
the use of digital broadband capacity for distance learning. KBME-DT 
will provide a first digital TV service to about 115,000 people.
    File No. 99194CRTB, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., 207 North 
5th Street Fargo, ND 58102. Contact: Mrs. Kathleen Pavelko, President & 
CEO, (701) 241-6900. Funds Requested: $1,325,901. Total Project Cost: 
$1,767,868. To improve the state's public radio and television system 
by replacing its obsolete, worn-out, six-hop, 21-year-old, Fargo-to-
Bismarck, ND analog microwave system. This replacement is part of the 
long-term digital transition plan for ND. Network currently serves 
about 790,300 people.

Nebraska

    File No. 99004CTB, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, 
6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182. Contact: Ms. Debra Aliano, General 
Manager, (402) 554-2516. Funds Requested: $69,816. Total Project Cost: 
$145,450. To improve public television station KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in 
Omaha, by acquiring a digital video file server. The equipment will 
replace the current playback system which does not produce a fully 
broadcast quality signal. KYNE-TV serves about 696,000 people.
    File No. 99007CRB, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, 
6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182. Contact: Ms. Debra Aliano, General 
Manager, (402) 559-5866. Funds Requested: $23,664. Total Project Cost: 
$49,300. To improve public radio station KVNO-FM, 90.7 MHz, in Omaha by 
acquiring 2 digital audio consoles, a digital 8-track tape recorder, 
microphones and associated equipment. Current consoles are obsolete and 
worn-out. KVNO-FM serves about 607,000 people.
    File No. 99094ICTN, Educational Service Unit 7, 2657 44th Avenue 
Columbus, NE 68601. Contact: Ms. Phyllis Brunken, Media/Technology 
Director, (402) 564-5753. Funds Requested: $563,076. Total Project 
Cost: $750,769. To establish a video distance learning system for the 
Educational Service Unit 7 (``ESU 7''), Columbus, Nebraska. The system 
would interconnect 11 school districts in a five-county area of eastern 
Nebraska. The counties are Butler, Colfax, Merrick, Platte and Polk. 
The system would also encompass Central Community College, which is in 
Columbus, and ESU 7 itself. The proposed system would be digital fiber-
optic based, with the signal transmitted via T-1 telephone lines. Each 
participating school would receive either or both of two types of 
distance learning equipment: a dedicated two-way video classroom or 
desktop conferencing equipment.
    File No. 99109ICTN, ADEC Corporation, C218 Animal Science Building 
Lincoln, NE 68583. Contact: Dr. Janet Poley, President/CEO, (402) 472-
7000. Funds Requested: $454,180. Total Project Cost: $908,360. To 
extend the distance learning services of ADEC by purchasing a digital 
satellite uplink which will distribute 6 MCPC channel of programming. 
The uplink will aggregate programming from ADEC member universities and 
extend programming to previously unserved audiences. ADEC is a 
consortium of 55 land-grant institutions providing distance learning 
nationwide.
    File No. 99156CRB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications 
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 68501. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates, 
Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $81,300. Total Project 
Cost: $162,600. To improve and expand the coverage of public radio 
station KUCV-FM, 90.9 MHz, Lincoln by replacing the station's 20-year-
old transmitter and antenna system. Project will change frequency to 
91.1 MHz and increase station's power from 16.0 to 20.14 kilowatts. 
KUCV-FM currently serves about 268,544 people.
    File No. 99190CTB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications 
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 685013111. Contact: Mr. Rod 
Bates, Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $878,497. Total 
Project Cost: $1,756,994. To improve the state public television 
network by replacing worn-out and obsolete dissemination and 
origination equipment with digital or digital-compatible equipment. 
Network will acquire a non-linear edit system, studio/remote cameras, 
hard disk server system, and a remote control switcher. Equipment will 
be used in partnership with Central Educational Network (CEN). Network 
serves about 1.65 million people in Nebraska.
    File No. 99201CRB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications 
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 685013111. Contact: Mr. Rod 
Bates, Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $120,500. Total 
Project Cost: $241,000. To replace the antenna systems of four stations 
of the state's public radio network. New antennas will be installed at: 
KRNE-FM, 91.5 MHz, Merriman; KCNE-FM, 91.9 MHz, Chadron; KPNE-FM, 91.7 
MHz, North Platte and KMNE-FM, 90.3 MHz, Bassett. Antennas have 
experienced longitudinal cracks and one of the stations (KRNE-FM) has 
already reduced power 40% to avoid permanent damage. The four stations 
serve about \1/3\ of the state.

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New Hampshire

    File No. 99003CTB, University of New Hampshire, 268 Mast Road 
Durham, NH 03824. Contact: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of Engineering, 
(603) 868-7552. Funds Requested: $1,305,000. Total Project Cost: 
$2,610,000. To convert public station WENH-TV, Channel 11 in Durham, 
NH, to digital broadcasting on Channel 57 by purchasing and installing 
a transmitter, antenna transmission line, STL, encoder and test 
equipment. In addition, the project will acquire digital studio 
equipment, including a video server, router, still store, DVE and ENG 
kit. The station serves a population of over 1.1 million people.
    File No. 99215CRB, New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., 207 North Main 
Street Concord, NH 03301. Contact: Mr. Andrew Morrell, Program 
Director, (603) 228-8910. Funds Requested: $50,225. Total Project Cost: 
$100,450. To improve the broadcast quality of the state network by 
replacing the obsolete and failing transmitter at repeater station 
WEVH-FM, 91.3 MHz in Hanover, NH. The project will also replace 
recording and playback equipment at WEVO-FM, 89.1 MHz in Concord, 
including minidisc players and the audio Vault. New Hampshire Public 
Radio serves a population of over 900,000 people.

New Jersey

    File No. 99052ICTN, Burlington County College, Pemberton-Browns 
Mills Rd. Pemberton, NJ 08068. Contact: Dr. Bernard Solomon, Director, 
Distance Learning at, (609) 894-9311. Funds Requested: $197,160. Total 
Project Cost: $394,320. To equip a new Telecommunications Center on the 
Mt. Laurel Campus of Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ. The 
equipment would allow the College to interconnect with a consortium of 
academic institutions and thus expand distance learning to a large 
underserved population throughout southern New Jersey. In addition to 
Burlington County College, the consortium participants include the New 
Jersey Institute of Technology, The University of Medicine and 
Dentistry of New Jersey, Cumberland Community College, Ocean County 
College, Salem Community College, and Georgian Court College.
    File No. 99110CTB, New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, 23 
South Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. Contact: Mr. William 
Schnorbus, Acting Director of Engineering, (609) 777-5162. Funds 
Requested: $796,750. Total Project Cost: $1,593,500. To convert public 
station WNJT-TV, Channel 52 in Trenton, NJ, to digital broadcast on 
Channel 43 by the purchase and installation of a digital transmitter, 
antenna, STL, combiner, encoder, video server and monitoring equipment. 
The station serves a population of over 9.8 million people.
    File No. 99124CRB, New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, 25 
South Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. Contact: Mr. William 
Schnorbus, Acting Director of Engineering, (609) 777-5162. Funds 
Requested: $71,657. Total Project Cost: $95,543. To expand the state 
public radio network by constructing a new Class A station, WNJZ-FM in 
Cape May Courthouse, operating on 90.3 MHz, that will provide first 
public radio services to over 52,000 residents of Cape May County in 
southeastern New Jersey.

New Mexico

    File No. 99019CTB, Regents of the University of New Mexico and 
Board of Education of the City of Al, 1130 University Blvd NE 
Albuquerque, NM 87102. Contact: Mr. Jon Cooper, General Manager, (505) 
277-2121. Funds Requested: $202,428. Total Project Cost: $404,856. To 
improve KNME-TV, Ch. 5, Albuquerque by replacing analog studio routing 
switcher and analog video tape recorders with digital equipment. KNME-
TV will also acquire satellite reception equipment which will allow the 
reception and display of PBS ATSC satellite transmissions. This 
equipment will assist in the digital conversion of the station which 
serves about 1,130,922 people.
    File No. 99026CTB, Regents or the University of New Mexico and the 
Board of Education of the City of, 1130 University Blvd. N.E., 
Albuquerque, NM 87102. Contact: Mr. Jon Cooper, General Manager, (505) 
277-2121. Funds Requested: $104,205. Total Project Cost: $208,410. To 
improve the translator facilities of public television station KNME-TV, 
Ch. 5, Albuquerque, by replacing and modifying translators at 12 sites. 
The frequencies of these translators must be ``displaced'' to lower 
frequency channels in order to comply with FCC mandates regarding the 
implementation of digital television. Sites affected are: Cimarron 
(K60AA), Gallup (K60BD), Grants (K67CR), Roy (K69CG), Las Vegas 
(K65BQ), Eagle Tail/Raton (K20CV), Red River (K03CZ), Mora (K31EO), 
Santa Rosa (K74BBO), Sheridan (K69CI), Wagon Mound (K68BO), and Chama 
(K69CH). Translators currently serve about 167,000 people.
    File No. 99028CTB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52, 
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting, 
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $38,545. Total Project Cost: $77,090. 
To improve public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3, Portales, by 
replacing three old UHF translators with solid state units and retuning 
an existing translator to a new channel. New translators will be in 
Carlsbad (K49ES), Forrest/McAlister (K34EZ) and Tucumcari (Ch. 32). The 
retuned translator is Ruidoso (K49EW). These changes are in compliance 
with FCC mandated channel displacement for all UHF translators 
operating on Ch. 60-69.
    File No. 99029CTB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52, 
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting, 
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $272,450. Total Project Cost: 
$544,900. To improve public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3, 
Portales, by replacing old camera systems and aquiring a video file 
server to replace one-inch video tape recorders. KENW-TV serves about 
350,000 people.
    File No. 99035CRB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52, 
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting, 
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $27,860. Total Project Cost: $40,480. 
To expand and improve the facilities of public radio station KENW-FM, 
89.5 MHz, in Portales, by constructing new translators at Fort Sumner 
(K219DP--91.7 MHz) and Conchas Lake (K202CX--88.3 MHz). KNEW-FM will 
also replace its 1978 vintage audio processor. New translators will add 
a first public radio service to about 2,500 people.
    File No. 99072CTB, Mescalero Apache Tribe, 101 Central (P.O. Box 
176), Mescalero, NM 88340. Contact: Mr. Ferris Palmer, Administrator, 
(505) 671-4494. Funds Requested: $74,993. Total Project Cost: $99,990. 
To improve the facilities of public television translators KO2KR and 
KO2KQ, in Mescalero by acquiring a studio-to-transmitter link to 
interconnect both translators to efficiently present local programs. In 
addition, project will acquire basic origination equipment to 
facilitate the production of local programming beyond the minimum level 
previously available to the tribe. Stations serve about 3,000 people.
    File No. 99080ICTN, Crownpoint Institute of Technology, Lower Point 
Road, Crownpoint, NM 87313. Contact: Mr. James Tutt, President, (505) 
786-4102. Funds Requested: $522,545. Total Project Cost: $696,727. To 
bring Northern Arizona University's interactive television distance 
learning system--called NAUNet--to Crownpoint Institute of Technology, 
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located in northwest NM at the extreme southeast of the Main 
Reservation of the Navajo Nation. Crownpoint Institute of Technology is 
a tribally-controlled two-year vocational and technical institution.
    File No. 99093CRB, Regents of New Mexico State University, McFie 
Circle, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Contact: Mr. Colin Gromatzky, General 
Manager, (505) 646-4525. Funds Requested: $17,445. Total Project Cost: 
$34,890. To improve public radio station KRWG-FM, 90.7 MHz, Las Cruces, 
by replacing old, worn-out studio-to-transmitter link (STL) and audio 
processor with a digital STL and compatible digital processor. KRWG-FM 
serves about 263,000 people.
    File No. 99111CRB, Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., 
Santa Fe, NM 87505. Contact: Mr. Barton Bond, Station Manager, (505) 
428-1319. Funds Requested: $56,697. Total Project Cost: $113,394. To 
improve public radio station KSFR-FM, 90.7 MHz, Santa Fe, by acquiring 
a new antenna, studio-to-transmitter link converter, digital processor, 
monitor and exciter as well as a variety of digital origination 
equipment. In addition, KSFR-FM will acquire its first satellite 
downlink equipment. KSFR-FM serves about 100,000 people.
    File No. 99207CRB, Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, 
2020 Coal SE Albuquerque, NM 87106. Contact: Mr. Michael Brasher, 
General Manager, (505) 242-7163. Funds Requested: $69,291. Total 
Project Cost: $92,388. To expand public radio station KANW-FM, 89.1 
MHz, Albuquerque by replacing translators with protected repeater/
satellite stations at the following sites: Espanola (K212AN--replaced 
by 91.1 MHz repeater), Grants (K216AN-- replaced by 88.1 MHz repeater) 
and Santa Rosa (K220BH--replaced by 91.9 MHz repeater). Translator 
stations currently serve about 26,975 and new protected facilities will 
add first service to an additional 1,000 people.

Nevada

    File No. 99134CTB, Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10 
Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General Manager, 
(702) 799-1010. Funds Requested: $340,857. Total Project Cost: 
$524,395. To improve public television station KLVX-TV, Ch. 10, in Las 
Vegas, by replacing origination equipment to improve the capabilities 
of the station. Main routing switcher, color monitors, pedestals and 
camera mounts, prompter mounts, video servers, and related origination 
equipment plus a small complement of test equipment will replace worn-
out and obsolete equipment. KLVX-TV provides an educational and public 
television service to about 1.2 million people.
    File No. 99136ICTN, Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10 
Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General Manager, 
(702) 799-1010. Funds Requested: $101,400. Total Project Cost: 
$156,000. To purchase equipment that will be part of the operation of 
four new channels of Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) 
licensed to the Clark County School District and administered by 
Station KLVX(TV), which operates over-the-air on Ch. 10 in Las Vegas, 
NV. The project would purchase one Flexicart and eight logo generator/
inserters.
    File No. 99139CRB, Board of Regents/UCCSN/University of Nevada Las 
Vegas, P.O. Box 452010 Las Veqas, NV 891542010. Contact: Mr. Donald 
Fuller, Gen. Mgr., (702) 895-3877. Funds Requested: $88,825. Total 
Project Cost: $118,434. To improve public radio station KUNV-FM, 91.5 
MHz, Las Vegas, by replacing its 20-year-old transmitter, antenna, and 
transmission line. Station serves about 1.3 million people.
    File No. 99250CRB, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley 
Reservation, P.O. Box 219 Owyhee, NV 89832. Contact: Mr. Herman Atkins, 
Tribal Administrator, (775) 757-3211. Funds Requested: $233,723. Total 
Project Cost: $311,631. To activate a new noncommercial FM radio 
station on 88.5 MHz, in Owyhee. New station will carry the signal of 
KNBA-FM, Anchorage, Alaska and programming from the American Indian 
Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network . These programs will be delivered 
via satellite. Initially the station will have 4 hours/day of local 
programming. New station will provide a first noncommercial FM service 
to about 1,550 Native Americans.

New York

    File No. 99005CTB, Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, 
Inc., 506 Old Liverpool Road Syracuse, NY 13220. Contact: Mr. John 
Duffy, Chief Engineer, (315) 453-2424. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total 
Project Cost: $150,000. To improve public television station WCNY-TV, 
Channel 24 in Syracuse, NY, by replacing the master control video 
server. The station serves a population of over 1.7 million residents 
of central New York State.
    File No. 99023CTB, St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television 
Council, Inc., 1056 Arsenal Street Watertown, NY 13601. Contact: Mr. 
Thomas Hanley, President/General Manager, (315) 782-3142. Funds 
Requested: $61,925. Total Project Cost: $123,850. To improve public 
television stations WPBS/WNPI-TV, Channels 16 and 18 in Watertown, NY, 
by replacing four obsolete one-inch videotape players with digital-
based VTRs. The stations serve a population of over 1 million people.
    File No. 99042CTB, Western New York Public Broadcasting 
Association, 140 Lower Terrace Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact: Mr. Richard 
Daly, Senior VP Broadcasting, (716) 845-7002. Funds Requested: 
$490,333. Total Project Cost: $980,667. To improve public television 
station WNED-TV, Channel 17 in Buffalo, NY, by upgrading to a digital 
router and replacing 14 one-inch and two \3/4\'' videotape machines, 
the production switcher and the linear editing switcher with digital 
units. The station serves a population of 1.6 million people.
    File No. 99068CRB, Long Island University, Southampton College 
Southampton, NY 11968. Contact: Dr. Wallace Smith, General Manager, 
(516) 287-8295. Funds Requested: $153,682. Total Project Cost: 
$307,365. To improve public radio station WPBX-FM, 88.3 MHz in 
Southampton, NY, by replacing the damaged and unreliable transmitter 
and antenna. The station is relocating its transmission facilities to a 
new site. WPBX serves a population of 3.5 million residents of Long 
Island, and the southern region of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
    File No. 99076CTB, Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council, 
One Sesame Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Contact: Mr. Howard Lowe, 
President and General Manager, (518) 563-9770. Funds Requested: 
$157,440. Total Project Cost: $209,920. To improve public television 
station WCFE-TV, Channel 57 in Plattsburgh, NY, by replacing the 12-
year-old analog master control switcher with a digital switcher. The 
station serves a population of 341,000 people.
    File No. 99105ICTN, Board of Cooperative Educational Services for 
the Sole Supervisory District of O, 179 County Route 64 Mexico, NY 
13114. Contact: Mr. Frank House, Executive Director, (315) 963-4248. 
Funds Requested: $544,191. Total Project Cost: $725,588. To purchase 
equipment that would allow the Oswego County BOCES, Mexico, NY, to 
establish a distance learning network interconnecting 12 sites located 
throughout Oswego and Fulton Counties. The project would install video 
classrooms in nine public school districts, a BOCES site, the State 
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Oswego, and an outreach center of the Cornell Cooperative Extension. 
The interconnection will be achieved via dedicated T-1 high speed data 
lines interconnected with a fiber optic network.
    File No. 99138CTB, Long Island Educational TV Council, Inc., 
Channel 21 Drive Plainview, NY 11803. Contact: Mr. Terrel Cass, 
President & General Manager, (516) 367-2100. Funds Requested: $493,303. 
Total Project Cost: $986,607. To improve public television station 
WLIW-TV, Channel 21 in Plainview, New York, by replacing the 21-year-
old transmitter with a digital-ready transmitter and purchasing analog 
test equipment. The station serves approximately 5.1 million people in 
New York City, Westchester and Rockland counties, Long Island, New 
Jersey and Connecticut.
    File No. 99174CTB, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State 
Street Rochester, NY 14614. Contact: Mr. Norm Silverstein, President 
and CEO, (716) 325-7500. Funds Requested: $300,000. Total Project Cost: 
$600,000. To improve public television station WXXI-TV, Channel 21 in 
Rochester, NY, by replacing obsolete and unreliable master control and 
production equipment, including master control and production 
switchers, one-inch and \3/4\'' videotape machines, color monitors and 
test equipment. The station serves a population of 1.2 million people.
    File No. 99213CRB, St. Lawrence University, St. Lawrence University 
Canton, NY 13617. Contact: Ms. Ellen Rocco, Station Manager, (315) 229-
5356. Funds Requested: $71,912. Total Project Cost: $108,250. To expand 
the coverage area of WSLU-FM, 89.5 MHz in Canton, NY, by installing two 
transmitters and one translator to serve the communities of Morristown, 
Chateaugay and Old Forge. The new service will provide first public 
radio programming to about 30,000 residents of these communities. The 
project also includes the urgent replacement of two generators and 
obsolete recording equipment. WSLU currently serves a population of 
450,000 people.

Ohio

    File No. 99013CTB, Educational Television Association of 
Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44134. 
Contact: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, President & CEO, (216) 739-3850. Funds 
Requested: $47,750. Total Project Cost: $95,500. To replace the 
translator in Thompson, OH, of public television station WVIZ(TV); the 
latter broadcasts on Ch. 25 in Cleveland, OH. The present Thompson 
translator has been operating on Ch. 67; the new translator would 
operate on Ch. 63. The Federal Communications Commission recently 
required the Ch. 67 translator to shut down operations because the 
translator interfered with the signal of a full-power station that had 
moved its transmitter and increased its power. This situation makes the 
present proposal an emergency application. The project would restore 
public television service to nearly 47,000 residents of the 
translators' service area immediately to the east of Cleveland.
    File No. 99014CTB, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701. Contact: Mr. 
Paul Witkowski, Associate Director, (740) 593-4784. Funds Requested: 
$734,167. Total Project Cost: $1,468,335. To improve the transmission 
facilities of public television station WOUB-TV, operating on Ch. 20 in 
Athens, OH, by replacing an 18 year old transmitter with a digital 
compatible unit. The project would also purchase a wideband antenna and 
tower to enable future conversion of the station to digital 
broadcasting. The project will ensure continued service to 
approximately 700,000 people in eastern Ohio and adjoining areas of 
West Virginia.
    File No. 99120CTB, Greater Dayton Public Television, Inc., 110 
South Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402. Contact: Mr. David Fogarty, 
President & General Manager, (937) 220-1611. Funds Requested: $299,848. 
Total Project Cost: $599,696. To improve the facilities of public 
television station WPTD, operating on Ch. 16 in Dayton, by replacing 
three 12 year old studio cameras and a 15 year old routing switcher. 
The new equipment will be digital compatible and will assist the 
station in converting to digital broadcasting. The applicant serves 2.6 
million people in southwest/west-central Ohio and adjacent areas in 
Indiana and Kentucky.
    File No. 99152CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street 
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Dr. John Perry, Executive Director and 
General, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $161,266. Total Project Cost: 
$215,022. To extend the service of public radio station WKSU(FM), Kent, 
Ohio by constructing an FM repeater station operating on 90.7 MHz in 
Norwalk, OH. The new station will provide first public radio service to 
52,947 people in Erie, Lorian and Huron counties and additional service 
to 37,149 in northeast Ohio.
    File No. 99153CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street 
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Mr. John Perry, Executive Director and 
General, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $94,589. Total Project Cost: 
$155,635. To improve the program service of public radio station WKSU-
FM, operating on 89.7 MHZ in Kent, Ohio, and is repeater stations in 
northeast Ohio by constructing a satellite interconnection system. The 
satellite interconnection system will deliver WKSU-FM programming to 
new stations proposed for Norwalk and Sandusky, which are the subject 
of PTFP applications 99152 and 99154. The interconnection will also 
improve reliability of program delivery to existing repeater stations 
WKSV, Thompson; WKRJ, New Philadelphia; and WKRW, Wooster and will 
permit the broadcast of programming tailored to each station's coverage 
area.
    File No. 99154CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street 
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Dr. John Perry, Executive Director & General 
M, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $225,546. Total Project Cost: 
$300,728. To extend the service of public radio station WKSU(FM), Kent, 
Ohio by constructing an FM repeater station operating on 88.5 MHz in 
Sandusky. The proposed repeater station will provide first public radio 
service to an estimated 112,000 people in Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Huron 
and Seneca counties in Northeast Ohio.
    File No. 99155CRB, The WOSU Stations of The Ohio State University, 
2400 Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH 43210. Contact: Mr. Sam Eiler, 
Radio Station Manager, (614) 292-9678. Funds Requested: $56,330. Total 
Project Cost: $112,660. To improve the production facilities of the 
WOSU public radio stations by purchasing an audio vault system. The 
audio vault will replace audio cart machines and will permit the 
introduction of local programming on the applicant's radio stations. 
WOSU serves 1.5 million people in central Ohio through broadcasts on 
public radio stations WOSU-FM, 89.7 MHz in Columbus; WOSB-FM, 91.1 MHz 
in Marion; WOSV-FM, 91.7 MHz in Mansfield; WOSE-FM, 91.1 MHz in 
Coshocton; and WOSP-FM, 91.5 MHz in Portsmouth.
    File No. 99185CTB, Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest 
Ohio, 136 Huron Street Toledo, OH 43604. Contact: Mr. Daniel 
Niedzwiecki, Director of Engineering, (419) 243-3091. Funds Requested: 
$279,500. Total Project Cost: $559,000. To improve the facilities of 
public television station WGTE, operating on Ch. 30 in Toledo, by 
replacing three 12 year old studio cameras and a 12 year old production 
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digital compatible and will assist the station in converting to digital 
broadcasting. The applicant serves 1.6 million people in northwest Ohio 
and adjacent areas in Michigan.
    File No. 99192CTB, Educational Television Association of 
Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44134. 
Contact: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, President & CEO, (216) 739-3850. Funds 
Requested: $47,750. Total Project Cost: $95,500. To improve the 
facilities of television translator station W64AK, operating on Ch. 64 
in Ashtabula. The translator rebroadcasts public television station 
WVIZ, Cleveland. The project will replace a 25 year old antenna and 
transmitter with modern equipment which can be tuned to another 
frequency. (As a result of the FCC's digital television plan, Ch. 64 
will eventually be assigned by the FCC for non-television uses.) The 
project will ensure continued public television service to 110,000 
residents of Ashtabula and Lake Counties in northeast Ohio.
    File No. 99199CRB, Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest 
Ohio, 136 Huron Street, Toledo, OH 43604. Contact: Mr. Daniel 
Niedzwiecki, Director of Engineering, (419) 243-3091. Funds Requested: 
$62,150. Total Project Cost: $124,300. To improve the facilities of 
public radio station WGTE-FM, operating on 91.3 MHZ in Toledo, OH, by 
purchasing digital production equipment including an audio console, 
audio server, CD, and DAT machines. The applicant provides public radio 
service to 1.2 million residents of northwest Ohio and adjacent areas 
of Michigan.
    File No. 99203CTB, Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River 
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Contact: Mr. Thomas Lahr, Engineering 
Manager, (614) 292-9678. Funds Requested: $83,875. Total Project Cost: 
$167,750. To improve the facilities of public television station WOSU-
TV, operating on Ch. 34 in Columbus, by purchasing digital routing and 
audio switching equipment. The project will enable WOSU to continue its 
service to 1.6 residents of central Ohio and will assist in the 
station's conversion to digital broadcasting as required by the FCC.
    File No. 99239ICTN, Columbus State Community College, 550 East 
Spring Street, Columbus, OH 43215. Contact: Dr. Kevin May, Admin. 
Distance Educ., (614) 287-2589. Funds Requested: $64,532. Total Project 
Cost: $94,532. To allow Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH, 
to extend its video conferencing distance learning system to the rural 
and underserved populations in Union and Madison Counties. The project 
would have two primary educational objectives. First, it would increase 
the access of the Post Secondary Enrollment Option students and the 
adult re-entry students in these counties to diverse instructional 
programs, college courses, and continuing education. Second, the 
efforts of the College's Community Education Services/Workforce 
Development Division in support of entrepreneurial businesses would be 
made available there.
    File No. 99243CRB, Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, Inc., 1223 
Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45214. Contact: Ms. Cathy Beltz-
Williams, Business Manager, (513) 241-8282. Funds Requested: $47,356. 
Total Project Cost: $94,712. To improve the facilities of public radio 
station WGUC(FM), operating on 90.9 MHz in Cincinnati, OH by replacing 
a 16 year old transmitter. The project also will purchase a digital 950 
MHz studio to transmitter link to replace a fiber optic 
interconnection. WGUC(FM) serves 1.7 million people in the Cincinnati 
metropolitan area in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
    File No. 99245CTB, Greater Cincinnati Television Education 
Foundation, 1223 Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214. Contact: Mr. W. 
Wayne Godwin, President & General Mgr., (513) 381-4033. Funds 
Requested: $129,832. Total Project Cost: $324,581. To improve the 
production facilities of public television station WCET-TV, operating 
on Ch. 48 in Cincinnati, OH by replacing 11'' and \3/4\'' videotape 
recorders and audio cart machines with digital videorecorders and a 
digital audio server. The equipment will assist in the station's 
conversion to digital broadcasting and ensure continued service to 1.5 
million people in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.

Oklahoma

    File No. 99146CTB, Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, 7403 
North Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73113. Contact: Mr. Malcolm 
Wall, Executive Director, (405) 848-8501. Funds Requested: $361,662. 
Total Project Cost: $723,324. To improve the state public television 
network's Tulsa news bureau/studio by replacing origination, test and 
other associated equipment. The 1982 studio provides local production 
from northeast Oklahoma. Productions are fed to the network for 
dissemination throughout the state system which serves about 2.96 
million people.

Oregon

    File No. 99074CTB, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam 
Avenue Portland, OR 97219. Contact: Ms. Deborah Hinton, Sr. Vice 
President, (503) 293-4008. Funds Requested: $504,157. Total Project 
Cost: $1,008,314. To improve the facilities of KOPB-TV, operating on 
Ch. 10 in Portland, OR by purchasing a video server, digital routing 
switcher, 4 channel SDTV encoder and automation system. The project 
will assist in the conversion to digital television broadcasting by the 
applicant and will ensure continued public television service to 3 
million residents of northwest Oregon and southern Washington State.
    File No. 99141IPTN, School District No. 1 Multnomah County Oregon, 
P.O. Box 3107 Portland, OR 97208. Contact: Ms. Christine Poole-Jones, 
Administrator, (503) 916-3382. Funds Requested: $166,760. Total Project 
Cost: $208,622. To assist School District No. 1, Multnomah County, OR--
popularly known as the Portland Public Schools--prepare a 
comprehensive, strategic long-range telecommunications plan. The 
project would allow the Portland Public Schools to analyze its existing 
telecommunications and distance learning technologies and, with this 
analysis as a base, to achieve the following: (a) outline strategies 
for consolidating existing technologies into a coordinated 
infrastructure; (b) provide a detailed blueprint for future technology 
acquisition and use; and (c) describe management, resource, 
implementation, and training requirements.
    File No. 99217ICTN, North Clackamas School District, 14211 SE 
Johnson Road Milwaukie, OR 97267. Contact: Dr. Ronald Dexter, Director, 
Professional Tech., (503) 653-3813. Funds Requested: $658,000. Total 
Project Cost: $1,337,000. To improve the production facilities of the 
distance learning facility of the Owen Sabin Skills Center by 
constructing a new video studio. The applicant reaches over 300,000 
people in Claxton County via cable access channel and serves additional 
viewers by satellite distribution.

Pennsylvania

    File No. 99032CTB, Pennsylvania State University, 102 Wagner 
Building University Park, PA 168023899. Contact: Mr. William Speakman, 
Acting General Manager, (814) 865-3333. Funds Requested: $104,350. 
Total Project Cost: $208,700. To augment the digital production 
capability of public station WPSX, ch. 3, University Park, PA, by 
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network to facilitate the production of interactive and enhanced 
program content. The station serves a population of about 1,365,677.
    File No. 99033CRB, Pennsylvania State University, 102 Wagner 
Building University Park, PA 168023899. Contact: Mr. William Speakman, 
Acting General Manager, (814) 865-3333. Funds Requested: $15,744. Total 
Project Cost: $20,992. To extend the coverage of public radio station 
WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by activating an FM translator at 
102.5 MHz in Huntingdon, PA, to bring the first public radio signal to 
about 17,333 residents.
    File No. 99060CRB, Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television 
Association, 70 Old Boston Road Pittston, PA 18640. Contact: Mr. A. 
William Kelly, President/CEO, (570) 601-1120. Funds Requested: $98,266. 
Total Project Cost: $196,532. To improve the signal of public station 
WVIA-FM, 89.9 MHz, Pittston, PA, by replacing its worn out and obsolete 
antenna and underpowered transmitter. The project will also activate an 
FM repeater at 89.7 MHz in Williamsport, PA. The new repeater will use 
the current transmitter from WVIA-FM in a situation in which its power 
will be adequate. The repeater will bring the first public radio signal 
to about 63,533 persons. WVIA-FM presently serves a population of more 
than one million.
    File No. 99071CTB, Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television 
Association, 70 Old Boston Road Pittston, PA 18640. Contact: Mr. A. 
William Kelly, President/CEO, (570) 602-1120. Funds Requested: 
$226,745. Total Project Cost: $453,490. To improve the operation of 
public station WVIA-TV. ch. 44, Pittston, PA, by acquiring a digital 
file server and automation system. The station serves a population of 
more than one million.
    File No. 99075CTB, Independence Public Media of Philadelphia, Inc., 
6070 Ridqe Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19128. Contact: Ms. Sherri Culver, 
General Manager, (215) 483-3900. Funds Requested: $262,353. Total 
Project Cost: $349,805. To improve the operation of public station 
WYBE, ch. 35, Philadelphia, PA, by acquiring a digital file server and 
additional video tape recorders, and by replacing obsolete satellite 
downlink and studio demod. The station serves a population of 
5,500,000.
    File No. 99090CTB, WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, 
PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Jeffrey Rutkowski, Director, Administration, 
(412) 622-1312. Funds Requested: $969,915. Total Project Cost: 
$1,939,831. To improve the operation of public station WQED-TV, ch. 12, 
Pittsburgh, PA, by replacing worn out and obsolete items of equipment, 
including switcher, cart decks, editor, and ENG packages. All new 
equipment will be digitally compatible. The station serves a population 
of 3.25 million.
    File No. 99143CTB, WHYY, Inc., 150 North Sixth Street Philadelphia, 
PA 19106. Contact: Mr. John Doran, Chief Engineer, (215) 351-1271. 
Funds Requested: $502,354. Total Project Cost: $1,004,708. To improve 
the operation of public station WHYY-TV, ch. 12, Philadelphia, PA, by 
replacing worn out and obsolete production equipment, including master 
control switcher, routing switcher, video server, encoder, monitoring, 
and test gear. All equipment will be digital-capable. The station 
serves a population of about 7,280,200.
    File No. 99188CRB, WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, 
PA 15213. Contact: Mr. James Cunninqham, Station Manager, (412) 622-
1541. Funds Requested: $68,951. Total Project Cost: $137,902. To 
improve the signal of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA, 
by replacing its worn out and obsolete antenna. The station serves a 
population of about 1,283,557.
    File No. 99193IPTN, Crawford County Regional Alliance, 18257 
Industrial Drive Meadville, PA 16335. Contact: Mrs. Maryann Martin, 
Chief Executive Officer, (814) 337-8200. Funds Requested: $75,000. 
Total Project Cost: $155,000. To assist the Crawford County Regional 
Alliance, Meadville, PA, to plan for the incorporation of distance 
learning and information technologies into its future Regional Training 
& Conference Center. The Alliance is an element of the Crawford County 
Development Corporation.
    File No. 99224CRB, Public Broadcasting of Northwest Pennsylvania, 
Inc., 8425 Peach Street Erie, PA 16509. Contact: Ms. Thomas McLaren, 
Director of Radio, (814) 864-3001. Funds Requested: $14,253. Total 
Project Cost: $28,506. To improve the operation of public station WQLN-
FM, 91.3 MHz, Erie, PA, by replacing worn out and obsolete logging and 
automation equipment. The station serves a population of about 427,300.
    File No. 99225CTB, WITF, Inc., 1982 Locust Lane Harrisburg, PA 
17105. Contact: Mr. Greg Poland, Senior VP & COO, (717) 236-6000. Funds 
Requested: $400,000. Total Project Cost: $2,225,000. To purchase the 
equipment required to allow public television station WITF(TV), 
Harrisburg, PA, to initiate digital television transmission. WITF(TV) 
broadcasts its analog signal on Ch. 33 and will transmit its digital 
service on Ch. 36.
    File No. 99249CRB, Golden Triangle Radio Information Center, Inc., 
2100 Wharton Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Contact: Mr. David Noble, 
General Manager, (412) 488-3944. Funds Requested: $37,931. Total 
Project Cost: $50,575. To improve the facilities of the Radio 
Information Service, a radio reading service in Southwestern 
Pennsylvania, by replacing the STL, the SCA Generator and an equalizer. 
The project will also purchase 350 SCA receivers to be donated to 
potential listeners. The Radio Information Service currently has 6,500 
daily listeners.

Puerto Rico

    File No. 99103CTB, Ana G. Mendez University System, State Road 176 
KM 0.3 Cupey San Juan, PR 00928. Contact: Mr. Ariel Diaz, Chief 
Engineer, (787) 766-2600. Funds Requested: $346,125. Total Project 
Cost: $461,500. To replace the microwave system that interconnects 
public television station WMTJ(TV), which operates on Ch. 40 in San 
Juan, PR, to its satellite station, WQTO(TV), which operates on Ch. 26 
in Ponce. Both stations are licensed to the Ana G. Mendez University 
System (AGMUS). The previous microwave system was irreparably damaged 
on September 21, 1998 by Hurricane Georges. For this reason, the 
proposal is considered to be an emergency application. Since the 
hurricane devasted the microwave, the interconnection has been 
accomplished by using the AGMUS Instructional Television Fixed Service 
equipment. This has resulted in a lower-quality public television 
signal in Ponce and a severe diminishing of the number of hours of 
instructional programming the University System is able to offer its 
learners in Ponce.
    File No. 99121ICTN, Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System, 
Highway 1 Experimental Station Rio Piedras, PR 00927. Contact: Dr. 
Nitza Hernandez, Executive Director, (787) 250-0000. Funds Requested: 
$412,562. Total Project Cost: $825,125. To extend the distance learning 
services of the Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System (HETS) 
by constructing satellite facilities at the John Jay College of 
Criminal Justice in New York City, Miami Dade Community College in 
Miami, and Inter American University and the University of Scared Heart 
in San Juan, Puerto Rico. HETS is a consortium of nine colleges 
throughout the United States which link Hispanic college students.
    File No. 99145ICTN, Ponce School of Medicine, P.O. Box 7004 Ponce, 
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Morales, VP of Business Affairs, (787) 848-4254. Funds Requested: 
$350,000. Total Project Cost: $580,229. To allow the Ponce School of 
Medicine, Ponce, PR, to extend medical education and training course 
work to three remote health care sites via video teleconferencing.

South Carolina

    File No. 99040CTB, South Carolina Educational Television 
Commission, 1101 George Rogers Boulevard Columbia, SC 29201. Contact: 
Mr. Leslie Griffin, Vice President-Engineering, (803) 737-3486. Funds 
Requested: $364,036. Total Project Cost: $728,073. To improve the state 
public television network's telecommunications center by replacing 
worn-out and obsolete equipment. Equipment being acquired includes 
master control scheduling system, automation system, digital file 
server system, non-linear editing system and associated test equipment. 
Public TV network serves about 3.6 million people.
    File No. 99150CRB, South Carolina Educational Television 
Commission, 1101 George Rogers Boulevard Columbia, SC 29201. Contact: 
Mr. Thomas Fowler, Vice President, Radio, (803) 737-3404. Funds 
Requested: $102,570. Total Project Cost: $213,080. To improve the 
facilities of the South Carolina Educational Radio network by 
constructing a C-band satellite system to interconnect the eight 
stations in the network. The satellite system will improve delivery of 
programing to the stations and will permit broadcast of programming 
directed at each station's local service area. The eight stations in 
the project are WEPR-FM, 90.1 MHz, Greenville; WNSC-FM, 88.9 MHz, Rock 
Hill; WLTR-FM, 91.3 MHz, Columbia; WRJA-FM, 88.1 MHz, Sumter; WHMC-MF, 
90.1 MHz, Conway; WLJK-FM, 89.1 MHz, Aiken; WJWJ-MF, 89.9 MHz, 
Beaufort; and WSCI-FM, 89.3 MHz, Columbia. The applicant provides 
public radio service to 4.8 million people in South Carolina and 
adjacent areas of Georgia and North Carolina.
    File No. 99159IPTN, South Carolina State Board for Technical and 
Comprehensive Education, 111 Executive Center Drive Columbia, SC 29210. 
Contact: Dr. Candace Gosnell, Associate Exec. Director, (803) 737-9321. 
Funds Requested: $49,363. Total Project Cost: $70,518. To assist the 
South Carolina State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education 
(``the State Board''), Columbia, to plan how best to extend its present 
distance learning activities so as to reach learners who are presently 
inhibited by diverse barriers from full participation in higher 
education. The State Board administers a system of 16 State technical 
colleges, whose main campuses are interconnected by a T-1 based 
distance learning system featuring interactive compressed video. The 
project would develop a distance education implementation and 
management plan to guide the expansion of the State Board's 
telecommunication infrastructure to ensure that learners, wherever they 
may live in the State, would have access to high quality and affordable 
technical education.
    File No. 99196ICTN, Tri-County Technical College, 7900 Highway 76 
Pendleton, SC 29670. Contact: Ms. Tabatha Thompson, Director of Grants, 
(864) 646-8361. Funds Requested: $374,170. Total Project Cost: 
$498,893. To assist Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC, to 
establish a distance learning network that would interconnect the 
College with six high schools in the College's service area. The 
College serves Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties in northwestern 
South Carolina. The project, which would encompass two high schools in 
each of those counties, would have two objectives: (1) to deliver dual-
credit instruction to high school juniors and seniors from College 
instructors; and (2) to permit the high schools to share courses among 
themselves.

South Dakota

    File No. 99160CTB, South Dakota Board of Directors for Educational 
Telecommunications, Cherry & Dakota Streets Vermillion, SD 57069. 
Contact: Mr. Donald Forseth, Tech. Services Coordinator, (605) 677-
5861. Funds Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost: $400,000. To 
improve KUSD-TV, Ch. 3, in Vermillion, by replacing obsolete, worn-out 
audio/video router and videotape machines. The new equipment will 
support the eventual digital conversion of the state's public 
television system which serves about 800,000 people.

Tennessee

    File No. 99037CRB, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, DEPT 
1151 Chattanooga, TN 37403. Contact: Dr. John McCormack, Director, 
(423) 755-4756. Funds Requested: $32,203. Total Project Cost: $64,407. 
To improve the facilities of public radio station WUTC-FM, operating on 
88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, by purchasing digital audio origination/
production equipment and a studio site auxiliary power generator. The 
project will purchase a Digital Audio Delivery System as part of the 
station's conversion to digital technology. WUTC-FM serves 1 million 
residents in the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and 
Alabama.
    File No. 99045CTB, East Tennessee Public Communications 
Corporation, 1611 E. Magnolia Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917. Contact: Mr. 
Jim Tindell, President/General Manager, (423) 595-0220. Funds 
Requested: $137,929. Total Project Cost: $275,858. To improve the 
facilities of public television stations WKOP, operating on Ch. 15 in 
Knoxville, TN and WSJK, operating on Ch. 2 in Sneedville, TN. The 
project will purchase three new digital studio/field cameras to replace 
13 year old equipment used by both stations. The project will also 
replace a 16 year old transmitter remote control system required for 
the continued operation of WSJK. The applicant's stations serve 2 
million people in East Tennessee and surrounding areas of North 
Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.
    File No. 99127CTB, Greater Chattanooga Public Television 
Corporation, 4411 Amnicola Hwy Chattanooga, TN 37406. Contact: Mr. 
Victor Hogstrom, President/General Manager, (423) 629-0045. Funds 
Requested: $107,165. Total Project Cost: $214,330. To improve the 
production facilities of public television stations WTCI, operating on 
Ch. 45 in Chattanooga, TN by replacing obsolete studio production 
equipment. The project would purchase digital videotape recorders, a 
portable digital camera, a non-linear editing system and lighting 
equipment for the station' studio. The project will help ensure 
continued program service to 800,000 residents of Tennessee, Georgia 
and Alabama and will assist in the station's conversion to digital 
broadcasting.
    File No. 99208ICTN, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, 
2597 Avery Avenue Memphis, TN 38112. Contact: Ms. Mary Korff, Interim 
Grant Writer, (901) 325-5791. Funds Requested: $477,475. Total Project 
Cost: $954,951. To extend the distance learning network recently 
established by the Memphis City Schools to an additional 55 schools in 
the system. The network is based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) 
transmission. The project would purchase the ATM equipment for each of 
the schools. It would also assist the school system to buy a Ku-Band 
satellite uplink. The proposal would represent one element of a multi-
phase project the intent of which is to equip all the City's schools 
for distance learning. The goals are to extend the benefits of the 
City's educational offerings on a more equal basis to all the City's 
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development for the teachers. The uplink would allow the teachers to 
interact with national leaders in education and the school system's 
administrators to ``meet'' with specialists across the country to help 
resolve system problems.
    File No. 99237CTB, Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, 900 
Getwell Road Memphis, TN 38111. Contact: Mr. Michael LaBonia, President 
& CEO, (901) 458-2521. Funds Requested: $60,600. Total Project Cost: 
$121,200. To improve the production facilities of public television 
station WKNO-TV, operating on Ch. 10 in Memphis, TN, by replacing four 
1'' videotape machines with digital units. The videotape machines will 
be used in the station's Master Control and will assist in the 
station's conversion to digital broadcasting. WKNO-TV provides service 
to 1.7 million people in west Tennessee and adjacent areas of 
Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri.

Texas

    File No. 99025CTB, Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications 
Council, 2504-B Whitis Austin, TX 78705. Contact: Ms. Mary Beth Rogers, 
CEO & President, (512) 471-5561. Funds Requested: $279,097. Total 
Project Cost: $558,195. To improve public television station KLRU-TV, 
Ch. 18, in Austin by replacing old origination equipment with 3 CCD 
studio-type camera systems, a digital video recorder and a component 
measurement set. KLRU-TV serves about 1.23 million people
    File No. 99034CTB, South Texas Public Broadcasting System, Inc., 
4455 South Padre Island Drive Corpus Christi, TX 78411. Contact: Mr. 
Don Dunlap, President & General Mgr., (512) 855-2213. Funds Requested: 
$422,963. Total Project Cost: $563,950. To improve public television 
station KEDT-TV, Ch. 16, in Corpus Christi by replacing and upgrading 
worn-out origination, interconnection and test equipment to begin 
digital conversion. Equipment includes a digital STL, digital monitors, 
non-linear digital editor, still store, digital router and various 
digital interface equipment, camera pedestals and heads, plus wireless 
transmitters and beltpacks. KEDT-TV also seeks a steerable 3.8 meter 
satellite dish to obtain educational programming. KEDT-TV serves about 
560,000 people.
    File No. 99047CTB, University of Houston, 4513 Cullen Boulevard 
Houston, TX 77004. Contact: Mr. Jeff Clarke, CEO & General Manager, 
(713) 749-8202. Funds Requested: $574,546. Total Project Cost: 
$1,436,365. To improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in 
Houston by making transmitter upgrades in conjunction with the 
conversion to DTV and adding digital test equipment. Project will also 
acquire studio cameras with lens and pedestals, studio lighting system, 
and an audio console. Equipment will be used in the digital conversion 
of the station and the move to a new telecommunications center. KUHT-TV 
serves about 4.5 million people.
    File No. 99049CTB, Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, 501 
Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP 
Telecommunications, (210) 270-9000. Funds Requested: $196,335. Total 
Project Cost: $392,670. To improve public television station KLRN-TV, 
Ch. 9, in San Antonio, by augmenting the station's facilities by 
acquiring digital routing equipment. Equipment will be used in its 
current NTSC broadcasts and eventually will be used in the Digital TV 
conversion. KLRN-TV serves about 2 million people.
    File No. 99115ICTN, Dallas County Community College District, 
LeCroy Ctr. for Educ. Telecom. Dallas, TX 75243. Contact: Mrs. Pamela 
Quinn, Asst. Chancellor, Ed. Telecom, (972) 669-6550. Funds Requested: 
$317,498. Total Project Cost: $634,996. To provide two-way digital 
video distribution of instructional video to nine sites throughout 
Dallas County. Seven of these sites would be member-schools of the 
Dallas County Community College District: El Centro College (Dallas); 
Brookhaven College (Farmers Branch); Richland College (Dallas); 
Eastfield College (Mesquite); Cedar Valley College (Lancaster); 
Mountain View College (Dallas); and North Lake College (Irving). The 
remaining sites would be the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic 
Development and the R. Jan LeCroy Center for Educational 
Telecommunications. The system would expand the applicant's current 
video capacity to over 700 classrooms and would allow for multi-site 
origination of video programming for distance education.
    File No. 99131CTB, Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation, 
500 Speight P.S. 7296 Waco, TX 76703. Contact: Mr. Kliff Kuehl, General 
Manager, (254) 710-3874. Funds Requested: $670,080. Total Project Cost: 
$893,442. To improve and extend the signal of public television station 
KCTF-TV, Ch. 34, in Waco, by replacing its faulty and highly unreliable 
analog transmitter with a dual-cavity transmitter, improved antenna and 
studio-to-transmitter (STL) link. Modifications will provide improved 
service plus provide first public television service to about 12,000 
people. KCTF-TV currently serves about 201,000 people.
    File No. 99147CRB, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., 3000 
Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: Mr. Jeffrey 
Luchsinger, Station Manager, (214) 871-1390. Funds Requested: $64,000. 
Total Project Cost: $128,000. To improve public radio station KERA-FM, 
90.1 MHz, in Dallas, by replacing its outdated and malfunctioning 
analog audio record/play equipment with a digital storage and 
automation system. KERA-FM serves about 3.9 million people.
    File No. 99148ICTN, United Star Distance Learning Consortium, Inc., 
3305 North 3rd Suite 307 Abilene, TX 79603. Contact: Ms. Glenda Mathis, 
Executive Director, (915) 672-9499. Funds Requested: $735,376. Total 
Project Cost: $1,470,752. To purchase equipment to support the 
expansion of the StarNet distance learning network. Digital satellite 
downlinks will be purchased for 700 schools in over 40 states. 
Equipment requested also includes a satellite uplink to be placed at 
Education Service Center Region 20 in San Antonio, TX, and digital 
encoders to be placed at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, and 
at the Agency for Public Telecommunications in Raleigh, NC.
    File No. 99166CTB, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., 3000 
Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: Ms. Cheryl Craigie, 
President & CEO, (214) 740-9210. Funds Requested: $830,400. Total 
Project Cost: $1,660,800. To convert public station KERA-TV, Ch. 13, in 
Dallas, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 14 by purchasing DTV 
transmitter, encoder, test equipment and start-up production equipment. 
Equipment will be used with existing DTV antenna system funded in 1998. 
Station serves about 5.2 million people.
    File No. 99176ICTN, Texas State Technical College, 3801 Campus Dr. 
Waco, TX 76705. Contact: Ms. Greta Hecker, Coordin. Video Productions, 
(254) 867-3300. Funds Requested: $867,134. Total Project Cost: 
$867,134. To improve the video production capabilities of Texas State 
Technical College, Waco. The College transmits instructional 
programming via a dedicated educational access channel of the local 
cable television system.
    File No. 99204CTB, El Paso Public Television Foundation, Inc., UTEP 
Campus Education Building El Paso, TX 79902. Contact: Mr. Craig Brush, 
President and G.M., (915) 747-6500. Funds Requested: $62,100. Total 
Project Cost: $82,800. To improve public television station KCOS-TV, 
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El Paso, by replacing its obsolete \3/4\'' umatic tape machine system 
with a digital video file server and related equipment. KCOS-TV serves 
about 700,000 people.
    File No. 99222ICTN, Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, 501 
Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP 
Telecommunications, (210) 270-9000. Funds Requested: $371,650. Total 
Project Cost: $743,300. To purchase diverse digital archiving and 
server equipment that would permit public television station KLRN 
(TV)--which operates on Ch. 9 in San Antonio, TX--and Education Service 
Center Region 20 (``ESC Region 20'')--also based in San Antonio--to 
activate an educational content delivery system. The materials 
disseminated by the proposed system would be transmitted over the T-1-
based STARTNet system administered by ESC Region 20. Project equipment, 
especially the digital servers, would be located at both KLRN (TV) and 
ESC Region 20, as well as at the eight participating school districts 
located throughout their service area. The eight participating 
districts would be Floresville, Kerrville, Cotulla, Eagle Pass, 
Pleasanton, North East, Southside, and Judson Independent. Once 
implemented, the system would allow teachers to enjoy immediate access 
to reference works and other digital media stored on CD-ROM and DVD 
technologies. In addition, hundreds of hours of classroom programming 
would be accessible from the two main servers at KLRN (TV) and ESC 
Region 20. These two central participants would facilitate timely 
program delivery to teachers by making some of the educational 
materials available on demand at any time, and others readily available 
by appointment over the Wide Area Network which would be part of the 
system.

Utah

    File No. 99073CTB, University of Utah, Office of Sponsored Projects 
Salt Lake City, UT 84102. Contact: Ms. Lynne Chronister, Director of 
Sponsored Projects, (801) 581-3008. Funds Requested: $461,460. Total 
Project Cost: $922,920. To improve public television stations KUED-TV, 
Ch. 7, Salt Lake City and KULC-TV, Ch. 9, Ogden/Salt Lake City, by 
replacing obsolete, DTV-incompatible equipment with digital equipment. 
New equipment includes automation equipment, digital file server and 
router which will be installed in the broadcast center. In addition, a 
new repeater station will be activated on Ch. 19 in Richfield to 
provide channel protection. Channel will initially broadcast in NTSC 
but will be converted to DTV at a later time. All equipment is part of 
a phased DTV conversion plan. Stations serve about 2,059,148 people.
    File No. 99181CRB, Listeners Community Radio of Utah, Inc., 230 
South 500 West Suite 105 Salt Lake City, UT 84101. Contact: Mr. John 
Bortel, Pres. and General Manager, (801) 363-1818. Funds Requested: 
$94,958. Total Project Cost: $189,916. To improve and extend the signal 
of noncommercial radio station KRCL-FM, 90.9 MHz, Salt Lake City, by 
replacing its 17-year-old transmitter, studio-to-transmitter link, a 
variety of old, obsolete origination equipment and acquiring a new 
satellite dish and spectrum analyzer. KRCL-FM serves about 1.4 million 
people.

Virginia

    File No. 99106CTB, Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications 
Association Incorporated, 5200 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508. 
Contact: Ms. Roberta Baker, Corporate Secretary, (757) 889-9400. Funds 
Requested: $600,554. Total Project Cost: $1,201,108. To convert public 
Station WHRO-TV, Channel 15 in Norfolk, VA, to digital broadcasting on 
Channel 16 by purchasing and installing a digital transmitter, antenna, 
transmission line, microwave STL and test equipment. The station serves 
a population of 1.5 million people.
    File No. 99107CTB, Shenandoah Valley Educational Television 
Corporation, 298 Port Republic Road Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Contact: 
Mr. Maurice Bresnahan, President/General Manager, (540) 434-5391. Funds 
Requested: $227,417. Total Project Cost: $454,835. To improve public 
television station WVPT-TV, Channel 51 in Harrisonburg, VA, and to 
begin the station's conversion to digital broadcast, by replacing old 
and obsolete equipment with state-of-the-art digital equipment, 
including the routing switcher, master control switcher, sync 
generator, character generator and test equipment. The station serves a 
population of more than 475,000 people.
    File No. 99163IPTN, Old Dominion University, Room 145 Norfolk, VA 
23529. Contact: Dr. Anne Savage, Asso VP for Academic Affairs, (757) 
683-5314. Funds Requested: $100,575. Total Project Cost: $134,100. To 
help Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and Florida A&M University, 
Tallahassee, FL, to develop a cooperative plan to extend their 
respective distance learning networks to several Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). (Florida A&M Univerity is an HBCU.) 
If implemented, the extended networks would serve a number of purposes: 
strengthen existing degree programs at the several participating 
institutions; expand the number of their degree programs; engage in 
workforce development in the regions of the recipient schools; and 
improve the technological capabilities of the participating 
institutions.
    File No. 99175CTB, Greater Washington Educational 
Telecommunications Association, Inc., 2775 S. Quincy Street Arlinton, 
VA 22206. Contact: Mr. Lewis Zager, Vice President Tech., (703) 998-
2637. Funds Requested: $1,219,565. Total Project Cost: $1,626,087. To 
continue the conversion to digital broadcasting of WETA-DTV, operating 
on Digital Channel 34 in Arlington, VA, by purchansing a high 
definition television camera, digital high definition editing equipment 
and digital test and measurement equipment. The station serves a 
population of more than 2.7 million people.
    File No. 99231IPTN, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State 
University, 1700 Pratt Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061. Contact: Dr. Andrea 
Kavanaugh, Director of Research, (540) 231-5488. Funds Requested: 
$101,916. Total Project Cost: $154,337. To help Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute & State University (``Virginia Tech''), Blacksburg, plan how 
to establish distance learning interconnections in rural Smyth and 
Floyd Counties, both in southwest Virginia. The new system would 
deliver diverse programing: high school courses (including Graduate 
Equivalency Degree programs) and health care education and training.

Virgin Islands

    File No. 99095CTB, Virgin Islands Public Television System, P.O. 
Box 7879 Charlotte Amalie, VI 00801. Contact: Ms. Lori Elskoe, General 
Manager, (340) 774-3226. Funds Requested: $175,163. Total Project Cost: 
$233,550. To purchase portable production equipment to allow public 
television station WTJX (TV), Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, to 
establish an electronic news gathering system. WTJX (TV) operates on 
Ch. 12 and brings the sole public television service to the American 
Virgin Islands. The project would permit WTJX (TV) to offer its first 
local news service to its viewers.

Vermont

    File No. 99078CTN, Lyndon State College, 1001 College Road 
Lyndonville, VT 05851. Contact: Ms. Cynthia Baldwin, Professor CAS, 
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6256. Funds Requested: $213,705. Total Project Cost: $284,940. To 
replace and enhance studio equipment at the cable television access 
production studio at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT. The College 
has been transmitting its programming over a dedicated channel of the 
local cable television system since 1980.
    File No. 99240CTB, Vermont ETV Inc, 88 Ethan Allen Ave Colchester, 
VT 05446. Contact: Mr. Wayne Rosberg, Vice President, (802) 655-5276. 
Funds Requested: $623,675. Total Project Cost: $1,247,350. To convert 
public station WVTA-TV, Channel 41 in Colchester, VT, to digital 
broadcasting on Channel 24 by purchasing and installing a digital 
transmitter, antenna, transmission line, microwave STL, encoder and 
test equipment. The station serves a population of 750,000 people.

Washington

    File No. 99012CTB, Spokane School District #81, 3911 S. Regal 
Street Spokane, WA 99223. Contact: Mr. Claude Kistler, General Manager, 
(509) 353-5777. Funds Requested: $144,847. Total Project Cost: 
$289,694. To improve public television station KSPS-TV, Channel 7 in 
Spokane, WA, by replacing one-inch and 3/4'' videotape machines with a 
digital video server and purchasing digital test equipment. The station 
serves a population of 1.3 million people.
    File No. 99041CRB, Evergreen State College, College Activities 
Building 301 Olympia, WA 98505. Contact: Mr. Michael Huntsberger, 
General Manager, (360) 866-6000. Funds Requested: $77,576. Total 
Project Cost: $129,294. To expand and improve the facilities of KAOS-
FM, operating on 89.3 MHz in Olympia, WA, by relocating and replacing 
the transmitter, the antenna, STL and related equipment. The station 
will also increase power providing first public radio services to over 
36,000 people, for a total of about 62,000 additional listeners. KAOS-
FM currently serves 80,000 people.
    File No. 99050CRB, Washington State University, 382 Murrow Center 
Pullman, WA 99164. Contact: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, Associate VP & 
General Manager, (509) 335-6511. Funds Requested: $74,205. Total 
Project Cost: $98,940. To extend the services of the Northwest Public 
Radio Network by constructing a repeater station in Chehalis, operating 
on 88.9 MHz, serving rural western Washington and providing first 
public radio programming to over 62,000 residents of the area.
    File No. 99119CTB, KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street Seattle, WA 
98109. Contact: Mr. Burnill Clark, President & CEO, (206) 443-6706. 
Funds Requested: $381,500. Total Project Cost: $763,000. To continue 
the conversion to digital broadcasting of KCTS-DTV, operating on 
Digital Channel 41 in Seattle, WA, by purchasing a digital routing 
switcher and a digital multichannel master control switcher. The 
station serves a population of over 3.4 million people.
    File No. 99234CTB, Bates Technical College, 1101 Yakima Avenue 
South Tacoma, WA 98405. Contact: Ms. Debbie Emond, General Manager, 
(253) 596-1528. Funds Requested: $398,493. Total Project Cost: 
$531,324. To extend the broadcast signal of KBTC-TV, Channel 28 in 
Tacoma, WA, by activating a repeater station in Bellingham, operating 
on Channel 34, that will provide first public broadcasting television 
programming to over 175,000 residents of the north Puget Sound region 
of Washington State.

Wisconsin

    File No. 99030IPTN, La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium, 
Inc., 105 Graff Main Hall La Crosse, WI 54601. Contact: Dr. Martin 
Venneman, Executive Director, (608) 785-8218. Funds Requested: 
$125,400. Total Project Cost: $167,200. To help the La Crosse Medical 
Health Science Consortium, Inc. (LMHSC), La Crosse, WI, plan for the 
activation of a distance learning network. In this proposal, the LMHSC 
would develop detailed plans for the first phase of a two-stage, long-
range plan to establish a regional telecommunications network of 
``virtual'' Population Health Centers throughout the LMHSC's service 
area. The service area encompasses 22 counties in southwestern 
Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Iowa. The long-range plan's first 
phase would center on three Wisconsin communities: Black River Falls 
(Jackson Co.); Mauston (Juneau Co.); and Prairie du Chien (Crawford 
Co.). The LMHSC is a collaborative body comprising the University of 
Wisconsin/La Crosse, Western Wisconsin Technical College, Viterbo 
College, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, and Franciscan Skemp 
Healthcare.
    File No. 99118CTB, Milwaukee Area Technical College District Board, 
1036 North 8th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233. Contact: Mr. Bryce Combs, 
General Manager, (414) 297-7661. Funds Requested: $690,611. Total 
Project Cost: $1,381,223. To improve the transmission facilities of 
public television station WMVT-TV, operating on Ch. 36 in Milwaukee, by 
replacing the transmitter, antenna and transmission line. The project 
will ensure continued service to 2 million people and assist in the 
station's conversion to digital broadcasting.
    File No. 99144CRB, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, 3319 
West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 537134296. Contact: Mr. Thomas 
Fletemeyer, Executive Director, (608) 264-9676. Funds Requested: 
$112,825. Total Project Cost: $225,650. To improve the broadcast 
facilities of Wisconsin Public Radio by replacing unreliable 
transmitters at WHLA-FM, 90.3 MHz in La Crosse and WPNE-FM, 89.3 MHz in 
Green Bay, Wisconsin. The state network serves a population of 1.6 
million people.
    File No. 99178CRB, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Public Broadcasting 
Corporation, 13386 W. Trepania Road Hayward, WI 54843. Contact: Ms. 
Camille Lacapa, Program Director, (715) 634-2100. Funds Requested: 
$99,881. Total Project Cost: $199,762. To improve public radio station 
WOJB-FM, 88.9 MHz in Hayward, WI, by replacing the damaged 16-year-old 
transmitter and purchasing test equipment. The project will also 
replace studio equipment with new DAT machines, CD players, a stereo 
generator, microphones, amplifiers and speakers. The station serves a 
population of 129,000 people.
    File No. 99205CTB, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, 3319 
West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 537134296. Contact: Mr. Thomas 
Fletemeyer, Executive Director, (608) 264-9676. Funds Requested: 
$901,240. Total Project Cost: $1,802,480. To convert public station 
WHRM-TV, Channel 20 in Wausau, WI, to digital broadcasting on Digital 
Channel 24 by purchasing and installing a digital transmitter, antenna 
and transmission line, STL, encoder and test equipment. The station 
serves a population of 478,450.

West Virginia

    File No. 99135PRB, Educated Communications Unlimited, 109 Glenwood 
Avenue Charleston, WV 25312. Contact: Ms. Lisa Miller, Director, (304) 
345-7594. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project Cost: $75,000. To 
plan for the establishment of a public radio station serving the 
residents of Charleston, Huntington and Beckley, West Virginia.
    File No. 99220CTB, West Virginia Educational Broadcasting 
Authority, 600 Capitol Street Charleston, WV 25301. Contact: Mr. Bill 
Acker, General Manager, (304) 558-3400. Funds Requested: $760,567. 
Total Project Cost: $1,521,134. To improve and upgrade the production 
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Network by replacing the router switcher, a 30-year-old lighting 
system, the character generator and the editing system at the Network's 
news and public affairs production studio in Charleston, WV. In 
addition, the project will replace the current analog microwave 
interconnection system with a fiber-optic ATM system and purchase and 
install new character generators at the Huntington and Morgantown 
stations. The Network serves a population of over 1.8 million residents 
of West Virginia.
Bernadette McGuire-Rivera,
Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information 
Applications.
[FR Doc. 99-9950 Filed 4-22-99; 8:45 am]
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