Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 92 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]

[Notices]

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Part II

Department of Commerce

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National Telecommunications and Information Administration

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Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications

Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing; Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 92 / Friday, May 12, 1995 /

Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications

Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing

Notice is hereby given that the following described applications

for Federal financial assistance are accepted for filing under

provision Title III, Part IV, of the Communications Act of 1934, as

amended (47 U.S.C. 390-393, 397) and in accordance with 15 CFR part

2301. All of the applications listed in this section were received by

February 15, 1995. The effective date of acceptance of these proposals,

unless otherwise indicated herein, is ``Date Received''. Applications

are listed by their State.

The acceptance of applications for filing is a procedure designed

for providing the opportunity for public comment on applications.

Acceptance of an application for filing does not preclude subsequent

disapproval of an application if it is found to be not in accordance

with the provision of either the Act or 15 CFR part 2301, or if the

applicant fails to file any additional information requested by the

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). Acceptance for

filing does not ensure that an application is eligible to receive

funding or that an application will be funded, 15 CFR 2301.15.

Any interested party may file comments with the Agency supporting

or opposing an application and setting forth the grounds for support or

opposition. Such comments must contain a certification that a copy of

the comments has been delivered to the applicant. Comments must be sent

to the address listed in 15 CFR 2301.5(a).

The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any

replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.

James J. Hartman,

Chief, Management Division, Department of Commerce NTIA/PTFP, Room

4625, 14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20230, (202)

482-1800.

AK (Alaska)

File No. 95018 CRB Kuskokwim Public Broadcasting Corp., PO Box 70,

5 Airport Way, McGrath, AK 99627. Signed By: Ms. Betsy McGuire, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $14,040. Total Project Cost: $28,080. To

replace obsolete and worn out studio and transmitter equipment at KSKO

AM, 870 KHz, McGrath, Alaska providing the only public radio service to

4,500 persons in McGrath, Takotna, Galena, Nulato and Kaltag, Alaska.

File No. 95090 CRB Alaska Public Broadcasting Comm., 333 Willoughby

Avenue, Juneau, AK 99801. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Samimi-Moore. Funds

Requested: $915,060. Total Project Cost: $1,830,121. To acquire audio

codec and related routing, controlling, distribution, digital satellite

uplink-downlink conversion, DAT machines, digital STL, and portable

recording equipment enabling the Alaska Public Radio Network, which

provides local and national public radio programming to 620,000

Alaskans, to construct a full duplex digital audio network among 27

Alaska Public Radio Stations in a hub and spoke configuration using

leased 56 and 128 KBS digital circuits and digital satellite uplinks.

File No. 95143 CRB Pickle Hill Pub Broadcasting, Inc, 1604 Tanaga

Avenue, Kenai, AK 99611. Signed By: Mr. Jon Lillevik, President. Funds

Requested: $95,974. Total Project Cost: $127,965. To provide first

locally originated public radio programming to 27,200 people in Kenai,

Soldotna, Nikiski and Sterling, Alaska by acquiring studio and field

production equipment, STLs and monitoring equipment at KDLL-FM, 91.9

MHz, formerly KCZP-FM, Kenai, Alaska.

File No. 95151 CRB Dillingham City School District, POB 670, Seward

Street, Dillingham, AK 99576. Signed By; Mr. Keith Evans,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $124,883. Total Project Cost:

$166,511. To extend first public radio service to approximately 500

persons in King Cove and Pedro Bay, Alaska by constructing 2 low power

FM translators to repeat the signal from KDLG AM, 670 KHz, Dillingham,

Alaska, and by upgrading studio production facilities at KDLG.

File No. 95161 CRB Pribilof School District, POB 905, St. Paul, AK

99660. Signed By: Ms. Tammy White, Finance Officer. Funds Requested:

$143,385. Total Project Cost: $191,780. To extend the signal of KUHB

FM, 91.9 MHz, St. Paul, Alaska to St. George, Alaska by building a 5KW

AM repeater transmitter, tower and related equipment on St. George

Island, Alaska.

File No. 95245 CRB AK Info. Radio Reading & Ed. Svc., 1102 W.

International Airport Rd, Anchorage, AK 99518. Signed By: Mr. Richard

Gardenhire, President. Funds Requested: $86,505. Total Project Cost:

$115,340. To replace an obsolete and worn out SCA transmitter,

recording and playback equipment, control board, and automation system

with new digital technology, and to acquire a 3.8 meter satellite

receive system to receive national reading service programming that

will provide radio reading service to approximately 7,500 print

impaired persons in Anchorage, Alaska.

File No. 95249 CRB Bethel Broadcasting, Inc., 640 Radio St., Pouch

468, Bethel, AK 99559. Signed By: Ms. Mari Yates, Treasurer. Funds

Requested: $168,364. Total Project Cost: $224,486. To improve the only

public radio service to approximately 20,000 residents in the Bethel

area, and to provide first public radio service to approximately 5,000

residents in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, by replacing an obsolete and

worn out transmitter, antenna and ground support structure at KYUK-AM,

640 KHz, Bethel, Alaska.

File No. 95250 CRB Alaska Public Telecom., Inc., 3877 University

Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Mr. Richard Enders, Acting

General Manager. Funds Requested: $282,300. Total Project Cost:

$377,300. To upgrade public radio service to 225,005 citizens, and

contingent on the status of construction of another public radio

station in the area, to provide an additional 75,058 potentially first

service listeners with public radio programming, by replacing an

obsolete and worn out transmitter at KSKA FM, 91.1 MHz, Anchorage,

Alaska, by replacing a studio transmitter link and by moving the

antenna to a new, more advantageous location.

AL (Alabama)

File No. 95025 CRB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South,

Ste. 400, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $8,500. Total Project Cost:

$17,000. To improve the production facilities of public radio station

WLRH-FM operating on 89.3 MHz in Huntsville, Alabama, by replacing the

old and worn-out production console.

File No. 95038 CTB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th South, Ste

400, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. To

improve the broadcast services of the nine-station Alabama Public

Television Network by replacing basic origination equipment at the

Network's only studio located in Montgomery and at its Birmingham

editing suite. In addition, APT will replace an obsolete video/audio

switcher located at APT's central control routing point and processing

amps at all nine transmitters.

File No. 95055 CTB City of Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane,

Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon. Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds

Requested: $418,924. [[Page 25773]] Total Project Cost: $668,924. To

establish a low power noncommercial television station operating on

Channel 60 in Prichard, Alabama, to provide educational and

informational services to the city of Prichard and surrounding areas.

File No. 95060 IPTN Livingston University, Highway 11 North,

Livingston, AL 35470. Signed By: Dr. Don Hines, President. Funds

Requested: $81,609. Total Project Cost: $102,011. To conduct a planning

project and evaluate the feasibility of technologies and delivery

options for a possible distance learning network service to a

disadvantaged population in six counties of west central Alabama.

File No. 95082 ICTN Black Warrior T/C Consortium, Inc, 607 Highway

80 West, Demopolis, AL 36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters, President.

Funds Requested: $193,484. Total Project Cost: $257,978. To construct a

video production studio and related test equipment for the Black

Warrier Telecommunications Consortium, Inc., Demopolis, AL. The studio

will allow the Consortium to originate educational programming to be

transmitted over the ITFS systems operated by the Consortium members.

The Consortium is composed of five school systems (Marengo, Greene, and

Sumter Counties and the cities of Demopolis and Linden City) and the

West Alabama Health Services, all located in rural west Alabama.

File No. 95228 CTB The University of Alabama, Box 870104, G-60 Rose

Admin Bldg, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wells, Assist.

Acad VP for Research. Funds Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost:

$400,000. To improve the production facilities of the Center for Public

Television in Tuscaloosa, which produces programming for the Alabama

Public Television Network, by replacing basic production equipment

including the 40-year-old lighting board and by adding close captioning

capability.

AR (Arkansas)

File No. 95014 CRTN Philander Smith College, 812 West 13th Street,

Little Rock, AR 72202. Signed By: Dr. Myer L. Titus, President. Funds

Requested: $301,134. Total Project Cost: $401,512. To establish video

and audio production studios and an ITFS receive/response facility that

will allow Philander Smith College--a Historically Black College

located in Little Rock, AR--to originate educational programming to be

transmitted via ITFS, the Black College Satellite System, and a local

cable television access channel.

File No. 95127 CTB Arkansas ETV Commission, 350 South Donaghey,

Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $409,966. Total Project Cost: $819,932. To upgrade the

broadcast operations of public television station KEMV-TV, Channel 6 in

Mountain View, AR, by replacing the transmitter. In addition, the

Commission will purchase and install aircraft warning lights at the

transmission towers of KAFT-TV, Channel 13 in Fayetteville/Winslow and

KTEJ-TV, Channel 19 in Jonesboro/Bono.

AS (American Samoa)

File No. 95132 CTB American Samoa Government, Office of Public

Information, Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mrs. Vaoita Savali,

Director. Funds Requested: $435,000. Total Project Cost: $470,000. To

replace the transmitter of public television station KVZK-TV, operating

on Ch. 2, Pago Pago, which serves the 55,000 residents of American

Samoa. The transmitter is 17 years old and has suffered corrosion

damage from two hurricanes which partially destroyed the transmitter

building.

File No. 95247 PRB American Samoa Community College, P.O. Box 2609,

Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Dr. Tusi Avegalio, President. Funds

Requested: $14,740. Total Project Cost: $15,740. To plan for the

establishment of the first public radio station to serve the 55,000

residents of American Samoa.

AZ (Arizona)

File No. 95072 CRB Maricopa County Commun. College, 3124 East

Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr. Alfredo de los Santos,

Vice Chancellor Educ. Dev. Funds Requested: $45,945. Total Project

Cost: $91,890. To improve the Sun Sounds Radio Reading Service by

replacing nine (9) old reel-to-reel recorders with a computerized hard

disk audio recording and origination system. Equipment will provide

automation of much of the control room and individual recording

procedures. Sun Sounds serves approximately 24,000 people via public

radio, TV, and cable FM and TV.

File No. 95087 IPTN Navajo Community College, Box 218, Tsaile, AZ

86556. Signed By: Mr. Algirdis Kuslikis. Funds Requested: $46,000.

Total Project Cost: $56,000. To plan for an interactive

telecommunications network for distance learning and teleconferencing

applications at sites throughout the Navajo Nation, which encompasses a

25,000 square mile area in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

File No. 95160 CRB Northern Arizona University, Building 16, Room

229, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Henry Hooper, Interim VP

Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $208,405. Total Project Cost:

$277,874. To extend the signal of public radio station KNAU-FM, 88.7

MHz, in Flagstaff, by constructing two new 100-watt Rocky Mountain

Alternative Stations (RMAS) in Prescott (89.3 MHz) and Show Low (90.7

MHz). The stations will provide first public radio service to about

13,478 and local origination capacity. The Prescott station will

replace a displaced translator. The RMAS will serve Yavapai and Navajo

Counties.

File No. 95203 CTB University of Arizona, Modern Language Building,

Tucson, AZ 85721. Signed By: Mr. James Wheeler, Director. Funds

Requested: $91,900. Total Project Cost: $183,800. To improve the

facilities of public television station, KUAT-TV, Ch. 8, in Tucson.

Project will replace \3/4\'' record/play recorders in master control

with \1/2\'' record/play units and replace \3/4\'' record/play ENG

record deck with a \1/2\'' unit. KUAT-TV serves approximately 890,533

people.

File No. 95204 CRB University of Arizona, Modern Language Building,

Tucson, AZ 85721. Signed By: Mr. James Wheeler, Director. Funds

Requested: $20,008. Total Project Cost: $40,016. To improve the

facilities of public radio station KUAT-FM, 90.5 MHz, in Tucson

replacing its 20-year-old transmitting antenna, digitizing the studio-

to-transmitter link (STL) and replacing its 20-year-old remote control.

KUAT-FM serves approximately 687,616 people.

File No. 95214 ICTN Arizona Board of Regents, Communications Bldg

16, Room 229, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Henry Hooper, VP,

Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $1,569,770. Total Project Cost:

$2,354,656. To extend first distance learning service to 131,000

persons in rural Arizona by constructing analog and digital video and

audio service, and classroom distance learning production facilities at

five remote locations in Arizona, and to establish a network hub at the

eastern Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

File No. 95283 CTB Arizona State University, Box 871405, Tempe, AZ

85287-1405. Signed By: Ms. Janice Bennett, Director, Research/Creat.

Act. Funds Requested: $87,447. Total Project Cost: $174,895. To replace

five old, unreliable public television translators of KAET-TV, Ch. 8,

in Tempe.

Stations are as follows: Cottonwood (K42AC), Flagstaff (K66BS),

Prescott [[Page 25774]] (K55DB), Williams (K64AP) and Globe (K67AB).

Pending FCC approval, KAET-TV will be assigned the Globe translator

from the current licensee, Community Television Project.

CA (California)

File No. 95010 ICTN California State University, 1000 East Victoria

Street, Carson, CA 90747. Signed By: Dr. Samuel Wiley, Vice President.

Funds Requested: $455,263. Total Project Cost: $915,879. To activate a

regional distance learning consortium that will allow secondary and

postsecondary academic institutions in southeast Los Angeles County to

access the scientific resources of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and

the California Museum of Science and Industry. The consortium is named

the ``Telecommunications Educational Liaison for Science Proficiency

Advancement Network'' (TELSPAN). The consortium's headquarters will be

located at California State University/Dominguez Hills. Using

telephonic transmission, the project would create an advanced multi-

media science education network utilizing interactive video, remote

data bases, and real-time visualization techniques. The consortium's

membership includes GTE, Inc. and Pacific Bell.

File No. 95016 CRB Humboldt State University, KHSU-FM, Arcata, CA

95221. Signed By: Dr. Alistair McCrone, President. Funds Requested:

$17,585. Total Project Cost: $35,170. To improve noncommercial radio

station, KHSU-FM, operating on 90.5 KHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing the

FM exciter and control room audio console which are unreliable and

functionally obsolete.

File No. 95024 CRB KQED, Inc. 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,

CA 94110. Signed by: Mrs. Mary G.F. Bitterman, President and CEO. Funds

Requested: $20,632. Total Project Cost: $41,265. To improve non-

commercial radio station, KQED-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz, in San

Francisco, CA, by replacing essential but chronically unreliable

transmission audio equipment, including an Audio Processor, a Digital

Exciter, Digital Encoder and Digital Decoder. The station serves a

population of 5.3 million potential listeners.

File No. 95030 ICTN Educ. T/C Consortium of Central CA, 1101 E.

University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed by: Mr. Robert A. Wyman, Executive

Director/ETCCC. Funds Requested: $672,900. Total Project Cost:

$1,353,465. To purchase compression equipment to allow the transmission

of 20 digitized channels of diverse educational programming--using

video, voice, and data--through two ITFS channels interconnecting 350

school sites--most of them K-12 public schools--in Fresno, Madera,

Kings, and Tulare Counties in the Central San Joaquin Valley. The

Educational Telecommunications Consortium of Central California is

composed of the State Center Community College District, the Fresno

County Office of Education, the West Hills Community College District,

the Sequoias Community College District, and California State

University, Fresno.

File No. 95032 ICTN Los Angeles Community College Dist., 400 W.

Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015. Signed by: Mr. Thomas Stevens,

Jr., President. Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost:

$269,059. To interconnect the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College with

a two-way interactive Codec-based distance learning system already in

place linking the College of the Desert (Rancho Mirage CA), Cummins

Diesel Co. (New Mexico), and Detroit Diesel Co. (Detroit, MI). The

project includes video classroom equipment. The system would be used to

exchange educational programming on the subject of alternative fuel

conversion related to recent clean-air mandates imposed on the Los

Angeles metropolitan area.

File No. 95063 IPTN Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San

Francisco, CA 94105. Signed by: Dr. Thomas Stauffer, President. Funds

Requested: $76,550. Total Project Cost: $95,668. To develop a

telecommunications plan assessing appropriate alternative technologies

and systems for a possible two-way distance learning and

teleconferencing network, including interactive classrooms between

Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and American Samoa.

File No. 95076 CTB Regents of the Univ. of California, 9500 Gilman

Dr., Dept 0176, LaJolla, CA 92093. Signed by: Dr. Steven Relyea, Vice

Chancellor, Bus. Affairs. Funds Requested: $57,001. Total Project Cost:

$114,002. To improve low-power television station K35DG, known as UCSD-

TV, operating on Channel 35, providing the first local production

capability for the station's first owned studio. This project will

fully equip this studio by adding editing and graphics capabilities and

four studio cameras. The station currently serves 1.7 million potential

viewers.

File No. 95085 CRB University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue,

Stockton, CA 95211. Signed by: Dr. Lee Fennell, Interim Academic Vice

Pres. Funds Requested: $5,694. Total Project Cost: $11,389. To improve

non-commercial radio station, KUOP-FM, operating on 9l.3 KHz in

Stockton, CA, by replacing the trouble-causing composite STL

transmitter and receiver. The existing STL will be utilized as a ``hot

standby''. The critical need is to increase reliability by providing

KUOP redundant STL facilities and to provide KUOP an STL system with

improved specifications to allow more accurate control broadcast

modulation levels. The coverage area encompasses 1 million residents in

the greater Stockton area and in the Central Valley on the Eastern edge

of the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta.

File No. 95092 CTB California Community TV Network, 559 E. Alisal

St., #106, Salinas, CA 93905. Signed by: Ms. Arlene Kimata. Funds

Requested: $608,010. Total Project Cost: $810,680. To extend the signal

of public TV station, KCAH-TV, Ch 25, in Salinas, CA, by replacing the

1 kw low-power transmitter with a full power 10 kw system to increase

the station's coverage from 468,000 to approximately 1,503,716

residents in the KCAH new coverage area. Also included in the package

is the necessary equipment the station needs to bring the production,

editing, master control and satellite systems up to the PTFP's basic

level of equipment requirements.

File No. 95093 CTB KTEH Foundation, 100 Skyport Drive, San Jose, CA

95110-1301. Signed by: Mr. Thomas Fanella, President. Funds Requested:

$150,917. Total Project Cost: $301,835. To improve public TV station,

Ch 54, in San Jose, CA, by purchasing the AVID Technology, Inc. non-

linear digital-media broadcast and post-production systems. This

proposed new hardware includes AVID Airplay, GPI Triggers, Interface,

Log, Remote Control, Hard Disks, Software, Training, Media Composer,

Monitors, Audio Channels, Field Resolution, DVE, Encoder, and

Documentation. This project will directly support the ambitious new PBS

``Ready to Learn'' service. KTEH is the only Ready to Learn station for

America's 5th television market, and the only Ready to Learn

broadcaster in Northern California. The station's coverage totals 6.4

million potential viewers.

File No. 95098 CTB KVIE, Inc., 2595 Capitol Oaks Drive, Sacramento,

CA 95833. Signed by: Mr. Michael Levine, Acting General Manager. Funds

Requested: $279,276. Total Project Cost: $558,552. To improve public

television station, KVIE-TV, Ch 6, in Sacramento, CA, by replacing

basic existing essential production equipment, including 3 studio

cameras, an audio console, waveform monitor, picture monitor, 2 rack

mount kits and 2 rack mount frames. KVIE serves a 28 county area in

[[Page 25775]] North Central California, currently numbering 5,153,000

viewers.

File No. 95104 CTB Bay Area Multicultural T/C Assoc., 3533 19th

Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Signed by: Mr. Humberto Cintron, Pres.

Bd. of Directors. Funds Requested: $263,166. Total Project Cost:

$350,888.

Applicant is requesting the construction of a public TV station in San

Francisco, CA; applicant has no call letters yet, but plans to operate

on Ch 32 if it is awarded. The station, when activated, plans to

provide programming to meet the informational, educational and cultural

needs of the 2.2 million Bay Area residents who are members of minority

groups.

File No. 95109 CTB San Diego State University Fndn, 5200 Campanile

Drive, San Diego, CA 92182. Signed By: Mr. Robert Benshoff, Asso

General Mgr for Fin Mgmt. Funds Requested: $177,784. Total Project

Cost: $355,568. To improve public TV station, KPBS-TV, operating on CH

15, in San Diego, CA, by replacing critically worn-out and obsolete

basic equipment, including a videotape editing system, a video

production switcher, 4 videotape recorders, an audio mixer, an

electronic still store system, monitors, digital interface, sync

generator, digital audio recorder/reproducer, digital audio processor,

audio power amplifier, a speaker system, and test equipment. These

items are essential, according to the applicant, to establishing the

station's first independent on-line videotape editing suite, allowing

KPBS to expand its local program production.

File No. 95114 CRB California State University, 3416 American River

Dr., Ste B, Sacramento, CA 95864. Signed By: Mr. Phil Corriveau,

Licensee Designate. Funds Requested: $123,200. Total Project Cost:

$246,401. To extend the signal of public radio station, KXPR-FM,

operating on 90.9 MHz, in Sacramento, CA, by activating KXKB-FM, a new

FM station in Tahoe City, and improve and extend coverage of the

applicant's licensee, KXSR-FM in Groveland. This project will provide

first public radio signal to 107,000 people living in the Lake Tahoe

Basin and Northern and Central Sierra Mountains. The mother station,

KXPR, currently serves 1,340,800 potential listeners.

File No. 95115 CTB Rural CA Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 LaBath

Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Signed By: Mrs. Nancy Dobbs. Funds

Requested: $110,165. Total Project Cost: $146,887. To improve non-

commercial TV station, KRCB-TV, operating on Ch 22, in Rohnert Park,

CA, by replacing the basic origination equipment in master control and

the production studio. This package includes an EAS encoder, 7 VTR's, 3

studio cameras, and 5 color monitors. As a Community Broadcast

Licensee, which receives no State aid, KRCB provides the only non-

commercial TV service to 100,000 homes within its coverage area and

provides service to 2,803,000 potential viewers.

File No. 95164 PRB Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa Valley

Shopping Ctr, Hwy 9, Hoopa, CA 95546. Signed By: Mr. Frank Starkey,

Jr., General Manager. Funds Requested: $75,411. Total Project Cost:

$79,741. The purpose of this Planning Application for KIDE-FM,

operating on 91.3 MHz, in the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, located

in Hoopa, CA, is to locate a suitable new site to gain maximum

coverage, to conduct an environmental assessment, and develop an

engineering cost estimate to relocate the current tower and

transmitter. This project will affect Northwestern Trinity County and

the Rural and Coastal areas of Humboldt County. Relocating the

transmission system will bring first signal to a thousand residents and

increase the total population to 10,000.

File No. 95193 CRB Rural CA Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 LaBath

Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Signed By: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, Chief

Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $31,905. Total Project Cost:

$42,539. To improve non-commercial radio station, KRCB-FM, operating on

91.1 MHz in Rohnert, CA, by replacing the main studio equipment,

originally donated from a variety of sources. The package includes an

encoder/decoder, audio mixer, reel to reel tape recorder, cassette

recorder, digital cart recorder, microphones with booms, turntable,

equipment rack, patch panel, patch cords, headphones, distribution

amplifier, remote control tape recorder, tape recorder input switcher,

DAT cassette recorder, modulation monitor, misc wire and installation

material, frequency counter and oscilloscope. The station serves

265,000 potential listeners.

File No. 95216 ICTN Cal. State University, Chico, West First &

Normal Streets, Chico, CA 95929-0250. Signed By: Dr. Elaine Wangberg,

Vice Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $298,275. Total Project

Cost: $596,550. To establish a satellite delivered distance education

network in California by equipping an existing Ku-band uplink with

digital compression equipment and by constructing 41 satellite

downlinks at locations throughout the state. The applicant currently

provides a nationwide Ku-band satellite service for computer training

and an undergraduate curriculum via microwave and ITFS in Northern

California. The proposed system would replace the microwave/ITFS system

which is almost 20 years old and is operating on frequencies which must

be vacated to avoid interference to commercial direct broadcast

satellite television services. The satellite delivery system would

permit the distribution of the applicant's distance learning to

additional areas of the state.

File No. 95219 CRB Santa Monica Cmty College District, 1900 Pico

Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405-1628. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Donner,

Interim Superintendent. Funds Requested: $138,257. Total Project Cost:

$184,343. To extend the signal of non-commercial radio station, KCRW-FM

operating on 89.9 MHz, in Santa Monica, CA, by constructing a new

repeater station, to operate on 88.1 MHz and provide first signal to

the unserved city of Mojave, CA. This proposed station will serve

approximately 83,498 residents living within the primary coverage area

of this proposed 10K station.

File No. 95223 CTB Community TV of South California, 4401 Sunset

Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa, Executive

Vice President. Funds Requested: $575,171. Total Project Cost:

$1,150,343. To improve non-commercial TV station, KCET-TV, operating on

Ch 28 in Los Angeles, CA, by replacing 6 CCD Studio Cameras. This

flagship station of the Public Broadcasting System serves 15,357,200

viewers in the greater Los Angeles area and covers the southern and

central section of California.

File No. 95224 CTB Community TV of S. California, 4401 Sunset

Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa,

Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $102,221. Total Project

Cost: $136,295. To extend the signal of non-commercial TV station,

KCET, Ch. 28 in Los Angeles, CA, by constructing a translator system

which will bring 198,393 residents of San Luis Obispo County its first

public television signal. KCET-TV will bring its award winning program

service to the bulk of the county population of 237,597.

File No. 95230 CRB Humboldt State University, KHSU-FM, Arcata, CA

95221. Signed By: Dr. Alistar McCrone, President. Funds Requested:

$14,975. Total Project Cost: $29,950. To improve non-commercial radio

station, KHSU, operating on 90.5 KHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing the FM

broadcast antenna at the KHSU transmitter site, on Barry Ridge near

Kneeland, CA, and reconstructing the FM translator,

[[Page 25776]] K207BL, Willow Creek, CA, both of which were severely

damaged by recent winter storms.

File No. 95244 IPTN Kern Community College District, 3000 College

Heights Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA 93555. Signed By: Dr. Raymond McCue,

President. Funds Requested: $64,125. Total Project Cost: $127,879. To

develop a plan that would include cooperative agreements among

educational institutions and service agencies in Kern, Inyo and Mono

counties in eastern California, and would design an interactive

telecommunications system to provide distance learning and training

opportunities, particularly to the population in isolated areas of

rural Inyo and Mono counties.

File No. 95256 CRB Monterey Bay Public Bd. Foundation, 176 Forest

Avenue, POB 10, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Signed By: Mr. Ken Peterson,

President, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $19,880. Total Project

Cost: $44,880. To replace and upgrade an on-air console, reel-to-reel

tape decks, DAT recorders, microphones, turntables, cart machines,

digital transceivers and related equipment at KAZU-FM, 90.3 MHz,

Pacific Grove, CA, providing public radio service to approximately

500,000 persons in the Monterey area of California.

File No. 95270 CRB Radio Bilingue, Inc., 1111 Fulton Mall, #700,

Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $69,000. Total Project Cost: $138,000. To improve the

non-commercial radio station, KSJV-FM, operating on 91.5 MHz, in

Fresno, CA by adding state-of-the-art production studio equipment to

augment the essential production equipment the applicant now owns and

by replacing the 15 year old transmitter. This augmentation includes 2

Portable Recorders, 11 mikes, 3 mike arms, 13 Headphones, 2 Digital

Tape Recorders 3 Reel-to-Reel Recorders, 3 Dual Cassette Players, 6

Cart Machines, 4 CD Players, 4 DAT Recorders, 2 telephone Adapters, 4

Carrying Cases, 1 Mixing Console, 3 Amplifiers, 4 Turntables, Turntable

Pre-Amp, 2 Monitor Speakers, 2 Gentner Interfaces, 1 Digital Hybrid, 9

Racks, 2 Patch Bays, 1 Misc. wire etc. and 1 Impedence Converter. KSJV-

FM is the flagship station of Radio Bilingue and the primary production

facility for the Latino Station Satellite Network. This station

currently serves 1.7 million potential listeners.

CO (Colorado)

File No. 95077 CRB Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc, 1900 Folsom

Avenue, No. 100, Boulder, CO 80302. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin,

Station Manager. Funds Requested: $28,640. Total Project Cost: $57,280.

To upgrade the studio facilities of public radio station KGNU-FM,

operating on 88.5 MHz in Boulder, CO, by replacing three 17-year-old

audio consoles, the air monitor and the telemetry unit.

File No. 95095 CRB North Fork Valley Public Radio, Inc, 213 Grand

Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428. Signed By: Ms. Dottie Talmage, Station

Manager. Funds Requested: $21,045. Total Project Cost: $28,060. To

improve satellite recording capabilities and studio facilities of

public radio station KVNF-FM, operating on 90.9 MHz in Paonia, CO, by

replacing old and worn-out reel-to-reel tape machines and the

production console.

File No. 95113 CRB KUTE Incorporated, P.O. Box 737, 123 Capote

Street, Ignacio, CO 81137. Signed By: Mr. Carlos Sena, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $89,798. Total Project Cost: $119,730. To improve the

facilities of public radio station KSUT-FM operating on 91.3 MHz in

Ignacio, CO, by replacing 20-year-old master control and studio

equipment, including the air console and the production console, 7 DAT

recorders, the cart machine and 4 monitors.

File No. 95140 CTB Front Range Educational Media Corp., 2900 Welton

Street, First Floor, Denver, CO 80205. Signed By: Mr. Ted Krichels,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $358,174. Total Project Cost:

$488,174. To improve the reliability of the signal and upgrade its

broadcast quality, KBDI-TV, Channel 12 in Denver, CO, will install a

three-phase power system, a three-phase UPS and a hot-standby STL.

Applicant will also replace old and worn-out studio equipment and

purchase new equipment for stereo and second language broadcast

capability.

File No. 95149 CTB Council for PTV, Channel 6, Inc., 1089 Bannock

Street, Denver, CO 80204. Signed By: Mr. James Morgese, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $759,220. Total Project Cost:

$1,518.439. To provide first service to over 100,000 people in Mesa

County, Colorado, KRMA-TV, Channel 6 in Denver will build a

noncommercial full power satellite station in Grand Junction, Colorado,

and, in collaboration with Mesa State College, will provide local

origination programming. Applicant also proposes construction of a full

duplex microwave system between the Denver studios and Grand Junction

to provide real-time, full bandwidth two-way video link between the two

stations.

File No. 95179 CRB Equal Rep. of Media Advocacy Corp, 528 9th

Street, Alamosa, CO 81101. Signed By: Mr. Tim Grove, President. Funds

Requested: $11,475. Total Project Cost: $15,300. To upgrade public

radio station KRZA-FM, operating on 88.7 MHZ in Alamosa, CO, by

replacing the STLs, converting to EAS and replacing studio analog

equipment with digital equipment.

File No. 95183 CTB University of Southern Colorado, 2200 Bonforte

Boulevard, Pueblo, CO 81001-4901. Signed By: Dr. Robert Shirley,

President. Funds Requested; $548,949. Total Project Cost: $1,097,898.

To provide first public television service to approximately 25,000

people in the areas of Grand Junction, Durango and the Southern Ute and

Ute Mountain Indian Reservations, KTSC-TV, Channel 8 in Pueblo,

Colorado, will install four new translators and a microwave

interconnection system. Applicant will also purchase test and stereo

broadcast equipment and upgrade its origination equipment.

File No. 95186 ICTN Northern CO Bd. of Coop. Ed. Werv., 830 W.

Lincoln Street, Longmont, CO 80501. Signed By: Mr. Jack Hale, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $528,781. Total Project Cost: $875,832. To

construct a two-way, interactive compressed video system, using

PictureTel studios and T1 service to link four remote sites in

northeastern Colorado with existing T1 educational networks serving

other parts of Colorado.

File No. 95262 ICTN National Technological University, 700 Centre

Avenue, Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Signed By: Dr. Lionel Baldwin,

President. Funds Requested: $478,515. Total Project Cost: $957,030. To

construct three additional Ku-band satellite uplinks in the National

Technological University system which will increase engineering

programming distributed nationwide. The uplinks will be located at the

University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; the University of California at

Berkeley, CA; the University of Texas at Austin, TX. The project also

proposes to add digital compression equipment for an existing Ku-band

uplink at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

File No. 95291 CRB Denver Educat'l Broadcasting, Inc., 2900 Welton

Street, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80205. Signed By: Ms. Florence Hernandez-

Ramos, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $167,412. Total Project Cost:

$334,824. To improve public radio station KUVO-FM operating on 89.3 MHz

in Denver, Colorado, by replacing its 10-year old transmitter and

installing a backup STL system. Applicant also proposes to upgrade its

studio and master control equipment, purchase test equipment and

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CT (Connecticut)

File No. 95075 CTB Connecticut Pub. Broadcasting, Inc., 240 New

Britain Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Franklin,

President & CEO. Funds Requested: $137,332. Total Project Cost:

$274,665. To replace obsolete and worn out videotape machines,

character generator, switching equipment and a microwave

interconnection system at the Connecticut Public Broadcasting

headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, providing the only national and

statewide oriented public television programming to 3,225,000 citizens

over WEDH-TV, Channel 24 Hartford, WEDN-TV, Channel 53, Norwich, WEDY-

TV, Channel 65, New Haven, and WEDW-TV, Channel 49, Bridgeport,

Connecticut.

File No. 95157 ICTN CT Community-Technical Colleges, 61 Woodland

Street, Hartford, CT 06105. Signed By: Mr. Andrew McKirdy, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $322,200. Total Project Cost: $644,400. To

extend distance learning programs to 16 Connecticut community colleges

serving 47,655 students, to provide first distance learning programs to

12,335 additional students, and to offer on-site instruction at

businesses throughout Connecticut by constructing portable,

interactive, compressed video systems and telephone access switches at

each site.

DC (District of Columbia)

File No. 95154 CRB University of District of Columbia, 4200

Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Signed By: Dr. Martha

Bridgeforth, VP, Institutional Advancement. Funds Requested: $29,917.

Total Project Cost: $59,835. To extend the signal of non-commercial

radio station, WDCU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Washington, D.C., by increasing the

power of the station's transmitter form 6,800 to 50,000 watts. This

project will increase WCDU's coverage by 900,000 potential listeners

from its present coverage of approximately 3,283,159.

File No. 95155 CRB University of District of Columbia, 4200

Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Signed By: Mr. Martha

Bridgeforth, VP, Institutional Advancement. Funds Requested: $22,495.

Total Project Cost: $44,990. To improve non-commercial radio station,

WDCU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Washington, D.C., by constructing a C-Band fixed

satellite downlink in order to directly receive cultural and news

programs from the Public Radio Satellite System.

File No. 95015 CTB University of Florida, Weimer Hall, Gainesville,

FL 32611. Signed By: Mrs. Karen Holbrook, Vice President/Dean. Funds

Requested: $19,610. Total Project Cost: $39,220. WUFT-TV, Channel 5 in

Gainesville, Florida, will purchase equipment for a SAP channel, that

will be used to deliver Descriptive Video Services and Radio Reading

Services to visually-impaired individuals.

File No. 95019 CTB South Florida Public Telecomm. Inc., 3401 South

Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Souder,

President/CEO. Funds Requested: $68,850. Total Project Cost: $137,700.

To replace outdated \3/4\'' record and playback machines to improve

editing, promo playback and recording facilities at WXEL-TV, Channel

42, Boynton Beach, Florida.

File No. 95035 CTB Florida W. Coast Pub. Brdcstg, Inc., 1300 North

Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33607. Signed By: Mr. Stephen L. Rogers, President

& CEO. Funds Requested: $487,385. Total Project Cost: $974,770. To

improve the facilities of public television station WEDU-TV, Channel 3

in Tampa, Florida, by constructing a new production control room and

studio. The applicant proposes purchase of four cameras, a digital

switcher, a digital video effects unit and an audio mixer.

File No. 95106 CTB WJCT, Inc., 100 Festival Park Avenue,

Jacksonville, FL 32202. Signed By: Mr. William Dresser, President and

General Manager. Funds Requested: $212, 387. Total Project Cost:

$424,775. To replace worn out and failure-prone equipment, WJCT-TV,

operating on Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida, will purchase a master

control routing switcher, an on-air station break switcher and the

national and local programming productions video switcher.

File No. 95116 CRB University of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall,

Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. Richard A. Lehner, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $26,916. Total Project Cost: $53,832. To

preserve 24-hour a day operation, public radio station WUFT-FM,

operating on 89.1 MHz in Gainesville, Florida, will purchase and

install equipment to automate late evening and weekend programming.

File No. 95229 IPTN Florida Gulf Coast University, 17595 So.

Tamiami Trail, Ste 200, Fort Myers, FL 33908. Signed By: Dr. Roy

McTarnaghan, President. Funds Requested: $69,108. Total Project Cost:

$102,370. To develop a plan for a coordinated, interactive distance

education network in five southwestern Florida counties that will

explore options for an interconnection system among educational

institutions, public broadcasting facilities, government offices and

service agencies for distance learning and training.

GA (Georgia)

File No. 95046 IPTN Clark Atlanta University, James Brawley Dr. at

First St SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. Signed By: Dr. Kofi Bota, V.P.,

Research/Sponsored Pgms. Funds Requested: $94,413. Total Project Cost:

$107,799. To develop a comprehensive plan for a telecommunications

system using appropriate technologies for a distance learning network

among the colleges and universities of the Historically Black Colleges

and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Environmental

Technology Consortium in ten states and Washington, D.C.

File No. 95059 ICTN City of Thomasville, 144 E. Jackson Street,

Thomasville, GA 31792. Signed By: Ms. Camille Payne, Mayor. Funds

Requested: $722,810. Total Project Cost: $1,445,620. To establish an

interactive distance learning network that will use a fiber optics

SONET-based system to interconnect diverse municipal and educational

institutions in Thomas County, located in southern Georgia. The

entities to be connected include the City of Thomasville, the

Thomasville City Schools, the Thomas County Schools, Thomas Area

Technical School, Thomas College, and the Thomas County Public Library.

File No. 95061 IPRTN Georgia/Carolina Tech. Coll. Cnsort, 2704

Benson Road, Augusta, GA 30906. Signed By: Dr. Jim Weaver, Director.

Funds Requested: $91,000. Total Project Cost: $182,000. To determine

the feasibility of the possible technologies that might be appropriate

for a two-way, interactive interconnection system for distance learning

and training among the five technical colleges in the Georgia/Carolina

Technical College Consortium, serving a nine-county area in Georgia and

South Carolina.

File No. 95144 IPTN Georgia State University, 140 Decatur Street,

Ste 805, Atlanta, GA 30303. Signed By: Dr. Cleon C. Arrington, VP for

Research & Info Tech. Funds Requested: $74,849. Total Project Cost:

$74,849. To assess the facilities and equipment of the present Georgia

Public Telecommunications Commission facility in Atlanta, and to plan

for and design this facility as a statewide telecommunication

distribution, production and training center, for distance learning and

training applications.

File No. 95146 CTB Atlanta Board of Education, 740 Bismark Road,

NE, Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr. [[Page 25778]] Benjamin Canada,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $681,955. Total Project Cost:

$1,363,909. To improve the mobile production facilities of public

television station WPBA-TV, operating on Ch. 30 in Atlanta, by

replacing obsolete equipment in a mobile production unit. The project

will also convert an existing Ku-band satellite downlink to an uplink

to permit distribution of instructional programming to the state of

Georgia.

File No. 95281 CRB Georgia Public Telecomm. Commission, 1540

Stewart Avenue, SW., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank Bugg,

Deputy Director. Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project Cost: $54,000.

Peach State Public Radio will establish a noncommercial FM radio

station operating on 88.3 in Demorest, GA, to provide first service to

a population of cover 260,000 people in the Northeast section of

Georgia.

File No. 95285 CRTBN Georgia Public Telecom Commissions, 1540

Stewart Avenue, SW., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank Bugg,

Deputy Director. Funds Requested: $342,000. Total Project Cost:

$760,000. To increase the satellite uplink capabilities of Georgia

Public Television by purchasing digital compression equipment for an

existing satellite uplink in Atlanta, and for existing portable uplinks

in the state. The project will increase the number of programs

distributed to schools, libraries and institutions of higher education

throughout the state using the state-owned satellite transponder on

Telstar 401.

HI (Hawaii)

File No. 95033 CRB Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu,

HI 96814-3726. Signed By: Mr. Albert Hulsen, President & Gen. Mgr.

Funds Requested: $395,575. Total Project Cost: $527,434. To establish

an FM repeater station operating on 91.1 MHz in Hilo, Hawaii. The

station will repeat the broadcast signal of KHPR (FM), Honolulu and

provide the first public radio service to 66,628 residents (55% of the

population of the Island of Hawaii) living in the Hilo area. Some

Island of Hawaii residents, those living along the Kohala, Kona and

Hamakua coasts, already receive Hawaii Public Radio from KKUA (90.7

MHz, Wailuku) transmitting from atop Mt. Haleakala on the Island of

Maui.

File No. 95068 CRB Kekahu Foundation, Inc., 2204 Io'ela Street,

Kilauea, HI 96754. Signed By: Mrs. Janet Friend, President. Funds

Requested: $174,200. Total Project Cost: $232,270. To provide the first

public radio service to the island of Kauai by constructing a new FM

station operating on 91.9 MHz, Kilauea, and an FM station operating on

90.9 MHz in Hanalei. The stations will be interconnected by microwave

and will be programmed from a local studio.

File No. 95167 PRB Hawaiian National Broadcast Corp, 477 Opihikao

Place, Suite A, Honolulu, HI 96825. Signed By: Mrs. Marsha Joyner,

President. Funds Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $46,426. To

plan for the establishment of a noncommercial radio station in Honolulu

to serve the ethnic peoples of the island of Oahu.

File No. 95232 CRB Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu,

HI 96814-3726. Signed By: Mr. Albert Hulsen, President & General

Manager. Funds Requested: $275,373. Total Project Cost: $428,883. To

provide the first public radio service to the island of Kauai by

constructing an FM repeater station operating on 90.1 MHz in Lihue. The

station will rebroadcast programming from stations the applicant

operates in Honolulu, island of Oahu, including KHPR (FM), operating on

88.1 MHz, KIPO-FM, operating on 89.3 MHz and KIFO (AM) operating on

1380 KHz.

IA (Iowa)

File No. 95094 PRB Suntaman Communications, Inc., 1170 13th Street,

P.O. Box 4296, Des Moines, IA 50333. Signed By: Mr. Wesley Hall,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $6,000. Total Project Cost:

$6,000. To plan for a non-commercial, black, FM radio station which

will serve the urban area of Omaha, Nebraska. The funds requested,

{$6,000} will be used specifically to hire an engineering firm to

perform a frequency compatibility test. The applicant hopes this plan

would result in the development of an African American owned and

operated public radio station, serving approximately 51,426 African

Americans residing in Omaha.

File No. 95162 CTB Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate

Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By: Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $147,800. Total Project Cost: $295,600. To

improve the quality of the broadcast services of Iowa Public Television

by replacing four old and unreliable translators serving 150,000

residents of the rural communities of Rock Rapids and Sibley in

northwest Iowa, and Ottumwa and Ft. Madison in the southeast corner of

Iowa.

File No. 95165 CRB Afro-American Cmty. Broadcasting, 527 Cottage

Ave, Waterloo, IA 50703. Signed By: Mr. Jimmie Porter, CEO. Funds

Requested: $88,404. Total Project Cost: $117,873. To improve non-

commercial, Afro American radio station, KBBG-FM, 88.1 MHz, Waterloo,

IA, by replacing the inadequate tower (raising its height), transmitter

and antenna, and replacing its control room equipment. This project is

in conjunction with construction of new studios and a move of the

transmission site required due to the current locations in a

residential area. KBBG's signal covers approximately 110,000 residents,

and new listeners will be added as a result of the higher tower.

File No. 95188 ICTN Eastern Iowa Community College Di, 306 West

River Drive, Davenport, IA 52801. Signed By: Mr. Ed Stoessel, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $81,053. Total Project Cost: $162,107. To

establish a fiber optic interconnection with the Iowa fiber optics

system, and to construct instructor-operated production facilities at

the Graphic Arts Technology Center in Clinton, Iowa, to provide

training in high-tech printing and graphics to 22,000 Iowa residents

involved in that vocation.

File No. 95235 ICTN Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 211 East Maple,

Des Moines, IA 50309. Signed By: Mr. Don Grove, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $107,857. Total Project Cost: $143,809. To construct a

classroom production center to interconnect the Iowa Civil Rights

Commission facilities in Des Moines with the Iowa Communication Network

to allow for provision of civil rights related programming and

information to 3,000,000 citizens of Iowa.

File No. 95238 CRB Iowa State Univ of Science & Tech., 204

Communications Building, Ames, IA 50011. Signed By: Mr. Richard E.

Hasbrook, Contracts & Grants Officer. Funds Requested: $161,540. Total

Project Cost: $215,387. To extend the broadcast area of public radio

station WOI-FM, 90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by activating a repeater station in

Ottumwa to provide first public radio service and radio reading

services to approximately 75,000 people in Southeastern Iowa.

IL (Illinois)

File No. 95029 CRB Southern IL University-Edwardsville, Box 1773,

Edwardsville, IL 62026. Signed By: Dr. Nancy Belck, President, SIUE.

Funds Requested: $336,076. Total Project Cost: $468,131. To extend the

signal of public radio station WSIE, 88.7 MHz, Edwardsville, IL, by

activating a repeater station on 91.3 MHz in Effingham, IL. The new

repeater will bring the first public radio signal to approximately

61,844 persons central Illinois. In addition, the project will

[[Page 25779]] improve the production capability of WSIE by replacing

worn-out and obsolete studio equipment, including an audio console, DAT

recorders, a cassette recorder, CD players, microphones, and an audio

processor. The project would also replace the station Emergency

Broadcast System equipment with the Emergency Alert System recently

adopted by the Federal Communications Commission.

File No. 95047 CTB Southern IL University-Carbondale, 1048

Communications Building, Carbondale, IL 62901. Signed By: Dr. Benjamin

A. Shepherd, VP/Academic Affairs & Provost. Funds Requested: $103,522.

Total Project Cost: $207,044. To improve the reliability of broadcasts

by public television station WSIU-TV, Ch. 8, Carbondale, IL, by

replacing its worn-out studio-transmitter link, and to improve its

production capability by replacing obsolete studio equipment, including

video switchers, audio mixers, production editor, and test equipment.

The station serves a population of approximately 880,300.

File No. 95277 CTB University of Illinois, 801 South Wright Street,

Champaign, IL 61820. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. Bazzani, Comptroller.

Funds Requested: $269,000. Total Project Cost: $538,000. To improve the

operation of public television station WILL-TV, Ch. 12, Champaign-

Urbana, IL, by replacing worn-out and obsolete studio equipment,

including video tape recorders, routing switcher, and monitors. The

station serves a population of about 1.3-million.

IN (Indiana)

File No. 95118 CTB Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter

Street, Evansville, IN 47708-1027. Signed By: Mr. David Dial, President

& General Manager. Funds Requested: $56,987. Total Project Cost:

$113,974. To improve public station WNIN-TV, Ch 9, Evansville, IN, by

replacing its worn-out and obsolete STL, a failing routing switcher and

sync generator. The station has no standby STL and must go off the air

when the unit goes off the air. WNIN owns no prompting system for its

studio cameras, so is rounding out the package by requesting a

teleprompter. The station serves 750,000 potential viewers.

File No. 95274 CRB Ball State University, Building AD-103, Muncie,

IN 47306-0550. Signed By: Dr. James L. Pyle, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $69,777. Total Project Cost: $93,037. To extend the

broadcast area of public radio station WBST-FM, 92.1 MHz, Muncie, IN,

and to provide first service to approximately 83,000 people in the

communities of Anderson, Alexandria and surrounding areas of East

Central Indiana by activating a repeater station in Anderson on 89.5

MHz.

File No. 95278 CRB Ball State University, Building AD-103, Muncie,

IN 47306-0550. Signed By: Dr. James L. Pyle, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $258,630. Total Project Cost: $344,840. To extend the signal

of public radio station WBST-FM operating on 92.1 MHz in Muncie,

Indiana, and provide first service to approximately 148,000 people in

East Central Indiana by activating repeater stations in Marion (91.1

MHz), Portland (91.7 MHz) and New Castle/Hagerstown (90.5 MHz).

File No. 95280 CTB Metro Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg Inc., 1401 North

Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2389. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd

Wright, President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $350,000. Total

Project Cost: $700,000. To improve the broadcast operations of public

station WFYI-TV, Ch. 20, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing its 25-year-old

transmitter and related equipment.

KS (Kansas)

File No. 95048 ICTN Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmont, Campus

Box 57, Wichita, KS 67260-0057. Signed By: Dr. Bobby Patton, VP/

Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $300,000. Total Project Cost:

$600,000. To activate a two-way video, two-way audio microwave distance

learning system that would interconnect the main campus of Wichita

State University and three of the University's outreach centers in the

City of Wichita and in Sedgwick County. The system would allow not only

for the exchange of interactive, full motion educational programming,

but also for the transmission of high-speed data between the outreach

centers and the University's computing and library resources. The

proposal includes equipment for three video classrooms, one of each of

the outreach centers.

File No. 95080 CRB Kansas State University, Room 2, Fairchild Hall,

Manhattan, KS 66506. Signed By: Ms. Kay Cogley, Asst. Vice Provost for

Res. Funds Requested: $27,639. Total Project Cost: $50,663. To improve

the facilities of public radio station KKSU-AM, 580 KHz, in Manhattan

by acquiring new and replacement origination, test and other equipment.

KKSU-AM's audio consoles, tape machines and test equipment are more

than 20 years old. KKSU-AM's coverage area includes parts of four

states.

File No. 95086 CRB Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N. 7th Street, Garden

City, KS 67846. Signed By: Mr. Dale Bolton, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $44,873. Total Project Cost: $89,746. To improve the

facilities of public radio station KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHz, in Garden City,

by completing the inter-city microwave relay connecting the KANZ-FM

studio and KZNA-FM, 90.5 MHz, a full-power repeater/satellite station

in Hill City. At present, KZNA-FM uses only a partial studio-to-

transmitter link (STL) by picking the signal off-air at Dighton, 55

miles from KANZ-FM, and relaying it by inter-city relays. This will

complete the terrestrial microwave system.

File No. 95110 CTB Washburn University of Topeka, 1700 SW College

Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621. Signed By: Dr. Hugh Thompson, President.

Funds Requested: $283,928. Total Project Cost: $567,856. To improve the

facilities of public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, in Topeka by

replacing three aging studio camera systems and its 22-year old

production switcher and related equipment. Station serves about 1.25

million residents in KS and MO.

File No. 95192 CRB Wichita State University, 3317 E. 17th Street,

Wichita, KS 67208. Signed By: Mr. Frederick Sudermann, VP Research/

Industrial Gov Res. Funds Requested: $59,442. Total Project Cost:

$118,885. To improve the facilities of public radio station KMUW-FM,

89.1 MHz, in Wichita by replacing 15 to 20 year old On-air and

Production Control room equipment including two audio consoles and

associated origination equipment. In addition, project would acquire

transient voltage surge protectors. KMUW-FM serves approximately

678,000 residents.

File No. 95213 CRB Hutchinson Community College, 815 N. Walnut,

Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501. Signed By: Dr. Edward Berger,

President. Funds Requested: $45,572. Total Project Cost: $91,145. To

improve the facilities of public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in

Hutchinson by replacing old, unreliable cartridge machines with digital

technology, replacement of an old SCA generator and monitoring

equipment. In addition, KHCC seeks to replace the transmitter-to-studio

link (TSL) antenna system to protect against interruptions due to icing

conditions. KHCC-FM is also broadcast on two repeater stations, KHCD-FM

and KHCT-FM. The three stations cover approximately 925,000 people in

central KS.

File No. 95215 CTB Kansas Public T/C Services Inc., 320 West 21st

Street, N, Wichita, KS 67203. Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau, President

and General Manager. Funds Requested: $28,825. Total Project Cost:

$57,650. To improve the facilities of public television station

[[Page 25780]] KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita by replacing a 1978 character

generator and increasing the size of the station's existing router

switcher in order to meet increased demands. KPTS-TV serves

approximately 387,773 people.

File No. 95260 CRB Pittsburg State University, 1701 S. Broadway,

Pittsburg, KS 66762. Signed By: Dr. Donald W. Wilson, President. Funds

Requested: $26,144. Total Project Cost: $43,304. To extend the coverage

area of public radio station KRPS-FM, 89.9 MHz, in Pittsburg by

constructing a new translator in Iola on 91.3 MHz. Existing KANU-FM

(Lawrence) 10-watt translator is being replaced by this more powerful

unit that will serve 6,351 people. In addition, KRPS-FM seeks to

upgrade by purchasing new origination equipment including a production

console, remote recording equipment and some test equipment.

File No. 95268 CRB University of Kansas, Broadcasting Hall,

Lawrence, KS 66045. Signed By: Dr. Robert C. Bearse, Associate Vice

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $60,680. Total Project Cost: $121,361. To

improve the facilities of public radio station KANU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in

Lawrence by acquiring transmitter monitoring equipment and digital

encoders/decoders. KANU-FM, which places a strong emphasis on local

news production, seeks to acquire news control room and remote news

gathering equipment and other production equipment for utilization by

the Kansas Public Radio network. Project also includes a satellite

downlink and C-Band receiver as well as 50 SAP receivers for the radio

reading service. KANU-FM serves approximately 1,167,000 people.

KY (Kentucky)

File No. 95001 CRB University of Kentucky Research Fdn, 201 Kinkead

Hall, Lexington, KY 40506. Signed By: Mr. Jack Supplee, Associate

Director. Funds Requested: $48,535. Total Project Cost: $97,070. To

improve the production facilities of public radio station WUKY, 91.3

MHz, Lexington, KY, by replacing obsolete and worn-out equipment,

including three audio consoles, microphones, CD players, DAT recorders,

two cassette decks, and cartridge machines and by acquiring a telephone

hybrid. WUKY serves a population of about 477,298.

File No. 95199 CTB Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper

Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By: Mrs. Virginia G. Fox, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $573,943. Total Project Cost: $956,571. To

improve the service of Kentucky Educational Television (KET) by

replacing the worn-out and obsolete transmitters, associated equipment

items, and test equipment of its full-power public television station

WKLE, Ch. 46, Lexington/Richmond, KY, and its translator on Ch. 10 at

Louisa, KY. In addition the project seeks to replace existing Emergency

Broadcast System equipment with the newly required Emergency Alert

System equipment, add to KET's network center routing equipment, and

acquire additional test equipment. KET operates 15 full-power

television stations and 5 translators across Kentucky, serving a

population of approximately 3.7-million people.

File No. 95201 IPTN Hopkinsville Community College, 734 North

Drive, Hopkinsville, KY 42241-2100. Signed By: Dr. James Kerley,

President. Funds Requested: $78,142. Total Project Cost: $78,142.

Hopkinsville Community College of the University of Kentucky proposes

to develop a plan that will determine the feasibility of appropriate

technologies for a distance learning distribution system through cable

television and other methods, to a disadvantaged population in five

counties of western Kentucky and three counties of northwestern

Tennessee.

File No. 95264 CRB Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way,

Bowling Green, KY 42101. Signed By: Dr. Charles M. Anderson, Ass't VP

for Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $25,227. Total Project Cost:

$50,455. To upgrade the production capability of public radio station

WKYU, 88.9 MHz, Bowling Green, KY, by acquiring three digital audio

work stations. The station serves a population of about 3.4-million.

LA (Louisiana)

File No. 95008 ICTN Louisiana State University and, 347 Pleasant

Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Signed By: Dr. Allen Copping, President.

Funds Requested: $657,372. Total Project Cost: $876,496. To establish a

two-way interactive compressed video system that would connect the five

campuses of the Louisiana State University System using a digital data

network operating over terrestrial T-1 circuits. The campuses are

located at Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Eunice, New Orleans, and

Shreveport. A video classroom would be placed at each campus. The

system's multipoint control unit would be housed on the Baton Rouge

campus, where the director of the system would be located. The system

would allow for the exchange of teleconferencing and course work among

the five campuses.

File No. 95147 ICTN Northwestern State Univ. of LA, Kyser Hall,

Room 153, Natchitoches, LA 71457. Signed By: Dr. Robert Alost,

President. Funds Requested: $569,528. Total Project Cost: $759,371. To

purchase a Ku-band mobile satellite uplink to expand the distance

learning opportunities to under served areas of Louisiana, Arkansas,

Mississippi and Oklahoma.

File No. 95217 CTB Greater New Orleans ETV Foundation, 916 Navarre

Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $102,000. Total Project

Cost: $204,000. To improve the technical quality of its production

facilities, public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12 in New

Orleans, LA, will replace aging analog video tape recorders with three

digital video cassette recorders. WYES will also purchase a new

computer editor and a digital voice over system.

File No. 95258 CTB Louisiana ETV Authority, 7860 Anselmo Lane,

Baton Rouge, LA 70810. Signed By: Mrs. Beth Courtney, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $600,000. Total Project Cost: $1,200,000. To

improve broadcast operations, KLTM-TV, Channel 13 in Monroe, LA, will

replace its 18-year-old VHF television transmitter, its transmission

line and antenna.

File No. 95259 ICTN New Orleans Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 S.

Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lucas,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $37,750. Total Project Cost:

$75,500. To acquire portable television production facilities and a

2GHz STL to produce and deliver locally originated educational services

to 1,563,100 currently served citizens, and to provide first

educational service to an additional 4,200,000 Louisiana citizens.

File No. 95275 CRB Louisiana State University, One University

Place, Shreveport, LA 71115. Signed By: Ms. Catherine Fraser, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $37,666. Total Project Cost: $50,222. To

extend its service area and to provide first service to Grambling and

the surrounding communities of Ruston and Arcadia, public radio station

KDAQ-FM, operating on 89.9 MHz in Shreveport, LA, will install a new

translator facility in Grambling.

MA (Massachusetts)

File No. 95022 IPTN CTSB (Community TV, S. Berkshires), 925

Pleasant Street, South Lee, MA 01260. Signed By: Mr. Shawn Serre,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $75,900. Total Project Cost:

$75,900. To plan a two-way interactive network throughout Berkshire

County, Massachusetts, possibly through fiber optic distribution, to

serve educational and governmental needs with connections

[[Page 25781]] among area high schools and public and private colleges.

File No. 95037 ICTN Northeastern University, 284 Huntington Plaza,

Boston, MA 02115. Signed By: Mr. Robert Culver, Senior Vice President &

Treas. Funds Requested: $468,607. Total Project Cost: $624,810. To

establish a two-way interactive videoconferencing system, using

telephone line transmission, that would interconnect Northeastern

University, Boston, with six learning centers in Maine. The system

would offer a master's degree program in speech-language pathology.

File No. 95145 CRB Cape & Islands Cmty Pub Radio, Inc, 78 Gardiner

Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Signed By: Mr. Jay Allison, President.

Funds Requested: $212,450. Total Project Cost: $283,270. To provide

first public radio service to 70,639 citizens of Woods Hole and

Nantucket, Massachusetts by constructing new FM broadcast studios,

control rooms, antennas and transmitters at 90.1 MHz, Woods Hole,

Massachusetts, and 91.1 MHz, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

MD (Maryland)

File No. 95111 IPTN University of Maryland Univ. Coll, University

Blvd. at Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20742. Signed By: Dr. T.

Benjamin Massey, President. Funds Requested: $99,612. Total Project

Cost: $141,242. To develop a plan for the integration of technologies

in a telecommunications network as a ``virtual university'' through the

University of Maryland's Virtual University Task Force and its Open

Learning Program, to provide distance learning services to U.S.

citizens in the U.S., its territories, and in other countries.

File No. 95243 CTB Maryland Public Broadcasting Comm., 11767 Owings

Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Signed By: Mr. Raymond Ho,

President/CEO. Funds Requested: $143,530. Total Project Cost: $287,060.

To improve the facilities of WMPB-TV, Channel 67 in Owings Mills and

the state's public television network by replacing its 13-year-old mono

audio cart and reel-to-reel tape machines with state of the art digital

stereo audio systems. In addition, MPT will purchase two digital Beta

units and a non-linear storage system for in school programming feeds

and delayed broadcast.

ME (Maine)

File No. 95210 CRTB Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., 65 Texas

Avenue, Bangor, ME 04401. Signed By: Mr. Gil Maxwell, Director of

Engineering. Funds Requested: $551,980. Total Project Cost: $849,200.

To replace an obsolete and worn out microwave system delivering public

television and radio programming to five public television, and six

public ratio stations serving approximately 1,200,000 persons

throughout Maine.

MI (Michigan)

File No. 95044 ICTN Shiawassee Reg. Ed. Svc. District, 1025 North

Shiawassee Street, Corunna, MI 48817. Signed By: Mr. Patrick Gilbert,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $84,890. Total Project Cost: $169,781.

To purchase fiber optic cable (and related installation), equipment for

video transmission via fiber optics, and equipment for two video

classrooms. The project would allow the Shiawassee Regional Education

Service District to interconnect Owosso (MI) High School and a special

education Development Center to the Service District's interactive

video distance leaning system. As presently configured, the system

interconnects seven local education agencies in Shiawassee County,

which is located in south central Michigan.

File No. 95071 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East

Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell

Herron, Vice President. Funds Requested: $54,347. Total Project Cost:

$108,695. To improve the service public radio station WCMU, 89.5 MHz,

Mt. Pleasant, MI, provides to approximately 2,192,550 citizens in

central Michigan by replacing its obsolete and worn out audio consoles,

DAT recorders, CD players, cartridge recorders, and its EBS system, and

by upgrading its transmission facilities with a new FM exciter and

stereo generator.

File No. 95081 ICTN Regents of the Univ. of Michigan, 1321 East

Court Street, Flint, MI 48502. Signed By: Mr. Chandler Matthews, Assoc.

Vice President, Finance. Funds Requested: $50,000. Total Project Cost:

$100,000. To purchase equipment to activate a video classroom and to

interconnect the University of Michigan/Flint with compressed video via

telephone lines to diverse other academic institutions.

File No. 95202 ICTN Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona, 2118 U.S. 23,

Alplena, MI 49707. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Lanway, Superintendent. Funds

Requested: $444,000. Total Project Cost: $839,500. To install coaxial

cables in every classroom in 17 schools, and in libraries in Michigan's

Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona school districts, and to install 45 computers

in schools and libraries to provide distance learning and Internet

access to 15,000 students in the Lower Michigan Peninsula.

File No. 95220 CTB Detroit Educational TV Foundation, 7441 Second

Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202-2796. Signed By: Mr. Robert Larson,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $493,252. Total Project

Cost: $657,670. To improve the facilities of public television station

WTVS-TV, Ch. 56, Detroit, MI, by purchasing digital special effects,

switcher and character generator for its production studio. The project

also seeks to acquire a digital Ku-band satellite uplink for national

program distribution.

File No. 95222 CTB Grand Valley State University, 301 West Fulton

Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6492. Signed By: Ms. Jean Enright,

Secretary, Board of Control. Funds Requested: $391,808. Total Project

Cost: $783,616. To improve public television for approximately 634,720

persons in the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo areas of Michigan by replacing

obsolete and worn out video tape machines, monitors, cartridge machines

and test equipment at WGVU-TV, Ch. 35, Grand Rapids, Michigan and WGVK-

TV, Ch. 52, Kalamazoo.

File No. 95266 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East

Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell

Herron, V.P., University Relations. Funds Requested: $299,959. Total

Project Cost: $399,946. To provide improved public radio service to

5,722 citizens, and first public radio service to approximately 51,501

citizens of Oscoda, Michigan and surrounding counties by constructing a

new FM repeater station at 95.7 MHz, Oscoda, Michigan, and a TSL from

WCMU-FM, 89.5 MHz, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan to the proposed new station

which will carry WCMU programming.

File No. 95284 CTB Central Michigan University, 3965 East

Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell

Herron, Secretary, Board of Trustees. Funds Requested: $65,553. Total

Project Cost: $131,106. To improve public television service to

1,115,000 citizens of central Michigan by replacing obsolete and worn

out television editing, production, character generation and recording

equipment, an emergency alert system, and master control playback

equipment at WCMU-TV, Channel 14, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

MN (Minnesota)

File No. 95049 CTB West Central Minnesota ETV Co., 120 West

Schlieman Avenue, Appleton, MN 56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel W. Doll,

General Manager. Funds Requested: [[Page 25782]] $920,000. Total

Project Cost: $1,840,000. To provide the first Minnesota-originated

public television signal to 84,000 residents of the Worthington, MN,

area by activating a station on Channel 20 to repeat the signal of

public television station KWCM, Ch. 10, Appleton, MN, which serves a

population of approximately 500,000.

File No. 95089 CTB Northern Minnesota Public TV, Inc, Box 9,

Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN 56601-2699. Signed By: Ms. Emily

K. Lahti, General Manager. Funds Requested: $90,427. Total Project

Cost: $120,570. To improve the production capability of public

television station KAWE, Ch. 9, Bemidji, MN, by replacing its obsolete

and worn-out production switcher and camera pedestals and heads. The

station serves approximately 300,000 persons.

File No. 95150 CTB Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., 172 East

Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Signed By: Mr. Jack Willis,

President & CEO. Funds Requested: $275,000. Total Project Cost:

$557,460. To improve the signal of public television station KTCA, Ch.

2, St. Paul, MN, by replacing its 17-year-old transmitter. The station

serves a population of about 3,038,000.

File No. 95163 CRB Minnesota Public Radio, 45 E. 7th Street, St.

Paul, MN 55101. Signed by: Mr. Dennis Hamilton, Vice President. Funds

Requested: $194,757. Total Project Cost: $389,515. To improve the

production capability of Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, by

replacing various items of worn-out and obsolete equipment, including

microphones, a telephone interface, an intercom, audio recorders, and a

mixing console. The project will also acquire equipment to implement

the new Emergency Alert System required by the FCC as a replacement for

the Emergency Broadcast System. Minnesota Public Radio operates twenty-

one public radio stations in Minnesota, two in Moorehead, ND, two in

Decorah, IA, one in Houghton, MI, one in Sioux Falls, SD, and one in

Sun Valley, ID; and it operates fifteen translators in Minnesota and

one each in Michigan and Wisconsin. Altogether it serves a population

of about 4.5-million persons through parallel networks of news/

information and classical music stations that broadcast 24 hours a day.

It also produces national programs.

File No. 95170 ICTN Independent School District #492, 202 Fourth

Avenue, N.E., Austin, MN 55912. Signed By: Mr. Barry Baker, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $393,010. Total Project Cost: $786,020. To

construct a 4-channel ITFS facility with return microwave capability,

fiber optic connections and routing equipment to establish two-way

video, audio and data communications providing first service to 35,354

students in five rural school districts in central Minnesota.

File No. 95178 PRB White Earth Land Recovery Project, Rural Route

#1, Box 308, Ponsford, MN 56575. Signed By: Mr. Earl Hoagland,

Chairman. Funds Requested: $34,540. Total Project Cost: $54,797. To

plan for the establishment of a public radio station for the White

Earth Ojibwe Indian reservation in Northern Minnesota. It is estimated

that the proposed station will bring the first public radio service to

about 9,200 persons.

File No. 95196 IPTN University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Avenue,

St. Paul, MN 55105. Signed By: Dr. Robert Rehn, Director, I.S.S. Funds

Requested: $81,195. Total Project Cost: $91,235. To initiate a

telecommunications plan that will involve the private colleges and

universities in Minnesota in a consortium effort to identify the

potential uses of technologies statewide for distance education,

consistent with the state's distance learning network, the ``Learning

Network of Minnesota'' and its data/video system ``MNET.''

File No. 95207 CRB University of Minnesota, 10 University Drive,

Duluth, MN 55812. Signed By: Mr. Todd Morrison, Assistant Director.

Funds Requested: $103,720. Total Project Cost: $159,566. To extend the

signal of public radio station KUMD, 103.3 MHz, Duluth, MN, by

activating a repeater station to operate on 90.7 MHz in Grand Marais,

MN, to bring the first public radio service to about 16,149 residents

of Cook County. The project includes studio equipment to allow for

locally originated broadcasts from the new station as well as programs

repeated from KMUD.

MO (Missouri)

File No. 95079 ICTB Public Television 19, Inc., 125 East 31st

Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Signed By: Mr. William T. Reed,

President. Funds Requested: $54,773. Total Project Cost: $109,546. To

expand the audio/video signal distribution capability and to construct

a digital audio recording capability to allow public television station

KCPT, Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, to improve its capability to offer

educational programming via a diversity of media to school districts in

a wide area in both Missouri and Kansas. The proposal requests a master

router expansion kit, a frame synchronizer, and an audio product

system.

File No. 95131 CRB University of Missouri--St. Louis, 8001 Natural

Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Wartzok,

Associate Vice Chancellor. Funds Requested: $23,500. Total Project

Cost: $47,000. To improve the production capability of pubic radio

station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, St. Louis, MO, by replacing outmoded and worn-

out equipment, including its on-air audio console, DAT recorders, cart

machines, a switcher, and microphones. The project would also improve

the station's transmission reliability by acquiring a transmission line

dehydrator. The station serves a population of about 2.734,900 persons.

File No. 95141 CTB St. Louis Reg Ed & Public TV Comm, 6996

Millbrook Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63130. Signed By: Mr. Michael

Hardgrove, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $583,125. Total Project

Cost: $1,166,251. To improve the transmission capability of public

television station KETC, Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, by replacing its worn-

out and obsolete 24-year-old transmitter, transmission line, and

related test equipment. The station serves a population of about 3-

million persons.

File No. 95153 CRB Northwest Missouri State University, 800

University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468. Signed By: Dr. Dean Hubbard,

President. Funds Requested: $90,896. Total Project Cost: $181,792. To

improve the signal of public radio station KXCV, 90.5 MHz, Maryville,

MO, by replacing its obsolete 24-year-old transmitter, antenna, and

transmission line. KXCV serves a population of about 157,400.

File No. 95158 IPTN University of Missouri--St. Louis, 8001 Natural

Bridge Rd Lucas Hal, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Dr. Douglas

Wartzok, Assoc. V.Chan/Rsch & Grad Dean. Funds Requested: $20,500.

Total Project Cost: $44,915. The St. Louis EdNet consortium which

includes the University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Community

College, and 28 K-12 public school districts propose to develop a plan

for a two-way, interactive interconnection system providing video,

voice and data distance learning services among educational

institutions, government offices, service agencies and other

organizations in an eleven county area of Missouri and Illinois.

File No. 95242 ICTN Monett R-1 School District, 8th & Scott

Streets, Monett, MO 65708. Signed By: Dr. Charles Cudney,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $211,133. Total Project Cost:

$324,820. To construct classroom production facilities, and a fiber

optic network to produce and distribute first instructional programming

service to five school districts serving 28,366 students in the Western

Ozark region of Southern Missouri. [[Page 25783]]

MP (Marianas Protectorate)

File No. 95056 IPTN Northern Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250,

Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms. Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds

Requested: $61,530. Total Project Cost: $61,530. To conduct a study for

the design and possible technical options in planning a two-way,

interactive video distance education system between the main campus of

Northern Marianas College at Saipan, and its extension center at

Songsong, Rota.

MS (Mississippi)

File No. 95057 ICTN University of Mississippi, 201 Bishop Hall,

University, MS 38677. Signed By: Dr. Michael R. Dingerson, Assoc. Vice

Chancellor/Research. Funds Requested: $193,910. Total Project Cost:

$387,820. To establish a video production studio at the Teleproductions

Resource Center of the University of Mississippi. The new studio would

allow the University to offer diverse instructional programming to

audiences it cannot at present reach. The University hopes to provide

additional programming for Project LEAP--an adult literacy program

primarily serving African-American women--in Georgia, Alabama, South

Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Michigan. It also wishes to

provide specialized programming on nutrition education (targeted

towards elderly Mississippians, with funding from the State's

Department of Human Services), and to a variety of rural public

services employees; e.g., firefighters; emergency management personnel;

state, municipal, and county employees; court personnel; and health

professionals.

File No. 95190 CTB Mississippi Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood

Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By: Mr. Larry Miller, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $173,070. Total Project Cost: $346,140. To

provide reliable public television service to the entire population of

Mississippi by replacing twenty-three and twenty-four year old

transmission lines at WMAW-TV, Channel 14 in Meridian, WMAE-TV, Channel

12 in Booneville and WMAB-TV, Channel 2 in Ackerman.

MT (Montana)

File No. 95007 CRB University of Montana, PA/R-TV Building, Room

180, Missoula, MT 59812. Signed By: Mr. John Cleaveland, Ex. Dir. of

Information Tech. Funds Requested: $583,791. Total Project Cost:

$778,388. To establish a series of FM repeater stations and translator

stations to extend the broadcast services of public radio station

KUFM(FM), operating on 89.1 MHz. in Missoula, to 101,000 additional

residents of Montana. New 1 KW FM repeater stations will be established

operating on 91.7 MHz. in Helena, 89.9 MHz. in Kalispell, 91.3 MHz. in

Butte and 91.9 MHz. in Hamilton, MT. A 100 watt FM translator will also

be constructed operating on 91.7 MHz to serve Dillon, MT. KUFM (FM)

programming will be fed to each new facility via a C-band satellite

uplink to be constructed in Missoula.

File No. 95208 CRB Montana State University-Billings, 1500 North

30th Street, Billings, MT 59101. Signed By: Dr. Ronald Sexton, Acting

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $20,726. Total Project Cost: $27,632. To

extend the public radio service of KEMC(FM), operating on 91.7 MHz in

Billings MT, to three additional communities through the construction

of FM translators operating on 91.1 MHz in Forsyth, 89.1 MHz in

Ashland, and 91.9 in Broadus, MT. The project will provide first public

radio service to an additional 12,555 residents of Montana.

File No. 95209 ICTN South East MT T/C Ed. Coop., P.O. Box 500, 500

N. Trautman, Broadus, MT 59317. Signed By: Mr. Brian Patrick,

President. Funds Requested: $802,433. Total Project Cost: $1,069,911.

To provide distance learning production and interconnection facilities

to serve 17,000 students at ten sites in southeast Montana.

NC (North Carolina)

File No. 95017 CRB Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison

Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301. Signed By: Dr. Donna Benson, Interim

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $107,837. Total Project Cost: $143,783. To

improve the broadcast operations of public radio station WFSS-FM,

operating on 91.9 MHz in Fayetteville, NC, by replacing old and failing

equipment in its on-air control room and its primary production studio.

File No. 95028 CRB Shaw University, 118 East South Street, Raleigh,

NC 27601. Signed By: Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, President. Funds Requested:

$318,054. Total Project Cost: $424,072. To eliminate interference and

improve its broadcast operations, WSHA-FM, operating on 88.9 MHz in

Raleigh, NC, will relocate its facilities, built a new tower and

replace the transmitter, antenna and associated equipment. WSHA will

also replace old and worn-out on-air equipment.

File No. 95041 CTN Bennett College, 900 East Washington Street,

Greensboro, NC 27401. Signed By: Dr. Gloria Scott, President. Funds

Requested: $175,934. Total Project Cost: $234,578. To purchase a

digital satellite uplink without compression for the purpose of

providing Distance Learning degree programs in the fields of Social

Work and in Education.

File No. 95091 CRB Craven Community College, 800 College Court, New

Bern, NC 28562. Signed By: Ms. Kathleen Beal, General Manager. Funds

Requested: $186,300. Total Project Cost: $248,400. To extend its

coverage area and provide first public radio service to unserved areas

in Wayne County and Carteret County, WTEB-FM operating on 89.3 MHz in

New Bern, NC, will build a 300 foot tower with a 4 kilowatt transmitter

to re-broadcast its signal to the Wayne County area and a 195 watt, 7

kilowatt transmitter to re-broadcast its signal to coastal Carteret

County.

File No. 95100 CRB Better Life, Inc., 230-B Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke

Rapids, NC 27870. Signed By: Mr. George Campbell, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $75,150. Total Project Cost: $100,200. To expand its

service area and to provide first service to portions of Northampton

County, noncommercial radio station WZRU-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz in

Roanoke Rapids, NC, will move to an existing taller tower and increase

its operating power.

File No. 95252 CTB University of North Carolina, 10 T.W. Alexander

Drive, Research Triangle Pk, NC 27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom Howe,

Director & General Manager. Funds Requested: $731,000. Total Project

Cost: $1,462,000. To improve its broadcast operations, WUNF-TV, Channel

33 in Asheville, NC, will replace its transmitter, antenna, associated

terminal equipment and remote control equipment. The antenna will be

located higher on the existing tower and microwave interconnection

equipment will also be replaced.

ND (North Dakota)

File No. 95096 CRB Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box

3240, 207 N 5th St., Fargo, ND 58108-3240. Signed By: Mr. Steve

Leyland, President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $367,083. Total

Project Cost: $489,444. To construct a new public radio station on 90.3

MHz in Devils Lake. Repeater/satellite station (with limited local

origination capacity) will extend the signal of the state public radio

network. Station will provide a first public radio signal to 12,199

people and an additional service to 8,825 people who currently receive

a signal from three existing FM translators.

File No. 95101 CRB Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box

3240, 207 N 5th St., Fargo, ND 58108-3240. Signed By: Mr. Steve

Leyland, President/ [[Page 25784]] General Manager. Funds Requested:

$104,800. Total Project Cost: $139,734. To extend the signal of the

state public radio network by constructing six FM translators at the

following ND locations: Beach (91.9 MHz); Bowman (91.9 MHz); Crosby

(91.9 MHz); Harvey (91.9 MHz); Hettinger (91.9 MHz); Tioga (91.9 MHz)

and one translator at Plentywood, MT (91.9 MHz). New translators will

provide a first public radio signal to 11,509 people.

File No. 95267 CRB KEYA, Incorporated, POB 190, Belcourt, ND 58316.

Signed By: Mrs. Betty Hamley, General Manager. Funds Requested:

$17,389. Total Project Cost: $34,778. To improve the facilities of

public radio station KEYA-FM, 88.5 MHz, in Belcourt, by replacing old

control room origination equipment with a new console, digital audio

tape (DAT) players, a cassette player, a modulation monitor system, a

remote control unit, and other related origination equipment. KEYA-FM

provides a signal to about 25,000 people on the Turtle Mt. Indian

Reservation/Rolette County, ND.

NE (Nebraska)

File No. 95123 CTB University of Nebraska, 60th & Dodge Streets,

Omaha, NE 68182-0022. Signed By: Mr. Howard Lowe, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $133,800. Total Project Cost: $293,800. To improve

public television station KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in Omaha by replacing three

12 to 15 year old studio cameras. The facility serves as the Omaha

production center for the Nebraska ETV Network. It serves approximately

605,097 people.

File No. 95148 CRB Sunrise Communications, Inc., 941 O Street,

Suite 1025, Lincoln, NE 68508. Signed By: Mr. Dick Noble, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $84,612. Total Project Cost: $112,816. To

improve the facilities of public radio station KZUM-FM, 89.3 MHz, in

Lincoln by acquiring new and replacement equipment for the on-air

control and production control rooms as well as a C-band satellite

downlink. Station serves approximately 214,000 people.

File No. 95174 CTN Agricultural Satellite Corporation, C218 Animal

Science Building, Lincoln, NE 68583. Signed By: Dr. Janet Poley,

President/CEO. Funds Requested: $776,500. Total Project Cost:

$1,553,000. To convert 9 existing Ku-band satellite uplinks in the

Agsat system and 315 existing satellite downlinks operated by Agsat

affiliated schools from analog to digital technology.

File No. 95273 CRB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.

Funds Requested: $31,500. Total Project Cost: $63,000. To improve the

facilities of public radio station KUCV-FM, 90.9 MHz, in Lincoln by

replacing the network's worn out and obsolete master control console

and routing switcher. In addition, KUCV-FM would acquire a digital

audio workstation to replace the existing analog editing system.

Nebraska's nine Station public radio network serves approximately

854,154 people.

File No. 95276 CTB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.

Funds Requested: $145,802. Total Project Cost: $291,604. To improve the

facilities of the state public television network and public television

station KLNE-TV, Ch. 3, in Lincoln, by replacing two television

translators: a 16-year-old translator in Beatrice (K23AA) and a 17-

year-old unit in Pawnee City (K33AC). The project would also replace

existing worn out, obsolete still store and audio editing equipment

with a new still store and a digital audio work station, and a digital

audio test set. The state public television network serves

approximately 1.5 million people.

NH (New Hampshire)

File No. 95166 CRB New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., 207 North Main

Street, Concord, NH 03301. Signed By: Mrs. Gail Devoid, Dir. Admin.

Services. Funds Requested: $52,334. Total Project Cost: $104,669. To

replace an obsolete and worn out transmitter, test equipment, and an

emergency generator providing public radio service to approximately

950,000 persons at WEVO FM, 89.1 MHz, Concord, New Hampshire.

File No. 95177 CTB University of New Hampshire, Mast Road, Box

1100, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of

Engineering. Funds Requested: $30,000. Total Project Cost: $60,000. To

replace an obsolete and worn out master control switcher and an ENG

field videotape recorder at WENH-TV, Channel 11, Durham, New Hampshire,

providing public television to approximately 1,109,252 citizens

throughout New Hampshire.

NJ (New Jersey)

File No. 95073 CRB New Jersey Public Brdcstg Authority, 25 South

Stockton Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Signed By: Mr. William Jobes,

Acting General Manager. Funds Requested: $129,775. Total Project Cost:

$192,951. To replace obsolete and worn out transmitters providing

public radio programming to approximately 302,346 persons at WNJS-FM,

88.1 MHz, Berlin, New Jersey, and WNJT-FM, 88.1 MHz, Trenton, New

Jersey, with a power increase at WNJT; and to provide first public

radio service to approximately 252,654 persons by constructing new

transmitting facilities at WNJB-FM, 89.3 MHz, Bridgeton, New Jersey and

WNJP-FM, 88.5 MHz, Sussex, New Jersey.

File No. 95078 IPTN Ocean County College, College Drive, Toms

River, NJ 08754. Signed By: Dr. Milton Shaw, President. Funds

Requested: $42,890. Total Project Cost: $42,890. To identify the most

effective means of establishing an interactive, distance learning

system among fifteen county high schools, Ocean County College, five

vocational-technical schools, the Ocean County library, five area

hospitals, and Thomas Edison State College.

NM (New Mexico)

File No. 95012 CTB Eastern New Mexico University, 15th and Avenue

O, Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. Duane W. Ryan, Director of

Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $49,230. Total Project Cost: $98,460. To

improve the facilities of public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3, in

Portales, by replacing an obsolete character generator and test/

monitoring equipment including a waveform/vectorscope, signal test

generator and a modulation monitor. KENW-TV serves about 350,000

residents of eastern New Mexico and west Texas.

File No. 95129 CTB New Mexico State University, Jordon St. Milton

Hall, Room 100, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Signed By: Mr. Ronald Salak,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $55,988. Total Project Cost:

$111,976. To improve the facilities of public television station KRWG-

TV, Ch. 22, in Las Cruces by replacing very old, unreliable \3/4\''

field production cameras and associated equipment, off-line editing

equipment and post-production recorder/players used in news and

production areas. KRWG-TV serves approximately 865,094 people.

File No. 95287 ICTN Hispanic Educational Telecom System, 1130

University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Signed By: Mr. Jose

Mendez, Chair of HETS Board. Funds Requested: $1,225,626. Total Project

Cost: $1,634,168. To establish a C-band VSAT satellite-based network to

provide distance learning to Hispanic students attending nine

institutions of higher education: Lehman College and Hostos Community

College, Bronx, NY; South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, AZ;

Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS; University of New

Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Ana Mendez [[Page 25785]] University System

and the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; University of Texas,

Brownsville, and the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX.

NV (Nevada)

File No. 95088 ICTN Univ. & Community Coll Sys of NV, P.O. Box

9060, Reno, NV 89507. Signed By: Dr. Donald Zitter, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $868,885. Total Project Cost: $1,737,770. To expand

the interactive compressed video distance learning network of the

University and Community College System of Nevada. The project would

construct instructional sites at three campuses: Stead; Truckee Meadows

Community College; and the Southern Nevada Science Center. It would do

the same at eight off-campus, high-usage learning centers: Alamo,

Beatty, Caliente, Incline Village, Lovelock, Minden, Round Mountain,

and Yerington. It would also upgrade the current system's multipoint

switching hub sites in Las Vegas and Reno and add such a switching site

in Elko.

File No. 95236 CTB Lander County (Austin TV Assoc.), P.O. Box 10,

Austin, NV 89310. Signed By: Mr. Gerald La Miaux, Chairman. Funds

Requested: $24,510. Total Project Cost: $32,680. To extend the signal

of public television station KNPB-TV, Ch. 5, in Reno, by constructing

two television translator stations in Austin. K28EI and K60FK will

translate the signal from an existing translator, K50AI, in Hawthorne.

The two new translators will provide a first public television signal

to Austin/South Lander County, NV.

File No. 95237 ICTBN Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10

Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Axtell, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $210,250. Total Project Cost: $358,500. To

provide first instructional television service to Pahrump and Boulder

City, Nevada, and to install satellite downlinks at 13 sites in Clark,

Lincoln, White Pine and Nye Counties, Nevada, and locations in western

Arizona and eastern California, serving approximately 30,042 persons

with both broadcast and non-broadcast programs.

NY (New York)

File No. 95003 CTB Western NY Public Brdcstg. Assn., P.O. Box 1263,

Buffalo, NY 14240. Signed By: Mr. J. Michael Collins, President and

CEO. Funds Requested: $283,102. Total Project Cost: $566,204. To

replace obsolete and worn out studio cameras, and to acquire digital

VTRs and test equipment for local and national television productions

at WNED, Channel 17, Buffalo, New York.

File No. 95039 CRB State University of NY, Oswego, 14 Lanigan Hall,

Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Dr. Stephen Weber, President. Funds

Requested: $68,985. Total Project Cost: $137,970. To construct a new

1000 Watt FM repeater station on a frequency of 90.3 MHz, located in

Dewitt, New York and serving approximately 125,000 residents of

Syracuse, New York.

File No. 95043 ICTN NY City Dept. of Info Tech & T/com., 75 Park

Place, New York, NY 10017. Signed By: Mr. Ralph Balzano, Commissioner.

Funds Requested: $563,850. Total Project Cost: $939,750. To establish a

SONET-based fiber optic network that will interconnect Hunter College

School of Social Work, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York

City's Department of Personnel, and the City's municipal cable

television network, called Crosswalks. The objective is to deliver

educational programming that will help encourage the City's economic

development by enhancing the work force skills of the City's residents

and of its municipal workforce.

File No. 95051 ICTN Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, 5980 South Street Road,

Auburn, NY 13021. Signed By: Dr. Frank Ambrosie, District

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $331,083. Total Project Cost:

$441,444. To purchase video classrooms at twelve academic institutions

in the Cayuga-Onondaga area of central New York, under the aegis of the

Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). The

sites will be connected by fiber optics to form a distance learning

system. The system would comprise 9 public school districts, one BOCES

site, a community college and a four-year private college and would

permit the exchange of live educational programming, satellite

teleconferences and programs, data communication, and media

distribution.

File No. 95052 ICTN Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Ave.

at West 27 Street, New York, NY 10001. Signed By: Dr. Durwood Long,

Treas. & VP/Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $372,969. Total Project

Cost: $497,293. To establish a broadcast-quality video classroom at the

Fashion Institute of America, New York City, and to purchase fiber

optic cable and a terminal multiplexer to allow the Institute to

originate diverse educational/instructional programming and transmit

that programming throughout New York City, the State, and, via

satellite, the Nation.

File No. 95062 ICTN Cattaraugus/Allegany BOCES, 1825 Windfall Road,

Olean, NY 14760. Signed By: Mr. Thomas P. Nickler, Asst. District

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $434,140. Total Project Cost:

$1,118,380. To help establish a two-way interactive, full-motion video,

analog distance learning system to interconnect 13 public schools and

one post-secondary school in Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, a

mainly-rural, economically depressed area in southwest New York State.

The proposal would support the activation of 14 video classrooms for

the new system.

File No. 95064 CTB WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State

Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Signed By: Mr. William Pearce, President &

General Mgr. Funds Requested: $115,640. Total Project Cost: $236,000.

To construct a Ku-band satellite uplink to permit public television

station WXXI-TV, operating on Ch. 21 in Rochester, NY, to distribute

programming nationwide. The uplink would permit timely distribution of

programming such as ``Assignment: The World'' and ``New York Speaks

Out'' after the demise of the New York Terrestrial Distribution System,

which interconnected all New York State public television stations with

an uplink in New York City.

File No. 95107 ICTN State University of New York, Whipple

Administration Bldg., Morrisville, NY 13408. Signed By: Dr. Frederick

Woodward, President. Funds Requested: $431,577. Total Project Cost:

$575,981. To establish a distance learning network connected by fiber

optic cable carrying interactive voice, video, and data. The network

would connect nine public schools, a cooperative education center, the

Oneida Indian Nation, and two state operated college campuses. The

programming schedule would include academic classes, Indian cultural

education, workforce training, adult education, and civic activities.

File No. 95108 CRB State University of New York, 14 Lanigan Hall,

Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Mr. William Shigley, Station Manager.

Funds Requested: $124,586. Total Project Cost: $124,586. To replace an

obsolete and worn out transmitter and related equipment at WRVO-FM,

89.9 MHz, serving 549,000 persons from Oswego, New York.

File No. 95122 CRTB WMHT Educational Telecommunications, 17 Fern

Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12301-0017. Signed By: Mr. William D. Rogosin,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $330,300. Total Project

Cost: $660,600. To replace an obsolete, worn out routing switcher and

related equipment, a master control console, an automation system and

monitoring equipment for WMHT-TV, Channel 17, WMHQ-TV, Channel 45,

[[Page 25786]] WMHT-FM, 89.1 MHz, Schenectady, New York, and WRNV-FM,

88.7 MHz, Poughkeepsie, New York, providing Public Radio and TV to

approximately 2,225,550 people in eastern New York, western

Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.

File No. 95168 CTB St. Lawrence Valley ETV Council, 1056 Arsenal

Street, Watertown, NY 13601. Signed By: Mr. William Saiff, Jr.,

President General Manager. Funds Requested: $965,837. Total Project

Cost: $1,931,674. To replace worn out and obsolete transmitters serving

approximately 395,000 U.S. citizens, and additionally serving Canadian

citizens from public television stations WNPE-TV, Channel 16, in

Watertown, New York, and WNPI-TV, Channel 18, in Norwood, New York.

File No. 95172 CTB Long Island Educ. TV Council, Inc., Channel 21

Drive, P.O. Box 21, Plainview, NY 11803. Signed By: Mr. Terrel Cass.

Funds Requested: $192,900. Total Project Cost: $385,800. To replace an

obsolete television antenna, and to acquire test equipment for WLIW-TV,

Channel 21, Plainview, New York, providing service to 2,400,000 people

in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

File No. 95191 CRB Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Sv, 15 Industrial

Parkway, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. Signed By: Mr. Robert Sikorski,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $51,900. Total Project Cost:

$103,838. To replace and augment studio origination equipment including

a control console, reel-to-reel tape decks, compact disc, cassette and

cart players, microphones, mixers and amplifiers; and to purchase 200

SCA, and 200 SAP receivers for a radio reading service for 30,000 print

impaired persons in Western New York State.

File No. 95288 ICTN City College of CUNY, 138th Street & Convent

Avenue, New York, NY 10031. Signed By: Ms. Regina Masterson, Acting

Director, Ofc of Resrch. Funds Requested: $320,300. Total Project Cost:

$640,675. To construct classroom multi-media production facilities

providing first educational service to 3,000 students at three

educational sites in the Harlem District of New York City, and to

acquire interface facilities to link them with an on-campus multi-media

delivery system at City College of New York.

OH (Ohio)

File No. 95002 CRB Akron Board of Education, 65 Steiner Avenue,

Akron, OH 44301. Signed By: Mr. Phil R. Hoffman, General Manager. Funds

Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $30,000. To improve the

operational capability of public radio station WAPS, 91.3 MHz, Akron,

OH, by replacing obsolete and worn-out production equipment, including

an audio console, CD players, and DAT recorders. WAPS serves a

population of about 15,000 persons.

File No. 95065 CTB Ohio University, 9 South College Street, Athens,

OH 45701. Signed By: Mr. T. Lloyd Chestnut, Vice President. Funds

Requested: $169,160. Total Project Cost: $338,320. To improve the

production capability of public station WOUB-TV, Ch. 20, Athens, OH, by

replacing worn-out and obsolete equipment, including its production

lighting system and switcher, still store, and monitors, and by

upgrading its routing switcher. WOUB-TV serves a population of about

950,000.

File No. 95083 ICTN City of Columbus, Ohio, 90 West Broad Street,

Columbus, OH 43215. Signed By: Mr. Noel Reese, Administrator. Funds

Requested: $70,162. Total Project Cost: $140,325. To extend the City of

Columbus's fiber optics network to the Martin Luther King Jr.

Performing and Cultural Arts Center and to install a video production

studio in the Center so as to allow for the production of programming,

much of which will be directed towards the interests of African-

Americans.

File No. 95112 CRB Miami University, Spring & Oak Streets, Oxford,

OH 45056. Signed By: Mr. Edward Demske, Vice President/Finance. Funds

Requested: $57,173. Total Project Cost: $114,346. To improve the

transmission capability of public radio station WMUB, 88.5 MHz, Oxford,

OH, by replacing its 13-year-old transmitter and adding an emergency

power generator. The project would also upgrade its Emergency Broadcast

System to the new Emergency Alert System mandated by the FCC. WMUB

serves a population of about 312,302.

File No. 95126 CTB ETV Assn of Metro Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark

Road, Cleveland, OH 44134. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $441,822. Total Project Cost:

$883,645. To improve the operation of public television station WVIZ,

Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by replacing its manual video recording and

playback system with an automated one. The station serves a population

of about 3.7-million.

File No. 95184 CTB Greater Dayton Public TV, Inc., 110 South

Jefferson Street, Dayton, OH 45402-2402. Signed By: Mr. David M.

Fogarty, President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $81,715. Total

Project Cost: $163,430. To improve the broadcast signal of public

television station WPTD, Ch. 16, Dayton, OH, by replacing the 19-year-

old transmitters of its translators in Maplewood, Ch. 63, and Celina,

Ch. 17, OH, and by replacing worn-out and obsolete test equipment,

including a spectrum analyzer, a portable oscilloscope, a waveform

monitor, and a video test signal generator. WPTD serves a population of

about 384,537.

File No. 95205 ICTBN Greater Cincinnati TV Educ. Fdn., 1223 Central

Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45214. Signed By: Mr. W. Wayne Godwin. Funds

Requested: $399,960. Total Project Cost: $799,921. To replace an

obsolete, worn out routing switcher and 15 video recording/playback

machines at WCET, Channel 48, Cincinnati, Ohio, serving 1,500,000

public television viewers, and 250,000 students in 400 schools, and

local cable subscribers with public television and educational

programming.

File No. 95240 CRB Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street,

Kent, OH 44242. Signed By: Dr. Carol Cartwright, President. Funds

Requested: $328,202. Total Project Cost: $437,603. To extend the signal

of public radio station WKSU, 89.7 MHz, Kent, OH, by replacing its

worn-out transmitter and antenna and relocating the transmitter to

Copley, OH, and increasing the tower height of its antenna. The change

will provide the first public radio signal to about 58,187 residents of

three counties and additional service to about 268,400 residents. The

station presently serves a population of about 2,340,307 persons.

File No. 95251 CRB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River

Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Director/

General Manager. Funds Requested: $227,261. Total Project Cost:

$303,015. To extend the signal of public radio station WOSU-FM, 89.7

MHz, Columbus, OH, by activating a repeater station on 91.1 MHz in

Marion, OH. The new station will provide the first public radio signal

to about 19,061 persons.

File No. 95271 CRB Public Broadcasting Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron

Street, Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President

& General Manager. Funds Requested: $245,223. Total Project Cost:

$326,964. To extend the signal of public radio station WGTE-FM, 91.3

MHz, Toledo, OH, by activating repeaters on 91.9 MHz in Bryan, OH, and

on 90.9 MHz, in Defiance, OH. The new stations will bring the first

public radio service to about 97,889 persons. WGTE-FM presently serves

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File No. 95279 CRB Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street,

Kent, OH 44242. Signed By: Dr. Carol Cartwright, President. Funds

Requested: $169,996. Total Project Cost: $226,661. To extend the

coverage of public radio station WKSU, 89.7 MHz, Kent, OH, by

activating a repeater station on 89.1 MHz in Thompson, OH. The new

station would serve a population of about 247,987.

File No. 95282 CTB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River

Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Director/

General Manager. Funds Requested: $207,321. Total Project Cost:

$414,642. To improve the production capability of public television

station WOSU-TV, Ch. 34, Columbus, OH, by replacing worn-out and

obsolete items of studio, editing and test equipment, including video

tape machines, an audio mixer, camera pedestals and heads, monitors,

oscilloscopes, a logic analyzer, and a color analyzer. All items are at

least 10 years old, some are more than 20 years old, and some are

nearly 40 years old. WOSU-TV serves a population of about 1,866,000.

File No. 95296 CRB Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway,

Cincinnati, OH 45207-7211. Signed By: Mr. John Kucia, Administrative

Vice President. Funds Requested: $263,169. Total Project Cost:

$350,893. To extend the signal of public radio station WVXU, 91.7 MHz,

Cincinnati, OH, by activating a repeater to operate on 106.3 MHz, in

Crawfordsville, IN, bringing WVXU's program service to approximately

58,328 people. The station presently serves a population of about

1,364,000.

OK (Oklahoma)

File No. 95004 ICTN Oklahoma Panhandle State University, 323 W.

Eagle Blvd., P.O. Box 126, Goodwell, OK 73939. Signed By: Dr. Carl

Westbrook, Interim President. Funds Requested: $400,000. Total Project

Cost: $3,400,000. To purchase a DS-3 video switcher and to assist

Oklahoma Panhandle State University upgrade the distance learning

network that the University shares with 12 public schools in the three

counties of the Oklahoma Panhandle. The project would allow the network

to extend its services to the school districts in the communities of

Guymon and Tyrone, add a second video classroom to each of the current

sites, and permit Internet access.

File No. 95182 CRB University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N.

University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Signed By: Dr. Joyce Mounce, V.P.

for Administration. Funds Requested: $319,100. Total Project Cost:

$487,003. To expand its broadcast area and provide first service to

approximately 75,000 people in greater Oklahoma City, KCSC-FM operating

on 90.1 MHz in Edmond, OK, will relocate its antenna to a higher

location and increase transmitter power. In addition, KCSC will replace

old and worn-out equipment in its on-air and production rooms.

File No. 95198 CRB University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N.

University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Signed By: Dr. Joyce Mounce, V.P.

for Administration. Funds Requested: $156,567. Total Project Cost:

$208,757. To provide first service to approximately 40,000 people,

KCSC-FM operating on 90.1 MHz in Edmond, OK, will activate a repeater

noncommercial radio station on 91.9 MHz in McAlester, Oklahoma.

File No. 95227 CTB Oklahoma Educational TV Authority, 7403 N.

Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73113. Signed By: Mr. Robert Allen,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $350,000. Total Project Cost:

$700,000. To upgrade the technical facilities of public television

stations KETA-TV, Channel 13 in Oklahoma City and KOED-TV, Channel 11

in Tulsa by purchasing stereo audio equipment and establishing a

secondary audio program channel (SAP). Six translators will also be

upgraded to provide enhanced services to the community.

OR (Oregon)

File No. 95097 CTB Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam

Avenue, Portland, OR 97219. Signed By: Mr. Maynard Orme, President &

CEO. Funds Requested: $158,875. Total Project Cost: $317,750. To

replace the 30-year-old broadcast antenna, transmission line and tower

of public station KOAC-TV, Ch. 7, Corvallis, OR. The project will

enable the station to continue service to 220,000 residents of the

Willamette Valley and coastal communities in western Oregon.

File No. 95233 CTB Southern Oregon Public Television, 34 South Fir

St., Medford, OR 97501. Signed By: Mr. William Campbell, President,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $296,456. Total Project Cost:

$569,127. To extend the signal of public station KSYS-TV, Ch. 8,

Medford, OR, by activating a 100-watt translator in Brookings, OR, to

serve 13,000 residents in the Brookings/Harbor area. The project also

seeks to improve the facilities of KSYS-TV by replacing obsolete

production equipment, including video cassette machines, production

switcher, field cameras, and post-production editing. KSYS-TV serves

405,000 people in the Medford and Klamath Falls area.

File No. 95293 IPTN Southwestern Oregon Cmmty College, 1988 Newmark

Avenue, Coos Bay, OR 97420-2956. Signed By: Dr. Stephen Kridelbaugh,

President. Funds Requested: $109,677. Total Project Cost: $146,236. To

develop a telecommunications plan for the use of technologies in

distance learning and training applications, in a geographically

isolated rural area of potentially three counties served by

Southwestern Oregon Community College.

PA (Pennsylvania)

File No. 95013 CRB QED Communications, Inc., 4802 Fifth Avenue,

Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Signed By: Mr. George L. Miles, Jr., President &

CEO. Funds Requested: $112,994. Total Project Cost: $171,167. To extend

the service of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA, in the

Johnstown, PA, area by activating a full-power repeater station on 89.7

MHz to replace its existing translator. The new repeater will bring the

first public radio signal to about 263,005 persons in the Johnstown

area. The project will also improve the transmission capability, of

WQED-FM by replacing its 20-year-old antenna.

File No. 95119 CRB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner

Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert

Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $47,142.

Total Project Cost: $62,856. To extend the signal of public radio

station WPSU 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by activating three

translators to operate on 96.1 MHz in Clearfield, 100.3 MHz in

Lewistown, and 106.5 MHz in DuBois, all PA. The new translators will

bring the first public radio signal to about 33,028 residents of

Clearfield and Mifflin Counties. WPSU presently serves a population of

about 366,196.

File No. 95134 CBT Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner

Building University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert

Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $25,021.

Total Project Cost: $50,042. To improve the service of public

television station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park, PA, by acquiring the

necessary equipment to provide Descriptive Video Service and

stereophonic audio. The station serves a population of about 1,365,627.

File No. 95138 CTB WHYY, Inc., 150 N. Sixth Street, Philadelphia,

PA 19106. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr., President. Funds

Requested: $292,157. Total Project Cost: $584,314. To improve the

operation of public [[Page 25788]] television station WHYY-TV, Ch. 12,

Philadelphia, PA, by replacing its worn-out and obsolete master control

and routing switchers, video tape recorders, and distribution and

monitoring equipment. The station serves a population of about 7

million persons.

File No. 95171 CRB Lehigh Valley Cmty Bdcstrs Assn, 301 Broadway,

Bethlehem, PA 18015. Signed By: Mr. Brian F. Landers, President. Funds

Requested: $25,429. Total Project Cost: $50,858. To enhance the signal

of public radio station WDIY, 88.1 MHz, Bethlehem, PA, by activating

translators to operate on 93.9 MHz in Easton, PA, and on 93.5 MHz in

Bethlehem, and to improve the operational capability of the station by

acquiring remote origination equipment. WDIY presently serves a

population of about 351,167. The new translators will add about 69,547

persons.

PR (Puerto Rico)

File No. 95197 CRB University of Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon &

Pastrana St., San Juan, PR 00931. Signed By: Prof Rafael Garcia-

Machuca, Director. Funds Requested: $174,619. Total Project Cost:

$349,238. To provide first public radio programming to 476,379 persons

on the west coast of Puerto Rico by activating a new station, WTRU-FM,

89.7 MHz, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

File No. 95248 CTB Fundacion Educativa Ana G. Mendez, P.O. Box

21345, Rio Piedras, PR 00928. Signed By: Mr. Jose F. Mendez, President.

Funds Requested: $449,456. Total Project Cost: $599,275. To improve

current public television service to 2,530,120 citizens, and to provide

first public television service to an additional 118,000 citizens in

eastern Puerto Rico by replacing an obsolete and worn out transmitter

at WMTJ-TV, Channel 40, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

SC (South Carolina)

File No. 95185 ICTN Horry-Georgetown Technical College, 2050

Highway, 501 East, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Dr. D. Kent Sharples,

President. Funds Requested: $319,745. Total Project Cost: $569,745. To

establish two-way interactive compressed video and audio linking three

campuses of Horry-Georgetown Technical College campuses in Conway,

Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and to establish studio

production facilities to serve the system.

File No. 95231 ICTN South Carolina ETV Commission, 1101 George

Rodgers Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29201. Signed By: Mr. Ronald

Schoenherr, Senior Vice President. Funds Requested: $722,912. Total

Project Cost: $1,445,825. To extend the services of South Carolina

Educational Television by placing satellite downlink equipment at 383

middle, secondary and vocational schools throughout the state. The

applicant currently distributes 6 channels of distance learning via

satellite to 102 schools in the state.

File No. 95295 CRB South Carolina State University, 300 College

Street, PO Box 7656, Orangeburg, SC 29117. Signed By: Dr. Barbara

Hatton, President. Funds Requested: $139,327. Total Project Cost:

$185,770. To improve and upgrade the facilities of public station WSSB-

FM, 90.3 MHz, Orangeburg, SC, by installing a satellite downlink to

receive national programming and by replacing analog control room

equipment with digital equipment.

TN (Tennessee)

File No. 95034 ICTN University of TN at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie

Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $116,367. Total Project Cost: $232,734. To

activate a video classroom for the Division of Continuing Education and

Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The

classroom will originate educational/instruction programming that will

be delivered via cable television throughout the greater Chattanooga

area. The course work will center on the following: Combating

illiteracy; expanding parenting skills; and offering teacher education

in conflict resolution, technology in the classroom, and teach

recertification in rural areas.

File No. 95036 IPRTN Knoxville College, 901 College Street,

Knoxville, TN 37921. Signed By: Dr. Lois Williams, President. Funds

Requested: $80,000. Total Project Cost: $80,000. To explore all

reasonable and feasible telecommunications options in developing a plan

to establish the Knoxville College Communications Center, for a

possible future radio broadcasting facility and an interconnection

system for distance learning programs between Knoxville College and the

University of Tennessee.

File No. 95042 CTB West TN Public TV Council, Inc., University of

Tenn.-Clement Hall, Martin, TN 38237. Signed By: Mr. John Hesse,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $33,832. Total Project Cost. $67,664.

To assure reliability of the station's broadcast services, public

television station WLJT-TV, Channel 11 in Martin, TN, will relocate the

intermediate point of the station's studio transmitter link.

File No. 95058 CRB Metropolitan Governt of Nashville, 225 Polk

Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed By: Mr. Chase Adams, Interim

Library Director. Funds Requested: $55,695. Total Project Cost:

$74,260. To extend the service of noncommercial radio station WPLN-FM

operating on 90.3 MHz in Nashville, TN, by constructing a repeater

station in Cookeville to provide first service to approximately 43,550

people.

File No. 95069 CTB Mid-South Public Commun. Found., 900 Getwell

Street, Memphis, TN 38111. Signed By: Mr. Michael LaBonia, President &

CEO. Funds Requested: $138,600. Total Project Cost: $277,200. To

provide uninterrupted, high quality broadcast services, WKNO-TV,

Channel 10 in Memphis, TN, will replace outdated \3/4\'' machines with

three state-of-the-art digital videotape machines and will enhance its

graphics capability by purchasing a new computer graphics system.

File No. 95074 CRB Guiding Hands for the Blind, Inc., 1970-D North

Highland Avenue, Jackson, TN 38305. Signed By: Mr. Ernest Harper, Jr.,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $35,000. Total Project Cost: $74,511.

Guiding Hands for the Blind, Inc. proposes the construction of a non-

commercial FM radio station operating on 88.7 MHz to provide

information from local and national publications, local public affairs

programming, news and other services to visually and physically

impaired persons in its service area.

File No. 95103 CTB Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council, PO Box 2040,

Stadium Drive, Cookeville, TN 38502. Signed By: Mr. Richard Castle,

Jr., General Manager. Funds Requested: $193,990. Total Project Cost:

$387,980. To replace and upgrade outdated equipment, WCTE-TV, Channel

22 in Cookeville, TN, will purchase video and audio test equipment,

routers, processors and a video monitor. To improve remote production

facilities, WCTE will replace one camera, two VTRs, the audio console

and the video and graphics processors.

File No. 95128 CRB University of Tennessee @ Chatt., 615 McCallie

Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $20,600. Total Project Cost: $41,200. To

upgrade its program origination facilities, public radio station WUTC-

FM, operating on 88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, TN, will purchase and install

a master control console, four digital audio tape recorders and four

professional compact disc players.

File No. 95221 CTB Metropolitan Board of Public Educ., 161 Rains

[[Page 25789]] Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed By: Dr. Richard

Benjamin, Director of Schools. Funds Requested: $627,367. Total Project

Cost: $1,254,733. To upgrade the facilities of public television

station WDCN-TV, Channel 8 in Nashville, TN, by replacing the 22-year

old transmitter, antenna, transmission line, studio-to-transmitter link

and associated monitoring and test equipment.

File No. 95263 ICTB Knoxville Communications Coop. In, 3018 East

5th Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37914. Signed By: Mr. Emanuel Bailey,

President. Funds Requested: $311,000. Total Project Cost: $415,000. To

construct a community based, minority owned and operated, television

production Facility to serve 200,000 citizens in Knoxville, Tennessee.

File No. 95286 CTB East Tennessee Public Comm. Corp., 1611 E.

Magnolia Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Signed By: Mr. Richard

Meschendorf, Chairman, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $190,026.

Total Project Cost: $380,053. To replace obsolete or technically-

deficient Master Control equipment at WSJK-TV, Channel 2 and WKOP-TV,

Channel 15 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

TX (Texas)

File No. 95011 ICTN Prairie View A & M University, New Classroom

Bldg., Room 129, Prairie View, TX 77446. Signed By: Dr. Joahanne

Thomas-Smith, Provost/VP-Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $150,000.

Total Project Cost: $200,000. To establish an educational access

channel for Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas. The

University--which is an Historically Black University--will use the

equipment to originate educational and instructional programming to be

distributed over the cable television systems in the communities of

Prairie View and Waller, both in Waller County in southeast Texas.

File No. 95125 CTB University of Houston, 1600 Smith Street, Suite

3400, Houston, TX 77002. Signed By: Dr. B. Dell Felder, Senior Vice

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $490,826. Total Project Cost: $981,652. To

improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in Houston by

replacing on-air analog video tape machines with six (6) digital video

machines. In addition, KUHT-TV will acquire an automation system for

on-air and a digital editing system to replace existing equipment.

KUHT-TV serves approximately 3.9 million people.

File No. 95135 ICTN TX State Tech. College Sweetwater, 300 College

Drive, Sweetwater, TX 79556. Signed By: Dr. Robert Musgrove, Dean of

Instruction. Funds Requested: $126,898. Total Project Cost: $211,498.

To provide first distance education services to 5,000 students on the

Abeline, Breckenridge, and Brownwood campuses of Texas State Technical

College, Sweetwater (TSTC) and their surrounding communities by

acquiring studio production equipment for the Sweetwater studio, VTEL

equipment for Sweetwater and three other unnamed sites, and by

constructing a multipoint bridge to access other T1 networks in a hub

and star configuration from the Sweetwater Campus.

File No. 95156 ICTN Alliance for Higher Education, 17103 Preston

Road, Dallas, TX 75248-1373. Signed By: Dr. Allan Watson, President.

Funds Requested: $553,011. Total Project Cost: $1,106,022. To support

delivery of distance learning programs to multiple users of a variety

of digital technologies and high speed fiber optic network systems

serving 23 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas higher education and medical

institutions, by acquiring digital switching, fiber optic terminals,

fiber optic multiplexers, and codec equipment to provide network

access.

File No. 95159 CTB Capital of TX Pub Telecom Council, 2504-B Whitis

Street, Austin, TX 78705. Signed By: Mr. Bill Arhos, President/General

Manager. Funds Requested: $157,274. Total Project Cost: $314,549. To

improve the facilities of public television station KLRU-TV, Ch. 18, in

Austin, by replacing a worn-out lighting dimmer system that is 22 years

old. KLRU-TV serves approximately 1.04 million people in Austin and

produces nationally distributed programming.

File No. 95195 CTB Alamo Public Telecomm. Council, 501 Broadway,

San Antonio, TX 78125. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik, President and

General Mgr. Funds Requested: $251,143. Total Project Cost: $502,286.

To improve the facilities of public television station KLRN-TV, Ch. 9,

in San Antonio by replacing essential videotape delay equipment,

replacing inadequate studio cameras and associated equipment, and

acquiring off-line editing equipment that will improve the efficiency

of the existing on-line editing system. KLRN-TV serves approximately 2

million people.

File No. 95206 CRB University of Texas at Austin, POB 7726,

University Station, Austin, TX 78713. Signed By: Mr. Wayne Kuenstler,

Director, Sponsored Projects. Funds Requested: $73,299. Total Project

Cost: $146,600. To improve the facilities of public radio station KUT-

FM, 90.5 MHz, in Austin by replacing and/or upgrading the transmitter/

antenna system, acquiring digital audio tape (DAT) machines and

replacing a 1976 remote audio recording console. KUT-FM provides

service to approximately 1.1 million people in central TX.

File No. 95211 ICTN Corpus Christi Public Library Fdn, 805

Comanche, Corpus Christi, TX 78401. Signed By: Mr. William White,

President. Funds Requested: $168,670. Total Project Cost: $255,561. To

acquire a UNIX-based host computer, telecommunications equipment and

digital communication lines, including T1, at the Central Library and

several branch sites, serving 147,000 persons, in Corpus Christi,

Texas, and adding 107,000 persons by constructing the proposed system.

File No. 95261 ICTB Ysleta Independent School District, 9600 Sims,

El Paso, TX 79925. Signed By: Mr. Anthony Trujillo, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $1,608,900. Total Project Cost: $2,145,200. To

activate a low power television station to provide public television

service to 415,000 persons in El Paso, Texas, and to construct a

television studio and editing facility at a building owned by the

Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso.

UT (Utah)

File No. 95040 ICTN Utah State University, Eccles Conference

Center, Rm 102, Logan, UT 84322-5035. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen,

Director, Contracts & Grants. Funds Requested: $1,003,875. Total

Project Cost: $1,338,500. To establish a two-way video, two-way audio,

distance learning system to interconnect Utah State University's

Continuing Education program with 48 academic sites through the State.

The system would be based on compressed video transmission via

telephone lines. Ten of the proposed sites would have origination

capacity. The system would replace the University's outdated slow-scan

video conferencing system, which reaches only 37 sites.

File No. 95050 CRB Utah State University, 745 North 1200 East,

Logan, UT 84322. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen, Director. Funds

Requested: $8,775. Total Project Cost: $11,700. To extend the signal of

public radio station KUSU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in Logan by activating two new

FM translators to serve Hanksville (91.9 MHz) and Teasdale/Torrey (94.5

MHz). Translators would provide first public radio service to

approximately 2,177 people.

File No. 95130 CTB University of Utah, 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake

City, UT 84112. Signed By: Mr. Ted Capener, V. Pres. for Univ.

Relations. Funds [[Page 25790]] Requested: $287,769. Total Project

Cost: $457,040. To extend the signal of public television station KULC-

TV, Ch. 9, by activating eight new translators. First instructional/

educational television service would be provided to the following

areas: Long Valley Junction (Ch. 46), Tooele (K20ER), Panquitch (Ch.

18), Alton (Ch. 62), Orangeville (Ch. 15), Monticello/Blanding (Ch.

21), rural Sanpete County (Ch. 18) and Heber City (Ch. 68). KUED-TV

(PBS), Ch. 7, would be extended by providing first public television to

the following communities: Rural Grand County (Ch. 17), Rockville/

Springdale (Ch. 58) and Bullfrog (Ch. 15). Existing translators would

be replaced at Laketown/Garden City (K63BF), Randolph/Woodruff (K55BS)

and Monticello/Blanding (K40AF). Project would also replace video tape

recorders and related equipment as well as replace a WWII vintage

diesel generator at a very critical communications site in the state

network.

VA (Virginia)

File No. 95005 CTB Shenandoah Valley ETV Corp., 298 Port Republic

Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Signed By: Mr. Arthur Albrecht,

President. Funds Requested: $444,227. Total Project Cost: $888,453. To

improve WVPT-TV, Channel 51, Harrisonburgh, Virginia public television

reception for 156,925 persons, and to provide first public television

service to an additional 5,000 persons in the Front Royal area of

Virginia, by replacing an obsolete and worn out 1KW non-commercial TV

translator with a 5KW TV repeater station on Channel 42, Front Royal,

Virginia; and to acquire a new studio transmitter link to deliver the

signal to the new facility.

File No. 95031 CTB Greater WA Educ. T/C Association, 3700 S. Four

Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA 22206. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Butler, Vice

President, Engineering. Funds Requested: $431,000. Total Project Cost:

$862,000. To replace obsolete studio production equipment, and to

improve nationally and locally distributed program production

capabilities at WETA-TV, Channel 26, Washington, DC, by acquiring a new

audio console, character generator, digital effects generator, frame

synchronizer and four studio cameras.

File No. 95084 ICTN Old Dominion University, Room 228, Education

Bldg., Norfolk, VA 23529-0526. Signed By: Dr. John Eck, Assoc. VP for

Rsrch & Grad Std. Funds Requested: $677,318. Total Project Cost:

$1,354,637. To extend the TELETECHNET distance learning network of Old

Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, to eight presently unserved and, for

the most part, rural learning centers and to expand the University's

ability to provide educational programming to areas the TELETECHNET

system already services. The TELETECHNET system provides baccalaureate

programs (2+2) to students at community colleges throughout Virginia.

The project would establish video classrooms at the new sites, purchase

25 satellite receive-only earth stations, and provide an additional

video originating classroom at the system's Virginia Beach Higher

Education Center.

File No. 95102 IPTN Network for Instructional TV, Inc., 11490

Commerce Park Dr., Ste 110, Reston, VA 22091. Signed By: Mr. Thomas A.

Pyle, Executive Director/CEO. Funds Requested: $132,018. Total Project

Cost: $191,643. To help the Network for Instructional TV, Inc. (NITV)

plan how best to provide instructional and training programming to

traditionally-underserved audiences with interactive multi-media

materials to be delivered to NITV affiliates as well as to neighborhood

learning centers via ITFS transmission from a central distribution

center in Washington, DC. Today, NITV has 64 ITFS channels on-air in 16

cities in ten states and the District of Columbia. This planning

project would assist NTIV to move towards the delivery of interactive,

multi-media services through a national distribution system.

File No. 95152 CTB Central VA Educ Telecomm Corp, 8101A Lee

Highway, Falls Church, VA 22042. Signed By: Mr. Frederick Thomas,

Station Manager. Funds Requested: $23,986. Total Project Cost: $47,972.

To acquire equipment to sub-title foreign language programming for

approximately 3,923,574 English-speaking viewers served by WNVC-TV,

Channel 56, Fairfax, Virginia.

File No. 95180 IPTN Campbell County School Division, School Admin.

Bldg., Main Street, Rustburg, VA 24588. Signed By: Dr. George Nolley,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $65,050. Total Project Cost: $71,250.

To plan a two-way interactive audio and video classroom system

connecting four secondary schools in Campbell County, Virginia, and

determine methods to establish direct access connections to the

Internet.

File No. 95200 PRB Saint Paul's College, 406 Windsor Avenue,

Lawrenceville, VA 23868. Signed By: Dr. Thomas Law, President. Funds

Requested: $77,791. Total Project Cost: $86,791. To plan for the

activation of a non-commercial FM radio station to provide public radio

programming to Brunswick County, Virginia.

File No. 95226 ICTN Amer. Indian Higher Ed. Consortium, 121 Oronoco

Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Signed By: Ms. Margarett Perez,

President. Funds Requested: $915,363. Total Project Cost: $1,220,484.

To establish a C-band VSAT satellite network to provide distance

learning to students attending institutions which are members of the

American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). C-band VSAT

terminals will be placed at 11 colleges: Bay Mills Community College,

Brimley, MI; D-Q University, Davis, CA; Haskell Indian Nation

University, Lawrence, KS; Leech Lake Tribal College, Cass Lake, MN;

Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ; Northwest Indian College,

Bellingham, WA; Salish-Kootenai Community College, Pablo, MT; Stone

Child Community College, Rocky Boy, MT; Sinte Gleska University,

Rosebud, SD; Southwest Indian Polytechnical Institute, Albuquerque, NM;

and Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND. Eighteen

additional Native American colleges will receive the programming

distributed by the VSAT system.

File No. 95272 ICTN Southside VA Community College, 109 Campus

Drive, Alberta, VA 23821. Signed By: Dr. John Cavan, President. Funds

Requested: $252,500. Total Project Cost: $505,000. To construct

classroom compressed video production facilities, and to activate a

fiber optic telecommunications network to serve 8 public and secondary

schools and 2 community college campuses in southern rural Virginia.

File No. 95289 ICTN Fairfax Cable Access Corporation, 2929 Eskridge

Road, Suite S, Fairfax, VA 22031. Signed By: Mr. James Flynn,

President, Board FCAC. Funds Requested: $135,000. Total Project Cost:

$180,000. To construct 25 C/Ku-band satellite downlinks to link 25

existing National Public Access Telecommunications Network/Consortium

members located in 14 states.

VI (Virgin Island)

File No. 95142 CRB Virgin Islands PTV System, PO Box 7879, Barbel

Plaza S., Charlotte Amalie, VI 00801. Signed By: Mr. Richard P Bourne-

Vanneck, Board Chairman. Funds Requested: $255,264. Total Project Cost:

$340,352. To provide first local and national public radio service to

100,000 persons in St. Croix and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands by

activating FM stations at 89.1 MHz, Charlotte Amalie, and at 88.5 MHz,

Christiansted, Virgin Islands, and [[Page 25791]] by constructing

studio, master control, and satellite receive facilities at Charlotte

Amalie and Christiansted, V.I.

VT (Vermont)

File No. 95257 ICTN University of Vermont, 322 South Prospect

Street, Burlington, VT 05401-3505. Signed By: Ms. Regina White,

Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $542,170. Total Project

Cost: $1,084,339. To provide master control, classroom production and

interconnection equipment for the University of Vermont to permit

increased distribution of distance learning programming via the Vermont

Interactive Television system. The project will also provide for

satellite distribution of advanced placement and credit degree programs

to sites throughout the state.

WA (Washington)

File No. 95136 CTB KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA

98109. Signed By: Mr. Burnill F. Clark, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $242,958. Total Project Cost: $485,916. To improve the

technical facilities of public television station KCTS, Ch. 9, Seattle,

WA, by replacing analog equipment including three videotape machines, a

production switcher, and a video effects unit.

File No. 95173 CRB Washington State University, 382 Murrow

Communication Ctr., Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed By: Mr. Dennis

Haarsager, General Manager. Funds Requested: $252,053. Total Project

Cost: $336,071. To extend the signal of Northwest Public Radio, based

in Pullman, Washington, by activating repeater stations at 9.15 MHz in

Moses Lake and 89.7 MHz in Walla Walla, bringing first public radio

service to approximately 62,400 residents in central and south central

Washington, and to improve service by constructing a digital audio

interconnection to deliver the public radio signal to those stations

and to other stations in the system.

File No. 95175 CTB Washington State University, 382 Murrow

Communications Center, Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed By: Dr. R. V.

Smith, Vice Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $36,809. Total

Project Cost: $73,618. To provide first local origination capacity to

the coverage area of KTNW-TV, Ch. 31, Richland, WA, by constructing an

editing suite and establishing an electronic field production unit.

File No. 95218 CTB Spokane School District #81, 3911 S. Regal

Street, Spokane, WA 99223. Signed By: Dr. Gary Livingston,

Superintendent of Schools. Funds Requested: $470,107. Total Project

Cost: $940,214. To improve the broadcast operations of public station

KSPS-TV, Ch. 7, Spokane, WA, by replacing a worn-out and failing 18-

year-old transmitter, an old one-inch video tape machine, and by

purchasing a disk-based playback device for on-air programming.

File No. 95239 ICTN Washington Public Affairs Network, 1063 South

Capitol Way, Ste 16, Olympia, WA 98501. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Heck,

President. Funds Requested: $157,085. Total Project Cost: $314,171. To

construct a television production center at the State Capitol in

Olympia, Washington to record government deliberations and public

policy events for dissemination on cable television outlets serving

5,400,000 citizens.

File No. 95290 CRB Spokane Public Radio, 2319 North Monroe Street,

Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard Kunkel, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $18,480. Total Project Cost: $24,640. To provide first

public radio service to 9,147 persons by constructing a new FM station

on 90.7 MHz in Bonners Ferry, ID, to repeat the signal of KPBX, 91.1

MHz, Spokane, WA.

File No. 95292 IPTN City of Richland, 505 Swift Boulevard,

Richland, WA 99352. Signed By: Mr. Joseph King, City Manager. Funds

Requested: $155,101. Total Project Cost: $310,202. To prepare an

integrated telecommunications plan for the city of Richland,

Washington, in a cooperative project involving many organizations and

agencies in government, education, and business including the Richland

School District, the Richland Campus of Washington State University,

telecommunications companies, and city departments in developing an

interconnection system for distance education and training.

WI (Wisconsin)

File No. 95053 CRB University of Wisconsin, 1725 State Street, La

Crosse, WI 54601. Signed By: Dr. Julius Erlenbach, Provost/Vice

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $15,325. Total Project Cost: $30,650. To

improve the broadcast operations of public radio station WLSU-FM, 88.9

MHz, La Crosse, WI, by replacing 15- and 20-year-old studio equipment

and purchasing a transmitter spare parts kit.

File No. 95054 CRB University of Wisconsin, 105 Garfield Avenue,

Eau Claire, WI 54702. Signed By: Dr. Marjorie Smelstor, Provost/Vice

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $25,872. Total Project Cost: $51,744. To

extend the signal of public radio station WUEC, 89.7 MHz, Eau Claire,

WI, by increasing its transmitter power, which will provide first

service to approximately 75,000 rural residents of West Central

Wisconsin.

File No. 95137 CTB Bd of Regents of the Univ of WI Sys, 821

University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. Signed By: Ms. Cheryl Gest,

Admin. Officer, Res Admin-Fin. Funds Requested: $97,169. Total Project

Cost: $194,338. To improve the production facilities of public station

WHA-TV, Ch. 21, Madison, WI, by replacing one-inch videotape machines

in the on-line editing suite and in the remote production unit.

File No. 95189 ICTN Western Wisconsin Tech. College, 304 North

Sixth Street, La Crosse, WI 54602. Signed By: Ms. Denise Warner,

Advancement Manager. Funds Requested: $78,800. Total Project Cost:

$109,157. To construct a fully interactive, two-way, video/audio

network between the Western Wisconsin Technical College campus at La

Crosse, and the Sparta Campus in Monroe County, Wisconsin, and to

construct a teacher-operated TV production facility at the La Crosse

campus.

File No. 95194 IPTN Fox Valley Technical College, 1825 N. Bluemound

Drive, Appleton, WI 54913. Signed By: Dr. H. Victor Baldi, President.

Funds Requested: $164,702. Total Project Cost: $388,121. To plan for an

interconnected, interactive distance learning network among the K-12

schools and colleges of the East Wisconsin Distance Learning Consortium

in five counties of northeastern Wisconsin, for the use of technologies

in secondary and post-secondary distance education programs in rural

and small urban areas.

File No. 95253 CRTB Wisconsin Ed. Communications Board, 3319 West

Beltline Highway, Madison, WI 53713-4296. Signed By: Mr. Glenn A.

Davison, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $1,004,430. Total Project

Cost: $2,008,860. To improve the broadcast signals of the Wisconsin

Educational Communications Board by replacing one TV translator located

in Adams, WI, and old and worn-out transmission equipment at WHWC-TV,

Ch. 28, Menomonie-Eau Claire; WLEF-TV, Ch. 36, Park Falls; WHHI-FM,

91.3 MHz, Highland; and WHRM-FM, 90.9 MHz, Wausau. The new transmission

system will extend the signal of WHHI-FM to provide first service to

approximately 82,000 people in the southwestern region of

Wisconsin. [[Page 25792]]

WV (West Virginia)

File No. 95121 CRB WV Educ. Broadcasting Authority, 600 Capitol

Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $274,933. Total Project Cost: $366,578. To

provide first public radio service to approximately 82,000 people in

the rural area of Matewan, Petersburg and Union, West Virginia, by

installing one transmitter near Petersburg, one translator in Union and

one translator near Matewan, plus all necessary satellite equipment.

File No. 95246 CTB WV Ed. Broadcasting Authority, 1615 Third

Avenue, Huntington, WV 25701. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $156,000. Total Project Cost: $312,000. To

improve public television station WPBY-TV, Channel 33 in Huntington, WV

by replacing six \3/4\'' videotape machines and the production audio

console.

WY (Wyoming)

File No. 95139 ICTN No. Wyoming Cmmty College District, 525 West

Lakeway, Suite #107, Gillette, WY 82718. Signed By: Dr. Steve Maier,

President, NWCCD. Funds Requested: $462,317. Total Project Cost:

$924,634. To provide first educational services to approximately 60,754

citizens in Campbell, Johnson and Sheridan Counties, Wyoming by

constructing three, four-channel ITFS transmitters in Gillette, Pumpkin

Buttes and Sheridan, fixed classroom production facilities at the

Northern Wyoming Community College campus in Gillette, fiber optic STL

equipment at Sheridan and Gillette to link studios with transmitters,

statewide compressed video, computer equipment at one of the

interactive sites, and satellite downlinks at various locations.

File No. 95169 CRB Northern Arapaho Tribe, 533 Ethete Road, Ft.

Washakie, WY 82514. Signed By: Mr. Richard Brannon, Chairman, Tribal

Council. Funds Requested: $329,344. Total Project Cost: $439,125. To

activate a new public radio station operating on 89.5 MHz in Ethete,

WY, to bring the first public radio service to the Wind River Indian

Reservation.

File No. 95294 IPTN Lincoln-Uinta Association of Gov't, P.O. Box

389, Kemmerer, WY 83101. Signed By: Ms. Mary Crosby, Director. Funds

Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $15,000. The two-county

Lincoln-Uinta Association of Governments in southwestern Wyoming

proposes to plan for the incorporation of appropriate technologies

which might be feasible for an interconnected distance learning and

training network and public broadcasting distribution system, across

mountainous terrain to a scattered population in rural areas.

AK (Alaska)

File No. 95021 CRB, Old File Nos. 94285,93191, Kashunamiut School

District, Chevak, AK.

File No. 95181 CRB, Old File Nos. 94138, University of Alaska,

Fairbanks, AK.

CA (California)

File No. 95176 CRB, Old File Nos. 94277, San Mateo Cnty Cmty

College Dist, San Mateo, CA.

File No. 95234 ICTBN, Old File Nos. 94312, Kern Educational T/C

Consortium, Bakersfield, CA.

IL (Illinois)

File No. 95006 CRB, Old File Nos. 94043, Northern Illinois

University, DeKalb, IL.

MA (Massachusetts)

File No. 95045 CRB, Old File Nos. 94026, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

NC (North Carolina)

File No. 95070 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94299,93071, Pembroke State

University, Pembroke, NC.

NM (New Mexico)

File No. 95120 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94321,93124, Eastern New Mexico

University, Portales, NM.

NY (New York)

File No. 95009 ICTN, Old File Nos. 95064, Hispanic Info. & Telecom.

Net, Inc., New York, NY.

File No. 95027 CRB, Old File Nos. 94301, Colleges of the Seneca,

Geneva, NY.

File No. 95255 CRTB, Old File Nos. 94234, WSKG Public T/C Council,

Vestal, NY.

PA (Pennsylvania)

File No. 95225 CRB, Old File Nos. 94316, Public Broadcasting of NW

PA, Inc, Erie, PA.

PR (Puerto Rico)

File No. 95099 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94320, Fundacion Educativa Ana G

Mendez, Rio Piedras, PR.

RI (Rhode Island)

File No. 95241 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94194, Brown University,

Providence, RI.

VA (Virginia)

File No. 95026 CRB, Old File Nos. 94318, Greater Washington Educ.

T/C Assoc., Arlington, VA.

File No. 95254 CRB, Old File Nos. 94033, CAPRA, Inc.,

Mechanicsville, VA.

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