TRANSMITTING OF ELECTRONIC DATA The Finance Functional Working Group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3050. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction sets 810 Public Voucher, 810 Progress Payment, and 820c Inbound Collection, and 822 Customer Account Analysis are available for public comment. These documents are available electronically from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/FFWG. The ftp login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to FFWG@snad.ncsl.nist.gov and t.boland@nist.gov. The public comment period closes November 5, 1996 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Tim Boland, EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Finance Functional Workgroup, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 517 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-3608.

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