70 -- FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 3050 TRANSACTIONS; 820A -- PAYMENT ORDER/REMITTANCE ADVICE 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 3040. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction set 820A -- Payment Order/Remittance Advice (Automated Standard Application for Payments) is available for public comment. Documents available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov, directory 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@edi.oti.disa.mil and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes August 15, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Finance Functional Workgroup, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 458 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-3634 Posted 07/15/98 (W-SN223788).

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