80_FR_27777 80 FR 27684 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

80 FR 27684 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 93 (May 14, 2015)

Page Range27684-27685
FR Document2015-11666

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 93 (Thursday, May 14, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 93 (Thursday, May 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-11666]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0168]


Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the 
Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to 
take this opportunity to comment on the following information 
collection. Comments are requested concerning: Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the Commission, including whether the information 
shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden 
estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information collected; ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on the respondents, including the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and 
ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small 
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
    The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be 
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of 
information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) control number.

DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before July 13, 
2015. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find 
it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, 
you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email 
PRA@fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0168.
    Title: Section 43.43, Reports of Proposed Changes in Depreciation 
Rates.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 24 respondents; 24 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 250 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 151, 152, 154, 161, 201-205 and 218-220 of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 6,000 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $919,560.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents are not being 
asked to submit confidential information to the Commission. However, 
respondents

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may request materials or information submitted to the Commission be 
withheld from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's 
rules.
    Needs and Uses: Section 43.43 establishes the reporting 
requirements for depreciation prescription purposes. Communication 
common carriers with annual operating revenues of $150.2 million or 
more that the Commission has found to be dominant must file information 
specified in Section 43.43 before making any change in depreciation 
rates applicable to their operating plant. Section 220 of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, also allows the Commission, in 
its discretion, to prescribe the form of any and all accounts, records, 
and memoranda to be kept by carriers subject to the Act, including the 
accounts, records and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as 
receipts and expenditures of moneys. Carriers are required to file four 
summary exhibits along with the underlying data used to generate them, 
and must provide the depreciation factors (i.e., life, salvage, curve 
shape, depreciation reserve) required to verify the calculation of the 
carrier's depreciation expenses and rates. Mid-sized carriers are no 
longer required to file theoretical reserve studies. Certain price cap 
incumbent LECs in certain instances may request a waiver of the 
depreciation rates.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary, Office of 
the Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2015-11666 Filed 5-13-15; 8:45 am]
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27684 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 93 / Thursday, May 14, 2015 / Notices to a collection of information unless it EPA Form 1900–10 summarizes this the accuracy of the Commission’s displays a currently valid OMB control information for the entire contract burden estimate; ways to enhance the number. period and provides a basis for cost quality, utility, and clarity of the DATES: Additional comments may be review by contracting, finance, and information collected; ways to minimize submitted on or before June 15, 2015. audit personnel. In addition, FAR the burden of the collection of ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 4.804–5 mandates that the office information on the respondents, referencing Docket ID Number EPA– administering the contract shall ensure including the use of automated HQ–OARM–2011–0997, to (1) EPA that the costs and indirect cost rates are collection techniques or other forms of online using www.regulations.gov (our settled. information technology; and ways to preferred method), by email to Form Numbers: EPA Form 1900–10. further reduce the information oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Respondents/affected entities: All collection burden on small business Docket Center, Environmental contractors who have completed an EPA concerns with fewer than 25 employees. Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, cost reimbursement type contract. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Respondent’s obligation to respond: a collection of information unless it Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via Mandatory (FAR 52.216–7). displays a currently valid control email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Estimated number of respondents: 5 number. No person shall be subject to Address comments to OMB Desk Officer (total). any penalty for failing to comply with for EPA. Frequency of response: Once, at the a collection of information subject to the EPA’s policy is that all comments end of the contract. PRA that does not display a valid Office received will be included in the public Total estimated burden: 32 hours (per of Management and Budget (OMB) docket without change including any year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR control number. personal information provided, unless 1320.03(b). DATES: Written PRA comments should the comment includes profanity, threats, Total estimated cost: $3,500.65 (per be submitted on or before July 13, 2015. information claimed to be Confidential year), includes $60 annualized capital If you anticipate that you will be Business Information (CBI) or other or operation & maintenance costs. submitting comments, but find it information whose disclosure is Changes in the Estimates: There is a difficult to do so within the period of restricted by statute. decrease of 48 hours in the total time allowed by this notice, you should FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: estimated respondent burden compared advise the contact listed below as soon Holly Hubbell, Policy Training and with the ICR currently approved by as possible. Oversight Division, Office of OMB. This is due to the decreased ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Acquisition Management (3802R), number of contracts closed in the past period. Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@ Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, Courtney Kerwin, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For DC 20460; telephone number: 202–564– Acting Director, Collection Strategies additional information about the 1091; fax number: 202–565–2473; email Division. information collection, contact Nicole address: hubbell.holly@epa.gov. [FR Doc. 2015–11657 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am] Ongele at (202) 418–2991. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BILLING CODE 6560–50–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in OMB Control Number: 3060–0168. detail the information that the EPA will Title: Section 43.43, Reports of be collecting are available in the public FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Proposed Changes in Depreciation docket for this ICR. The docket can be COMMISSION Rates. viewed online at www.regulations.gov Form Number: N/A. or in person at the EPA Docket Center, [OMB 3060–0168] Type of Review: Extension of a WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 currently approved collection. Information Collection Being Reviewed Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, Respondents: Business or other for- by the Federal Communications DC. The telephone number for the profit entities. Commission Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For Number of Respondents: 24 additional information about EPA’s AGENCY: Federal Communications respondents; 24 responses. public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ Commission. Estimated Time per Response: 250 dockets. ACTION: Notice and request for hours. Abstract: All contractors who have comments. Frequency of Response: On occasion completed an EPA cost reimbursement reporting requirement and type contract will be required to submit SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort recordkeeping requirement. EPA Form 1900–10. EPA Form 1900–10 to reduce paperwork burdens, and as Obligation to Respond: Required to summarizes all costs incurred in required by the Paperwork Reduction obtain or retain benefits. Statutory performance of the contract and sets Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– authority for this information collection forth the final indirect rates. This form 3520), the Federal Communications is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154, is reviewed by the contracting officer to Commission (FCC or the Commission) 161, 201–205 and 218–220 of the determine the final costs reimbursable invites the general public and other Communications Act of 1934, as to the contractor. The Federal Federal agencies to take this amended. Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.216–7 opportunity to comment on the Total Annual Burden: 6,000 hours. tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES states that the Government will pay only following information collection. Total Annual Cost: $919,560. the costs determined to be allowable by Comments are requested concerning: Privacy Impact Assessment: No the contracting officer in accordance Whether the proposed collection of impact(s). with FAR 31.2. Furthermore, FAR information is necessary for the proper Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 52.216–7 states that indirect cost rates performance of the functions of the Respondents are not being asked to shall be established for each fiscal year Commission, including whether the submit confidential information to the at the close of a contractor’s fiscal year. information shall have practical utility; Commission. However, respondents VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:59 May 13, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14MYN1.SGM 14MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 93 / Thursday, May 14, 2015 / Notices 27685 may request materials or information implementation of a proposed filing as ‘‘Confidential-Restricted’’ and submitted to the Commission be Commission action. describes the nature and extent of the withheld from public inspection under * * * * * confidential treatment requested. The 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission’s rules. PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: Commission will provide confidential Needs and Uses: Section 43.43 Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: treatment to the extent allowed by law establishes the reporting requirements (202) 694–1220. for confidential submissions, or parts of for depreciation prescription purposes. submissions, for which confidentiality Communication common carriers with Shelley E. Garr, has been requested. When a confidential annual operating revenues of $150.2 Deputy Secretary of the Commission. filing is submitted, there must also be million or more that the Commission [FR Doc. 2015–11832 Filed 5–12–15; 4:15 pm] submitted a public version of the fling. has found to be dominant must file BILLING CODE 6715–01–P Such public filing version shall exclude information specified in Section 43.43 confidential materials, and shall before making any change in indicate on the cover page and on each depreciation rates applicable to their FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION affected page ‘‘Confidential materials operating plant. Section 220 of the excluded.’’ Public versions of Communications Act of 1934, as [Petition No. P3–15] confidential filings may be submitted by amended, also allows the Commission, email. in its discretion, to prescribe the form of Petition of COSCO Container Lines The Petition will be posted on the any and all accounts, records, and Europe GMBH for an Exemption From Commission’s Web site at http:// memoranda to be kept by carriers 46 U.S.C. 40703; Notice of Filing and www.fmc.gov/reading/Petitions.asp. subject to the Act, including the Request for Comments Replies filed in response to the Petition accounts, records and memoranda of the Notice is hereby given that COSCO will also be posted on the Commission’s movement of traffic, as well as receipts Container Lines Europe GmbH Web site at this location. and expenditures of moneys. Carriers (‘‘Petitioner’’), has petitioned the Karen V. Gregory, are required to file four summary Commission pursuant to 46 U.S.C. Secretary. exhibits along with the underlying data 40103 and 46 CFR 502.76 of the used to generate them, and must [FR Doc. 2015–11631 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am] Commission’s Rules of Practice and provide the depreciation factors (i.e., Procedure, for an exemption from 46 BILLING CODE 6731–AA–P life, salvage, curve shape, depreciation U.S.C. 40703, to permit Petitioner to reserve) required to verify the lawfully reduce its tariff rates, charges, calculation of the carrier’s depreciation classifications, rules or regulations FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM expenses and rates. Mid-sized carriers effective upon publication. are no longer required to file theoretical Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Petitioner is an ocean common carrier reserve studies. Certain price cap Mergers of Bank Holding Companies that intends to begin operating in the incumbent LECs in certain instances Europe-U.S. trade ‘‘on or about June 1, The companies listed in this notice may request a waiver of the depreciation 2015.’’ Petitioner notes the exemption have applied to the Board for approval, rates. would allow it ‘‘to compete with other pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Federal Communications Commission. carriers in providing tariff rate Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) Gloria J. Miles, reductions in a timely and competitive (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the manner.’’ Petitioner is 100% owned by 225), and all other applicable statutes Secretary, Office of the Managing Director. COSCO Container Lines Co., Ltd, a and regulations to become a bank [FR Doc. 2015–11666 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am] controlled carrier. Petitioner states that holding company and/or to acquire the BILLING CODE 6712–01–P it is a controlled carrier as defined by assets or the ownership of, control of, or the Shipping Act and subject to the the power to vote shares of a bank or requirements of 46 U.S.C. 40701–40706. bank holding company and all of the In order for the Commission to make banks and nonbanking companies FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION a thorough evaluation of the exemption owned by the bank holding company, Sunshine Act Meeting requested in the Petition, interested including the companies listed below. parties are requested to submit views or The applications listed below, as well AGENCY: FEDERAL ELECTION arguments in reply to the Petition no as other related filings required by the COMMISSION. later than May 29, 2015. Replies shall be Board, are available for immediate DATE AND TIME: TUESDAY MAY 19, 2015 sent to the Secretary, Federal Maritime inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank AT 10:00 a.m. AND THURSDAY, MAY Commission, 800 North Capitol Street indicated. The applications will also be 21, 2015 AT THE CONCLUSION OF NW., Washington, DC 20573–0001, or available for inspection at the offices of THE OPEN MEETING. emailed to Secretary@fmc.gov, and be the Board of Governors. Interested served on Petitioner, Howard S. Finkel, persons may express their views in PLACE: 999 E STREET NW., Executive Vice President, COSCO writing on the standards enumerated in WASHINGTON, DC. Container Lines Americas, Inc., 100 the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the STATUS: THIS MEETING WILL BE Lighting Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094. proposal also involves the acquisition of CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Non-confidential filings may be a nonbanking company, the review also ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Compliance submitted in hard copy to the Secretary includes whether the acquisition of the tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES matters pursuant to 52 U.S.C. 30109 at the above address or by email as a nonbanking company complies with the (formerly 2 U.S.C. 437g). Matters PDF attachment to Secretary@fmc.gov. standards in section 4 of the BHC Act concerning participation in civil actions Confidential filings should not be filed (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise or proceedings or arbitration. by email. A confidential filing must be noted, nonbanking activities will be Information the premature disclosure of filed with the Secretary in hard copy conducted throughout the United States. which would be likely to have a only, and be accompanied by a Unless otherwise noted, comments considerable adverse effect on the transmittal letter that identifies the regarding each of these applications VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:59 May 13, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14MYN1.SGM 14MYN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesWritten PRA comments should be submitted on or before July 13, 2015. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.
ContactFor additional information about the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991.
FR Citation80 FR 27684 
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