80 FR 44105 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 142 (July 24, 2015)

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, Number 142 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44105-44106]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18091]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0207]


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

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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 September 
22, 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 
[email protected] and to [email protected].

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0207.
    Title: Part 11--Emergency Alert System (EAS), Sixth Report and 
Order, FCC 12-7.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 63,080 respondents; 3,569,028 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 43 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement and 
recordkeeping requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Obligatory for all entities required to 
participate in EAS.
    Total Annual Burden: 82,008 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Filings will be given the 
presumption of confidentiality. The Commission will allow test data and 
reports containing individual test data to be shared on a confidential 
basis with other Federal agencies and state governmental emergency 
management agencies that have confidentiality protection at least equal 
to that provided by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). See 5 U.S.C. 
552 (2006), amended by OPEN Government Act of 2007, Public Law 110-175, 
121 Stat. 2524 (stating the FOIA confidentiality standard, along with 
relevant exemptions).
    Needs and Uses: Part 11 contains rules and regulations addressing 
the nation's Emergency Alert System (EAS). The EAS provides the 
President with the capability to provide immediate communications and 
information to the general public at the national, state and local area 
level during periods of national emergency. The EAS also provides state 
and local governments and the National Weather Service with the 
capability to provide immediate communications and information to the 
general public concerning emergency situations posing a threat to life 
and property.
    The FCC is now submitting this information collection as a revision 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish a mandatory 
Electronic Test Reporting System (ETRS) that EAS Participants must 
utilize to file identifying and test result data as part of their 
participation in the second nationwide EAS test. Although the ETRS 
adopted in this Sixth Report and Order in EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC 15-
60, largely resembles the version used during the first nationwide EAS 
test, it also contains certain improvements, such as support for pre-
population of form data, and integration of form data into an EAS 
``Mapbook.'' ETRS will continue to collect such identifying information 
as station call letters, license identification number, geographic 
coordinates, EAS designation (LP, NP, etc.), EAS monitoring assignment, 
and emergency contact information. EAS Participants will submit this 
identifying data prior to the test date. On the day of the test, EAS 
Participants will input test results into ETRS (e.g., whether the test 
message was received and processed successfully). They will input the 
remaining data called for by our reporting rules (e.g., more detailed 
test results) within 45 day of the test. The Commission believes that 
structuring ETRS in this fashion will allow EAS Participants to timely 
provide the Commission with test data in a minimally burdensome 
fashion. As the subsequent analysis indicates, this revised collection 
will cause no change in the burden estimates or reporting and record 
keeping requirements that the Commission submitted (and which OMB 
subsequently approved) for the 2011 system. The revised information 
collection requirements contained in this collection are as follows:
    Section 11.21(a) requires EAS Participants to provide the 
identifying information required by the EAS Test Reporting System 
(ETRS) no later than sixty days after the publication in the Federal 
Register of a notice announcing the approval by the Office of 
Management and Budget of the modified information collection 
requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and an effective 
date of the rule amendment, or within sixty days of the launch of the 
ETRS, whichever is later, and shall renew this identifying information 
on a yearly basis or as required by any revision of the EAS 
Participant's State EAS Plan filed pursuant to section 11.21 of this 
part, and consistent with the requirements of paragraph 11.61(a)(3)(iv) 
of this part, section 11.61(a)(3)(iv) requires Test results as required 
to be logged by all EAS Participants into the EAS Test Reporting System 
(ETRS) as determined by the Commission's Public Safety and Homeland 
Security Bureau, subject to the following requirements. EAS 
Participants shall provide the identifying information required by the 
ETRS initially no later than sixty days after the publication in the 
Federal Register of a notice announcing the approval by the Office of 
Management and Budget of the modified information collection 
requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and an effective 
date of the rule amendment, or within sixty days of the launch of the 
ETRS, whichever is later, and shall renew this identifying information 
on a yearly basis or as required by any revision of the EAS 
Participant's State EAS Plan filed pursuant to section 11.21 of this 
part. EAS Participants must also file ``Day of test'' data in the ETRS 
within 24 hours of any nationwide test or as otherwise required by the 
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.


Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-18091 Filed 7-23-15; 8:45 am]
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