81_FR_12521 81 FR 12475 - Community BroadbandUSA Connectivity Initiative Workshop

81 FR 12475 - Community BroadbandUSA Connectivity Initiative Workshop

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 46 (March 9, 2016)

Page Range12475-12476
FR Document2016-05261

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), through the BroadbandUSA program, will hold a half-day workshop on March 22, 2016, to engage stakeholders in developing meaningful measures for community broadband access, adoption, policy and use as part of its efforts to develop the Community Connectivity Initiative. The Community Connectivity Initiative will provide a framework to enable local leaders to better assess their community connectivity and strengthen efforts to align broadband technology with local policies and priorities. The Community Connectivity Initiative will include a tool for helping communities assess their broadband readiness. Stakeholder participation is critical to the design and implementation of the self-assessment tool. NTIA will convene this workshop to provide opportunities for participants to share insights and suggestions on the design of the program. NTIA also announces two webinars to provide additional information on the Community Connectivity Initiative.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 46 (Wednesday, March 9, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05261]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Community BroadbandUSA Connectivity Initiative Workshop

AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of open meetings.

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SUMMARY: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA), through the BroadbandUSA program, will hold a half-day workshop 
on March 22, 2016, to engage stakeholders in developing meaningful 
measures for community broadband access, adoption, policy and use as 
part of its efforts to develop the Community Connectivity Initiative. 
The Community Connectivity Initiative will provide a framework to 
enable local leaders to better assess their community connectivity and 
strengthen efforts to align broadband technology with local policies 
and priorities. The Community Connectivity Initiative will include a 
tool for helping communities assess their broadband readiness. 
Stakeholder participation is critical to the design and implementation 
of the self-assessment tool. NTIA will convene this workshop to provide 
opportunities for participants to share insights and suggestions on the 
design of the program. NTIA also

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announces two webinars to provide additional information on the 
Community Connectivity Initiative.

DATES: The Community Connectivity Initiative Workshop will be held on 
March 22, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Pacific Daylight Time. 
The first webinar will be held on March 24, 2016, from 2:00 p.m. to 
3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. The second webinar will be held on 
April 12, 2016, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.

ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held in the Chief Seattle Conference 
Room of the Federal Office Building (FOB), 909 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 
98174. Individuals are subject to security screening in order to enter 
the building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Barbara Brown, National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Room 4889, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 280-8260; email: [email protected]. Please 
direct media inquiries to NTIA's Office of Public Affairs, (202) 482-
7002; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NTIA's BroadbandUSA program provides expert 
advice and field-proven tools for assessing broadband adoption, 
planning new infrastructure and engaging a wide range of partners in 
broadband projects. BroadbandUSA convenes workshops on a regular basis 
to bring stakeholders together to discuss ways to improve broadband 
policies, share best practices, and connect communities to other 
federal agencies and funding sources for the purpose of expanding 
broadband infrastructure and adoption throughout America's communities.
    The Community Connectivity Initiative is a recommendation of the 
Broadband Opportunity Council, an inter-agency working group 
established by the White House in 2015 ``to use all available and 
appropriate authorities to: Identify and address regulatory barriers 
that may unduly impede either wired broadband deployment or the 
infrastructure to augment wireless broadband deployment; encourage 
further public and private investment in broadband networks and 
services; promote the adoption and meaningful use of broadband 
technology; and otherwise encourage or support broadband deployment, 
competition, and adoption in ways that promote the public interest.''
    The workshop and webinars will be open to the public and press. 
Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. 
Online registration is available for both the in-person workshop on 
March 22, 2016, and the webinars on March 24, 2016, and April 12, 2016, 
at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-connectivity-workshop-tickets-22458391654. NTIA asks registrants to provide their first and 
last names and email addresses for both registration purposes and to 
receive any updates on the Community Connectivity Initiative. If 
capacity for the workshop is reached, NTIA will maintain a waiting list 
and will inform those on the waiting list if space becomes available. 
Additional information about these events as well as meeting updates, 
changes in the agenda, if any, and relevant documents will be available 
on NTIA's Web site at https://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2016/nwcommunityinitiativeworkshop.
    The workshop and webinars are accessible to people with 
disabilities. Individuals requiring accommodations, such as language 
interpretation or other ancillary aids, are asked to notify Barbara 
Brown at the contact information listed above at least five (5) 
business days before the meeting.

    Dated: March 4, 2016.
Kathy D. Smith,
Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-05261 Filed 3-8-16; 8:45 am]
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Region are currently required to keep proposed collection of information; (c) On February 5, 2016, NMFS and submit catch and effort logbooks ways to enhance the quality, utility, and published a Proposed Issuance of an from their fishing trips. A subset of clarity of the information to be Incidental Take Authorization for these vessels also provide information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the ExxonMobil Alaska LNG LLC (see 81 FR on the species and quantities of fish, burden of the collection of information 6376, February 5, 2016), which stated shellfish, marine turtles, and marine on respondents, including through the that the Draft EA would be available for mammals that are caught and discarded use of automated collection techniques review concurrently with the proposed or have interacted with the vessel’s or other forms of information Authorization. The Draft EA was not fishing gear. A subset of these vessels technology. available for the majority of the public also provide information about dockside Comments submitted in response to comment period of the proposed prices, trip operating costs, and annual this notice will be summarized and/or Authorization. Due to the delay in included in the request for OMB fixed costs. making the Draft EA publically approval of this information collection; The data are used for scientific available, NMFS will be accepting they also will become a matter of public analyses that support critical public comment on the Draft EA until record. conservation and management decisions March 28, 2016. made by national and international Dated: March 3, 2016. Dated: March 3, 2016. fishery management organizations. Sarah Brabson, Perry F. Gayaldo, Interaction reports are needed for NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. Deputy Director, Office of Protected fishery management planning and to [FR Doc. 2016–05229 Filed 3–8–16; 8:45 am] Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. help protect endangered species and BILLING CODE 3510–22–P [FR Doc. 2016–05236 Filed 3–8–16; 8:45 am] marine mammals. Price and cost data BILLING CODE 3510–22–P will be used in analyses of the economic effects of proposed regulations. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE II. Method of Collection National Telecommunications and The information is submitted on Information Administration National Oceanic and Atmospheric paper forms. Logbooks are completed Administration daily and submitted on either a by trip Community BroadbandUSA or monthly basis, depending on the Connectivity Initiative Workshop Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Southeast Region fishery. Fixed costs are submitted on an AGENCY: National Telecommunications Logbook Family of Forms annual basis. Other information is and Information Administration, U.S. submitted on a trip basis. Department of Commerce. AGENCY: National Oceanic and III. Data ACTION: Notice of open meetings. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. OMB Control Number: 0648–0016. SUMMARY: The National ACTION: Notice. Form Number(s): None. Telecommunications and Information Type of Review: Regular submission Administration (NTIA), through the SUMMARY: The Department of (extension of a current information BroadbandUSA program, will hold a Commerce, as part of its continuing collection). half-day workshop on March 22, 2016, effort to reduce paperwork and Affected Public: Business or other for- to engage stakeholders in developing respondent burden, invites the general profit organizations; individuals or meaningful measures for community public and other Federal agencies to households. broadband access, adoption, policy and take this opportunity to comment on Estimated Number of Respondents: use as part of its efforts to develop the proposed and/or continuing information 3,634. Community Connectivity Initiative. The collections, as required by the Estimated Time per Response: Annual Community Connectivity Initiative will Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. fixed-cost reports, 30 minutes; provide a framework to enable local DATES: Written comments must be Colombian fishery logbooks, 18 leaders to better assess their community submitted on or before May 9, 2016. minutes; discard logbooks, 15 minutes; connectivity and strengthen efforts to ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments headboat, golden crab, reef fish- align broadband technology with local to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental mackerel, economic cost/trip, wreckfish, policies and priorities. The Community Paperwork Clearance Officer, and shrimp logbooks, 10 minutes; no- Connectivity Initiative will include a Department of Commerce, Room 6616, fishing responses for golden crab, reef tool for helping communities assess Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., fish-mackerel, charterboat, wreckfish their broadband readiness. Stakeholder Washington, DC 20230 (or via the and Colombian fisheries, 2 minutes. participation is critical to the design and Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). Estimated Total Annual Burden implementation of the self-assessment FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hours: 17,038. tool. NTIA will convene this workshop Requests for additional information or Estimated Total Annual Cost to to provide opportunities for participants copies of the information collection Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting to share insights and suggestions on the instrument and instructions should be costs. design of the program. 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12476 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 46 / Wednesday, March 9, 2016 / Notices announces two webinars to provide available for both the in-person ADDRESSES: Written comments may be additional information on the workshop on March 22, 2016, and the submitted by any of the following Community Connectivity Initiative. webinars on March 24, 2016, and April methods: DATES: The Community Connectivity 12, 2016, at https://www.eventbrite.com/ • Email: InformationCollection@ Initiative Workshop will be held on e/community-connectivity-workshop- uspto.gov. Include ‘‘USPTO Prefatory March 22, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 tickets-22458391654. NTIA asks Statement—Comment’’ in the subject noon, Pacific Daylight Time. The first registrants to provide their first and last line of the message. webinar will be held on March 24, 2016, names and email addresses for both • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern registration purposes and to receive any www.regulations.gov. Daylight Time. The second webinar will updates on the Community Connectivity • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Director, be held on April 12, 2016, from 2:00 Initiative. If capacity for the workshop Records Management Division, United p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight is reached, NTIA will maintain a States Patent and Trademark Office, Time. waiting list and will inform those on the P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held waiting list if space becomes available. 1450. in the Chief Seattle Conference Room of Additional information about these SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The the Federal Office Building (FOB), 909 events as well as meeting updates, USPTO is giving notice of proposed 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98174. changes in the agenda, if any, and revisions to the Agency’s Prefatory Individuals are subject to security relevant documents will be available on Statement of General Routine Uses. The screening in order to enter the building. NTIA’s Web site at https:// revisions update the language in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/ multiple uses to remove outdated Barbara Brown, National 2016/nwcommunityinitiativeworkshop. references and terms, restructure Telecommunications and Information The workshop and webinars are existing uses for clarity and brevity, and Administration, U.S. Department of accessible to people with disabilities. add routine uses designed to cover new Commerce, Room 4889, 1401 Individuals requiring accommodations, technological uses (e.g. disclosures Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, such as language interpretation or other following system data breaches) and DC 20230; telephone: (202) 280–8260; ancillary aids, are asked to notify relevant uses not present in the previous email: bbrown@ntia.doc.gov. Please Barbara Brown at the contact prefatory statement (e.g. disclosures to direct media inquiries to NTIA’s Office information listed above at least five (5) state bar organizations). The following of Public Affairs, (202) 482–7002; email: business days before the meeting. routine uses apply to, and are press@ntia.doc.gov. Dated: March 4, 2016. incorporated by reference into, each SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NTIA’s system of records utilized by the United Kathy D. Smith, BroadbandUSA program provides States Patent and Trademark Office that Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications is created or revised following the expert advice and field-proven tools for and Information Administration. assessing broadband adoption, planning publication of this notice. [FR Doc. 2016–05261 Filed 3–8–16; 8:45 am] new infrastructure and engaging a wide Prefatory Statement of General Routine BILLING CODE 3510–60–P range of partners in broadband projects. Uses BroadbandUSA convenes workshops on a regular basis to bring stakeholders A record from the referencing system DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE of records may be disclosed, as a routine together to discuss ways to improve broadband policies, share best practices, use, to: Patent and Trademark Office and connect communities to other 1. A Federal, state, local, or foreign federal agencies and funding sources for Privacy Act of 1974; System of agency in the event that the system of the purpose of expanding broadband Records records indicates a violation or potential infrastructure and adoption throughout violation of law, whether civil, criminal, America’s communities. ACTION:Notice of revised Prefatory or regulatory in nature, and whether The Community Connectivity Statement of General Routine Uses. arising by (1) general statute or Initiative is a recommendation of the particular program statute or contract, Broadband Opportunity Council, an (2) rule, regulation, or order issued SUMMARY: In accordance with the inter-agency working group established pursuant thereto, or (3) the necessity to requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, by the White House in 2015 ‘‘to use all protect an interest of the Agency. The as amended, the United States Patent available and appropriate authorities to: agency receiving the record(s) must be and Trademark Office (‘‘USPTO’’ or Identify and address regulatory barriers charged with the responsibility of ‘‘the Agency’’) seeks to revise the that may unduly impede either wired investigating or prosecuting such Prefatory Statement of General Routine broadband deployment or the violations or with enforcing or Uses (‘‘prefatory statement’’) published infrastructure to augment wireless implementing the statute, rule, in the Federal Register on December 31, broadband deployment; encourage regulation, or order issued pursuant 1981 (46 FR 63501–63502). This action further public and private investment in thereto, or protecting the interest of the is being taken to update the language in broadband networks and services; Agency. several existing uses as well as to promote the adoption and meaningful 2. A Federal, state or local agency integrate new uses. use of broadband technology; and maintaining civil, criminal, or other otherwise encourage or support DATES: Written comments on the relevant enforcement information or Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES broadband deployment, competition, proposed prefatory statement revisions other pertinent information, such as and adoption in ways that promote the should be sent on or before April 18, current licenses, if necessary to obtain public interest.’’ 2016. The prefatory statement as revised information relevant to an Agency The workshop and webinars will be below will become effective as of the decision concerning (1) the assignment, open to the public and press. Space is above date unless the USPTO receives hiring, or retention of an individual, (2) limited and available on a first-come, comments that would result in a the issuance of a security clearance, (3) first-serve basis. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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ActionNotice of open meetings.
DatesThe Community Connectivity Initiative Workshop will be held on March 22, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Pacific Daylight Time. The first webinar will be held on March 24, 2016, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. The second webinar will be held on April 12, 2016, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.
ContactBarbara Brown, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 4889, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 280-8260; email: [email protected] Please direct media inquiries to NTIA's Office of Public Affairs, (202) 482- 7002; email: [email protected]
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