81 FR 18825 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 63 (April 1, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 63 (Friday, April 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18825-18826]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07324]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
    Title: State and Local Implementation Grant Program Reporting 
Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 0660-0038.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 54.
    Average Hours per Response: Quarterly reports: 12.5 hours.
    Burden Hours: 2,700.
    Needs and Uses: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 
2012 (Act, Pub. L. 112-96, 126 Stat. 156 (2012)) was signed by the 
President on February 22, 2012. The Act meets a long-standing priority 
of the Administration, as well as a critical national infrastructure 
need, to create a single, interoperable, nationwide public safety 
broadband network (NPSBN) that will, for the first time, allow police 
officers, fire fighters, emergency medical service professionals, and 
other public safety officials to effectively communicate with each 
other across agencies and jurisdictions. Public safety workers have 
long been hindered in their ability to respond in a crisis situation 
because of incompatible communications networks and often outdated 
communications equipment.
    The Act establishes the First Responder Network Authority 
(FirstNet) as an independent authority within NTIA and authorizes it to 
take all actions necessary to ensure the design, construction, and 
operation of the NPSBN, based on a single, national network 
architecture.
    The Act also charges NTIA with establishing a grant program, the 
State and Local Implementation Grant Program (SLIGP), to assist State, 
regional, tribal, and local jurisdictions with identifying, planning, 
and implementing the most efficient and effective means to use and 
integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and other architecture 
associated with the NPSBN to satisfy the wireless broadband and data 
services needs of their jurisdictions. The SLIGP program office awarded 
$116.5 million in grant funds to 54 active state and territorial 
recipients between July and September 2013. NTIA will use the 
collection of information to monitor and evaluate how SLIGP recipients 
are achieving the core purposes of the program established by the Act.

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    The original approval of the performance progress report form was 
obtained on August 1, 2013, and the current form has an expiration date 
of August 31, 2016. The publication of this notice allows NTIA to begin 
the process to extend the approval for the standard three years, with a 
minor adjustment to the wording on the form to more clearly indicate 
how recipients are to report each measure.
    This request is for an extension (revision with change) of a 
current information collection.
    Affected Public: State, regional, local, and tribal government 
organizations.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    NTIA published a Notice in the Federal Register on January 19, 
2016, soliciting comments on this information collection, with a 60-day 
public comment period. NTIA did not receive any comments to this 
Notice.
    This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. 
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.

    Dated: March 28, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-07324 Filed 3-31-16; 8:45 am]
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