81 FR 21345 - Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and Budget

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 69 (April 11, 2016)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision of a currently approved public information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates and any suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section below.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21345-21346]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08217]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0139]


Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision of a 
currently approved public information collection pursuant to the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may 
not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number, and no person is required to 
respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid control number. Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden 
estimates and any suggestions for reducing the burden should be 
directed to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cathy Williams, Office of the Managing 
Director, at (202) 418-2918, or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The total annual reporting burdens and costs 
for the respondents are as follows:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0139.
    OMB Approval Date: November 9, 2015.
    OMB Expiration Date: November 30, 2018.
    Title: Application for Antenna Structure Registration.
    Form Number: FCC Form 854.
    Respondents: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit entities, not-for-profit institutions and State, local or Tribal 
governments.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 2,400 respondents; 57,100 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .33 hours to 2.5 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, 
recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure reporting 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 
Sections 1, 2, 4(i), 303, and 309(j) of the Communications Act of 1934, 
as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154(i), 303, and 309(j), Section 102(C) 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
4332(C), and Section 1506.6 of the regulations of the Council on 
Environmental Quality, 40 CFR 1506.6.
    Total Annual Burden: 25,682 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,176,813.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Respondents may request 
materials or information submitted to the Commission be withheld from 
public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes. This information collection 
contains personally identifiable information on individuals which is 
subject to the Privacy Act of 1974. Information on the FCC Form 854 is 
maintained in the Commission's System of Records, FCC/WTB-1, ``Wireless 
Services Licensing Records.'' These licensee records are publicly 
available and routinely used in accordance of subsection b of the 
Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a(b), as amended. Taxpayer Identification 
Numbers (TINs) and materials that are afforded confidential treatment 
pursuant to a request made under 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's rules 
will not be available for public inspection.
    Needs and Uses: The purpose of FCC Form 854 is to, among other 
things, register antenna structures (radio towers) that are used for 
communication services regulated by the Commission and make changes to 
existing antenna structure registrations or pending applications for 
registration. As discussed below, the Commission revised FCC Form 854 
to implement measures adopted in a Report and Order, FCC 14-117, and 
sought Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for this revised 
information collection.
    The Commission revised this information collection due to the 
adoption of FCC 14-117, Report and Order, which streamlined and 
eliminated outdated provisions of the Commission's Part 17 rules 
governing the construction, marking, and lighting of antenna 
structures. The changes to this collection are necessary to implement 
two of the updates adopted in the Report and Order. The first, 17.4(j), 
requires owners of certain antenna structures to file FCC Form 854 with 
the Commission if there is any change or correction in the overall 
height of one foot or greater or coordinates of one second or greater 
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longitude or latitude of a registered antenna structure. This change 
will increase the number of these forms filed, or responses for this 
collection, by approximately 100 per annum. The second change, found in 
17.4(b), requires owners to note on FCC Form 854 that the registration 
is voluntary if the antenna structure is otherwise not required to be 
registered under section 17.4. For this, an additional checkbox will be 
added to Form 854, but this revision will not increase the collection's 
average burden per response. These changes will enable the Commission 
to further modernize its rules while adhering to its statutory 
responsibility to prevent antenna structures from being hazards to air 
navigation.

Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-08217 Filed 4-8-16; 8:45 am]
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