81_FR_90178 81 FR 89939 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

81 FR 89939 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 239 (December 13, 2016)

Page Range89939-89940
FR Document2016-29829

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 81 Issue 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89939-89940]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29829]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-XXXX]


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.

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DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before February 
13, 2017. 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-xxxx.
    Title: Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of 
Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 832 respondents and 832 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
    Frequency of Response: Wireless licensees who are required to 
conduct an interference study will be required to produce the study 
upon request and when an interference complaint occurs.
    Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. The statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 301, 303, 
307, 308, 309, 316, 319, 332, 403, 1452 and 1454.
    Total Annual Burden: 832 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: $10
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for 
confidentiality. However, applicants may request that any information 
supplied be withheld from public inspection, pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 
of the FCC's rules. This request must be justified pursuant to 47 CFR 
0.457.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this new information 
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) after this 60 
day comment period in order to obtain the three-year clearance.
    On October 26, 2015 the Federal Communications Commission released 
a Third Report and Order, OET Seeks to Supplement the Incentive Auction 
Proceeding Record Regarding Potential Interference Between Broadcast 
Television and Wireless Services, ET Docket Nos. 13-26 and 14-14, which 
resolved the remaining technical issues affecting the operation of 600 
MHz wireless licenses and broadcast television stations in areas where 
they operate on the same or adjacent channels in geographic proximity. 
Specifically, the Commission adopted a rule requiring wireless 
licensees to conduct an interference study prior to deploying or 
operating a wireless base station within a specified distance of a 
broadcast television station that is co-channel or adjacent channel to 
their spectrum. A wireless licensee is required to provide this 
interference study to the Commission upon request or to the broadcast 
television station when there is an interference complaint.

Federal Communications Commission.

Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-29829 Filed 12-12-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 239 / Tuesday, December 13, 2016 / Notices 89939 Rulemaking (NPRM), MD Docket No. respondents may submit on FCC Form time of registration; require FRN holders 10–234, FCC 10–192, Amendment of 161, which is posted at: https:// to provide their email address(es); give Part 1 of the Commission’s Rules www.fcc.gov/general/privacy-act- FRN holders the option to identify Concerning Practice and Procedure, information#systems. multiple points of contact; and require Amendment of CORES Registration The FCC will also redact PII FRN holders to indicate their tax- System. The NPRM proposes to submitted on this form before it makes exempt status and notify the eliminate some of the FCC’s exceptions Start Printed Page 41797FCC Form 161 Commission of pending bankruptcy to the requirement that entities and available for public inspection. FCC proceedings. All remaining existing individuals provide their Taxpayer Form 161 includes a ‘‘privacy information collection requirements Identification Number (‘‘TIN’’) at the statement’’ to inform applicants would stay as they are. time of registration; require FRN holders (respondents) of the FCC’s need to Federal Communications Commission. to provide their email address(es); give obtain the information and the FRN holders the option to identify protections that the FCC has in place to Marlene H. Dortch, multiple points of contact; and require protect PII. Secretary. Office of the Secretary. FRN holders to indicate their tax- Needs and Uses: The Commission is [FR Doc. 2016–29828 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] exempt status and notify the revising Form 161 to include Restricted BILLING CODE 6712–01–P Commission of pending bankruptcy Use FRNs. These FRNs are created in proceedings. All remaining existing the FCC’s Commission Registration information collection requirements System (CORES) and are used only for FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS would stay as they are. Form 323, Ownership Report for COMMISSION Commercial Broadcast Station (OMB OMB Control Number: 3060–0918. Control No. 3060–0010) and Form 323– Title: CORES Update/Change Form, [OMB 3060–XXXX] E, Ownership Report for FCC Form 161. Noncommercial Educational Broadcast Information Collection Being Reviewed Form Number: FCC Form 161. Station (OMB Control No. 3060–0084). by the Federal Communications Type of Review: Revision of a Registering for a Restricted Use FRN Commission currently approved collection. will require the same information as Respondents: Businesses or other for- other FRNs with the following AGENCY: Federal Communications profit entities; individuals or differences: respondents will be Commission. households; not-for-profit institutions; required to enter a date of birth and only ACTION: Notice and request for and State, Local, or Tribal Governments. the last four digits of the Social Security comments. Number of Respondents and Number. Responses: 80,000 respondents; 80,000 After respondents have registered in SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort responses. CORES and have been issued a FCC to reduce paperwork burdens, and as Estimated Time per Response: 10 Registration Number (FRN), they may required by the Paperwork Reduction minutes (0.167 hours). use FCC Form 161 to update and/or Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– Frequency of Response: On occasion change their contact information, 3520), the Federal Communications reporting requirement. including name, address, telephone Commission (FCC or the Commission) Obligation to Respond: Required to number, email address(es), fax number, invites the general public and other obtain or retain benefits. Statutory contact representative, contact Federal agencies to take this authority for this information collection representative’s address, telephone opportunity to comment on the is contained in the Debt Collection Act number, email address, and/or fax following information collection. of 1996 (DCCA), Public Law 104–134, number. Respondents may also update Comments are requested concerning: Chapter 10, Section 31001. their registration information in CORES Whether the proposed collection of Total Annual Burden: 13,360 hours. on-line at https://apps.fcc.gov/cores. information is necessary for the proper Total Annual Costs: None. The Commission uses this information performance of the functions of the Privacy Impact Assessment: The to collect or report on any delinquent Commission, including whether the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) debt arising from the respondent’s information shall have practical utility; covering the PII in the CORES business dealings with the FCC, the accuracy of the Commission’s information system is being updated. including both ‘‘feeable’’ and burden estimate; ways to enhance the Upon completion it will be posted at: ‘‘nonfeeable’’ services; and to ensure quality, utility, and clarity of the https://www.fcc.gov/general/privacy- that registrants (respondents) receive information collected; ways to minimize act-information#pia. any refunds due. Use of the CORES the burden of the collection of Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: System is also a means of ensuring that information on the respondents, The FCC is not requesting that the Commission operates in compliance including the use of automated respondents submit confidential with the Debt Collection Improvement collection techniques or other forms of information to the Commission. If the Act of 1996. information technology; and ways to FCC requests that respondents submit On November 19, 2010, the FCC further reduce the information information which respondents believe adopted a Notice of Proposed collection burden on small business is confidential, respondents may request Rulemaking (NPRM), MD Docket No. concerns with fewer than 25 employees. confidential treatment of such 10–234, FCC 10–192, Amendment of The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a pmangrum on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES information pursuant to Section 0.459 of Part 1 of the Commission’s Rules collection of information unless it the FCC’s rules, 47 CFR 0.459. The FCC Concerning Practice and Procedure, displays a currently valid control has a system of records, FCC/OMD–25, Amendment of CORES Registration number. No person shall be subject to Financial Operations Information System. The NPRM proposes to any penalty for failing to comply with System (FOIS), to cover the collection, eliminate some of the FCC’s exceptions a collection of information subject to the purpose(s), storage, safeguards, and to the requirement that entities and PRA that does not display a valid Office disposal of the personally identifiable individuals provide their Taxpayer of Management and Budget (OMB) information (PII) that individual Identification Number (‘‘TIN’’) at the control number. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:08 Dec 12, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13DEN1.SGM 13DEN1

89940 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 239 / Tuesday, December 13, 2016 / Notices DATES: Written PRA comments should operate on the same or adjacent operate in accordance with the be submitted on or before February 13, channels in geographic proximity. provisions of the Federal Advisory 2017. If you anticipate that you will be Specifically, the Commission adopted a Committee Act. submitting comments, but find it rule requiring wireless licensees to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. difficult to do so within the period of conduct an interference study prior to Robert E. Feldman, Committee time allowed by this notice, you should deploying or operating a wireless base Management Officer of the FDIC, at advise the contact listed below as soon station within a specified distance of a (202) 898–7043. as possible. broadcast television station that is co- Dated: December 8, 2016. ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to channel or adjacent channel to their Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@ spectrum. A wireless licensee is required to provide this interference Robert E. Feldman, fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. study to the Commission upon request Committee Management Officer. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the or to the broadcast television station [FR Doc. 2016–29850 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] information collection, contact Nicole when there is an interference complaint. BILLING CODE 6714–01–P Ongele at (202) 418–2991. Federal Communications Commission. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Marlene H. Dortch, OMB Control Number: 3060-xxxx. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Secretary, Office of the Secretary. Title: Expanding the Economic and [FR Doc. 2016–29829 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] Sunshine Act Meeting Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum BILLING CODE 6712–01–P Through Incentive Auctions. AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. Form Number: N/A. DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, December 6, Type of Review: New collection. 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Respondents: Businesses or other for- FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington, profit. DC. Number of Respondents and FDIC Advisory Committee on STATUS: This meeting will be closed to Responses: 832 respondents and 832 Economic Inclusion; Notice of Charter responses. the public. Renewal Federal Register notice of previous Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. Frequency of Response: Wireless AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance announcement—81 FR 86714. licensees who are required to conduct Corporation (FDIC). CHANGE IN THE MEETING: This meeting an interference study will be required to ACTION: Notice of renewal of the FDIC was continued on December 8, 2016. produce the study upon request and Advisory Committee on Economic * * * * * when an interference complaint occurs. Inclusion. PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. Judith Ingram, Press Officer; Telephone: The statutory authority for this SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of (202) 694–1220. information collection is contained in the Federal Advisory Committee Act 47 U.S.C. 151, 154, 301, 303, 307, 308, (‘‘FACA’’), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and after Shelley E. Garr, 309, 316, 319, 332, 403, 1452 and 1454. consultation with the General Services Deputy Secretary. Total Annual Burden: 832 hours. Administration, the Chairman of the [FR Doc. 2016–29944 Filed 12–9–16; 11:15 am] Total Annual Costs: $10 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation BILLING CODE 6715–01–P Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: has determined that renewal of the FDIC There is no need for confidentiality. Advisory Committee on Economic However, applicants may request that Inclusion (‘‘the Committee’’) is in the FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION any information supplied be withheld public interest in connection with the from public inspection, pursuant to 47 performance of duties imposed upon the Agency Information Collection CFR 0.459 of the FCC’s rules. This FDIC by law. The Committee has been Activities: 60-Day Public Comment request must be justified pursuant to 47 a successful undertaking by the FDIC Request CFR 0.457. and has provided valuable feedback to the agency on important initiatives AGENCY: Federal Maritime Commission. Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s). focused on expanding access to banking ACTION: Notice and request for comment. Needs and Uses: The Commission services for underserved populations. SUMMARY: As part of our continuing will submit this new information The Committee will continue to provide effort to reduce paperwork and collection to the Office of Management advice and recommendations on respondent burden, and as required by and Budget (OMB) after this 60 day initiatives to expand access to banking the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, comment period in order to obtain the services for underserved populations. the Federal Maritime Commission three-year clearance. The Committee will continue to review (Commission) invites comments on the On October 26, 2015 the Federal various issues that may include, but not continuing information collection (an Communications Commission released a be limited to, basic retail financial extension with no change) listed below Third Report and Order, OET Seeks to services such as low-cost, sustainable in this notice. Supplement the Incentive Auction transaction accounts, savings accounts, DATES: Written comments must be pmangrum on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES Proceeding Record Regarding Potential small dollar lending, prepaid cards, Interference Between Broadcast money orders, remittances, and other submitted on or before February 13, Television and Wireless Services, ET services to promote asset accumulation 2017. Docket Nos. 13–26 and 14–14, which and financial stability. The structure ADDRESSES: Address all comments to: resolved the remaining technical issues and responsibilities of the Committee Karen V. Gregory, Managing Director, affecting the operation of 600 MHz are unchanged from when it was Office of the Managing Director, Federal wireless licenses and broadcast originally established in November Maritime Commission, 800 North television stations in areas where they 2006. 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Document Created: 2016-12-13 02:44:24
Document Modified: 2016-12-13 02:44:24
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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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 February 13, 2017. 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 Citation81 FR 89939 
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