82 FR 58393 - Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 237 (December 12, 2017)

Page Range		58393-58394
FR Document		2017-26731

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 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 Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 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 OMB control number.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-XXXX]


Information Collection Being Submitted for Review and Approval to 
the Office of Management and Budget

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, 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 Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) 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 OMB control number.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted on or before January 11, 
2018. 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 contacts listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via 
email [email protected]; and to Cathy Williams, FCC, via 
email [email protected] and to [email protected]. Include in the 
comments the OMB control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or copies 
of the information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-
2918. To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) 
submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the web page http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web page called ``Currently 
Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the 
``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4) 
select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies 
presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button 
to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC 
ICRs currently under review appears, look for the OMB control number of 
this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC 
submission to OMB will be displayed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-XXXX.
    Title: Mobility Fund Phase II Challenge Process.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: New information collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities, not-for-profit 
institutions, and state, local or tribal governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents and Responses: 500 respondents and 
500 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 204 hours for challengers; 71 hours 
for challenged parties.
    Frequency of Response: One-time reporting requirement.
    Obligation To Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for the currently approved information collection 
is contained in sections 154, 254, and 303(r) of the Communications 
Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 4, 254, 303(r).
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 78,725 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: None.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: To the extent the information 
submitted pursuant to this information collection is determined to be 
confidential, it will be protected by the Commission. If a respondent 
seeks to have information collected pursuant to this information 
collection withheld from public inspection, the respondent may request

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confidential treatment pursuant to section 0.459 of the Commission's 
rules for such information. See 47 CFR 0.459.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: A request for approval of this new information 
collection is being submitted to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) to obtain the full three-year clearance from OMB. In its November 
2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order (FCC 11-161), the Commission 
established the Mobility Fund, which consists of two phases. Mobility 
Fund Phase I (MF-I) provided one-time universal service support 
payments to immediately accelerate deployment of mobile broadband 
services. MF-II will use a reverse auction to provide ongoing universal 
service support payments to continue to advance deployment of such 
services. The Commission adopted the rules and framework for MF-I in 
the USF/ICC Transformation Order, and sought comment in an accompanying 
further notice of proposed rulemaking on the proposed framework for MF-
II. In its February 2017 Mobility Fund II Report and Order and Further 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (MF-II Report and Order and/or FNPRM) 
(FCC 17-11), the FCC adopted the rules and framework for moving forward 
expeditiously with the MF-II auction. Among other things, the 
Commission stated in the MF-II Report and Order that, prior to the 
auction, it would establish a map of areas presumptively eligible for 
MF-II support based on the most recently available FCC Form 477 mobile 
wireless coverage data, and provide a limited timeframe for parties to 
challenge those initial determinations during the pre-auction process. 
The Commission sought comment in the accompanying Mobility Fund II 
FNPRM on how to best design a robust, targeted MF-II challenge process 
that efficiently resolves disputes about the areas eligible for MF-II 
support. In August 2017, the Commission released an Order on 
Reconsideration and Second Report and Order (Challenge Process Order) 
(FCC 17-102) in which it (1) reconsidered its earlier decision to use 
FCC Form 477 data to compile the map of areas presumptively eligible 
for MF-II support and decided it would instead conduct a new, one-time 
data collection with specified data parameters tailored to MF-II to 
determine the areas in which there is deployment of qualified LTE that 
will be used (together with high-cost disbursement data available from 
the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)) for this purpose, 
and (2) adopted a streamlined challenge process that will efficiently 
resolve disputes about areas deemed presumptively ineligible for MF-II 
support. The map of areas presumptively eligible for MF-II support will 
serve as the starting point for the challenge process pursuant to which 
an interested party (challenger) may initiate a challenge with respect 
to one or more areas initially deemed ineligible for MF-II support 
(i.e., areas not listed on the Commission's map of areas presumptively 
eligible for MF-II support and challenged parties can respond to 
challenges. A challenger seeking to initiate a challenge of one or more 
areas initially deemed ineligible in the Commission's map of areas 
presumptively eligible for MF-II support may do so via the online 
challenge portal developed by USAC for this purpose (the USAC portal). 
For each state, a challenger must (1) identify the area(s) it seeks to 
challenge, (2) submit detailed proof of a lack of unsubsidized, 
qualified 4G LTE coverage in each challenged area in the form of actual 
outdoor speed test data collected using the standardized parameters 
specified by the Commission in the Challenge Process Order and any 
other parameters the Commission or the Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau and Wireline Competition Bureau (the Bureaus) may implement, and 
(3) certify its challenge.
    After the challenge window closes, the USAC system will use an 
automated challenge validation process developed by USAC to validate a 
challenger's evidence and will determine which challenged areas pass 
validation and which fail. Once all valid challenges have been 
identified, a challenged party that chooses to respond to any valid 
challenge(s) will have a response window within which to submit 
additional data via the online USAC portal. A challenged party may 
submit technical information that is probative regarding the validity 
of a challenger's speed tests (i.e., information demonstrating that the 
challenger's speed tests are invalid or do not accurately reflect 
network performance), including speed test data and other device-
specific data collected from transmitter monitoring software or, 
alternatively, may submit its own speed test data that conforms to the 
same standards and requirements specified by the Commission and the 
Bureaus for challengers.
    In conjunction with the qualified 4G LTE data separately collected 
pursuant to OMB 3060-1242 that will be used to create the map of areas 
presumptively eligible for MF-II support, the information collected 
under this new MF-II challenge process collection will enable the 
Commission to efficiently resolve disputes concerning the eligibility 
or ineligibility of an area initially deemed ineligible for MF-II 
support and establish the final map of areas eligible for such support, 
thereby furthering the Commission's goal of targeting MF-II support to 
areas that lack adequate mobile voice and broadband coverage absent 
subsidies through a transparent process.

Federal Communications Commission.

Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-26731 Filed 12-11-17; 8:45 am]
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confidential treatment pursuant to efficiently resolve disputes about areas enable the Commission to efficiently
section 0.459 of the Commission’s rules deemed presumptively ineligible for resolve disputes concerning the
for such information. See 47 CFR 0.459. MF–II support. The map of areas eligibility or ineligibility of an area
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No presumptively eligible for MF–II initially deemed ineligible for MF–II
impact(s). support will serve as the starting point support and establish the final map of
Needs and Uses: A request for for the challenge process pursuant to areas eligible for such support, thereby
approval of this new information which an interested party (challenger) furthering the Commission’s goal of
collection is being submitted to the may initiate a challenge with respect to targeting MF–II support to areas that
Office of Management and Budget one or more areas initially deemed lack adequate mobile voice and
(OMB) to obtain the full three-year ineligible for MF–II support (i.e., areas broadband coverage absent subsidies
clearance from OMB. In its November not listed on the Commission’s map of through a transparent process.
2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order areas presumptively eligible for MF–II Federal Communications Commission.
(FCC 11–161), the Commission support and challenged parties can
established the Mobility Fund, which respond to challenges. A challenger Marlene H. Dortch,
consists of two phases. Mobility Fund seeking to initiate a challenge of one or Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
Phase I (MF–I) provided one-time more areas initially deemed ineligible in [FR Doc. 2017–26731 Filed 12–11–17; 8:45 am]
universal service support payments to the Commission’s map of areas BILLING CODE 6712–01–P
immediately accelerate deployment of presumptively eligible for MF–II
mobile broadband services. MF–II will support may do so via the online
use a reverse auction to provide ongoing challenge portal developed by USAC for FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
universal service support payments to this purpose (the USAC portal). For COMMISSION
continue to advance deployment of such each state, a challenger must (1) identify
services. The Commission adopted the the area(s) it seeks to challenge, (2) [OMB 3060–0686]
rules and framework for MF–I in the submit detailed proof of a lack of
USF/ICC Transformation Order, and unsubsidized, qualified 4G LTE Information Collection Being Reviewed
sought comment in an accompanying coverage in each challenged area in the by the Federal Communications
further notice of proposed rulemaking form of actual outdoor speed test data Commission
on the proposed framework for MF–II. collected using the standardized
In its February 2017 Mobility Fund II parameters specified by the Commission AGENCY: Federal Communications
Report and Order and Further Notice of in the Challenge Process Order and any Commission.
Proposed Rulemaking (MF–II Report other parameters the Commission or the ACTION: Notice and request for
and Order and/or FNPRM) (FCC 17–11), Wireless Telecommunications Bureau comments.
the FCC adopted the rules and and Wireline Competition Bureau (the
framework for moving forward SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort
Bureaus) may implement, and (3) certify
expeditiously with the MF–II auction. to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
its challenge.
Among other things, the Commission After the challenge window closes, required by the Paperwork Reduction
stated in the MF–II Report and Order the USAC system will use an automated Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal
that, prior to the auction, it would challenge validation process developed Communications Commission (FCC or
establish a map of areas presumptively by USAC to validate a challenger’s Commission) invites the general public
eligible for MF–II support based on the evidence and will determine which and other Federal agencies to take this
most recently available FCC Form 477 challenged areas pass validation and opportunity to comment on the
mobile wireless coverage data, and which fail. Once all valid challenges following information collections.
provide a limited timeframe for parties have been identified, a challenged party Comments are requested concerning:
to challenge those initial determinations that chooses to respond to any valid Whether the proposed collection of
during the pre-auction process. The challenge(s) will have a response information is necessary for the proper
Commission sought comment in the window within which to submit performance of the functions of the
accompanying Mobility Fund II FNPRM additional data via the online USAC Commission, including whether the
on how to best design a robust, targeted portal. A challenged party may submit information shall have practical utility;
MF–II challenge process that efficiently technical information that is probative the accuracy of the Commission’s
resolves disputes about the areas regarding the validity of a challenger’s burden estimate; ways to enhance the
eligible for MF–II support. In August speed tests (i.e., information quality, utility, and clarity of the
2017, the Commission released an Order demonstrating that the challenger’s information collected; ways to minimize
on Reconsideration and Second Report speed tests are invalid or do not the burden of the collection of
and Order (Challenge Process Order) accurately reflect network performance), information on the respondents,
(FCC 17–102) in which it (1) including speed test data and other including the use of automated
reconsidered its earlier decision to use device-specific data collected from collection techniques or other forms of
FCC Form 477 data to compile the map transmitter monitoring software or, information technology; and ways to
of areas presumptively eligible for MF– alternatively, may submit its own speed further reduce the information
II support and decided it would instead test data that conforms to the same collection burden on small business
conduct a new, one-time data collection standards and requirements specified by concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
with specified data parameters tailored the Commission and the Bureaus for The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
to MF–II to determine the areas in challengers. a collection of information unless it
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which there is deployment of qualified In conjunction with the qualified 4G displays a currently valid Office of
LTE that will be used (together with LTE data separately collected pursuant Management and Budget (OMB) control
high-cost disbursement data available to OMB 3060–1242 that will be used to number. No person shall be subject to
from the Universal Service create the map of areas presumptively any penalty for failing to comply with
Administrative Company (USAC)) for eligible for MF–II support, the a collection of information subject to the
this purpose, and (2) adopted a information collected under this new PRA that does not display a valid OMB
streamlined challenge process that will MF–II challenge process collection will control number.

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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice and request for comments.
Dates		Written comments should be submitted on or before January 11, 2018. 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 contacts listed below as soon as possible.
Contact		For additional information or copies of the information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418- 2918. To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the web page http://www.reginfo.gov/public/ do/PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the web page called ``Currently Under Review,'' (3) click on the downward-pointing arrow in the ``Select Agency'' box below the ``Currently Under Review'' heading, (4) select ``Federal Communications Commission'' from the list of agencies presented in the ``Select Agency'' box, (5) click the ``Submit'' button to the right of the ``Select Agency'' box, (6) when the list of FCC ICRs currently under review appears, look for the OMB control number of this ICR and then click on the ICR Reference Number. A copy of the FCC submission to OMB will be displayed.
FR Citation		82 FR 58393