83_FR_10768 83 FR 10720 - Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget

83 FR 10720 - Information Collections Being Submitted for Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 48 (March 12, 2018)

Page Range10720-10721
FR Document2018-04946

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.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 48 (Monday, March 12, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2018)]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-0392, 3060-0741]


Information Collections 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 April 12, 
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 Nicole Ongele, 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 Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991. 
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: 3060-0392.
    Title: 47 CFR 1 subpart J--Pole Attachment Complaint Procedures.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,775 respondents; 1,775 
Responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.5-75 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On-occasion reporting and third-party 
disclosure requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain benefits. Statutory 
authority for this information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 
224.
    Total Annual Burden: 2,941 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $450,000.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No questions of a 
confidential nature are asked. However, respondents may request that 
materials or information submitted to the Commission in a complaint 
proceeding be withheld from public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is requesting OMB approval for a 
revision to an existing information collection. 47 CFR 1.1424 states 
that the procedures for handling pole attachment complaints filed by 
incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) are the same as the 
procedures for handling other pole attachment complaints. Currently, 
OMB Collection No. 3060-0392, among other things, tracks the burdens 
associated with utilities defending against complaints brought by ILECs 
related to unreasonable rates, terms, and conditions for pole 
attachments. In Accelerating Wireline Broadband

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Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, WC Docket 
No. 17-84, Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, and Further Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 17-154 (rel. Nov. 29, 2017) (Wireline 
Infrastructure Order), the Commission, among other things, expanded the 
type of pole attachment complaints that can be filed by ILECs, now 
allowing them to file complaints related to a denial of pole access by 
utilities. The Commission will use the information collected under this 
revision to 47 CFR 1.1424 to hear and resolve pole access complaints 
brought by ILECs and to determine the merits of the complaints.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0741.
    Title: Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing 
Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, GN Docket No. 17-84.
    Form Number(s): N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 5,357 respondents; 573,928 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.5-4.5 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirements; 
recordkeeping and third-party disclosure requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 
U.S.C. 222 and 251.
    Total Annual Burden: 575,448 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: No cost.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not 
requesting that the respondents submit confidential information to the 
FCC. Respondents may, however, request confidential treatment for 
information they believe to be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of the 
Commission's rules.
    Needs and Uses: Section 251 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, 47 U.S.C. 251, is designed to accelerate private sector 
development and deployment of telecommunications technologies and 
services by spurring competition. Section 222(e) is also designed to 
spur competition by prescribing requirements for the sharing of 
subscriber list information. These information collection requirements 
are designed to help implement certain provisions of sections 222(e) 
and 251, and to eliminate operational barriers to competition in the 
telecommunications services market. Specifically, these information 
collection requirements will be used to implement (1) local exchange 
carriers' (``LECs'') obligations to provide their competitors with 
dialing parity and non-discriminatory access to certain services and 
functionalities; (2) incumbent local exchange carriers' (``ILECs'') 
duty to make network information disclosures; and (3) numbering 
administration. The Commission estimates that the total annual burden 
of the entire collection, as revised, is 575,840 hours. This revision 
relates to a change in one of many components of the currently approved 
collection--specifically, certain reporting, recordkeeping and/or 
third-party disclosure requirements under section 251(c)(5). In 
November 2017, the Commission adopted new rules concerning certain 
information collection requirements implemented under section 251(c)(5) 
of the Act, pertaining to network change disclosures. Most of the 
changes to those rules apply specifically to a certain subset of 
network change disclosures, namely notices of planned copper 
retirements. In addition, the changes remove a rule that prohibits 
incumbent LECs from engaging in useful advanced coordination with 
entities affected by network changes. The changes are aimed at removing 
unnecessary regulatory barriers to the deployment of high-speed 
broadband networks. As a result of these changes, the total annual 
burden hours have been reduced by 392 hours. The Commission estimates 
that the revision does not result in any additional outlays of funds 
for hiring outside contractors or procuring equipment.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-04946 Filed 3-9-18; 8:45 am]
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10720 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 48 / Monday, March 12, 2018 / Notices Estimated total average number of information shall have practical utility; the Commission) invites the general responses for each respondent: 1. the accuracy of the Commission’s public and other Federal agencies to Estimated total annual burden hours: burden estimate; ways to enhance the take this opportunity to comment on the 89 hours. quality, utility, and clarity of the following information collection. Estimated total annual costs: information collected; ways to minimize Comments are requested concerning: $5,204.11. This includes an estimated the burden of the collection of Whether the proposed collection of burden cost of $5,204.11 and an information on the respondents, information is necessary for the proper estimated cost of $0 for capital including the use of automated performance of the functions of the investment or maintenance and collection techniques or other forms of Commission, including whether the operational costs. information technology; and ways to information shall have practical utility; The ICR package is being submitted to further reduce the information the accuracy of the Commission’s OMB for review and approval pursuant collection burden on small business burden estimate; ways to enhance the to 5 CFR 1320.10. concerns with fewer than 25 employees. quality, utility, and clarity of the The Commission may not conduct or information collected; ways to minimize III. What is the next step in the process sponsor a collection of information for this ICR? the burden of the collection of unless it displays a currently valid information on the respondents, EPA will consider the comments Office of Management and Budget including the use of automated received and amend the ICR as (OMB) control number. No person shall collection techniques or other forms of appropriate. The final ICR package will be subject to any penalty for failing to information technology; and ways to then be submitted to OMB for review comply with a collection of information further reduce the information and approval pursuant to 5 CFR subject to the PRA that does not display collection burden on small business 1320.10. EPA will issue another Federal a valid OMB control number. concerns with fewer than 25 employees. Register document pursuant to 5 CFR DATES: Written comments should be OMB Control Number: 3060–0392. 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the submitted on or before April 12, 2018. Title: 47 CFR 1 subpart J—Pole submission of the ICR to OMB and the If you anticipate that you will be Attachment Complaint Procedures. opportunity to submit additional submitting comments, but find it Form Number: N/A. comments to OMB. If you have any difficult to do so within the period of Type of Review: Revision of a questions about this ICR or the approval time allowed by this notice, you should currently approved collection. process, please contact the technical advise the contacts listed below as soon Respondents: Business or other for- person listed under FOR FURTHER as possible. profit. INFORMATION CONTACT. ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Number of Respondents and Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via email Responses: 1,775 respondents; 1,775 Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov; and Responses. Dated: March 5, 2018. Estimated Time per Response: 0.5–75 Charlotte Bertrand, to Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@ fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. hours. Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Include in the comments the OMB Frequency of Response: On-occasion Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and reporting and third-party disclosure Pollution Prevention. control number as shown in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below. requirements. [FR Doc. 2018–04936 Filed 3–9–18; 8:45 am] Obligation to Respond: Required to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For BILLING CODE 6560–50–P obtain benefits. Statutory authority for additional information or copies of the this information collection is contained information collection, contact Nicole in 47 U.S.C. 224. Ongele at (202) 418–2991. To view a Total Annual Burden: 2,941 hours. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS copy of this information collection Total Annual Cost: $450,000. COMMISSION request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No [OMB 3060–0392, 3060–0741] to the web page http://www.reginfo.gov/ impact(s). public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Information Collections Being section of the web page called No questions of a confidential nature are Submitted for Review and Approval to ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ (3) click on asked. However, respondents may the Office of Management and Budget the downward-pointing arrow in the request that materials or information AGENCY: Federal Communications ‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the submitted to the Commission in a Commission. ‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) complaint proceeding be withheld from ACTION: Notice and request for select ‘‘Federal Communications public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459. comments. Commission’’ from the list of agencies Needs and Uses: The Commission is presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, requesting OMB approval for a revision SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort (5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the to an existing information collection. 47 to reduce paperwork burdens, and as right of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, (6) CFR 1.1424 states that the procedures required by the Paperwork Reduction when the list of FCC ICRs currently for handling pole attachment Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal under review appears, look for the OMB complaints filed by incumbent local Communications Commission (FCC or control number of this ICR and then exchange carriers (ILECs) are the same the Commission) invites the general click on the ICR Reference Number. A as the procedures for handling other public and other Federal agencies to copy of the FCC submission to OMB pole attachment complaints. Currently, amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES take this opportunity to comment on the will be displayed. OMB Collection No. 3060–0392, among following information collection. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of other things, tracks the burdens Comments are requested concerning: its continuing effort to reduce associated with utilities defending Whether the proposed collection of paperwork burdens, and as required by against complaints brought by ILECs information is necessary for the proper the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of related to unreasonable rates, terms, and performance of the functions of the 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Federal conditions for pole attachments. In Commission, including whether the Communications Commission (FCC or Accelerating Wireline Broadband VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:12 Mar 09, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12MRN1.SGM 12MRN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 48 / Monday, March 12, 2018 / Notices 10721 Deployment by Removing Barriers to will be used to implement (1) local the existence and character of records Infrastructure Investment, WC Docket exchange carriers’ (‘‘LECs’’) obligations maintained by the agency. The FCC’s No. 17–84, Report and Order, to provide their competitors with Security Operations Center (SOC) in the Declaratory Ruling, and Further Notice dialing parity and non-discriminatory Office of Managing Director (OMD) uses of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 17–154 access to certain services and this system of records to cover the (rel. Nov. 29, 2017) (Wireline functionalities; (2) incumbent local personally identifiable information (PII) Infrastructure Order), the Commission, exchange carriers’ (‘‘ILECs’’) duty to that is associated with the among other things, expanded the type make network information disclosures; administration of the policies and of pole attachment complaints that can and (3) numbering administration. The activities that include, but are not be filed by ILECs, now allowing them to Commission estimates that the total limited to determining compliance with file complaints related to a denial of annual burden of the entire collection, Federal regulations, and/or an pole access by utilities. The as revised, is 575,840 hours. This individual’s suitability for access to Commission will use the information revision relates to a change in one of classified information and/or a security collected under this revision to 47 CFR many components of the currently clearance; evaluating an applicant’s 1.1424 to hear and resolve pole access approved collection—specifically, suitability to perform contractual complaints brought by ILECs and to certain reporting, recordkeeping and/or services for the FCC; evaluating an determine the merits of the complaints. third-party disclosure requirements individual’s suitability for Federal OMB Control Number: 3060–0741. under section 251(c)(5). In November internships, including access to Federal Title: Accelerating Wireline 2017, the Commission adopted new systems and information; responding to Broadband Deployment by Removing rules concerning certain information complaints of threats, harassment, Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, collection requirements implemented violence, or other inappropriate GN Docket No. 17–84. under section 251(c)(5) of the Act, behavior at the FCC; and documenting Form Number(s): N/A. pertaining to network change security violations and related activities, Type of Review: Revision of a disclosures. Most of the changes to including insider threats. currently approved collection. those rules apply specifically to a DATES: This action will become certain subset of network change Respondents: Business or other for- applicable on March 12, 2018. The disclosures, namely notices of planned profit entities. routine uses in this action will become copper retirements. In addition, the Number of Respondents and applicable on April 11, 2018 unless changes remove a rule that prohibits Responses: 5,357 respondents; 573,928 comments are received that require a incumbent LECs from engaging in useful responses. contrary determination. advanced coordination with entities Estimated Time per Response: 0.5–4.5 ADDRESSES: Send comments to Leslie F. affected by network changes. The hours. Smith, Privacy Manager, Information changes are aimed at removing Frequency of Response: On occasion Technology (IT), Room 1–C216, Federal unnecessary regulatory barriers to the reporting requirements; recordkeeping Communications Commission, 445 12th deployment of high-speed broadband and third-party disclosure requirements. Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, or to networks. As a result of these changes, Obligation to Respond: Required to Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. the total annual burden hours have been obtain or retain benefits. Statutory reduced by 392 hours. The Commission FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: authority for this information collection estimates that the revision does not Leslie F. Smith, (202) 418–0217, or is contained in 47 U.S.C. 222 and 251. result in any additional outlays of funds Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov (and to obtain a Total Annual Burden: 575,448 hours. for hiring outside contractors or copy of the Narrative Statement and the Total Annual Cost: No cost. procuring equipment. Supplementary Document). Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s). Federal Communications Commission. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Marlene H. Dortch, notice serves to update and modify The Commission is not requesting that Secretary, Office of the Secretary. FCC/OMD–16, Personnel Security Files, the respondents submit confidential [FR Doc. 2018–04946 Filed 3–9–18; 8:45 am] to add insider threats to the list of information to the FCC. Respondents BILLING CODE 6712–01–P purposes and to make other may, however, request confidential miscellaneous but necessary updates treatment for information they believe to and changes since its previous be confidential under 47 CFR 0.459 of FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS publication. The substantive changes the Commission’s rules. COMMISSION and modifications to the previously Needs and Uses: Section 251 of the published version of the FCC/OMD–16 Communications Act of 1934, as Privacy Act of 1974; System of system of records include: amended, 47 U.S.C. 251, is designed to Records 1. (a) Expansion of the system’s accelerate private sector development AGENCY: Federal Communications purposes to add insider threats to the and deployment of telecommunications Commission. list of safety and security criteria that technologies and services by spurring the Security Operations Center will use ACTION: Notice of a Modified System of competition. Section 222(e) is also to evaluate and assign employees, Records. designed to spur competition by contractors, and interns an appropriate prescribing requirements for the sharing SUMMARY: The Federal Communications security level and to guard against the of subscriber list information. These Commission (FCC or Commission or potential risks posed by insider threats. amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES information collection requirements are Agency) has modified an existing (b) Deletion of the President’s designed to help implement certain system of records, FCC/OMD–16, Program to Eliminate Waste, Fraud, and provisions of sections 222(e) and 251, Personnel Security Files, subject to the Abuse—there is no current information and to eliminate operational barriers to Privacy Act of 1974 as amended. This that this program is still in existence. competition in the telecommunications action is necessary to meet the 2. Expansion of the categories of services market. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesWritten comments should be submitted on or before April 12, 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.
ContactFor additional information or copies of the information collection, contact Nicole Ongele at (202) 418-2991. 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.
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