Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested, 6504-6506 [E8-1978]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested

January 28, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on this proposed collection of information, in accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public Law 104-13. An agency may 
not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid control number. Subject to the PRA, no person shall be 
subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of 
information that does not display a valid control number. Comments are 
requested concerning (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways 
to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
collected; and (d) 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.

DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before April 4, 
2008. 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: You may submit all PRA comments by e-mail or U.S. post mail. 
To submit your comments by e-mail, send them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit 
your comments by U.S. mail, mark them to the attention of Cathy 
Williams, Federal Communications Commission, Room 1-C823, 445 12th 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection(s), contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918 or 
send an e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0027.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Title: Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast 
Station.
    Form Number: FCC Form 301.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 4,278.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 to 4 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement; one time 
reporting requirement; third party disclosure requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 10,513 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $51,350,347.
    Needs and Uses: Congress has mandated that after February 17, 2009, 
full-power television broadcast stations must transmit only in digital 
signals, and may no longer transmit analog signals. On December 22, 
2007, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in the matter of the 
Third Periodic Review of the Commission's Rules and Policies Affecting 
the Conversion to Digital Television, MB Docket No. 07-91, FCC 07-228, 
to establish the rules, policies and procedures necessary to complete 
the nation's transition to DTV. With the DTV transition deadline less 
than 14 months away, the Commission must ensure that broadcasters meet 
their statutory responsibilities and complete construction of, and 
begin operations on, the facility on their final, post-transition 
(digital) channel that will reach viewers in their authorized service 
areas by the statutory transition deadline, when they must cease 
broadcasting in analog. The Commission wants to ensure that no 
consumers are left behind in the DTV transition.
    Specifically, the Report and Order requires full-power commercial 
television stations to use revised FCC Form 301 to obtain the necessary 
Commission approvals (i.e., construction permits and licenses) in time 
to build their post-transition facility.
     Applications for post-transition facilities. Full-power 
commercial television stations without a construction permit for their 
final, post-transition (DTV) facility must file an application to 
construct or modify that facility using FCC Forms 301.
     Requests to transition early to post-transition channel. 
Full-power commercial television stations may request authority to 
transition early to their post-transition channel using FCC Form 301.
     Revisions to FCC Form 301. FCC Form 301 was revised to 
accommodate the filing of post-transition applications.
    The FCC received approval under the ``emergency processing 
provisions'' of the PRA on January 7, 2008. The requirements for this 
collection have not changed since we received approval.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0029.
    Title: Application for TV Broadcast Station License, FCC Form 302 
TV; Application for DTV Broadcast Station License, FCC Form 302-DTV; 
Application for Construction Permit for Reserved Channel Noncommercial 
Educational Broadcast Station, FCC Form 340; Application for Authority 
to Construct or Make Changes in an FM Translator or FM Booster Station, 
FCC Form 349.
    Form Number(s): FCC Form 302-TV; FCC Form 302-DTV; FCC Form 340; 
FCC Form 349.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; not-for-profit 
institutions; State, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 4,325.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement; 
recordkeeping requirement; one time reporting requirement; third party 
disclosure requirement.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 2 to 4 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 12,150 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: $21,091,625.
    Nature of Response: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Confidentiality: No need for confidentiality required.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: Congress has mandated that after February 17, 2009, 
full-power television broadcast stations must transmit only in digital 
signals, and may no longer transmit analog signals. On December 22, 
2007, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in the matter of the 
Third Periodic Review of the Commission's Rules and Policies Affecting 
the Conversion to Digital Television, MB Docket No. 07-91, FCC 07-228, 
to establish the rules, policies and procedures necessary to complete 
the nation's transition to DTV. With the DTV transition deadline less 
than 14 months away, the Commission must ensure that broadcasters meet 
their statutory responsibilities and complete construction of, and 
begin operations on, the facility on their final, post-transition 
(digital) channel that will reach viewers in their authorized service 
areas by the statutory transition deadline, when they must cease 
broadcasting in analog. The Commission

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wants to ensure that no consumers are left behind in the DTV 
transition. Specifically, the Report and Order requires Noncommercial 
Educational (``NCE'') television stations to use revised FCC Form 340 
to obtain the necessary Commission approvals (i.e., construction 
permits and licenses) in time to build their post-transition facility.
     Applications for post-transition facilities. NCE 
television stations without a construction permit for their final, 
post-transition (DTV) facility must file an application to construct or 
modify that facility using FCC Forms 340.
     Requests to transition early to post-transition channel. 
NCE television stations may request authority to transition early to 
their post-transition channel using FCC Form 340.
     Revisions to FCC Form 340. FCC Form 340 was revised to 
accommodate the filing of post-transition applications.
    In addition, the Report and Order requires that stations that have 
applied to construct or modify post-transition facilities must use the 
Form 302-DTV to obtain a new or modified station license to cover those 
post-transition facilities.
    The FCC received approval under the ``emergency processing 
provisions'' of the PRA on January 7, 2008. The requirements for this 
collection have not changed since we received approval.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0433.
    Title: Basic Signal Leakage Performance Report.
    Form Number: FCC Form 320.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 7,100.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; annual reporting 
requirement.
    Estimated Time per Hours: 17 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 120,700 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Nature of Response: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Confidentiality: No need for confidentiality required.
    Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: Cable television system operators and Multichannel 
Video Programming Distributors (MPVDs) who use frequencies in the bands 
108-137 and 225-400 MHz (aeronautical frequencies) are required to file 
a Cumulative Signal Leakage Index (CLI) derived under 47 CFR 
76.611(a)(1) or the results of airspace measurements derived under 47 
CFR 76.611(a)(2). This filing must include a description of the method 
by which compliance with basic signal leakage criteria is achieved and 
the method of calibrating the measurement equipment. This yearly filing 
of FCC Form 320 is done in accordance with 47 CFR 76.1803.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0980.
    Title: SHVERA Procedural Rules; Implementation of the Satellite 
Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Broadcast Signal 
Carriage Issues, Retransmission Consent Issues).
    Form Number: Not applicable.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business and other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 7,179.
    Estimated Hours per Response: 1 to 5 hours.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Total Annual Burden: 10,196 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $30,000.
    Nature of Response: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Confidentiality: No need for confidentiality required.
    Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 76.66(c)(3) requires that a commercial 
television station notify a satellite carrier in writing whether it 
elects to be carried pursuant to retransmission consent or mandatory 
consent in accordance with the established election cycle.
    47 CFR 76.66(c)(5) requires that a noncommercial television station 
must request carriage by notifying a satellite carrier in writing in 
accordance with the established election cycle.
    47 CFR 76.66(c)(6) requires a commercial television broadcast 
station located in a local market in a noncontiguous state to make its 
retransmission consent-mandatory carriage election by October 1, 2005, 
for carriage of its signals that originate as analog signals for 
carriage commencing on December 8, 2005 and ending on December 31, 
2008, and by April 1, 2007 for its signals that originate as digital 
signals for carriage commencing on June 8, 2007 and ending on December 
31, 2008. For analog and digital signal carriage cycles commencing 
after December 31, 2008, such stations shall follow the election cycle 
in 47 CFR 76.66(c)(2) and 47 CFR 76.66(c)(4). A noncommercial 
television broadcast station located in a local market in Alaska or 
Hawaii must request carriage by October 1, 2005, for carriage of its 
signals that originate as an analog signal for carriage commencing on 
December 8, 2005 and ending on December 31, 2008, and by April 1, 2007 
for its signals that originate as digital signals for carriage 
commencing on June 8, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2008. Moreover, 
section 76.66(c) requires a commercial television station located in a 
local market in a noncontiguous state to provide notification to a 
satellite carrier whether it elects to be carried pursuant to 
retransmission consent or mandatory consent.
    47 CFR 76.66(d) states a television station's written notification 
must include its call sign, the name of a station contact, the 
station's community of license, the station's designated market area 
(DMA) assignment, and, for commercial stations, its election of 
mandatory carriage or retransmission consent. Within 30 days of 
receiving a request for carriage, a satellite carrier must notify in 
writing any station whether it will carry the station requested. If the 
satellite carrier will not carry the station, it must include its 
reasons for denying carriage.
    47 CFR 76.66(d)(2) requires satellite carriers to issue notices to 
station licensees when the carrier is going to initiate new local 
service. These notifications are required to be sent by certified mail 
to the television station licensees.
    47 CFR 76.66(d)(2)(iii) requires a satellite carrier with more than 
five million subscribers to provide a notice as required by 47 CFR 
76.66(d)(2)(i) and 47 CFR 76.66(d)(2)(ii) to each television broadcast 
station located in a local market in a noncontiguous state, not later 
than September 1, 2005 with respect to analog signals and a notice not 
later than April 1, 2007 with respect to digital signals; provided, 
however, that the notice shall also describe the carriage requirements 
pursuant to section 338(a)(4) of title 47, United States Code, and 47 
CFR 76.66(b)(2).
    47 CFR 76.66(d)(5) applies to satellite carriers that carry or 
intend to carry significantly viewed signals and provide television 
stations with different carriage election options in counties and 
markets in which the satellite carrier is offering significantly viewed 
signals. Therefore, if satellite carriers elect to carry significantly 
viewed signals, they are required to provide notifications to local 
broadcast stations informing them of their rights to elect mandatory 
carriage or retransmit consent on a county basis.
    47 CFR 76.66(m) states whenever a local broadcast station believes 
that a satellite carrier has failed to meet its obligations under this 
section, such station shall notify the carrier, in writing, of the 
alleged failure and identify its reason for believing that the

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satellite carrier failed to comply with its obligations.
    The satellite carrier shall, within 30 days of such written 
notification, respond in writing to such notification and comply with 
such obligations or state its reasons for believing that it is in 
compliance. A local station that disputes a satellite carrier's 
response may obtain review of such response by filing a compliant with 
the Commission in accordance with 47 CFR 76.7 of the rules.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-1105.
    Title: Digital TV Transition Status Report.
    Form Number: FCC Form 387.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 1,812.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 3,624 hours.
    Total Annual Costs: $1,268,400.
    Nature of Response: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Confidentiality: No need for confidentiality required.
    Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
    Needs and Uses: Congress has mandated that after February 17, 2009, 
full-power television broadcast stations must transmit only in digital 
signals, and may no longer transmit analog signals. On December 22, 
2007, the Commission adopted a Report and Order, In the Matter of the 
Third Periodic Review of the Commission's Rules and Policies Affecting 
the Conversion to Digital Television, MB Docket No. 07-91, FCC 07-228, 
to establish the rules, policies and procedures necessary to complete 
the nation's transition to Digital TV (DTV). With the DTV transition 
deadline less than 14 months away, the Commission must ensure that 
broadcasters meet their statutory responsibilities and complete 
construction of, and begin operations on, the facility on their final, 
post-transition (digital) channel that will reach viewers in their 
authorized service areas by the statutory transition deadline, when 
they must cease broadcasting in analog.
    The Commission wants to ensure that no consumers are left behind in 
the DTV transition.
    This Report and Order requires all full-power television stations 
to file a DTV Transition Status Report using FCC Form 387 on or before 
February 19, 2008. In addition, stations must update these forms as 
events warrant and, by October 20, 2008, if they have not by that date 
reported the completion of their transition, i.e., that they have begun 
operating their full facility as authorized by the post-transition DTV 
Table Appendix B. Stations must provide the specific details of their 
current transition status, any additional steps necessary for digital-
only operation upon expiration of the February 17, 2009 transition 
deadline, and a timeline for making those steps.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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