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emergency services authorities by
Internet-based TRS providers.
On June 24, 2008, the Commission
released Telecommunications Relay
Services and Speech-to-Speech Services
for Individuals with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities; E911 Requirements for IPEnabled Service Providers, Report and
Order and Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (Report and Order), CG
Docket No. 03–123 and WC Docket No.
05–196, FCC 08–151, addressing the
issues raised in these notices. The
Report and Order provides VRS and IP
Relay users with a reliable and
consistent means by which others
(including emergency personnel) can
identify or reach them by, among other
things, integrating VRS and IP Relay
users into the ten-digit, NANP
numbering system.
First, to complete a telephone call to
an Internet-based TRS user, a provider
must have some method of logically
associating the telephone number dialed
by the caller to the Internet-based TRS
user’s device. That method, known as
the TRS Numbering Directory, is a
central database that maps each user’s
telephone number to routing
information needed to find that user’s
device on the Internet. The Report and
Order requires VRS and IP Relay
providers to collect and maintain the
routing information from their
registered users and to provision that
information to the TRS Numbering
Directory so that this mapping can
occur.
Second, because there is no reliable
means for VRS and IP Relay providers,
unlike wireline carriers, to
automatically know the physical
location of their users, the Report and
Order requires VRS and IP Relay
providers to collect and maintain the
Registered Location of their registered
users. And to ensure that authorities can
retrieve a user’s Registered Location
(along with the provider’s name and
CA’s identification number for callback
purposes), the Report and Order
requires VRS and IP Relay providers to
provision that information into, or make
that information available through, ALI
databases across the country.
Third, to ensure that VRS and IP
Relay users are aware of their providers’
numbering and E911 service obligations
and to inform those users of their
providers’ E911 capabilities, the Report
and Order requires each VRS and IP
Relay provider to post an advisory on its
Web site, and in any promotional
materials directed to consumers,
addressing numbering and E911
services for VRS or IP Relay. Providers
also must obtain and keep a record of
affirmative acknowledgement from each
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of their registered users of having
received and understood the user
notification.
The new or modified information
collection requirements are contained in
47 CFR 64.605 (a) and (b), and 47 CFR
64.611 (a), (b), (c) and (f), and subject to
the PRA must be approved by the Office
of Management and Budget before
becoming effective.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission,
Comments Requested
July 10, 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 the
following information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law No. 104–
13. An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
control number. Pursuant 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.
Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before September 16,
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.
DATES:
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Interested parties may
submit all PRA comments by e-mail or
U.S. 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, send an e-mail
to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Cathy
Williams at 202–418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0466.
Title: Sections 73.1201, 74.783 and
74.1283, Station Identification.
Form Number: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local and Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 20,000 respondents; 20,100
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes to 1.33 hours.
Frequency of Response:
Recordkeeping requirement; Third-party
disclosure requirement; On occasion
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain benefits—Statutory authority for
this collection of information is
contained in Sections 154(i), 303 and
308 of the Communications Act of 1934,
as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 44,603 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Confidentiality: No need for
confidentiality required.
Privacy Impact Assessment(s): 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 (‘‘Third
DTV Periodic Report and Order’’) to
establish the rules, policies and
procedures necessary to complete the
nation’s transition to DTV.
As a result of the Third DTV Periodic
Report and Order, the station
identification rules will require a DTV
station that chooses to identify a
licensee that it is transmitting on one of
its multicast streams to follow a specific
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format for making such a station
identification announcement.
Specifically, 47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1) is
revised to require that a DTV station
that is devoting one of its multicast
streams to transmit the programming of
another television licensee must
identify itself and may also identify the
licensee that it is transmitting. If a DTV
station in this situation chooses to
identify the station that is the source of
the programming it is transmitting, it
must use the following format: Station
WYYY–DT, community of license (call
sign and community of license of the
station whose multicast stream is
transmitting the programming), bringing
you WXXX, community of license (call
sign and community of license of the
licensee providing the programming).
The transmitting station may insert
between its call letters and its
community of license the following
information: the frequency of the
transmitting station, the channel
number of the transmitting station, the
name of the licensee of the transmitting
station and the licensee providing the
programming, and/or the name of the
network of either station. Where a
multicast station is carrying the
programming of another station and is
identifying that station as the source of
the programming, using the format
described above, the identification may
not include the frequency or channel
number of the program source. This new
requirement in 47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1)
may cause DTV station respondents that
choose to multicast to make additional
station identifications (responses) for
multicast streams.
47 CFR 73.1201(a) requires television
broadcast licensees to make broadcast
station identification announcements at
the beginning and ending of each time
of operation, and hourly, as close to the
hour as feasible, at a natural break in
program offerings. Television and Class
A television broadcast stations may
make these announcements visually or
aurally.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1) requires that the
official station identification consist of
the station’s call letters immediately
followed by the community or
communities specified in its license as
the station’s location; provided that the
name of the licensee, the station’s
frequency, the station’s channel
number, as stated on the station’s
license, and/or the station’s network
affiliation may be inserted between the
call letters and station location. DTV
stations, or DAB Stations, choosing to
include the station’s channel number in
the station identification must use the
station’s major channel number and
may distinguish multicast program
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streams. For example, a DTV station
with major channel number 26 may use
26.1 to identify an HDTV program
service and 26.2 to identify an SDTV
program service. A radio station
operating in DAB hybrid mode or
extended hybrid mode shall identify its
digital signal, including any free
multicast audio programming streams,
in a manner that appropriately alerts its
audience to the fact that it is listening
to a digital audio broadcast. No other
insertion between the station’s call
letters and the community or
communities specified in its license is
permissible.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(2) provides that a
station may include in its official station
identification the name of any
additional community or communities,
but the community to which the station
is licensed must be named first.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(3) requires that
twice daily, the station identification for
television stations must include a notice
of the existence, location and
accessibility of the station’s public file.
The notice must state that the station’s
public file is available for inspection
and that consumers can view it at the
station’s main studio and on its Web
site. At least one of the announcements
must occur between the hours of 6 p.m.
and midnight.
47 CFR 74.783(b) requires licensees of
television translators whose station
identification is made by the television
station whose signals are being
rebroadcast by the translator, must
secure agreement with this television
licensee to keep in its file, and available
to FCC personnel, the translator’s call
letters and location, giving the name,
address and telephone number of the
licensee or service representative to be
contacted in the event of malfunction of
the translator.
47 CFR 74.783(e) permits any lowpower television (LPTV) station to
request a four-letter call sign after
receiving its construction permit. All
initial LPTV construction permits will
continue to be issued with a fivecharacter LPTV call sign. LPTV
respondents are required to use the
online electronic system. To enable
these respondents to use this online
system, the Commission eliminated the
requirement that holders of LPTV
construction permits submit with their
call sign requests a certification that the
station has been constructed, that
physical construction is underway at
the transmitter site, or that a firm
equipment order has been placed.
47 CFR 74.1283(c)(1) requires FM
translator stations whose station
identification is made by the primary
station to furnish current information on
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the translator’s call letters and location.
This information is kept in the primary
station’s files. This information is used
to contact the translator licensee in the
event of malfunction of the translator.
OMB Control Number: 3060–0906.
Title: Annual DTV Report, FCC Form
317; 47 CFR § 73.624(g).
Form Number: FCC Form 317.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondent and
Responses: 1,815 respondents, 3,630
responses.
Frequency of Response:
Recordkeeping requirement; Annual
reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain benefits—Statutory authority for
this collection of information is
contained in Sections 154(i), 303, 336
and 403 of the Communications Act of
1934, as amended.
Estimated Time per Response: 2–4
hours.
Total Annual Burden: 10,890 hours.
Total Annual Costs: $181,500.
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 (‘‘Third
DTV Periodic Report and Order’’) to
establish the rules, policies and
procedures necessary to complete the
nation’s transition to DTV. As a result
of the Third DTV Periodic Report and
Order, DTV stations that are permittees
must now comply with the
requirements for feeable ancillary or
supplementary services in Section
73.624(g) (using FCC Form 317). This
new requirement in 47 CFR 73.624(g)
adds a new group of respondents to this
collection (namely, ‘‘DTV permittees’’).
The Commission has also revised FCC
Form 317 and its instructions to
indicate that DTV permittees are
required to file the form and report their
ancillary and supplementary services.
Each commercial and noncommercial
educational (NCE) digital television
(DTV) broadcast station licensee and
permittee is required to file FCC Form
317 annually. The licensees/permittees
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report whether they provided ancillary
or supplementary services at any time
during the reporting cycle. The report
indicates which services were provided,
fee related services, gross revenues
received from all feeable ancillary and
supplementary services, and the amount
of bitstream used to provide ancillary or
supplementary service.
Concurrent with the submission of
FCC Form 317, each commercial and
noncommercial educational DTV
licensee and permittee is required to
remit to the Commission a payment,
FCC Form 159 (3060–0589), in the
amount of 5% of the gross revenues
derived from the provision of its
ancillary or supplementary services.
Each licensee and permittee is
required to retain the records supporting
the calculation of the fees due for three
years from the date of remittance of fees.
Noncommercial DTV licensees/
permittees must also retain for eight
years documentation sufficient to show
that their entire bitstream was used
‘‘primarily’’ for noncommercial
education broadcast services on a
weekly basis.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8–16539 Filed 7–17–08; 8:45 am]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
En Banc Hearing on Broadband and
the Digital Future
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications
Commission will hold a public en banc
hearing on Broadband and the Digital
Future on Monday, July 21, 2008 at the
Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
DATES: Monday, July 21 at 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania 15213.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Kenny: 202–418–2668 or Clyde
Ensslin: 202–418–0506.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Commission will hear from expert
panelists regarding broadband and the
digital future. The hearing is open to the
public, and seating will be available on
a first-come, first-served basis. Sign
language interpreters and open
captioning will be provided for this
event. Other reasonable
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accommodations for people with
disabilities are available upon request.
Include a description of the
accommodation needed, and include a
way we can contact you if we need more
information. Please make your request
as early as possible. Last minute
requests will be accepted, but may be
impossible to fill.
Send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or
call the Consumer & Governmental
Affairs Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice),
202–418–0432 (TTY). For additional
information about the hearing, please
visit the FCC’s Web site at https://
www.fcc.gov.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8–16611 Filed 7–17–08; 8:45 am]
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(4) Internal Administrative Practices
and Personnel Matters.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Karen V. Gregory, Assistant Secretary,
(202) 523–5725.
Karen V. Gregory,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 08–1450 Filed 7–16–08; 2:19 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health; Decision To
Evaluate a Petition To Designate a
Class of Employees for the Linde
Ceramics Plant, Tonawanda, NY, To Be
Included in the Special Exposure
Cohort
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
Sunshine Act Meeting Notice
July 23, 2008—10 a.m.
800 North Capitol Street, NW.,
First Floor Hearing Room, Washington,
DC.
STATUS: A portion of the meeting will
be in Open Session and the remainder
of the meeting will be in closed session.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
TIME AND DATE:
PLACE:
Open Session
(1) Extension of time to issue initial
decision in Docket No. 07–07—
Embarque Puerto Plata, Corp., and
Embarque Puerto Inc., dba Embarque
Shipping, et al.—Possible Violations of
Sections 8(a) and 19 of the Shipping Act
of 1984 and the Commission’s
Regulations at 46 CFR Parts 515 and
520.
(2) Agency Report to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations
Regarding Sole Source Contracts.
(3) Letter to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations
Regarding the New Orleans Hire.
(4) 2008 Human Capital Survey—
Authorization to Issue Advance Notice
to Staff.
(5) Administrative Control of Funds
C.O. 77—Delegated Authority to Make
Payments and Re-delegating Authority
to Director OFM.
Closed Session
(1) Export Cargo Issues.
(2) Docket No. 02–04—Anchor
Shipping Co. v. Alianca Navegacao E
Logistica Ltda.
(3) FMC Agreement No. 011741–012:
Amendment to the U.S. Pacific CoastOceania Agreement.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) gives notice as
required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a
decision to evaluate a petition to
designate a class of employees for the
Linde Ceramics Plant, Tonawanda, New
York, to be included in the Special
Exposure Cohort under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000. The
initial proposed definition for the class
being evaluated, subject to revision as
warranted by the evaluation, is as
follows:
Facility: Linde Ceramics Plant.
Location: Tonawanda, New York.
Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All
employees.
Period of Employment: During the
applicable covered residual radiation
period from January 1, 1954 through
July 31, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larry Elliott, Director, Office of
Compensation Analysis and Support,
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676
Columbia Parkway, MS C–46,
Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–
533–6800 (this is not a toll-free
number). Information requests can also
be submitted by e-mail to
OCAS@CDC.GOV.
Dated: July 2, 2008.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
July 10, 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 the following information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law No. 104-13. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid control number. Pursuant 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before September 16, 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: Interested parties may submit all PRA comments by e-mail or
U.S. 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, send an e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Cathy
Williams at 202-418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0466.
Title: Sections 73.1201, 74.783 and 74.1283, Station
Identification.
Form Number: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local and Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents and Responses: 20,000 respondents; 20,100
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes to 1.33 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; Third-party
disclosure requirement; On occasion reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain benefits--Statutory
authority for this collection of information is contained in Sections
154(i), 303 and 308 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 44,603 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Confidentiality: No need for confidentiality required.
Privacy Impact Assessment(s): 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
(``Third DTV Periodic Report and Order'') to establish the rules,
policies and procedures necessary to complete the nation's transition
to DTV.
As a result of the Third DTV Periodic Report and Order, the station
identification rules will require a DTV station that chooses to
identify a licensee that it is transmitting on one of its multicast
streams to follow a specific
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format for making such a station identification announcement.
Specifically, 47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1) is revised to require that a DTV
station that is devoting one of its multicast streams to transmit the
programming of another television licensee must identify itself and may
also identify the licensee that it is transmitting. If a DTV station in
this situation chooses to identify the station that is the source of
the programming it is transmitting, it must use the following format:
Station WYYY-DT, community of license (call sign and community of
license of the station whose multicast stream is transmitting the
programming), bringing you WXXX, community of license (call sign and
community of license of the licensee providing the programming). The
transmitting station may insert between its call letters and its
community of license the following information: the frequency of the
transmitting station, the channel number of the transmitting station,
the name of the licensee of the transmitting station and the licensee
providing the programming, and/or the name of the network of either
station. Where a multicast station is carrying the programming of
another station and is identifying that station as the source of the
programming, using the format described above, the identification may
not include the frequency or channel number of the program source. This
new requirement in 47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1) may cause DTV station
respondents that choose to multicast to make additional station
identifications (responses) for multicast streams.
47 CFR 73.1201(a) requires television broadcast licensees to make
broadcast station identification announcements at the beginning and
ending of each time of operation, and hourly, as close to the hour as
feasible, at a natural break in program offerings. Television and Class
A television broadcast stations may make these announcements visually
or aurally.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(1) requires that the official station
identification consist of the station's call letters immediately
followed by the community or communities specified in its license as
the station's location; provided that the name of the licensee, the
station's frequency, the station's channel number, as stated on the
station's license, and/or the station's network affiliation may be
inserted between the call letters and station location. DTV stations,
or DAB Stations, choosing to include the station's channel number in
the station identification must use the station's major channel number
and may distinguish multicast program streams. For example, a DTV
station with major channel number 26 may use 26.1 to identify an HDTV
program service and 26.2 to identify an SDTV program service. A radio
station operating in DAB hybrid mode or extended hybrid mode shall
identify its digital signal, including any free multicast audio
programming streams, in a manner that appropriately alerts its audience
to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio broadcast. No other
insertion between the station's call letters and the community or
communities specified in its license is permissible.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(2) provides that a station may include in its
official station identification the name of any additional community or
communities, but the community to which the station is licensed must be
named first.
47 CFR 73.1201(b)(3) requires that twice daily, the station
identification for television stations must include a notice of the
existence, location and accessibility of the station's public file. The
notice must state that the station's public file is available for
inspection and that consumers can view it at the station's main studio
and on its Web site. At least one of the announcements must occur
between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight.
47 CFR 74.783(b) requires licensees of television translators whose
station identification is made by the television station whose signals
are being rebroadcast by the translator, must secure agreement with
this television licensee to keep in its file, and available to FCC
personnel, the translator's call letters and location, giving the name,
address and telephone number of the licensee or service representative
to be contacted in the event of malfunction of the translator.
47 CFR 74.783(e) permits any low-power television (LPTV) station to
request a four-letter call sign after receiving its construction
permit. All initial LPTV construction permits will continue to be
issued with a five-character LPTV call sign. LPTV respondents are
required to use the online electronic system. To enable these
respondents to use this online system, the Commission eliminated the
requirement that holders of LPTV construction permits submit with their
call sign requests a certification that the station has been
constructed, that physical construction is underway at the transmitter
site, or that a firm equipment order has been placed.
47 CFR 74.1283(c)(1) requires FM translator stations whose station
identification is made by the primary station to furnish current
information on the translator's call letters and location. This
information is kept in the primary station's files. This information is
used to contact the translator licensee in the event of malfunction of
the translator.
OMB Control Number: 3060-0906.
Title: Annual DTV Report, FCC Form 317; 47 CFR Sec. 73.624(g).
Form Number: FCC Form 317.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondent and Responses: 1,815 respondents, 3,630
responses.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement; Annual reporting
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain benefits--Statutory
authority for this collection of information is contained in Sections
154(i), 303, 336 and 403 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Estimated Time per Response: 2-4 hours.
Total Annual Burden: 10,890 hours.
Total Annual Costs: $181,500.
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
(``Third DTV Periodic Report and Order'') to establish the rules,
policies and procedures necessary to complete the nation's transition
to DTV. As a result of the Third DTV Periodic Report and Order, DTV
stations that are permittees must now comply with the requirements for
feeable ancillary or supplementary services in Section 73.624(g) (using
FCC Form 317). This new requirement in 47 CFR 73.624(g) adds a new
group of respondents to this collection (namely, ``DTV permittees'').
The Commission has also revised FCC Form 317 and its instructions to
indicate that DTV permittees are required to file the form and report
their ancillary and supplementary services.
Each commercial and noncommercial educational (NCE) digital
television (DTV) broadcast station licensee and permittee is required
to file FCC Form 317 annually. The licensees/permittees
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report whether they provided ancillary or supplementary services at any
time during the reporting cycle. The report indicates which services
were provided, fee related services, gross revenues received from all
feeable ancillary and supplementary services, and the amount of
bitstream used to provide ancillary or supplementary service.
Concurrent with the submission of FCC Form 317, each commercial and
noncommercial educational DTV licensee and permittee is required to
remit to the Commission a payment, FCC Form 159 (3060-0589), in the
amount of 5% of the gross revenues derived from the provision of its
ancillary or supplementary services.
Each licensee and permittee is required to retain the records
supporting the calculation of the fees due for three years from the
date of remittance of fees. Noncommercial DTV licensees/permittees must
also retain for eight years documentation sufficient to show that their
entire bitstream was used ``primarily'' for noncommercial education
broadcast services on a weekly basis.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-16539 Filed 7-17-08; 8:45 am]
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