Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for Emergency Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Comments Requested, 57987-57988 [2011-23847]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 181 / Monday, September 19, 2011 / Notices Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of Management and Budget, via fax at 202– 395–5167 or via the Internet at Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to the Federal Communications Commission via e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing Director, (202) 418–0214. For additional information, contact judithb.herman@fcc.gov, OMD, 202–418– 0214. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 3060–1151. Title: Sections 1.1420, 1.1422, and 1.1424, Pole Attachment Access Requirements. Form No.: N/A. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Respondents: Business or other forprofit. Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,278 respondents; 54,932 responses. Estimated Time per Response: 1–600 hours. Frequency of Response: On occasion reporting requirement, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement. Obligation To Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 224. Total Annual Burden: 683,169 hours. Total Annual Cost: N/A. Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No confidentiality regarding recordkeeping or reporting. No known confidentiality between third parties. Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking OMB approval for an extension (no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/or third party disclosure requirements.) There is no change in the Commission’s burden estimates. The Commission received emergency OMB approval for this collection on June 21, 2011. This collection is now being submitted to OMB to secure the regular, three-year approval. The rule sections are needed to implement the statutory mandate that communications companies (attachers) should be able to place facilities on utility poles. The rules set a series of deadlines or ‘‘timelines’’ to govern the process by which permission is sought by attachers and granted by utility pole owners. In practice, attachers must submit detailed applications that cause the utility to survey and perform an engineering analysis on the poles where access is requested. The post-survey pole preparation work (make-ready) triggers further mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES ADDRESSES: VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:46 Sep 16, 2011 Jkt 223001 paperwork burdens. These include the pole owner notifying all known entities with existing attachments and the requesting attacher of the scheduled work. Other notification occurs if the make-ready period is interrupted, and if a pole owner asserts its right to one 15day extension of time. Pole owners both perform make ready and coordinate with existing attachers over many weeks. Also, the Order adopted rules intended to make the deadlines largely self-enforcing. Utilities are required to post a list of approved contractors. If a deadline is not met, new attachers may hire a listed, utility-approved contractor to perform pole attachment surveys or preparation in lieu of the utility using its own workers. If an attacher uses a utility-approved contractor, it must notify the utility, and invite the utility to send a representative to oversee the work. This self-enforcing mechanism removes some of the burden from the complaint process, which is often too slow to provide meaningful relief when pole access is denied or unreasonably delayed. Finally, the Order also broadened the existing enforcement process by permitting incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to file complaints alleging that the attachment rates demanded by electric utilities are unreasonable. The Order also encourages incumbent LECs that benefit from lower pole attachment costs to file data at the Commission that demonstrates that the benefits are being passed on to consumers. Federal Communications Commission. Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director. [FR Doc. 2011–23954 Filed 9–16–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for Emergency Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Comments Requested September 12, 2011. The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. Comments are requested concerning: (a) SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 57987 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; (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; and (e) ways to further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a currently valid OMB control number. Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be submitted on or before October 19, 2011. If you anticipate that you will be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC contact listed below as soon as possible. DATES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of Management and Budget, via fax at 202– 395–5167 or via the Internet at Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to the Federal Communications Commission via e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of this information collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the Web page https:// 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, and (6) when the list of FCC ICRs currently under review appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its OMB Control Number, if there is one) and then click on the ICR Reference Number to view detailed information about this ICR. ADDRESSES: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benish Shah, Office of Managing Director, (202) 418–7866. For additional information or copies of the information collection(s), contact judith- E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1 57988 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 181 / Monday, September 19, 2011 / Notices b.herman@fcc.gov, OMD, 202–418– 0214. The Commission is seeking emergency OMB review by October 17, 2011 for this revised information collection and has requested OMB approval 20 days after the collection is received at OMB. (Note: The Commission published a regular 60day notice in the Federal Register on August 23, 2011 (76 FR 52662)). It was later determined that the Commission needed to seek emergency processing of this information collection in order to implement the newly created electronic database in mid-October. OMB Control Number: 3060–0207. Title: Emergency Alert System (EAS). Form Number: N/A. Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection. Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; state, local or tribal government; and not-for-profit institutions. Number of Respondents and Responses: 3,569,028 respondents; 3,569,028 responses. Estimated Time per Response: .034– 20 hours. Frequency of Response: Reporting requirement, recordkeeping requirement and third party disclosure requirement. Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 154(i) and 606. Total Annual Burden: 82,008 hours. Total Annual Cost: N/A. Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission will treat submissions pursuant to 47 CFR 11.61(a)(3) as confidential. Needs and Uses: On March 10, 2010, OMB approved the collection of information set forth in the Second FNPRM in EB Docket No. 04–296, FCC 09–10. Specifically, OMB authorized the Commission to require entities require to participate in EAS (EAS participants) to gather and submit the following information on the operation of their EAS equipment during a national test of the EAS: (1) Whether they received the alert message during the designated test; (2) whether they retransmitted the alert; and (3) if they were not able to receive and/or transmit the alert, their ‘‘best effort’’ diagnostic analysis regarding the cause or causes for such failure. OMB also authorized the Commission to require EAS participants to provide it with the date/time of receipt of the Emergency Action Notification (EAN) message by all stations; and the date/ time of receipt of the Emergency Action Termination (EAT) message by all mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:46 Sep 16, 2011 Jkt 223001 stations; a description of their station identification and level of designation (PEP, LP–1, etc); who they were monitoring at the time of the test, and the make and model of the EAS equipment that they utilized. In the Third Report and Order in EB Docket No. 04–296, FCC 09–10, the Commission adopted the foregoing rule requirements. In addition, the Commission decided that test data will be presumed confidential and disclosure of the test data will be limited to FEMA, NWS and EOP at the federal level. At the state level, test data will be made available only to state government emergency management agencies that have confidential treatment protections at least equal to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The process by which these agencies would receive test data will comport with those used to provide access to the Commission’s NORS and DIRS data. We seek a shortened comment period on this revision of the pre-approved collection. In the Third Report and Order, the Commission also indicated that it would establish a voluntary electronic reporting system that EAS test participants may use as part of their participation in the national EAS test. The Commission noted that using this system, EAS test participants could input the same information that they were already required to file manually via a Web-based interface into a confidential database that the Commission would monitor and assess the test. This information would include identifying information such as station call letters, license identification number, geographic coordinates, EAS assignment (LP, NP, etc.), EAS monitoring assignment, as well as a 24/7 emergency contact for EAS participant. The only difference, other than the electronic nature of the filing, would be the timing of the collection. On the day of the test, EAS test participants would be able to input immediate test results, (e.g., was the EAN received and did it pass) into a Web-based interface. Test participants would submit the identifying data prior to the test date, and the remaining data called for by our reporting rules (e.g., the detailed test results) within the 45 day period. The Commission believes that structuring an electronic reporting system in this fashion would allow the participants to populate the database with known information well prior to the test, and thus be able to provide the Commission with actual test data, both close to real-time and within a reasonable period in a minimally burdensome fashion. The Commission PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 also seeks comment on this revision of the pre-approved collection. Federal Communications Commission. Avis Mitchell, Federal Register Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director. [FR Doc. 2011–23847 Filed 9–16–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission Under Delegated Authority Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. AGENCY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 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. 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; (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; and (e) ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before November 18, 2011. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible. ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to the Federal Communications SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted for 
Emergency Review and Approval to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), Comments Requested

September 12, 2011.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the 
following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520. 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; (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; and (e) 
ways to further reduce the information collection burden for small 
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
    The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. No person 
shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection 
of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does 
not display a currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be 
submitted on or before October 19, 2011. If you anticipate that you 
will be submitting PRA comments, but find it difficult to do so within 
the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the FCC 
contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 
Management and Budget, via fax at 202-395-5167 or via the Internet at 
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to the Federal Communications 
Commission via e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of this 
information collection request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the 
Web page https://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, and (6) when the list of FCC ICRs currently 
under review appears, look for the title of this ICR (or its OMB 
Control Number, if there is one) and then click on the ICR Reference 
Number to view detailed information about this ICR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benish Shah, Office of Managing 
Director, (202) 418-7866. For additional information or copies of the 
information collection(s), contact judith-

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b.herman@fcc.gov, OMD, 202-418-0214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Commission is seeking emergency OMB 
review by October 17, 2011 for this revised information collection and 
has requested OMB approval 20 days after the collection is received at 
OMB. (Note: The Commission published a regular 60-day notice in the 
Federal Register on August 23, 2011 (76 FR 52662)). It was later 
determined that the Commission needed to seek emergency processing of 
this information collection in order to implement the newly created 
electronic database in mid-October.
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0207.
    Title: Emergency Alert System (EAS).
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities; state, local or 
tribal government; and not-for-profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 3,569,028 respondents; 
3,569,028 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .034-20 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Reporting requirement, recordkeeping 
requirement and third party disclosure requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authority for this 
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 154(i) and 
606.
    Total Annual Burden: 82,008 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: N/A.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission will treat 
submissions pursuant to 47 CFR 11.61(a)(3) as confidential.
    Needs and Uses: On March 10, 2010, OMB approved the collection of 
information set forth in the Second FNPRM in EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC 
09-10. Specifically, OMB authorized the Commission to require entities 
require to participate in EAS (EAS participants) to gather and submit 
the following information on the operation of their EAS equipment 
during a national test of the EAS: (1) Whether they received the alert 
message during the designated test; (2) whether they retransmitted the 
alert; and (3) if they were not able to receive and/or transmit the 
alert, their ``best effort'' diagnostic analysis regarding the cause or 
causes for such failure. OMB also authorized the Commission to require 
EAS participants to provide it with the date/time of receipt of the 
Emergency Action Notification (EAN) message by all stations; and the 
date/time of receipt of the Emergency Action Termination (EAT) message 
by all stations; a description of their station identification and 
level of designation (PEP, LP-1, etc); who they were monitoring at the 
time of the test, and the make and model of the EAS equipment that they 
utilized.
    In the Third Report and Order in EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC 09-10, 
the Commission adopted the foregoing rule requirements. In addition, 
the Commission decided that test data will be presumed confidential and 
disclosure of the test data will be limited to FEMA, NWS and EOP at the 
federal level. At the state level, test data will be made available 
only to state government emergency management agencies that have 
confidential treatment protections at least equal to Freedom of 
Information Act (FOIA). The process by which these agencies would 
receive test data will comport with those used to provide access to the 
Commission's NORS and DIRS data. We seek a shortened comment period on 
this revision of the pre-approved collection.
    In the Third Report and Order, the Commission also indicated that 
it would establish a voluntary electronic reporting system that EAS 
test participants may use as part of their participation in the 
national EAS test. The Commission noted that using this system, EAS 
test participants could input the same information that they were 
already required to file manually via a Web-based interface into a 
confidential database that the Commission would monitor and assess the 
test. This information would include identifying information such as 
station call letters, license identification number, geographic 
coordinates, EAS assignment (LP, NP, etc.), EAS monitoring assignment, 
as well as a 24/7 emergency contact for EAS participant. The only 
difference, other than the electronic nature of the filing, would be 
the timing of the collection. On the day of the test, EAS test 
participants would be able to input immediate test results, (e.g., was 
the EAN received and did it pass) into a Web-based interface. Test 
participants would submit the identifying data prior to the test date, 
and the remaining data called for by our reporting rules (e.g., the 
detailed test results) within the 45 day period. The Commission 
believes that structuring an electronic reporting system in this 
fashion would allow the participants to populate the database with 
known information well prior to the test, and thus be able to provide 
the Commission with actual test data, both close to real-time and 
within a reasonable period in a minimally burdensome fashion. The 
Commission also seeks comment on this revision of the pre-approved 
collection.

Federal Communications Commission.
Avis Mitchell,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing 
Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-23847 Filed 9-16-11; 8:45 am]
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