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These devices may be not operated
unless permitted by § 2.805.
The following general guidelines
apply for third party notifications:
(a) A RF device may be advertised and
displayed at a trade show or exhibition
prior to a demonstration of compliance
with the applicable technical standards
and compliance with the applicable
equipment authorization procedure
provided the advertising and display is
accompanied by a conspicuous notice
specified in §§ 2.803(c)(2)(iii)(A) or
2.803(c)(2)(iii)(B).
(b) An offer for sale solely to business,
commercial, industrial, scientific, or
medical users of an RF device in the
conceptual, developmental, design or
pre-production stage prior to
demonstration of compliance with the
equipment authorization regulations
may be permitted provided that the
prospective buyer is advised in writing
at the time of the offer for sale that the
equipment is subject to FCC rules and
that the equipment will comply with the
appropriate rules before delivery to the
buyer or centers of distribution.
(c) Equipment sold as evaluation kit
may be sold to specific users with notice
specified in § 2.803(c)(2)(iv)(B).
The information to be disclosed about
marketing of the RF device is intended:
(1) To ensure the compliance of the
proposed equipment with Commission
rules; and
(2) To assist industry efforts to
introduce new products to the
marketplace more promptly.
The information disclosure applies to
a variety of RF devices that:
(1) Is pending equipment
authorization or verification of
compliance;
(2) May be manufactured in the
future;
(3) May be sold as kits; and
(4) Operates under varying technical
standards.
The information disclosed is essential
to ensuring that interference to radio
communications is controlled.
Federal Communications Commission.
Gloria J. Miles,
Federal Register Liaison, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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Information Collection Being
Submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget for Review and Approval
Federal Communications
Commission.
AGENCY:
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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501—
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s).
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 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 valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before March 3, 2014.
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: Submit your PRA comments
to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, via fax at 202–
395–5167 or via Internet at Nicholas_
A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to Benish
Shah, Federal Communications
Commission, via the Internet at
Benish.Shah@fcc.gov. To submit your
PRA comments by email send them to:
PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Benish Shah, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–7866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1139.
Title: FCC Consumer Broadband
Services Testing and Measurement.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
SUMMARY:
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Respondents: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit;
and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 501,020
respondents; 501,020 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 to
200 hours.
Frequency of Response: Biennial
reporting requirement and third party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in the Broadband
Data Improvement Act of 2008, Public
Law 110–385, Stat 4096,
103(c)(1).
Total Annual Burden: 46,667 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: This
information collection affects
individuals or households. However,
personally identifiable information (PII)
is not being collected by, made available
to or made accessible by the
Commission but instead by third parties
including SamKnows, a third party
contractor, and Internet Service
Provider (ISP) Partners.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
No personally identifying information
(PII) will be transmitted to the
Commission from the contractor as a
matter of vendor policy and agency
privacy policy. SamKnows maintains a
series of administrative, technical, and
physical safeguards to protect against
the transmission of PII. At point of
registration, individuals will be given
full disclosure in a ‘‘privacy statement’’
highlighting what information will be
collected. ISP Partners will receive PII
about volunteers to confirm the validity
of the information against their
subscription records, but will be bound
by a non-disclosure agreement that will
maintain various administrative,
technical and physical safeguards to
protect the information and limit its use.
ISP Partners providing support to the
testing program will likewise be bound
to the same series of administrative,
technical and physical safeguards
developed by SamKnows. In addition
all third parties supporting the program
directly will be bound by a ‘‘Code of
Conduct’’ to ensure all participate and
act in good faith and with other legally
enforceable documents such as nondisclosure agreements.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this revised information
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) order to obtain the
full three year clearance from them. The
Commission is reporting a program
change (there has been a program
change in the reporting requirements,
the number of respondents increased
from 11,016 to 46,667). The Commission
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is requesting OMB approval for this
revision.
The Broadband Data Improvement
Act of 2008, Public Law 110–385, Stat
4096, 103(c)(1) directs the Commission
to collect information on the type of
technology used to provide broadband
to consumers, the price of such services,
actual transmission speeds, and the
reasons for non-adoption of broadband
service.
This collection of information is
necessary to complete research done for
the Broadband Plan on key consumer
issues including transparency and
actual speeds and performance of
broadband service and broadband usage
and performance in schools and
libraries.
The Commission’s Office of Engineering
and Technology (OET), Office of
Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis
(OSPPA) and Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) and
other Commission entities use the
information collected under this study
to assess what actual broadband speeds
and performance consumers are
currently receiving from providers. Our
purpose is to measure the speed of
broadband services provided by ISPs
across service packages and
geographies, rather than to assess the
differences in broadband performance
received by demographics. This
assessment will help the Commission
create standards for broadband
measurements, assess the validity of ISP
performance claims, and inform future
steps to increasing transparency and
consumer awareness of broadband
service.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
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Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:
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
SUMMARY:
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17:23 Jan 30, 2014
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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 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 April 1, 2014.
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
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov mailto:PRA@fcc.gov and to
Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov
mailto:Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
Williams at (202) 418–2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0863.
Title: Satellite Delivery of Network
Signals to Unserved Households for
Purposes of the Satellite Home Viewer
Act.
Form Number: Not applicable.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 848 respondents; 250,000
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.50
hours.
Frequency of Response:
Recordkeeping requirement, On
occasion reporting requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
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authority for this information collection
action is contained in the Satellite
Home Viewer Act, 17 U.S.C. 119. The
Satellite Home Viewer Act is an
amendment of the Copyright Act; and
Satellite Television Extension and
Localism Act of 2010, Title V of the
‘‘American Workers, State, and Business
Relief Act of 2010,’’ Public Law 111–
175, 124 Stat. 1218 (2010) (STELA), see
footnote 3.
Total Annual Burden to Respondents:
125,000 hours.
Total Annual Costs: None.
Privacy Impact Assessment(s): No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality with
this collection of information.
Needs and Uses: 47 CFR 73.686
describes a method for measuring signal
strength at a household so that the
satellite and broadcast industries would
have a uniform method for making an
actual determination of the signal
strength that a household received. The
information gathered as part of the
Grade B contour signal strength tests
will be used to indicate whether a
household is ‘‘unserved’’ by over-the-air
network signals.
Satellite and broadcast industries
making field strength measurements for
formal submission to the Commission in
rulemaking proceedings, or making such
measurements upon the request of the
Commission, shall follow the procedure
for making and reporting such
measurements which shall be included
in a report to the Commission and
submitted in affidavit form, in triplicate.
The report shall contain the following
information:
(a) Tables of field strength
measurements, which for each
measuring location; (b) U.S. Geological
Survey topographic maps; (c) All
information necessary to determine the
pertinent characteristics of the
transmitting installation; (d) A list of
calibrated equipment used in the field
strength survey; (e) A detailed
description of the calibration of the
measuring equipment, and (f) Terrain
profiles in each direction in which
measurements were made.
47 CFR 73.686 also requires satellite
and broadcast companies to maintain a
written record describing, for each
location, factors which may affect the
recorded field (i.e., the approximate
time or measurement, weather,
topography, overhead wiring, heights
and types of vegetation, buildings and
other structures, the orientation of the
measuring location, objects of such
shape and size that cause shadows or
reflections, signals received that arrived
from a direction other than that of the
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Information Collection Being Submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review and Approval
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501--3520), the Federal Communications Commission invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on the following information collection(s). 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 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 valid OMB control number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before March 3, 2014. 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: Submit your PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, via fax at 202-395-5167 or via Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and to Benish Shah, Federal
Communications Commission, via the Internet at Benish.Shah@fcc.gov. To
submit your PRA comments by email send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benish Shah, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418-7866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1139.
Title: FCC Consumer Broadband Services Testing and Measurement.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; and state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 501,020 respondents; 501,020 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 to 200 hours.
Frequency of Response: Biennial reporting requirement and third
party disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in the Broadband Data Improvement
Act of 2008, Public Law 110-385, Stat 4096,
103(c)(1).
Total Annual Burden: 46,667 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: This information collection affects
individuals or households. However, personally identifiable information
(PII) is not being collected by, made available to or made accessible
by the Commission but instead by third parties including SamKnows, a
third party contractor, and Internet Service Provider (ISP) Partners.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: No personally identifying
information (PII) will be transmitted to the Commission from the
contractor as a matter of vendor policy and agency privacy policy.
SamKnows maintains a series of administrative, technical, and physical
safeguards to protect against the transmission of PII. At point of
registration, individuals will be given full disclosure in a ``privacy
statement'' highlighting what information will be collected. ISP
Partners will receive PII about volunteers to confirm the validity of
the information against their subscription records, but will be bound
by a non-disclosure agreement that will maintain various
administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the
information and limit its use. ISP Partners providing support to the
testing program will likewise be bound to the same series of
administrative, technical and physical safeguards developed by
SamKnows. In addition all third parties supporting the program directly
will be bound by a ``Code of Conduct'' to ensure all participate and
act in good faith and with other legally enforceable documents such as
non-disclosure agreements.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this revised information
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) order to obtain
the full three year clearance from them. The Commission is reporting a
program change (there has been a program change in the reporting
requirements, the number of respondents increased from 11,016 to
46,667). The Commission
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is requesting OMB approval for this revision.
The Broadband Data Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 110-385,
Stat 4096, 103(c)(1) directs the Commission to collect information on
the type of technology used to provide broadband to consumers, the
price of such services, actual transmission speeds, and the reasons for
non-adoption of broadband service.
This collection of information is necessary to complete research done
for the Broadband Plan on key consumer issues including transparency
and actual speeds and performance of broadband service and broadband
usage and performance in schools and libraries.
The Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET), Office of
Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis (OSPPA) and Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) and other Commission entities use the
information collected under this study to assess what actual broadband
speeds and performance consumers are currently receiving from
providers. Our purpose is to measure the speed of broadband services
provided by ISPs across service packages and geographies, rather than
to assess the differences in broadband performance received by
demographics. This assessment will help the Commission create standards
for broadband measurements, assess the validity of ISP performance
claims, and inform future steps to increasing transparency and consumer
awareness of broadband service.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
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