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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, 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 June 9, 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 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 Approval Number: 3060–1113.
Title: Commercial Mobile Alert
System (CMAS).
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SUMMARY:
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Form No: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 1,253
respondents; 3,759 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes (.5 hour).
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this information collection
is contained 47 U.S.C. sections 151,
154(i), 154(j), 154(o), 218, 219, 230, 256,
302(a), 303(g), 303(j), 303(r), 403,
621(b)(3), and 621(d).
Total Annual Burden: 28,193 hours.
Total Annual Costs: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is no need for confidentiality.
Needs and Uses: This collection will
be submitted as an extension (no change
in reporting requirements) during the
comment period to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in order
to obtain OMB approval for an
extension because on August 7, 2008,
the FCC released a Third Report and
Order in PS Docket No. 07–287, FCC
08–184 (CMAS Third R&O).
The CMAS Third R&O implements
provisions of the Warning, Alert and
Response Network (‘‘WARN’’) Act,
including inter alia, a requirement that
within 30 days of release of the CMAS
Third R&O, each Commercial Mobile
Service (CMS) provider must file an
election with the Commission
indicating whether or not it intends to
transmit emergency alerts as part of the
Commercial Mobile Alert System
(CMAS). The CMAS Third R&O noted
that this filing requirement was subject
to OMB review and approval. The
Commission received ‘‘pre-approval’’
from the OMB on February 4, 2008. The
Commission began accepting CMAS
election filings on or before September
8, 2008.
All CMS providers are required to
submit a CMAS election, including
those that were not licensed at the time
of the initial filing deadline with the
FCC. In addition, any CMS provider
choosing to withdraw its election must
notify the Commission at least sixty (60)
days prior to the withdrawal of its
election. The information collected will
be the CMS provider’s contact
information and its election, i.e., a ‘‘yes’’
or ‘‘no’’, on whether it intends to
provide commercial mobile service
alerts.
The Commission will use the
information collected to meet its
statutory requirement under the WARN
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Act to accept licensees’ election filings
and to establish an effective CMAS that
will provide the public with effective
mobile alerts in a manner that imposes
minimal regulatory burdens on affected
entities.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
Notice of Public Information
Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission,
Comments Requested
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
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 (FCC) 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 further
ways to 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 Control
Number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 9, 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
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advise the FCC contact listed below as
soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments
to Leslie F. Smith, Office of Managing
Director (OMD), Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), via
the Internet at Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. To
submit your PRA comments by email,
send them to PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information, contact Leslie F.
Smith at (202) 418–0217, or via the
Internet at PRA@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–1046.
Title: Implementation of the Pay
Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96–128, Order on
Reconsideration, FCC 04–251.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 469
respondents; 3,801 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.50
hours-200 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion,
annual and quarterly reporting
requirements, third party disclosure
requirements, and recordkeeping
requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Mandatory.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151,
154 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 73,494 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting
respondents to submit confidential
information. Respondents may request
confidential treatment of their
information that they believe to be
confidential pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this expiring information
collection (IC) to the OMB during this
comment period. The Commission is
seeking OMB approval for an extension
of this information collection. There is
no change in the reporting,
recordkeeping and/or third party
disclosure requirements. The
Commission is reducing its previous
burden estimates by 86,690 hours. In the
Order on Reconsideration (FCC 04–251),
the Commission considered four
petitions for reconsideration of our
Report and Order. The Report and Order
(FCC 03–235) established detailed rules
(Payphone Compensation Rules)
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ensuring that payphone service
providers or PSPs are ‘‘fairly
compensated’’ for each and every
completed payphone-originated call
pursuant to section 276 of the
Communications Act, as amended (the
Act). The Payphone Compensation
Rules satisfy section 276 by identifying
the party liable for compensation and
establishing a mechanism for PSPs to be
paid. The Payphone Compensation
Rules: (1) Place liability to compensate
PSPs for payphone-originated calls on
the facilities-based long distance
carriers or switch-based resellers (SBRs)
from whose switches such calls are
completed; (2) define these responsible
carriers as ‘‘Completing Carriers’’ and
require them to develop their own
system of tracking calls to completion,
the accuracy of which must be
confirmed and attested to by a thirdparty auditor; (3) require Completing
Carriers to file with PSPs a quarterly
report and also submit an attestation by
the chief financial officer (CFO) that the
payment amount for that quarter is
accurate and is based on 100% of all
completed calls; (4) require quarterly
reporting obligations for other facilitiesbased long distance carriers in the call
path, if any, and define these carriers as
‘‘Intermediate Carriers;’’ (5) give parties
flexibility to agree to alternative
compensation arrangements (ACA) so
that small Completing Carriers may
avoid the expense of instituting a
tracking system and undergoing an
audit. The Order on Reconsideration did
not change this compensation
framework, but rather refined and built
upon its approach. While the
Commission increased the time carriers
must retain certain data and added
burden in that regard, the Commission
also removed potentially burdensome
paperwork requirements by encouraging
carriers to comply with the reporting
requirements through electronic means.
We believe that the clarifications
adopted in the Order on
Reconsideration significantly decrease
the paperwork burden on carriers.
Specifically, the Commission did the
following: (1) Clarified alternative
arrangements for small businesses
requiring a Completing Carrier to give
the PSP adequate notice of an ACA prior
to its effective date with sufficient time
for the PSP to object to an ACA, and
also prior to the termination of an ACA;
(2) clarified any paperwork burdens
imposed on carriers allowing
Completing Carriers the ability to give
PSPs adequate notice of payphone
compensation requirements by placing
notice on a clearinghouse Web site or
through electronic methods; (3) required
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Completing Carriers and Intermediate
Carriers to report only completed calls
in their quarterly reports; and (4)
extended the time period from 18 to 27
months for Completing Carriers and
Intermediate Carriers to retain certain
payphone records.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
Sunshine Act Meeting
Pursuant to the provisions of the
‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5
U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that
at 2:54 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, 2014,
the Board of Directors of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation met in
closed session to consider matters
related to the Corporation’s supervision,
corporate, and resolution activities.
In calling the meeting, the Board
determined, on motion of Vice
Chairman Thomas M. Hoenig, seconded
by Director Jeremiah O. Norton
(Appointive), concurred in by Director
Thomas J. Curry (Comptroller of the
Currency), Director Richard Cordray
(Director, Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau), and Chairman
Martin J. Gruenberg, that Corporation
business required its consideration of
the matters which were to be the subject
of this meeting on less than seven days’
notice to the public; that no earlier
notice of the meeting was practicable;
that the public interest did not require
consideration of the matters in a
meeting open to public observation; and
that the matters could be considered in
a closed meeting by authority of
subsections (c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8),
(c)(9)(A)(ii), (c)(9)(B), and (c)(10) of the
‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8),
(c)(9)(A)(ii), (c)(9)(B), and (c)(10)).
The meeting was held in the Board
Room of the FDIC Building located at
550—17th Street NW., Washington, DC.
Dated: April 8, 2014.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
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Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the
Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice; 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 (FCC) 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 further ways to 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 Control Number.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be
submitted on or before June 9, 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
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advise the FCC contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments to Leslie F. Smith, Office of
Managing Director (OMD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), via
the Internet at Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. To submit your PRA comments by
email, send them to PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact
Leslie F. Smith at (202) 418-0217, or via the Internet at PRA@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-1046.
Title: Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and
Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC
Docket No. 96-128, Order on Reconsideration, FCC 04-251.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 469 respondents; 3,801 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.50 hours-200 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion, annual and quarterly reporting
requirements, third party disclosure requirements, and recordkeeping
requirement.
Obligation To Respond: Mandatory. Statutory authority for this
information collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154 and 276.
Total Annual Burden: 73,494 hours.
Total Annual Cost: No cost.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: The Commission is not
requesting respondents to submit confidential information. Respondents
may request confidential treatment of their information that they
believe to be confidential pursuant to 47 CFR 0.459 of the Commission's
rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission will submit this expiring
information collection (IC) to the OMB during this comment period. The
Commission is seeking OMB approval for an extension of this information
collection. There is no change in the reporting, recordkeeping and/or
third party disclosure requirements. The Commission is reducing its
previous burden estimates by 86,690 hours. In the Order on
Reconsideration (FCC 04-251), the Commission considered four petitions
for reconsideration of our Report and Order. The Report and Order (FCC
03-235) established detailed rules (Payphone Compensation Rules)
ensuring that payphone service providers or PSPs are ``fairly
compensated'' for each and every completed payphone-originated call
pursuant to section 276 of the Communications Act, as amended (the
Act). The Payphone Compensation Rules satisfy section 276 by
identifying the party liable for compensation and establishing a
mechanism for PSPs to be paid. The Payphone Compensation Rules: (1)
Place liability to compensate PSPs for payphone-originated calls on the
facilities-based long distance carriers or switch-based resellers
(SBRs) from whose switches such calls are completed; (2) define these
responsible carriers as ``Completing Carriers'' and require them to
develop their own system of tracking calls to completion, the accuracy
of which must be confirmed and attested to by a third-party auditor;
(3) require Completing Carriers to file with PSPs a quarterly report
and also submit an attestation by the chief financial officer (CFO)
that the payment amount for that quarter is accurate and is based on
100% of all completed calls; (4) require quarterly reporting
obligations for other facilities-based long distance carriers in the
call path, if any, and define these carriers as ``Intermediate
Carriers;'' (5) give parties flexibility to agree to alternative
compensation arrangements (ACA) so that small Completing Carriers may
avoid the expense of instituting a tracking system and undergoing an
audit. The Order on Reconsideration did not change this compensation
framework, but rather refined and built upon its approach. While the
Commission increased the time carriers must retain certain data and
added burden in that regard, the Commission also removed potentially
burdensome paperwork requirements by encouraging carriers to comply
with the reporting requirements through electronic means. We believe
that the clarifications adopted in the Order on Reconsideration
significantly decrease the paperwork burden on carriers. Specifically,
the Commission did the following: (1) Clarified alternative
arrangements for small businesses requiring a Completing Carrier to
give the PSP adequate notice of an ACA prior to its effective date with
sufficient time for the PSP to object to an ACA, and also prior to the
termination of an ACA; (2) clarified any paperwork burdens imposed on
carriers allowing Completing Carriers the ability to give PSPs adequate
notice of payphone compensation requirements by placing notice on a
clearinghouse Web site or through electronic methods; (3) required
Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to report only completed
calls in their quarterly reports; and (4) extended the time period from
18 to 27 months for Completing Carriers and Intermediate Carriers to
retain certain payphone records.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-08047 Filed 4-9-14; 8:45 am]
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